Record 419 letter
I've just got a 419 email (first to get past my shitfilter for ages) and I must admit I am impressed.
Yes the crap tale of woe is there (money already transferred to London, can't find the recipient, money about to be lost etc), the level of detailed bullshit is excellent, hardly any spelling mistakes and loads of name dropping but most impressive is the effort that's gone into it, all 2200 words of it.
Is this normal nowadays because the last ones I got used to all be in bad English and a couple of paragraphs long at most.
Yes the crap tale of woe is there (money already transferred to London, can't find the recipient, money about to be lost etc), the level of detailed bullshit is excellent, hardly any spelling mistakes and loads of name dropping but most impressive is the effort that's gone into it, all 2200 words of it.
Is this normal nowadays because the last ones I got used to all be in bad English and a couple of paragraphs long at most.
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....scary though if it's almost believable then gone are the days of Quami Gumbo African Prince, or King Umbongo Tribal Elder, and cometh the days of Youssen Mugabi English student on exchange program from Nord Afrique :lol:
The email will be ignored due to all the scammer emails and the $21.3 million US dollars will all sadly go to the government :(
Of course. One would expect Gordon Brown's English to be better than that of a Nigerian.
I introduce myself as Cynthia Hayton, Global Head of Offshore Banking at Deutsche Bank. A contracted staff of Perez and Hamilton contacted you earlier concerning Mr. Moser Arington and an investment placed under our banks management 9 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 contact you independently of our investigation and emphasize the reason of this communication. I would like to intimate you with certain facts that I believe would be of interest to you.
In 1996, the subject matter; Moser came to our bank to engage in business discussions with our private banking division. He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of Eight million United States dollars, which he wished to have us turn over (invest) on his behalf. I was the officer assigned to his case, I made numerous suggestions in line with my duties as the de-facto global head of the Offshore 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 favoured 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 popularly known as hedge Funds 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 8.37 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 1997, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to make an urgent investment requiring cash payments in London. He directed that I liquidate the funds and had it deposited with a firm in London. I informed him that Deutsche Bank 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 2.5 % 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,he was more worriedabout the heavy taxation the European union might impose and also to avoiddual taxation from European member countries. Cash movement across borders has become especially strict since the incidents of 9/11.
I contacted my affiliate in London and had the funds available in mainland Europe. I undertook all the processes and made sure I followed his precise instructions to the letter and had the funds deposited at the London based security Financial firm, Financial Union Limited .Financial Union Limited is a 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 Financial Union Limited. Moser 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 27th September 1997. In June last year, we got a call from Financial Union Limited informing us of the inactivity of that particular portfolio. This was an astounding position as far as I was concerned, given the fact that I was still in the Offshore banking sector I'm the only one other than Tony Dupan who himself is on a year's leave of absence and is now a visiting lecturer at the London School Of Economics still works for the bank as we both served on the sub-committee on Mr. Moser's portfolio initially who knew about the deposit at Financial Union Limited, and I could not understand why Moser had not come forward to claim his deposit.
We made futile efforts to locate Moser. I immediately passed the task of locating him to the internal investigations department of Deutsche Bank.Four days later, information started to trickle in, apparently Moser was dead. A person who suited his description was declared dead of a heart attack in Canne, 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 Offshore banking affairs, those who patronise 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 Offshore banking, opening an account with us means no one will know of its existence, accounts are rarely held under a name; depositors use numbers and codes to make the accounts anonymous. This bank also gives the choice to depositors of having their mail sent to them or held at the bank itself, ensuring that there are no traces of the account and as I said, rarely do they nominate next of kin. Offshore Banking clients apart from not nominating next of kin also usually in most cases leave wills in our care, in this case; Moser died intestate. 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 my department supervises the eventual outcome of the investigation.You had unfortunately declared that you are in
no way affiliated with this individual. What this means, you being the last batch of names we had considered, is that our dear late fellow died with no known or identifiable family member. This leaves you 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 practise, Financial Union Limited will by the end of this year broadcast a request for statements of claim to Deutsche Bank, failing to receive viable claims they will most probably revert the deposit back to Deutsche Bank. This will result in the money entering the Deutsche Bank accounting system and the portfolio will be out of my hands and out of the Offshore banking division. This will not happen if I have my way. What I wish to relate to you will smack of unethical practise 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 Offshore banking especially is fraught with huge rewards for those who occupy certain offices and oversee certain portfolios. You should have begun by now to put together the general direction of what I propose. There is US$ 8,370,000.00 deposited in London, I have the deposit details and they will release the deposit to no one unless under directives from my office,as far as Deutsche Bank is concerned, the transaction with Moser concluded when the funds were sent to London, all outstanding interactions in relation to the file are just routine and due process. Financial Union Limited has no single idea of what's the history or nature of the deposit. They are simply awaiting instructions to release the deposit to any party that comes forward as the beneficiary This is the situation. This bank has spent great amounts of money trying to track this man's family; they have investigated for years and have found no family.
The investigation had been concluded and closed a while back not until ourrecent search. My proposal; you share similar details to the late fellow; I am prepared to place you in a position to instruct Financial Union Limited 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 as the beneficiary That is: I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them release the deposit to you. You will get 30% of $8.37 million while I take 70%. 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 no later than 10 business days. I will simply inform the bank of the final closing of the file relating to Moser. I will then officially communicate with Financial Union Limited and instruct them to release thedeposit to you. With these two
things: all is done.
The alternative would be for us to have Financial Union Limited send 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 Financial Union Limited 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 reconsider your position. I ask that you do not be too hasty to draw up conclusions as I have put in a lot of effort into this and your role will be only that of a benefactor. You may not know this but people like myself who have made tidy sums out of comparable situations run the whole Offshore sector and in my profession this is not an uncommon practise as one might think 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. We should not let this chance pass us by, for once I find myself in total control of my destiny. 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 risks on your side is barely minimal because hundreds of claims are filed everyday at the claims and deposits departments so it's not an unusual practice that may raise eye-brows I am the only one who knows of this situation, good fortune has blessed you with a name that has planted you into the center of relevance in my life. Lets share the blessing.
If you find yourself able to work with me, contact me through this same email account. I do not particularly know you so I would wait on your response to judge your level of transparency and honesty need not you disappear after the money gets into your coffers with a level of understanding between us I will start the initiation of this process towards
a conclusion.I do not want you contacting me through my official phone lines nor do I want you contacting me through my official email account as this transaction will not be done under the clock of my employer. Contact will be through my personal numbers and also through this email address, same could apply to you if you wish. 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. A very dear friend of mine and university classmate Mr. Michael Soden of Bank Of Ireland had to quit his job in May when unethical material was found on his office computer during a routine maintenance of his machine and the results of the internal investigation were leaked to the local press seriously denting his career after all the service, good work and sacrifice he had given the industry.
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 doubt 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 clients.
Do not betray my confidence. If we can be of one accord, we should plan a meeting soon.And if you are interested in doing this with me just reply me back to my personal email becuase im using my office email to send email to you and email my to my private email which is ( cynthiahayton@inMail24.com )
So it may be better, but he's still a stupid cunt, and so is anybody that falls for it :lol:
NEVER send an e-mail to ADJB ... he'll just go tell everyone what it said ;-) :-P
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Silly Bugger.
B16 is Ladywood, B62 and B63 is Halesowen.
And since when has the West Midlands been in London ?.
Mind you it would have been embaressing if it had been B17, thats my postcode.
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Maybe Martijn should send all of his cash to me, for safekeeping you understand ;)
They are scum with their lies and stories about families being killed etc.
Funny how many go to church then go back to the cybercafes to do their scams
I used to try and stop these people but if in 2009 people are still falling for these then theyre stupid and greedy
There must be a lot of idiots about for this scam to be going for so long - I was throwing letters of this sort before the www took off.
I say harmless because quite frankly anyone who falls for such a scam deserves what they get and an idiot award.
agree with you there, the real crooks are the guys going into old peoples houses and pressuring them to buy expensive things they don't need.
if you have an email account you must be getting a few of these a day so you really should be paying more attention.
All I ever get is such and such wants to be your friend/has a crush on you type emails, or ads for cheap medicine and Viagra.
My Spam is boring :D
apparently the distress signal from the titanic was ignored because they thought it was a scam to get their cash.
Scum of the web ?
Put them alongside Gary Glitter's suppliers and the various scumware purveyor's as the turds floating on the sea of the web.
Seems fair to me.
Granted but on the other hand you read about people falling for these and then losing their homes etc as theyve given their life savings away. THere was that brazillian guy who commited suicide but granted he was stupid as hell (Gave millions of money away from the company he worked for thinking he was investing it).
But these people are scum, they dont care if youre rich/old/poor, they just want to scam you no matter what.
Theyre not exactly nice people though ?
I seriously have no sympathy for anyone that gets scammed in such a way...whether they lose their house or life because of it....greed and stupidity.
I dont know, i throw these people into the same 'scum' drawer as many others !
But yeah these scammers used to drive me totally mad but like you i started thinking 'well the person who has lost money must be totally stupid and greedy' specially now. I mean years ago people still fell for them but now on the net most people know.
But someone who sticks their knife into a shopkeepers chest, i dont get the chance to 'talk' to. When some scamming criminal emails me trying to scam me i obviously have a chance to go 'ape' at him. (They do often reply going on about the white man taking from Africa etc...')
Ape, white man and Africa all in the same sentence! :lol:
Oops ! Didnt mean anything bad by that ! But yeah wrong type of word to use !!!