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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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From: gary_smith678@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:49:47 +0000
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE.
Good day,
I am Gary Smith , staff of International Private
Banking at HSBC 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 contacted 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 2001, 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 US$8.3 million( Eight Million Three Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars),which he wished to have us turn over (invest)
on his behalf.I was the officer assigned to his case,
I was made numerous suggestions in line with my duties
as the de-facto chief operations officer of the
private banking sector, 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
advise 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 ten million United States Dollars,
this margin was not the full potential of the fund but
he desired low risk uaranteed returns on investments.
In mid 2002, he asked that the money be liquidated
because he needed to make an urgent investment
requiring cash payments in here in the united kingdom.
He directed that I liquidate the funds and deposit it
with a security firm in here london. I informed him
that HSBC 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 here in
london 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 at the london based
security
consultancy firm,Corporate Securities Co. Corporate
Securities
Co 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 Corporate
Securities Co. 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 June 2003.
In June last year, we got a call from Corporate
Securities Co informing us that the activity 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 Corporate Securities Co,
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 HSBC. 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, South
of France.
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. 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 official capacity
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, Corporate Securities Co will by
the end of this
financial year broadcast a request for statements of
claim to HSBC,
failing to receive viable claims they will most
probably revert the
deposit back to HSBC. This will result in the money
entering the HSBC 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 who occupy certain offices
and oversee certain portfolios. You should have begun
by now to put together the general direction of what
I propose.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 HSBC is concerned, the
transaction with our late customer concluded when I
sent the funds to corporate securities, all
outstanding interactions in relation to the file are
just customer services and due process. Corporate
Securities
Co has no single idea of what?s 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; you share similar details to the late
fellow; I am prepared to place you in a position to
instruct Corporate Securities Co 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 to me and 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 the deceased I will then
officially communicate with Corporate Securities Co
and instruct them to release the deposit to you. With
these two things: all is done. The alternative would
be for us to have Corporate Securities Co 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 Corporate Securities Co. We
can fine-tune
this based on our interactions.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 find yourself
able to work with me, contact me through this same
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 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 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 learnt 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.
Gary Smith.
N/B
Kindly send your response to my Private email
address:smithgary242@yahoo.co.uk
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