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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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Fraud email example:
From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: khnamin@voila.fr
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:29:32 +0200
Subject: Inquiry From Khan Amin
Good Day,
I am Mr.Khan Amin, staff of Kleinwort Benson. I am contacting
you concerning a deceased customer and an investment he placed under
our banks management three years ago.
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
2004, 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 Six Million United States Dollars, which
he wished to have us turn over (invest) on his behalf.
In mid 2005, 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 2005. In June last year, and 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 Cannes, 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.
What I wish to relate to you will 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 Six Million dollars 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 $6,000 000 (Six Million United
States Dollar); 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 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.
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
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.
Do not betray my confidence. Kindly send your response to my
private email: khnamin@voila.fr
I await your response.
Mr.Khan Amin
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