Email Fraud supposedly from a bank employee
Note the spelling mistakes. The individual in question, DID indeed die in
this crash, along with his wife and daughter. This makes this an especially
clever and nasty fraud. Of course no bank will release a vast amount of money to
anyone without proper proof that they are who they claim to be.
Dear,
It is my pleasure to use this medium, The urgency of this mail compelled me to
contact you. I am a member of staff of Barclays Bank Plc here in London. I am
writing following an opportunity in my office that will be of imense benefit to
both of us though I know that you are already made.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$127M (One Hundred and
twenty seven million, United states dollars) in an account that belongs to one
of our foreign customers, Late Mr. Morris Thompson an American who unfortunately
lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on
January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter.
You shall read more about the crash on visiting this website.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin
or relatves to come over and claim his money because the Bank cannot release the
funds unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or a relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only daughter
died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of this
fund to claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and two other
officials in this department now decided to do business with you and release the
money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of the funds for safe keeping and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this
money to go back into Government treasury as unclaimed bill.
We agreed that 20% of this money will be for you as the supposed next of kin,
while 3% out of the total sum is set aside for any expenses both party will
incur during the completion of the transfer, and remaining balance of 77% will
be for me and my colleagues. I will visit your country for the disbursement
according to the percentages indicated above once this money gets into your
account in any safe you will prefer.
Please be honest with me and trust should be our watchword in this transaction.
Note that this transaction is highly confidential and 100% risk free. On receipt
of this mail, please contact me by return mail if you are willing to enter into
this deal with me. In the event you are not interested, I sincerely ask that you
disregard this email and tell no one about it. I am very careful not to truncate
my banking career should you mention this to someone else that might blow the
lid. I hope you can be trusted in this regard as I am fully aware that you are
an international figure hence this approach.
Please note that all necessary arrangement for the smooth release of these funds
to you has been finalised. We will discuss much in details when I do receive
your positive response.
Please in your response include your direct secured telephone number for a
better communication between you and me only.
Best regards,
Mr. Andrew Parish.
