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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: "tony hurley" <tony_hurley@btconnect.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 21:12:02 +0100
Subject: ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Good day,
I am Tony Hurley a staff of Brown Shipley Private Bank UK.I am contacting you concerning a deceased customer and an investment he placed under our banks management Four 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 would like to intimate you with certain facts that I believed would be of interest to you.In mid 2003 the deceased came to our bank and deposited $15 Million USD, He directed that I liquidate the funds and deposit it with a security firm.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. 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 Brown Shipley Bank Four days later, information started to trickle in, apparently our client was dead.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 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 fruitfless. We have scanned every continent and used our private investigation affiliate companies to get to the root of the problem.
According to practice, The Security Firm will by the end of this financial year broadcast a request for statements of claim to Brown Shipley Private Bank failure to receive viable claims they will most probably revert the deposit back to my bank.This will result in the money entering the Brown Shipley Bank accounting system and the portfolio will be out of my hands and out of the private banking division.
My proposal; 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 50/50.I assure you that I could have the deposit released to you within few days. 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 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.
I await your response.kindly send response to tonyhurley12@yahoo.it
Tony Hurley
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