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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "million british pounds" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • jodis11@postino.ch (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: John Odriscoll <jodis11@yahoo.es>
Reply-To: jodis11@postino.ch
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:32:14 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: BUSINESS OFFER..


Good day,

I am Mr.John Odriscoll, staff of Buterfield Private Bank. I am contacting
you concerning a deceased customer and an investment he placed under
our banks management three years ago.I Would respectfully request that
you keep the contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity of
the information you come by as a result of this mail.

I am contacting you independently of our investigation and no one is
informed of this communication. I would like to intimate you with certain
facts that I believe would be of interest to you. In the year 2002, the
subject matter; came to our bank to engage in business discussions with
our private banking division. He informed us that he had a financial
portfolio of Ten Million United States dollars, which he wished to have us
turn over (invest) on his behalf.

I was the officer assigned to his case, I made numerous suggestions in line
with my duties as the de-facto chief operations officer of the private
banking sector then, especially given the volume of funds he wished to put
into our bank. We met on numerous occasions prior to any investments
being placed.I encouraged him to consider various growth funds with
prime ratings.

In mid 2003, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to
make an urgent investment requiring cash payments in Helsinki- Finland.
He directed that I liquidate the funds and deposit it with a security firm. I
informed him that my Bank would have to make special arrangements to
have this done and in order not to circumvent due process.

Cash movement across boarders has become especially strict since the
incidents of 9/11. I contacted my affiliate and made the funds available to
the security firm. I undertook all the processes and made sure I followed
his precise instructions to the letter and had the funds deposited with the
security firm. The Security Firm is a specialist private firm that accepts
deposits from high net worth individuals and blue chip corporations that
handle valuable products or undertake transactions that need immediate
access to cash. This small and highly private organization is familiar
especially to the highly placed and well-connected organizations. In line
with instructions, the money was deposited with the security firm.
The deceased told me he wanted the money there in anticipation of his
arrival from Norway later that week. This was the last communication we
had, this transpired around 25th of November 2003.In June last year, we
got a call from the security firm informing us about the inactivity of that
particular portfolio. I made futile efforts to locate the deceased. I
immediately passed the task of locating him to the internal investigations
department of Kleinwort Benson.Four days later, information started to
trickle in, apparently our client was dead. A person who suited his
description was declared dead of a heart attack in canne, in Southern part
of France.We were soon enough to identify the body and cause of death
was confirmed.
In his bio-data form, he listed no next of kin. In the field of private
banking, opening an account with us means no one will know of its
existence, accounts are rarely held under a name; depositors use
numbers and codes to make the accounts anonymous. This investigation
has for the past months been unfruitful, We've used our private
investigation affiliate companies to get to the root of the problem. It is
this investigation that resulted in my being furnished with your details as
a possible relative of the deceased.
According to practice, The Security Firm will by the end of this financial
year broadcast a request for statements of claim to Kleinwort Benson,
failing to receive viable claims they will most probably revert the deposit
back to Kleinwort Benson.This will result in the money entering the
Kleinwort Benson accounting system and the portfolio will be out of my
hands and out of the private banking division.

This will not happen if I have my way. What I wish to relate to you is a
smack of unethical practice but I want you to understand something, It is
only an outsider to the banking world who finds the internal politics of the
banking world aberrational.
The world of private banking especially is fraught with huge rewards for
those that occupy certain offices and oversee certain portfolios. You
should have begun by now to put together the general direction of what I
propose. There is Ten Million pounds deposited in a security firm, I alone
have the deposit details and they will release the deposit to no one unless
I instruct them to do so. I alone know of the existence of this deposit for
as far as my Bank is concerned.
My proposal: I now seek your permission to present you as a next of kin
to the deceased, as all documentations will be carefully worked to make
you the beneficiary to the funds 10,000 000 00 BP(Ten Million British
pounds) ; I am prepared to place you in a position to instruct The security
Firm to release the deposit to you as the closest surviving relation. Upon
receipt of the deposit,I am prepared to share the money with you. That is:
I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them release the
deposit to you. We share the proceeds 60/40. I would have gone ahead
to ask that the funds be released to me, but that would have drawn a
straight line to me and my involvement in claiming the deposit.
We can fine-tune this based on our interactions am aware of the
consequences of this proposal. I ask that if you find no interest in this
project that you should discard this mail. I ask that you do not be
vindictive and destructive. If my offer is of no appeal to you, delete this
message and forget I ever contacted you.

Do not destroy my career because you do not approve of my proposal. I
am not a criminal and what I do, I do not find against good conscience, this
may be hard for you to understand, but the dynamics of my industry
dictates that I make this move. Such opportunities only come ones' way
once in a lifetime. I cannot let this chance pass me by, for once I find
myself in total control of my destiny.These chances wont pass me by. I ask
that you do not destroy my chance, if you will not work with me let me
know and let me move on with my life but do not destroy me. I am a family
man and this is an opportunity to provide them with new opportunities.
There is a reward for this project and it is a task well worth undertaking.

I have evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here is from you
refusing to work with me and alerting my bank. If you give me positive
signals, I will initiate this process towards a conclusion. I wish to inform
you that should you contact me via official channels; I will deny knowing
you and about this project. I repeat, I do not want you contacting me
through my official phone lines nor do I want you contacting me through
my official email account. Contact me only through the numbers I will
provide for you and also through this email address. I do not want any
direct link between you and myself.

My official lines are not secured lines as they are periodically monitored to
assess our level of customer care in line with our Total Quality
Management Policy.Please observe this instruction religiously.

Please, again, note that I am a family man, I have a wife and children. I
send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to what the
consequences, but I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing
gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter of
gold. This is the one truth I have learned from my private banking clients.
Do not betray my confidence.

Kindly send your response to my private email: jodis11@postino.ch

I await your response.

Mr. John Odriscoll.



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