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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: davidpalmercorp01@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 01:26:58 -0800
Subject: Confidentiality Required........(proposal)
Good day,
I am David Palmer, staff of SMITH & WILLIAMSON Private
Banking. I am contacting you concerning a deceased customer
the deceased and an investment he placed under our banks
management seven 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; the deceased
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 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
ten 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 2001, 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. I
informed him that SMITH & WILLIAMSON 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 February 2003.In June last year, we got a call
from the security firm informing us that 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
SMITH & WILLIAMSON. Four days later, information started to
trickle in, apparently the deceased 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, 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. 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.
There is Thirty 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
SMITH & WILLIAMSON is concerned, the transaction with the
deceased 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 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 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 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. 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 me 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 won’t 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. Let’s 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 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.
I await your response.
davidpalmercorp01@yahoo.co.uk
David Palmer.
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