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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: "Alastair Wilson" <alastairwilson@z95mail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 07:28:37 PST
Subject: Respectfully for you
Good day,
I am Mr. Alastair Wilson, staff of ADAM & COMPANY . 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 Six 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
Investment Management 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. 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 Two 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 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 ADAM & COMPANY 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 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.
This was an astounding position as far as I was concerned, given the fact
that I managed the private banking sector I was the only one who knew about
the deposit at the security firm, and I could not understand why the
deceased had not come forward to claim his deposit. I made futile efforts
to locate the deceased. I immediately passed the task of locating him to
the internal investigations department of ADAM & COMPANY. 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. 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. If you are familiar with private banking
affairs, those who patronize our services usually prefer anonymity, but
also some levels of detachment from conventional processes. 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 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; the deceased
died without a 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 present official capacity as the Head of Investment Management Service
dictates that I am the only party to supervise the investigation and the
only party to receive the results of the investigation. 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, The Security Firm will by the end of this financial
year broadcast a request for statements of claim to ADAM & COMPANY, failing
to receive viable claims they will most probably revert the deposit back to
ADAM & COMPANY.This will result in the money entering the ADAM & COMPANY
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 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 ADAM & COMPANY is concerned. The
transaction with our late customer concluded when I sent the funds to the
security firm, all outstanding interactions in relation to the file are
just customer services and due process. The security Firm 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 come forward. This is
the situation. This bank has spent great amounts of money trying to track
any member of his family; they have investigated for months and have found
no family. The investigation has come to an end.
My proposal; you share the same surname With our late client; 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. But on the other hand, you with the
same very name as the original depositor would easily pass as the
beneficiary with right to claim.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 the deceased. I will then officially
communicate with The Security Firm and instruct them to release the deposit
to you. With these two things: all is done. The alternative would be for us
to have The Security Firm direct the funds to another bank with you as
account holder. This way there will be no need for you to think of
receiving the money from The Security Company. 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. 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 will not 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 luck
that has planted you into the center of relevance in my life.Lets share the
blessing. If you find yourself able to work with me, contact me through
this email account. 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 address :
alastairwilson45@yahoo.co.uk
I await your response.
Alastair Wilson.
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