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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: "Shamash Choudhry" <shamash_choudhry5@netserviceuk.net>
Reply-To: shamash_choudhry05@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 03:49:51 +0000
Subject: HSBC LONDON.
I am Shamash Din Choudhry,British citizen and Principal assurance manager
for the HSBC in London. A staff of Yokozona consultancy firm got in touch
with me regarding the estate of Philip Mutaf. And an investment placed under
our banks management 3 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 contact 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 1997, the subject matter; Philip Mutaf came to our bank to engage in
business discussions with our private banking division. He informed us that
he had a financial portfolio of 8.35 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, 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. The favored route in my
advice to customers is to start by assessing data on 6000 traditional stocks
and bond managers and 2000 managers of alternative investments. Based on my
advice, We spun the money around various opportunities and made attractive
margins for our first months of operation, the accrued profit and interest
stood at this point at over 10 million United States Dollars, this margin
was not the full potential of the fund but he desired low risk guaranteed
returns on investments. In mid 1998, he asked that the money be liquidated
because he needed to make an urgent investment requiring cash payments in
United Kindom. He directed that I liquidate the funds and had it deposited
with United Assets Management Uk (in their Securities Trading Firm).
I informed him that HSBC London would have to make special arrangements to
have this done and in order not to circumvent due process, the bank would
have to make a 9.5 % deduction from the funds to cater for banking and
statutory charges. He complained about the charges but later came around
when I explained to him the complexities of the task he was asking of us.
Cash movement across boarders has become especially strict since the
incidents of 9/11. I contacted my affiliate in United Kindom and had the
funds available in United Assets Management. I undertook all the processes
and made sure I followed his precise instructions to the letter and had the
funds deposited at United Assets Management Uk United Kindom. United Assets
Management Uk is a specialist bank 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. In Line with
instructions, the money was deposited with United Assets Management Uk (in
their Securities Trading Firm).
Philip Mutaf told me he wanted the money there as soon as he got into the
United Kindom,This was the last communication we had, this transpired around
25th February 1999.
In Sept last year, we got a call from United Assets Management Uk informing
us about the inactivity of that particular portfolio. This was an astounding
position as far as I was concerned, given the fact that I managed the
International private banking sector I was the only one who knew about the
deposit at United Assets Management Uk, and I could not understand why
Philip Mutaf had not come forward to claim his deposit. I made futile
efforts to locate Philip Mutaf. Four days later, information started to
trickle in, apparently Philip Mutaf was dead. A person who suited his
description was declared dead of AUTO ACCIDENT TRAUMA in Birmingham England.
We were soon enough able to identify the body and cause of death was
confirmed. The bank immediately launched an investigation into possible
surviving next of kin to alert about the situation and also to come forward
to claim his estate. 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 bank also gives the choice to depositors of having their
mail sent to them or held at the bank itself, ensuring that there are no
traces of the account and as I said, rarely do they nominate next of kin.
Private banking clients apart from not nominating next of kin also usually
in most cases leave wills in our care, in this case; Philip Mutaf died in
testate.
In line with our internal processes for account holders who have passed
away, we instituted our own investigations in good faith to determine who
should have right to claim the estate. This investigation has for the past
months been unfruitful. We have scanned every continent and 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. My official capacity dictates that I am
the only party to supervise the investigation and the only party to receive
the results of the investigation. You have unfortunately declared, and I
know that you are in no way affiliated with this individual. What this
means, you being the last batch of names we have considered is that our dear
late fellow died with no known or identifiable family member. This leaves me
as the only person with the full picture of what the prevailing situation is
in relation to the deposit and the late beneficiary of the deposit.
According to practice, United Assets Management Uk will by the end of this
quarter broadcast a request for statements of claim to HSBC in London,
failing to receive viable claims they will most probably revert the deposit
back to HSBC in London. This will result in the money entering the HSBC in
London 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 will smack off 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 who 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 US$
8,370,000.00 deposited in United Assets Management Uk, 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 United Assets Management Uk is concerned, the transaction with Philip
Mutaf concluded when I sent the funds to United Assets Management Uk, all
outstanding interactions in relation to the file are just customer services
and due process. United Assets Management Uk has no single idea of the
history or nature of the deposit. They are simply awaiting instructions to
release the deposit to any party that comes forward. This is the situation.
This bank has spent great amounts of money trying to track this man’s
family; they have investigated for months and have found no family. The
investigation has come to an end.
My proposal, I am prepared to place you as the next of kin in a position to
instruct United Assets Management Uk 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 in half. That is: I will simply nominate you as the
next of kin and have them release the deposit to you. We share the proceeds
50/50.
I would have gone ahead to ask the funds be released to me, but that would
have drawn a straight line in my involvement in claiming the deposit. I
assure you that I could have the deposit released to you within a few days.
I will simply inform the bank of the final closing of the file relating to
Philip Mutaf I will then officially communicate with United Assets
Management Uk and instruct them to release the deposit to you. With these:
all is done. I 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. You may not
know this but people like myself who have made tidy sums out of comparable
situations run the whole private banking sector. 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.
I am the only one who knows of this situation, good fortune has blessed you
with a name that has planted you into the center of relevance in my life.
Lets share the blessing.
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 me. My official lines are not secure
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 I am a family man, I have 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. If we can be of one accord, we should plan a meeting,
soon.
I await your response.
Respectfully,
Shamash Din Choudhry.
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