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The scammers claim to be a lawyer or bank employee based in Nigeria or in Lome (the capital Togo, a country located between Ghana and Benin in West Africa). The storyline is adapted to other countries too (UK, Belgium, Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, China). The conmen ask for help in defrauding their government out of an inheritance.

According to the email, a Westerner (usually an oil industry contractor) died in a car or plane crash, leaving millions of dollars in a local bank account (usually an even multiple of US$100,000, as if there were no interest payments!). Because no living relative could be located, that money would fall to the state very soon. You are asked to assist in moving it out of country by posing as a relative. You are promised a large percentage of that amount for essentially doing nothing but telling a lie. This is a scam and whoever falls for it will never see a cent from that (non-existent) bank account. Instead he/she will be bilked for legal fees / "inheritance tax" / various documents / "bribes to officials", etc. It's a classic advance fee fraud.

Dont't trust any images of passports, bank documents, government certificates, etc. presented to you by the scammers. These are all fake.

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We have received numerous variants of the following scam involving various countries, mostly in West Africa.

Example #1:

Attn:...... ,

I am Barrister Daniel Tete , a solicitor at law, personal attorney to Mr.J.C. de Krijger , a national of your country,who used to work as a contractor in Lome Togo.
Here in after shall be referred to as my client. On the 30th of April 2000, my client, and their only daughter were involved in a fatal accident along Kpalime express Road. All occupants of the incident unfortunately lost there lives.
Since then I have made several enquiries here to locate any of my clients extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.After these several unsuccessful attempts,I decided to searcht-hrough with his name which motivated me to contact you, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.I have contacted you to assist in repartrating the fund valued at US$20.5 million left behind by my client before it gets confisicated or declared unserviceable by the Security Finance (bank) where this huge amount were deposited.
The said Security Finance Bank has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have his account confisicated within the next twenty one official working days.
Since I have been unsuccesfull in locating the relatives for over 2years now, I seek the consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased since you have the same last name, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you.Therefore, on receipt of your positive response, we shall then discuss the sharing ratio and modalities for transfer.
I have all necessary information and legal documents needed to back you up for this claim. All I require from you is your honest co-operation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.
CALL ME FOR MORE DETAILS ON 00228 9071275.
Best regards.
Daniel Tete (esq)

Example #2:

BARRISTER ZECH BANO
NO.15 RUE-DE-ASIGAMI
TEL. 00228 921 55 91
ALTERNETIVE EMAIL ([email protected])
LOME TOGO
WEST AFRICA.

Dear ..... ,

I am Barrister Zech Bano , a solicitor at law, personal attorney to Mr.J.B Kok , a national Of your country,who used to work as a contractor in Lome Togo.Here in after shall be referred to as my client. On the 30th of April 2000, my client, and their only daughter were involved in a car accident along Kpalime express Road. All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost there lives.

Since then I have made several enquiries here to locate any of my clients extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.After these several unsuccessful attempts,I decided to searchthrough with his name which motivated me to contact you, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.I havecontacted you to assist in repartrating the fund valued at US$20.5 million left behind by my client before it gets confisicated or declared unserviceable by the Security Finance Firm(bank) where this huge amount were deposited.
The said Security Finance Company has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have his account confisicated within the next twenty one official working days.
Since I have been unsuccesfull in locating the relatives for over 2years now, I seek the consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased since you have the same last names, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you.
Therefore, on receipt of your positive response, we shall then discuss the sharing ratio and modalities for transfer.I haveall necessary information and legal documents needed to back you up for claim. All I require from you is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

PLEASE REPLY ME THROUGH MY ALTERNATIVE EMAIL([email protected])AND CALL ME FOR MORE ORAL CLARIFICATION ON ( 00228 921 55 91). ALSO INCLUDE YOUR PRIVATE TELEPHONE NUMBER IN YOUR REPLY.

Best regards.

Zech Bano(esq)

Kpalime Express Road must be the deadliest road in Africa, because in less than four weeks in November 2004 we received a total of 11 emails from supposed Togolese barristers and bankers notifying us of foreign nationals fatally crashing on that particular stretch of road and leaving them stuck with a few million dollars to dispose of ;-)

Example #3:

ATTN: .... ,

My name is Mr. Ibrahim Soglo I am the Operations Manager with Shell development Company in Lome-Republic of Togo.


One of our clients, Dr.Steve Cole , a national of your country, A Contractor and Oil Merchant, but resident in Lome, Republic of Togo; whom I happened to be his personal manager and could be refered to as my Chief Executive.

On December 25,2003, my Chief Executive, his wife and their only daughter were involved in a car accident along Nouvissi express Road. All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost there lives.

Since then I have made several inquiries to his high commission to locate any of my clients extended Relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his last name over the Internet, to locate any member of his family; hence I contacted you. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the fund of $6.8 Million (usd Dollars) he had deposited with the FINANACE / DEPOSIT COMPANY in Lome-Togo before the car accident. I want your assistance in this regard before this deposited fund gets confiscated or declared unserviceable by the firm.

Right now, FINANACE / DEPOSIT COMPANY has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin within the next 21 working days, or have the fund confiscated.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for few months now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased, so that this fund could be released to you and we will have reputation to negotiate on a business been favourable.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you and me from any breach of the law.

NOTE: All correspondence between you and I should be made through this email address for security reasons and also indicate your private contact information like telephone, mobile phone, fax numbers for easy communication.

I look forward to recieve a favourable response from you.

Best regards.

Mr.Ibrahim Soglo

Example #4:

Dear Sir,

I am Mr Avis Ugomba Director of bills/exchange at the foreign remittance department of North Atlantic Security Compay Sarl here in Togo. In my department, I discovered an abandoned sum of $30.5m (Thirty Million, Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only) in an account that belonged to one Late MR LEVY SHIMONY an American, who died along with his entire family, on 31th October 1999, in a ghastly plane crash. Since we got the information about his death, I have been expecting his next-of-kin to come over and file a claim as next of kin over his money because we can not release it unless somebody applied for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our Security guidelines.

Unfortunately, nobody has come forward to claim this money. It is based on this I decided to establish a cordial business relationship with you, hence by contacting you.I want you to present yourself as the next of kin to Late MR LEVY SHIMONY, so that the funds can be remitted into your account. Moreover,i do not want the money to go into the government account as unclaimed bills. The Security law and guidelines here stipulates that any account abandoned or is dormant for a period of years, is deemed closed and all money contained therein forfeited to the government treasury account.

Now, it is being speculated that the above sum will be transferred into the government account as an unclaimed fund on or before the end of this financial quarter of 2004, when nobody come forward to lay claims. The reason for requesting your assistance, is occasioned by, the fact that the deceased (Late MR LEVY SHIMONY) was a foreigner, and I have access to his detailed bio data which you will hold as a weapon to present yourself as the next of kin to Late Mr Levy Shimony.

The mode of sharing after a successful transfer of the money into your account, shall be 60% to me and for the role you will be expected to play in this deal, I have agreed to give you 35% of the total sum and 5% for the expenses we are going to encounter by the two parties in the course of this transaction. Therefore,you are expected to reply this letter indicating your readiness and interest to participate in this business. After receiving your reply, you will be communicated to with the exact steps to take. I expect your urgent response and I shall contact you for further discussion on this matter,to enable us conclude this transaction urgently without any delay or hitch. Please treat this business proposal as strictly confidential for security reasons considering my official position in North Atlantic Security.

Personal Regards,
Mr. Avis Ugomba.
00228 926 7841

Example #5:

FROM BARRISTER ZULU MATA
ZULUMATA'S CHAMBER LOME TOGO
TEL/FAX:/00228 901 58 45
LOME TOGO WEST AFRICA.


Attention:

As it may interest you to know, I got your impressive information through the business directory at chamber of commerce and Industry here in Lome-Togo, where i was searching for a good reliable contact of your family members which i will entrust this inheritance into its control, I was elated when i saw your contact ,and i picked a keen interest with confidence to solicit for your co-operation in executing this project.

Let me start by introducing myself properly to you. I am BARRISTER ZULU MATA the Attorney to your late uncle Engr.J.B. Koomen (Snr) a contractor with the Federal Government of lome-togo, until his death last two years ago in political crisis in Abidjan capital of Cote d'Ivoire, He Banked with Standard Trust Securities, lome-togo and had a closing balance as at the end of September, 2002 worth US$10,500,000.00(Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars).The financial firm now expects the Next of Kin to come forward as Beneficiary. Efforts has been made by the Standard Trust Securities of lome-togo to get in touch with any of the Deceased Family Relatives, but they have met with no success.As the deceased being a foreigner, that was why I decided to contact you so that you can put claim on this fund as you bear the same last name with him.

Now the management under the influence of the bank Chairman and Members of the Board of directors, that arrangement has been made for the fund to be declared Unclaimed In order to avert this negative development, it is my duty to contact you so that you can stand as the next of kin to his properties. All documents and proof to enable you get this fund will be carefully worked out by me for this claim. I have secured from the probate an order of Mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries, and more so I am assuring you that this claim is 100% risk free.

Now it is left for you to decide on what you will give me as my percentage for assisting you in this claim. I hope to hear from you soon or call me immediately you receive this mail on this phone number 00228-901 58 45.

I want to let you know that this transaction have to be done legitimately and confidential as I dont want any one to know that you are not the right applicant.

Call me as soon as you read this message.

Yours Sincerely,

BARRISTER ZULU MATA ESQ

Example #6:

From: BARRISTER STEVE OREL [[email protected]]
Sent: 09 December 2004 18:44
Subject: Urgent Reply Needed!


Dear Friend,
I am BARRISTER STEVE OREL a Solicitor and the personal Attorney to Mr. James Glenn a national of your country, who worked with Shell Development Company in Nigeria. On the 10th of January 2002, my Client,his wife and two children were involved in an authomobile accident along Port-Harcourt / Warri Express Road.
Unfortunately they All lost their lives in the event of the accident, due to the poor major roads in nigeria, since then I have made several enquiries at your Embassy here to locate any of my Client's relatives, this has proved abortive/ unsuccessful. After these abortive attempts I decided to trace his relatives over the chambers of commerce through the Internet, but of no avail. I am contacting you to assist in repartriating the fund and property left behind by my client before they got confiscated or his bank accounts be declared unserviceable by his bank, particularly, the Bank where the deceased had an account valued at about Nineteen Million,Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ($19.5m usd).
The Bank has signaled me a notice to provide them with my late Client's Next of kin or have the account confiscated within the next fourteen (14) banking days. Since I have been unsuccesfull in locating the the relatives for over 1 years now, I want to seek your consent to present your self as the next of kin of the deceased since you are from the same Country so that the proceeds of this account valued at $19.5 m usd can be paid to you. I propose that when the fund (US$19.5m) is eventually paid into your bank account, that it shall be disbursed in the following order, 60% to me and 30% to you, while 10% shall be set aside to off-set all expenses at both ends and tax as your government may demand. I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up this claim as they shall be obtained from the Federal High Court here without contravening the Nigeria laws. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be e! xecuted under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in touch with me by my private email above to enable us discuss further and send me your telephone and fax numbers too.
Best regards,
BARRISTER STEVE OREL

If the email claims to come from somewhere other than Africa but basically works along the same storyline, you can assume it's the same scam in disguise. There are many "dead foreigner" scam emails set in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, etc. but don't let that fool you: Almost always the email was sent from a provider in Africa, as in this case.

Example #7:

From: "CHEN CHUN-HWA" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 18:55
Subject: RE:PARTNESRSHIP

Dear Sir,

I am Mr. Chen Chun-Hwa, the bill and exchange manager of a bank in HongKong and I am contacting you on a business transfer of a huge sum of money from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. We decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.

PROPOSITION;

I discovered an abandoned sum of US$10,500,000.00 (Ten million five hundred thousand united states dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family. Since his death, none of his next-of-kin or relations has come forward to lay claims for this money as the heir. We cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Upon this discovery, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased as all documentations will be carefully worked out by us for the funds (US$10,500,000.00) to be released
in your favour as the beneficiary's next of kin. It may interest you to know that we have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of deceased beneficiaries.

Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavour by furnishing me with the following;

1. Beneficiary name and address

2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers

These requirements will enable us file letter of claim to the appropriate departments for necessary approvals in your favour before the transfer can be made. I shall be compensating you with a One million five hundred thaousand
dollars on final conclusion of this project, while the rest shall be for us for
investment purposes in your country that you will propose to us.

If this proposal is acceptable by you, do take advantage of this opportunity.

Please reply as soon as possible.

Regards,

Mr.Chen Chun-Hwa.

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Here's the network for IP 81.199.84.37:

     inetnum:      81.199.84.0 - 81.199.87.255
     netname:      CIDR-COMMUNICATION-01
     descr:        Internet service provider
     country:      NG
     admin-c:      TECH7-RIPE
     tech-c:       TECH7-RIPE
     status:       ASSIGNED PA
     notify:       [email protected]
     mnt-by:       AS12491-MNT
     changed:      [email protected] 20040902
     source:       RIPE
     
     person:       Tech Supernet300
     address:      21 Mobolaji Bank
     address:      Anthony Way Ikeja
     address:      Lagos
     address:      Nigeria
     phone:        + 234 1 4976493
     e-mail:       [email protected]
     nic-hdl:      TECH7-RIPE
     changed:      [email protected] 20040902
     source:       RIPE

Example #8:

There are a couple of spectacular plane crashes that are often mentioned in "dead foreigner scam" emails. On of them is EgyptAir 990 (see here for more scam examples) featured in the following scam email:

From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, 17 December, 2004 1:35
Subject: URGENT HELP.

Barister Moses Paul
Principal Partner
Paul & Associates
(legal practionner/advocates)
Lome Togo.

Attn: Sir,

Dear as it may be of your keen interest, I am Barister Moses Paul,a solicitor at law, personal attorney to Mr Hamed Abdel Wahab Ahmed a contractor with Shell Oil Development Company S.A.R.L in Lome Togo, Here in after referred to as my client.

who on aboard EgyptAir Flight 990, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on October 31,1999 Ref. website
http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/02/egyptair990.list/index.html and unfortunately lost his life with his entire family known to me .

Since then I have made several enquiries to his embassy here to locate any of my clients further extended relatives,this has also proved unsuccessful.

After these several unsuccessful attempts,I decided to look for someone who can collaborate with me to get his money out of the bank here instead of losing it to the Government treasury.

I am contacting you to assist in repartrating the fund valued at US$14.5 million left behind by my client before it is transfered to the government
treasury or declared unclaimable by the bank where this huge amount is deposited.

The said bank has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have this account transfered to the Government treasury if no response is gotten within their next Board Meeting.

Since I have been unsuccesfull in locating anymore relatives for over 5 years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you.

Therefore, on receipt of your positive response, we shall then discuss the sharing ratio and modalities for transfer.I have all necessary information needed to back you up for this claim.

I require your honest co-operation to enable us see this transaction through.
I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you and me.

I will secure the High Court mandate to claim this money in your name ever before the application for claim is made in your name.

Please get in touch with me to enable me know your stand.

Best Regards.
Barister Moses Paul .Esq




________________________________________________________________________

Now let's take a look how this got here:

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From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
X-wmSenderIP: 80.248.64.59
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
X-Complaints-To: [email protected]
Subject: URGENT HELP. 
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:35:35 +0000
X-Mailer: Katamail
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Here's the network for IP 80.248.64.59:

     inetnum:      80.248.64.0 - 80.248.66.255
     netname:      CNET2BLK
     descr:        Block d'adresse CAFEnet
     country:      TG
     admin-c:      YANO1-RIPE
     tech-c:       CNET2-RIPE
     tech-c:       AKAD1-RIPE
     status:       ASSIGNED PA
     mnt-by:       CAFENET-MNT
     mnt-lower:    CAFENET-MNT
     mnt-routes:   CAFENET-MNT
     changed:      [email protected] 20030926
     source:       RIPE
     
     role:         ROLE ACCOUNT OF CAFENET
     address:      Route de Kpalime - AVENOU
     address:      BP: 12596 LOME
     address:      TOGO (West Africa)
     phone:        +228 225 5555
     fax-no:       +228 225 6666
     e-mail:       [email protected]
     mnt-by:       CAFENET-MNT
     admin-c:      YANO1-RIPE
     admin-c:      AKAD1-RIPE
     tech-c:       AKAD1-RIPE
     tech-c:       ST1012-RIPE
     tech-c:       KIN3-RIPE
     nic-hdl:      CNET2-RIPE
     notify:       [email protected]
     changed:      [email protected] 20030926
     source:       RIPE
     
     person:       Yawo NOAGBODJI
     address:      CAFE informatique S.A.
     address:      Route de Kpalime - AVENOU
     address:      BP: 12596 LOME
     address:      TG
     phone:        +228 255 555
     phone:        +228 078 787
     fax-no:       +228 256 666
     e-mail:       [email protected]
     nic-hdl:      YANO1-RIPE
     remarks:      West AFRICA
     remarks:      President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
     notify:       [email protected]
     notify:       [email protected]
     notify:       [email protected]
     changed:      [email protected] 20010817
     source:       RIPE
     
     person:       Adiel AKPLOGAN
     address:      CAFE informatique
     address:      Route de Kpalime - AVENOU
     address:      BP: 12596 LOME
     address:      TG
     phone:        +228 255 555
     fax-no:       +228 256 666
     e-mail:       [email protected]
     nic-hdl:      AKAD1-RIPE
     remarks:      West AFRICA
     notify:       [email protected]
     notify:       [email protected]
     notify:       [email protected]
     notify:       [email protected]
     changed:      [email protected] 20030508
     source:       RIPE

Here's another example of a "Far Eastern" version of the Nigerian scam.

Example #9:

From: "cheung Pui" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, 17 December, 2004 22:27
Subject: Appeal


FROM:MR. CHEUNG PUI
Hang Seng Bank Ltd
Sai Wan Ho Branch
171 Shaukiwan Road
Hong Kong.


Let me start by introducing myself. I am Mr. Cheung Pui director of operations of the Hang Seng Bank Ltd,Sai Wan Ho Branch.I have a obscured business suggestion for you.

Before the U.S and Iraqi war our client Major Fadi Basem who was with the Iraqi forces and also business man made a numbered fixed deposit for 18 calendar months, with a value of Twenty Four millions Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only in my branch. Upon maturity several notice was sent to him,even during the war. Again after the war another notification was sent and still no response came from him. We later find out that the Major and his family had been killed during the war in bomb blast that hit their home.

After further investigation it was also discovered that Major Fadi Basem did not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work of his ba! nk deposit. And he also confided in me the last time he was at my office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank. So, Twenty Four millions Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars is still lying in my bank and no one will ever come forward to claim
it. What bothers me most is that according to the to the laws of my country at the expiration 4 years the funds will revert to the ownership of the Hong Kong Government if nobody applies to claim the funds.

Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Major Fadi Basem so that you will be able to receive his funds.

WHAT IS TO BE DONE:

I want you to know that I have had everything planned out so that we shall come out successful. I have contacted an attorney that will prepare the necessary document that will back you up as the next of kin to Major Fadi Basem , all that is required from you at this stage is for you to provide me! with your Full
Names and Address so that the attorney can commence his job. After you have been made the next of kin, the attorney will also fill in for claims on your behalf and secure the necessary approval and letter of probate in your favor for the move of the
funds to an account that will be provided by you.

There is no risk involved at all in the matter as we are going adopt a legalized method and the attorney will prepare all the necessary documents. Please endeavor to observe utmost discretion in all matters concerning this issue.

Once the funds have been transferred to your nominated bank account we shall share in the ratio of 80% for me, 20% for you . Should you be interested please send me your full names and current residential address and I will prefers you to reach me on the email address below ([email protected] )


and finally after that I shall provide you with more details ! of this operation.

Your earliest response to this letter will be
appreciated.

Kind Regards
Mr. Cheung Pui

This email was not sent from Hong Kong at all. IP address 81.199.83.56 mentioned in the header belongs to the following network:

     inetnum:      81.199.82.0 - 81.199.83.255
     netname:      CIDR-COMMUNICATION-01
     descr:        Internet service provider
     country:      NG
     admin-c:      TECH7-RIPE
     tech-c:       TECH7-RIPE
     status:       ASSIGNED PA
     notify:       [email protected]
     mnt-by:       AS12491-MNT
     changed:      [email protected] 20040902
     source:       RIPE
     
     person:       Tech Supernet300
     address:      21 Mobolaji Bank
     address:      Anthony Way Ikeja
     address:      Lagos
     address:      Nigeria
     phone:        + 234 1 4976493
     e-mail:       [email protected]
     nic-hdl:      TECH7-RIPE
     changed:      [email protected] 20040902
     source:       RIPE

Here's another "Far Eastern / USA" version of the Nigerian scam.

Example #10:

From the desk of:
mr. sang d lee
korea exchange bank.
seoul-south korea
website:http://www.keb.co.kr/english

I am Mr Sang-Duck Lee, auditor of the Korean Exchange Bank, Seoul,South
Korea. I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you.
I am the Auditing officer to Mrs Salah Adams (deceased) one of our foreign
customers. While she banked with us, I oversaw her
accounts and other official/financial obligations as my office demanded
being her auditor.Unfortunately, he died along with her entire family in
the plane crash of 31 October, 1999 on board the Egyptian Airline 990
alonside other passengers. On further investigation, I found out that she
died without making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his next of kin was
fruitless.
I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mrs. Salah
Adams did not declare any kin or relations in all her official
documents,including her Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank. This sum of
US$45,000,000.00 is still sitting in my Bank and the interest is being
rolled over with the principal
sum at the end of each year. No one will ever come forward to claim it.
According to Laws of Republic of South Korea, at the expiration of 5
(five) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the South Korean
Government if nobody applies to claim the fund.I cannot release the fund
from her account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to
the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand
in as the next of kin to Mrs. Salah Adams so that the fruits of this old
woman's labour will not get into the hands of some corrupt government
officials. This is simple, I will like you to provide immediately your
full names and address
so that the attorney will prepare the necessary documents and affidavits
that will put you in place as the next of kin. We shall employ the
services of our bank attorney for drafting and notarization of the WILL
and to obtain the necessary documents and letter of probate/administration
in your favor for the
transfer.

Having made a very frantic and exhaustive search for any family member
that would lay claim to this fund, I decided to take my chance with you.I
now seek your permission to have you stand as next of kin to the deceased
as I have all documentations including his certified Death Certificate
that will facilitate your stand as next of kin to her as she had a closing
balanced of US$45,000,000.00 here in our bank in South Korea.

Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual
business endeavour by furnishing me with the following;
1. Beneficiary name and address
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers
These requirements will enable me make some internal re-adjustments and
file your name in form A2, T12 and other vital forms as next of kin.
Please consult the CABLE NEWS NETWORK (CNN) WEBSITE
below for verification.
http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/02/egyptair990.list/index.html
and BBC WORLD NEWS. WEBSITE.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm

WHAT TO DO NOW:
You will have to open an account in your name or company's name pending on
what you are confortable with in one of our branches in Chicago or Los
Angeles OR elsewhere in the World pending on where our branches are
located in your country of residence.You will provide the account details
then facilitate the transfer of this fund to you as the beneficiary/next
of kin. The fund will be paid into your account for us to share in the
ratio of 50% for me and 50% for you.
You can link our branch in Chicago at:
181 West Madison Street, Suite 2100 Chicago, IL60602, U.S.A.
Tel:312-372-7890,Fax:312-372-7839,Email:[email protected]

You can link our branch in Los Angeles:
777 South Figueroa St., Suite 3000, Los Angeles CA 90017, U.S.A
Tel:213-683-0830,Fax:213-622-5378,9954,Email:[email protected]
There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this transaction will be
done by our bank legal representative and my
position as the auditor of the bank guarantees the successful execution of
this transaction. If you are interested, please reply immediately via the
private email address below. Upon your response, I shall then provide you
with more details and relevant documents that will help you understand the
transaction. Please send me your confidential telephone and fax numbers
for easy communication.
Please observe utmost confidentiality, and rest assured that this
transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall
require your assistance to invest my share in your country.

Please send your reply to my email address [email protected] above for
confidential reasons or you can call me on above numbers.


Thanks and regards.
Mr.Lee Sang-Duck

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PSG Investment Bank
Albion Spring 183 Main Road
Rondebosch, 7700 Claremont, 7735
Republic of South Africa
Email: [email protected]

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Sollie Nortje Bank Manager of PSG Investment.This is an urgent and 
very confidential
business proposition.
 
On June 6, 2002,a Foreign Oil consultant/contractor with the South 
African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Mr.Sean Powell made a 
numbered time(Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months,
valued at US$26,500,000.00,(Twenty-six Million, five hundred thousand 
Dollars) in my branch.
Upon maturity,I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address 
but got no reply. After a month,we sent a reminder and finally we 
discovered from his contract employers, the National Petroleum 
Corporation that Mr.Sean Poewll died from an
automobile accident.

On further investigation,I found out that he diedwithout making a WILL, 
and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I therefore 
made further investigation anddiscovered that Mr.Sean Powell did not 
declare any or relations in all his official documents,including his 
Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank. This sum of US$26,500,000.00 has 
carefully been fixed in my bank for safekeeping.No one will ever come 
forward to claim it. According to South African Law, at the expiration 
of 5 (five) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the 
Government if nobody applies to claim the fund.
Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a Foreigner to 
stand in as the owner of the money which was fixed deposited in my 
bank. I am writing you because I as a public servant,i cannot operate a 
foreign account.
 
I want to present you as the owner of the funds so you can be able to 
claim them with the help of my attorney. This is simple.I will like you 
to provide immediately your full names and address so that the Attorney 
will prepare the necessary documents which will put you in place as the 
beneficiary of the funds.
The money will be moved out for us to share in the ratio of 80% for me 
and 20% for you. The paperwork for this transaction will be done by the 
Attorney and this will guarantees the successful execution of this 
transaction.
 
If you are interested, please reply immediately via my email and Upon 
your response,I shall then provide you with more details and relevant 
documents that will help you understand the transaction.
 
Please observe utmost confidentiality, and be rest assured that this 
transaction would be most
profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to 
invest my share in real estate within your country.
 
Due to the nature of confidentiality in this Transaction our 
communication can only be via email
and fax mostly also i would call from time to time.
 
Awaiting your urgent reply via my email.
 
Thanks and my regards.
 
Sollie Nortje.
Branch Manager
PSG Investment Bank

Following the violent death of German fashion designer Rudolf Moshammer, one "419" scammer came up with this rather bizarre idea of using his name for the familiar scam:

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ATTENTION PLEASE, 

NOTIFICATION OF REQUEST.
Sequel to your non response of our earlier letter to
you On behalf of the Trustees and Executors to the
Will of late Rudolph Moshammer 
,I wish
to notify you that you are listed as a
beneficiary to the request of the sum of
US$1,000,000.00 [one million
united states dollars only] in the codicil and last
statement of the deceased.
The late Rudolph Moshammer until his death was a
one of the Board of Directors of Julius Berger Nig Ltd,a German 
Construction Company based in Africa and pioneer director of a big
fashion companies in the world. 
He was a very dedicated Christian and a great
philanthropist during his life time. Late Rudolph Moshammer died 
in January 2005 at the age 64
was buried on the 22 January 2005 in M�nchen,Germany.
Late Rudolph Moshammer even though he was a German
living and working as a fashion model in Germany, also he
requested before his death that his shares and asset Abroad should 
be disburst to people listed in his will ., Hence contacting you.. 
He said that this token is to support
your Church and to help the less- privileges. I hereby
request you to forward any proof of your identities 
your current telephone/fax numbers,address and banking
details to enable us file necessary documents at our
high court probate division for the release of this
request.please reply to [email protected]
congratulations.
Yours faithfully, 
Evans Enwerem
N.B. Please indicate your telephone,
fax numbers for easy communication with you.

[email protected]
FROM BARRISTER IKEMBA OGIDI
ROYAL CHAMBERS
22 RUE DE FRANCE
LOME TOGO, S.A.
PHONE/00228-930-60-58
LOME TOGO S.A.
00228-930-60-58.
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John Johnson.
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From: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 15:39:30 +0400
Subject: Waiting to hear from you

From the desk of Mr. Haitham Sharaf
BRANCH MANAGER OF
National Bank of Abu Dhabi
UNITED ARAB EMIRATE (U.A.E)
ABU DHABI,
DEAR

I am Mr. Haitham Sharaf Branch Manager National Bank of Abu Dhabi), I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. A British Oil consultant and contractor with the Kruger Gold Company, Mr. Raymond Beck made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at US$12,000,000.00 (Twelve Million Dollars) in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, the Kruger Gold Company that Mr. Raymond Beck died in a plane crash along with his wife Mr. and Mrs. Raymond & Dorene Beck in Egypt Air Flight 990, 1999 air crash (for more information about this crash and person you can contact this website: http://www.s-t.com/daily/11-99/11-02-99/d08ho174.htm

Since we got this information about his death and on further investigation, I found out that he died without making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr. Raymond Beck did not declare any kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank. This sum of US$12,000,000.00 is still sitting in my Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will ever come forward to claim it. According to Laws of United Arab Emirates , at the expiration of 7 (seven) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the ( U.A.E ) Government if nobody applies to claim the fund.

Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to Mr. Raymond Beck so that the fruits of this old man's labor will not get into the hands of some corrupt government officials. This is simple, I will like you to provide immediately your full names and address so that the attorney will prepare the necessary documents and affidavits that will put you in place as the next of kin. We shall employ the services of an attorney for drafting and notarization of the WILL and to obtain the necessary documents and letter of probate/administration in your favor for the transfer. A bank account in any part of the world that you will provide will then facilitate the transfer of this money to you as the beneficiary/next of kin.

The money will be paid into your account for us to share in the ratio of 60% for me and 40% for you. There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this transaction will be done by the attorney and my position as the Branch Manager guarantees the successful execution of this transaction.
If you are interested, please reply immediately via the private email address above. Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details and relevant documents that will help you understand the transaction. Please send me your confidential telephone and fax numbers for easy communication. Please observe utmost confidentiality, and rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your country. Awaiting your urgent reply via my confidential email address: [email protected]
Regards
Mr. Haitham Sharaf

From: "Haitham Sharaf" <[email protected]>
To: <emailaddress>
Sent: Wednesday, 09 February, 2005 16:03
Subject: contact the bank attorney and get back to me urgent

Dear Mr , Surname

Thank you for your response and as a matter of fact, I have to let you know that this is a deal since I work with the bank here in Abu Dhabi as the Branch Manager of the bank.

Note that I have discovered this huge amount under the fixed deposit account of our late customer Mr. Raymond Beck and as the case may be, he did not have any mentioned name as his next of kin and based on the fact that he died with his entire family, I find it as an opportunity to make a deal with you so that you can claim the fund as the next of kin/partner to the depositor as I shall send you the documents (deposit certificate and death certificate) that will back you up which the bank will demand from you for verification on your claim. And I want you to promise me that when this money moves into your account you will not disappoint me. ?

Therefore, I need you to forward to the bank attorney as his contact information's are as follow. Your cooperation in this deal because I cannot stand at the forefront of this transaction since I work with the bank. I will advice that you complete the bellow application and send it to the bank attorney .please Note: do not call me when I am still in my bank office please. Because I don�t want to discuses this matter in my bank office. So you can only send email to this my private email address. Or when I am through in my office I will give you a call.

Kindly contact him with the bellow application and demand from him the procedure to certify your claim and once you hear from him, kindly get back to me so that I can advice you on how you can act on this deal and furnish you with whatever that he will demand from you to verify your claim legal.

Finally, Please I will like you to keep this transaction confidential regards to my status as banker I will not like to do anything that will spoil or tarnish my image as well as yours.

I am a man of integrity I value my reputation than this money

Do not be afraid as I know what we are pursuing and surely sky will be our limits.

I am counting on your maximum cooperation.
Mr. Haitham Sharaf
Tell: +971 50 3464081

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DAVID AND ASSOCIATES
BARR: DAVID CARRINGTON

TELL: 971 50 4236337

FAX: 971 4 224 7409
EMAIL: [email protected]

[email protected]






APLICATION FOR RELEASE OF FUNDS INTO MY DESIGNATED ACCOUNT




ATTN: LEGAL DEPARTMENTS OF National Bank of Abu Dhabi


DEAR BARR: DAVID CARRINGTON ESQ

I AM MR......... OF........ �..AND I WOULD WANT YOU TO INTIMATE ME ON THE MODALITIES AND PROCESS TO GET THE FUNDS LEFT FOR ME BY MY LATE RELATIVE (Mr. Raymond Beck) WHO WAS A FIXED DEPOSIT CUSTOMER OF YOUR BANK AND DIED IN THE YEAR 1999,AS DOCUMENTS IN MY POSSESSION STATES ME AS THE LEGAL NEXT OF KIN TO THE DECEASED.

PLEASE INFORM ME OF THE REQUIRMENTS TO GET THE SAID FUNDS OF US$12,000,000.00 TRANSFERED INTO MY ACCOUNT WITHOUT DELAYS.

I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE IF YOU WOULD DO THIS WITH SWIFTNESS AND GET BACK TO ME WITH THESE INFORMATIONS TO ALLOW MY PROCESSING THE TRANSFER RIGHT AWAY.

MY ACCOUNT DETAILS
............
............
............

YOURS SINCERELY





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From: cheng [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 18 February 2005 09:59
Subject: Acknowledge My Mail


Mr. Jun Cheng,
Bank Of Korea,
16-1, Yoido-dong, 
Youngdungpo-gu, 
Seoul 150-873.

Dear Friend
         I am Jun Cheng a manager of bills/exchange at the  foreign
remittance department of Hanivitbank. In my department, we  discovered
an  abandoned sum of $44,700,000.00 (Forty Four Million, Seven Hundred
Thousand United State Dollars only) in an account that  belonged to one
Late Mr Andrew Phillips an American, who died along with his entire
family, on November  1998, in a ghastly plane crash. Since we got the
information about his death,  we have been expecting his next-of-kin to
come over and file a claim as next of kin over his money because we can
not release it unless somebody applied for it as next of  kin or
relation to the deceased as indicated in our  banking guidelines.
          Unfortunately, nobody has come forward to claim this  money.
It is based on this that some officials in my department and I have
decided to establish a cordial business relationship  with you, hence by
contacting you. We want you to present yourself as the  next of kin  to
Late Mr Andrew Phillips, so that the funds can be remitted into your
account. Moreover, we do not want the money to go into the government
account as unclaimed bills. The banking law and guidelines here
stipulates that  any account abandoned or is dormant for a period of
years, is deemed closed and all money contained therein forfeited to the
government treasury account.
            Now, it is being speculated that the above sum will be
transferred into the government account as an unclaimed fund on or
before the end of this financial quarter of 2005, when nobody come
forward to lay claims. The reason for requesting your assistance, is
occasioned by, the fact that the deceased (Late Mr Andrew Phillips) was
a foreigner, and we have access to his detailed bio data which you will
hold as a weapon to present yourself as the next of kin to Late Mr
Andrew Phillips.
          The mode of sharing after a successful transfer of the money
into your account, shall be 70% to my colleagues and I, for the role you
will be expected to play in this deal, we have agreed to give you 25% of
the total sum and 5% for the expenses we are going to encounter by the
two parties in the course of this transaction. Therefore,you are
expected to reply this letter indicating your readiness and interest to
participate in this business. After receiving your reply, you will be
communicated to with the exact steps to take. I expect your urgent
response and I shall contact you for further discussion on this
matter,to enable us conclude this transaction urgently without any delay
or hitch. Please treat this business proposal as strictly confidential
for security reasons considering my official position in Bank of Korea.
Personal Regards,
Mr. Jun Cheng






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RE: REQUEST FOR LEGAL REPRESENTATION.

Thank you very much for choosing FOUNTAIN LEGAL PRACTITIONERS to 
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Branch for the remittance of your inheritance 5,500,000.00lbs 
(five million, five hundred thousand pounds sterling)

We are happy to inform you that your above stated inheritance has 
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Fake "Merrill Lynch" dead customer scam

From: MR.JEFFREY N.EDWARDS. [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 7:31 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: MY GOOD TIDINGS.


Merrill Lynch International Bank Ltd
33 Chester Street,
London SW1X 7XD

Do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your
personal ethics.
I will introduce myself as Jeffrey N.Edwards, a staff in the
accounts management section of the above firm here in the
United Kingdom.
One of our accounts with holding balance of
£15,000,000(Fifteen Million British Pounds) has been dormant
and has not been operated for the past four (4) years.
From my investigations and confirmations, the owner of this
account, a foreigner by name Kurt Kahle died in July, 2000 see this
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
and since then nobody has done anything as regards the
claiming of this money because he has no family members who
are aware of the existence of neither the account nor the funds.
I have secretly discussed this matter with a senior official
of this company and we have agreed to find a reliable foreign
partner to deal with. We thus propose to do business with you,
standing in as the next of kin of these funds from the
deceased and funds released to you after due processes have
been followed.
This transaction is totally free of risk and as the fund is
legitimate and does not originate from drug, money laundry,
terrorism or any other illegal act. On receipt of your
response I will furnish you with detailed clarification as it
relates to this mutual benefit transaction.
I look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible if you
are interested.[[email protected]]

Jeffrey N. Edwards
Group Finance Director
Merrill Lynch International Bank Ltd
D/L +44 70319 42249

The "Brussels" version of the "dead customer" scam

The following is an example of a scam format which gets used with various real and invented bank names and surnames (see 419 Scam Example: "Griffon Private Bank"). "bblfinancial.com" is a Yahoo/Geocities domain which redirects to the website of a real offshore bank on the Bahamas, to make it look like a real bank:

From: "Catherine Jennings" <[email protected]>
To: <emailaddress>
Sent: Friday, 03 February, 2006 9:41
Subject: Client Enquiry ref: [BKL011/01960-8]


02-02-06
Sincere Greetings,


My name is Catherine Jennings I work with the Private Banking Division
At Berkeley Bank Limited, London. We are conducting a standard
process investigation in relation to matters involving a client who
shares the same name as yours (Kessler) and also the circumstances
surrounding investments made by this client at our bank.

Our Berkeley Banking client died intestate and nominated no next of
kin to inherit the title over the investments made with our bank.

The essence of this communication with you is to request you provide us
information on three issues:

1-Are you aware of any relative/relation who shares your same name
whose last known contact address was in Brussels ?

2-Are you aware of any investment of considerable value made by such a
person at the Private Banking Division of Berkeley Bank?

3-Can you establish beyond reasonable doubt your eligibility to assume
status of next of kin to the deceased?

It is pertinent that you inform us ASAP whether or not you are familiar
With this individual that we may put an end to this communication with
you and our inquiries surrounding this person.

You must appreciate that we are constrained from providing you with
More detailed information at this point. Please respond to this mail as
soon as possible to afford us the opportunity to close this
investigation.

Thank you for accommodating our enquiry.

Cathy Jennings
For: Thomas Masters:
Director Berkeley Private Clients.

Followup email from the same gang:

From: Thomas Masters <[email protected]>
To: victimsemailaddress
Date: Feb 14, 2006 7:21 AM
Subject: Kessler Victimsurname

Victimfirstname,
I am Thomas Masters, an associate to Mrs. Cathy Jennings who contacted you earlier concerning Mr.Kessler Victimsurname and an investment placed under our banks management 2 years ago. I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential. I would like to intimate you with certain facts that I believe would be of interest to you.
In 2004, Kessler came to our bank to engage in business discussions with our private banking division. He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of 8.35 million Pounds, 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 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 10 million Pounds, this margin was not the full potential of the fund but he desired low risk guaranteed returns on investments.
In mid 2005, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to make an urgent investment requiring cash payments in Antwerp. He directed that I liquidate the funds and had it deposited with a firm here in the U.K. I informed him that Berkeley 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.
A cash movement across boarders has become especially strict since the incidents of 9/11. I contacted my affiliate and had the funds available in main land Europe. I undertook all the processes and made sure I followed his precise instructions to the letter and had the funds deposited at a security consultancy firm, Leadenhall Financial.
Leadenhall Financial is an especially 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 Leadenhall Financial. Kessler told me he wanted the money there in anticipation of his arrival from Norway later that year. This week was the last communication we had, this transpired around 25th February 2005.
In January this year, we got a call from Leadenhall Financial 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 Leadenhall Financial, and I could not understand why Kessler had not come forward to claim his deposit.
I then made futile efforts to locate Kessler. I immediately passed the task of locating him to the internal investigations department of Berkeley. Four days later, information started to trickle in, apparently Kessler was dead. A person who suited his description was declared dead of a heart attack in Cane, 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 even 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; Kessler died in 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. You have unfortunately declared that you are in no way affiliated with this individual. 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, Leadenhall Financial will by the end of this year broadcast a request for statements of claim to Berkeley, failing to receive viable claims they will most probably revert the deposit back to Berkeley. This will result in the money entering the Berkeley 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 sit upon certain chairs and oversee certain portfolios. You should have begun by now to put together the general direction of what I propose.
There is 8,370,000.00 Pounds deposited at Leadenhall financial, 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 Berkeley is concerned, the transaction with Kessler concluded when I sent the funds to Leadenhall Financial, all outstanding interactions in relation to the file are just customer services and due process. Leadenhall Financial has not a 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 I may direct. 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 instruct Leadenhall Financial 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 with 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 Kessler I will then officially communicate with Leadenhall Financial and instruct them to release the deposit to you. With these two things: all is done. The alternative would be for us to have Leadenhall Financial 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 Leadenhall Financials. It is not a conventional financial institution; they accept deposits from only organizations thus; what you hand over to them is what you get back. They do not have the means to process the money. 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 a tidy sum 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 centre of relevance in my life. Let’s 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. For now contact me only 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 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.





Thomas Masters

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Another initial spam from the same series:

Sincere Greetings,
[email protected]

My name is Simon Renaud. I work with the Private Banking Division
At Leadenhall Bank Limited, London. We are conducting a standard
process investigation in relation to matters involving a client who shares
the same name as yours (Kristoph) and also the circumstances surrounding
investments made by this client at our bank.

Our Leadenhall Banking client died intestate and nominated no next of
kin to inherit the title over the investments made with our bank.

The essence of this communication with you is to request you provide us
information on three issues:

1-Are you aware of any relative/relation who shares your same name
whose last known contact address was in Brussels ?

2-Are you aware of any investment of considerable value made by such a
person at the Private Banking Division of Leadenhall Bank?

3-Can you establish beyond reasonable doubt your eligibility to assume
status of next of kin to the deceased?

It is pertinent that you inform us ASAP whether or not you are familiar
With this individual that we may put an end to this communication with
you and our inquiries surrounding this person.

You must appreciate that we are constrained from providing you with
More detailed information at this point. Please respond to this mail as
soon as possible to afford us the opportunity to close this investigation.

Thank you for accommodating our enquiry.

Simon Renaud
For: Thomas Masters:
Director Leadenhall Private Clients

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And another version (September 2007):

PIERRE&CHANG.L.T.D.U.K. ([email protected])

PIERRE&CHANG.L.T.D.U.K.
119 Ipswich Road, COLCHESTER. CO4 0EJ.London


22/09/2007

GREETINGS:


Re: Transfer of Title Inquiry: Deutsche.Capital..

My name is Sarah Pierre. I work as an executive partner for the firm
Pierre consulting and Chang Investment Brokers and Security Consultants U.K.
We are conducting an end of year consolidated financial statement for
the year ending Mar.2006 under conjunctional agreement with Deutsche Bank the German conglomerate banking giants.This notary enquiry involves a client who shares your surname and also the circumstances surrounding investments made by this client at Deutsche Bank offshore group a commercial and investment arm of the parent Bank.It was brought to our knowledge that the formentioned client died intestate and nominated no next of kin to the title over the investments made with the Bank.We came to know of you via the London.Global.Database.Center(L.G.D.C.) Hence we are making this contact.The essence of this communication with you is to assist us in our investigation by providing us with information you may have regarding this inquiry on any of the 3 KEY issues.

1. Are you aware of any relative/relation who's last contact address was Brussels, Belgium?

2. Who shares a similiar name?

3. Who' date of birth on file was 27/07/1932?

Thank-you for your co-operation and best regards,

Sincerely,

Mrs.Sarah Pierre.

Pierre & Chang.LTD.UK

119 Ipswich Road, COLCHESTER. CO4 0EJ.London.
[email protected]


CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE:Pierre&Chang.LTD.UK
This transmission is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential information belonging to the sender which is protected by the business-client privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error,Please immediately notify the sender by email, Or Permanently delete it from your computer system. Thank you

barr.mike umeh

Attn: Firstname Lastname

Sir,

We confirm receipt of the Death and Deposit Cerificates of your late relation. We are pleased to inform you that we have made our verification with the Probate Registry to acertain if the late Mark Andreoni Lastname has a will that is kept with the Probate Registrar.

We are sorry to inform you that we are unable to esterblish that he has a will and as such, it is evidently clear that he left no will. Putting this into consideration, the fact now before us is that he in-testate without a will. However, from my preliminary investigation, you have a genuine claim as my law firm has been able to establish your inheritance claim with the Standard Investment Trust Bank Plc. at 40 marina street lagos.

Be it as it may, It will please you to know, that I have concluded my verification as regards your claim to an inheritance of US$14,700,000.00. My investigation revealed that there is indeed a deposited sum of the same mentioned amount with Standard Investment Trust Bank Plc.

The amount has been deposited since the year 1997 by one Mr. Mark Andreoni Lastname(now deceased). It will also please you to know that the amount in question, have yielded a lot of interest on the principal. As at last month, it has generated an interest of close to US$1.2m. Thus, the total sum in the account right presently is US$15.9m.

When I filed papers to verify the state of the account, the Director General Audit Department in charge told me that they were only waiting for the end of the present fiscal year before they will declare the account as an unclaimed account, and then send the money to Government Treasury. According to the Director General, you would have forfeited the money if by the end of June, you did not make the claim. Here, you have every reason to do something fast.

I will need the sum of us$4,500,00 (Four thousand five hundred dollars) to file all the necessary papers to ensure that the funds (inheritance claim) gets transferred into your nominated account within the next three to four days. But before then, you will need to forward me with the following-:

(1). A power of attorney authorizing me to act on your behalf in respect of the inheritance claim.

(2).Your Nationality-------,Age-------,Sex---------,Religion--------,Occupation and
marital status. If married, state name of your spouse. If you have children, please do state their names and Age and sex.

The break down of the Statutory Fees of US$4,500,00 is as follows-:

(1). Application Forms from Probate Registry-----US$500

(2). Processing Fee at Probate Registry------------US$1,000

(3). Beneficiary Payment Form and Processing at the Consolidated Revenue Department of Nigeria------------------US$1,000

(4). Affidavit as to Next of Kin to be Sworn on your behalf at the Lagos State Probate High Court of Nigeria-------US$ 500

(5). Government Stamp Duties-----US$ 700

(6). Police report which confirmed the death of the Decease ------US$ 800

We have to give you detailed breakdown considering the time constrain. Please make payment into the account section of my law office through Western Union Money Transfer to the head of account in two installment of $2,000 and $2,500 respectively. We shall commence with the court process immediately on receipt of filing charges.



Pls. pay in the name of my personal accountant as the details states bellow :

MR. IDRIS INUSA.
NO. 29, ANIBABA STREET
ISASHI,
LAGOS.NIGERIA

TEXT QUESTION=COLOUR

TEXT ANSWER= GREEN

After payment send MTCN

We await your urgent response.

Yours Faithfully,

Barrister Mike Umeh.
Principal Partner

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BARRISTER ZULU MATA ESQ
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am Barrister Daniel Rosapepe the Attorney to your
Barrister Daniel Rosapepe(esq).
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I have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this matter. Let me
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My name is Barrister. Daniel Soglo a legal
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I am Barrister Abdul Tata , a solicitor at law, personal attorney to Mr

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Barrister Ahmed Baddey & Partners
30 Av.de la Gakpoto
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Barrister Ahmed Baddey & Partners

I am Barrister Koffi Adams, a solicitor at law, personal attorney to Mr J.C. Augustinus,
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address: [email protected]
Barriste Hans Leonard(esq)
I am Barrister Hans Leonard
[email protected]
I am Barrister AlhaJI Bello, a solicitor at law, personal attorney to Mr J . B . Nemo,
Barrister AlhaJI Bello(Esq)
Barrister AlhaJI Bello(Esq)
ROYAL CHAMBER LOME TOGO
LOME TOGO WEST AFRICA
TELEPHONE NUMBER. 00228 920 66 79
I am Barrister Alaka Kujo , a solicitor at law, personal attorney to Mr.
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I am Barrister PHILIP FADAYA, a solicitor at law, personal attorney
I am Barrister Sador Burr,a solicitor at law,personal attorney to a foreign national of your country(Mr.G.S.Alkmaar),who was an Oil Contractor in Lome Togo.

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