Don't you love scams?

[Luk3us 63]

Sent to me via email...

 

Good day,

 

 

 

I am XXXX , 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 few 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 discussion s with our private banking division. He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of Forty Eight Million Three Hundred And Fifty Thousand United States Dollars ($48,350,000.00 USD) ,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 guaranteed 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 here in 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 th e processes and made sure I followed his precise instr uctions 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 2002. 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 bank ing 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 testament .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 fur nished 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 wi ll 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 the history or nature of the deposit. They are simply awaiting ; instructions to release the deposit to any party that com es forward. This is the situation. This bank has spent great amounts of money trying to track this mans 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. Let 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 wouldnt 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 cl ients. Do not betray my confidence. If we can be of one accord, we should plan a meeting, soon.

 

 

 

I await your response.

 

 

 

XXXX

 

Nifty huh.

[Sonic 296]

Ever heard this.....

 

 

Its the delete button, try it.

[Doctor Destiny 41]

Ever heard this.....

 

 

Its the delete button, try it.

Epic post of the week. You deserve ten Internets. ;p

[sith_wampa 6]

Someone should quote that in their sig. :lol:

[mormreed 0]

well what I read was looked pretty official, too bad I didn't understand alot of it... pretty much all I know is that if an e-mail comes up that is in a foreign language I don't know who sent it and it's going to be deleted subjects like "Tengo una problema!!!" aren't the kind of e-mails I answer

[General Leang 0]

Do I like scams? No I do not, they waste my time, try and steal money from people online and have murdered those who tried to expose them. The five seconds I waste looking at what they write, realising it is a scam and deleting it can be much better served lining up the scum who wrote it with a rifle and pulling the trigger.

[Luk3us 63]

Someone needs a chill pill me thinks....

[General Leang 0]

Thankfully I have not been scammed like others have been. I do not make it the focus of my life like people would with Iraq or Atheism, but if I had the opportunity to waste a scam artist I would, gladly.

[sith_wampa 6]

Not referring to anyone we know by any chance are we?

[General Leang 0]

Spider AL, someone a friend on another forum knows, I had in mind. Half of us here ripping apart N00BS who bring their conspiracy theories here would be included as well. Ah the memories.

[sith_wampa 6]

Ah ha! I knew I could smell an inference in that last post!

 

I thought you might have been referring to BWare, but ok.

[Guest Jamie T]

Wo-ot got one I won the lottery!! 8)

 

Greetings from Dubai,

 

This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but I believe

it is only a day that people meet and become great friends

and business partners. I am Mr. Arif Shaikh, currently Chief

Credit & Risk Officer with a reputable bank here in U. A. E.

I write you this proposal in good faith,believing that I can

trust you with the information I am about to reveal to you.

 

I have an urgent and very confidential business proposition

for you. On November 6, 2000, an Iraqi Foreign Oil consultant

/contractor with the CHEVRON PETROLEUM CORPORATION, MR MOHAMMAD

AL NASSER made a (Fixed deposit) for 36 calendar months,valued

at US$17,500,000.00 (Seventeen Million Five hundred Thousand

Dollars only) in my bank and I happen to be his account officer

before I was moved to my present position recently. Upon

maturity in 2003, as his account officer and as well the bank

manger, it is my duty to notify him on the maturity date so I

sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but the

letter was returned undelivered.

 

After sometime, I tried sending back the letter, but it was

again returned and finally I discovered from his contract

employers, Chevron Petroleum Corporation that Mr. Mohammad Al

Nasser died as a result of torture in the hand of Saddam

Hussein (former Iraqi President) during one of his trips to

his country Iraq, as he was accused of leaking information

to the Americans. On further investigation, I discovered

that Mr. Al Nasser's family wife and two sons died during

the Gulf War in Iraq and was the reason why he did not declare

any next of kin or relation in all his official documents,

including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank and did not

leave any WILL. This sum of US$17,500,000.00 have been

floating and placed under dormant/unserviceable account by my

bank management since no one have heard from the owner since

2003. I wish to let you know that all the investigation I

have made so far, my bank management is not aware of it, I am

the only one that have the information.

 

With the recent change of government in my country and with

their efforts to support the United Nations in checkmating

terrorism aid in the U. A. E. By end of this year, the

government will pass a new financial control law which will

give the government authority to interrogate account owners

of above $5,000,000.00 to explain the source of the funds,

making sure it is not for terrorism support. If I do not

move this money out of the country immediately, by end of

the year the government will definitely confiscate the money,

because my bank cannot provide the account owner to explain

the source of the money.

 

I cannot directly transfer out this money without the help

of a foreigner and that is why I am contacting you for an

assistance. As the Account Officer to late Al Nasser,coupled

with my present position and status in the bank as Chief

Credit & Risk Officer , I have the power to influence the

release of the funds to any foreigner that comes up as the

next of kin to the account, with the correct information

concerning the account, which I shall give you. All documents

to enable you claim this fund will be carefully worked out and

there is practically no risk involved, the transaction will be

executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you

from any breach of law, beside U. A. E is porous and anything

goes.

 

If you accept to work with me, I want you to state how you

wish us to share the funds in percentage, so that both

parties will be satisfied. If you are interested, contact

me as soon as you receive this message so we can go over

the details. Thanking you in advance and may God bless you.

Please, treat with utmost confidentiality. I shall send

you copy of the

 

deposit certificate issued to Al Nasser when the deposit

was made for your perusal.

 

I wait your urgent response.

 

 

Regards,

 

 

 

Mr. Arif Shaikh

[General Leang 0]

It must rain a lot in Dubai. Because nine out of ten of the emails I see from there must thing the recepiants came down in the last shower.

[F15pilotX 4]

lol...that's so cheezy

[mormreed 0]

haha so fake I would love to get scams... unfortunately I only get spams

just goes to show you how little I have to do during the day...

[Mighty BOB! 5]

The art of Scambaiting

[General Leang 0]

I wonder if the person behind this is married.

 

http://www.419eater.com/

[mormreed 0]

doubt it