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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: Mr David Palmer <david_palmer119@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:35:39 +0200
Subject: REPLY ME IMMEDIATELY........(PROPOSAL)
Goodday,
I am David Palmer, staff of SMITH & WILLIAMSON Private Banking.
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 2000, 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 Thirty 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, 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 rowth 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 guaranteed returns
on investments.
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, The Security Firm will by the end of this financial
year broadcast a request for statements of claim to SMITH & WILLIAMSON,failing to
receive viable claims they will most probably revert the deposit back to SMITH &
WILLIAMSON.This will result in the money entering the SMITH & WILLIAMSON 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.
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 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, butthat 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. 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 email account davidpalmer4uk@yahoo.co.uk 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 learnd from my private
banking clients. Do not betray my confidence.Kindly send your response to my
private email address davidpalmer4uk@yahoo.co.uk
I await your response.
DAVID PALMER.
davidpalmer4uk@yahoo.co.uk
---- Msg sent via Cito-Mail
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