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  by AlanJones
 
From: Steve Benson - [email protected]
Reply-to: [email protected]
Other Email: Steve Benson - [email protected], [email protected] & [email protected]
Dear friend

My name is Steve Benson. I work with one of the leading Banks here in London, UK. I would need your consent to present you as the next of kin to our late customer who died of heart attack in 2009. He was a wealthy business man who deposited a huge amount in our Bank. He died without any registered next of kin as he was long divorced and had no child.

I was his account officer and have in my possession all the documents required to present you as his beneficiary next of kin. I contacted you because you have same name identity with our late client and can perfectly fit in as next of kin, We can work together to claim this fund. Please listen, this is real and goes on in Banks all over the world without people knowing. Let us utilize this opportunity because it does not come always. A lot of customers open private accounts with different Banks without the knowledge of their families and when they die, such money will be lost to the Bank unless someone comes to claim it. This is how a lot of Bank Directors make so much money silently.

On your confirmation of this message and indicating your interest, I will furnish you with more details. Please endeavor to provide me with the following so that we can discuss in details

1)mobile phone numbers
2)full name
3)contact address and occupation

I urgently hope to get your response as soon as possible.
Yours Sincerely,
Steve Benson.
Last edited by AlanJones on Sat Sep 20, 2014 6:39 am, edited 1 time in total.
  by AlanJones
 
From Steve Benson - [email protected]
Dear XXX

Thanks for your kind response. What i want to discuss with you is this business transaction regarding the funds deposited by late Mr Rudolf XXX, which amounts to £7,500,000 (Seven Million Five hundred thousand British Pounds Sterling).

Mr. Rudolf XXX deposited this amount with the bank in 2007 before his untimely Death. He had suffered from heart disease for years before he died in the year 2009.

The filing and recording department of the bank have tried to contact his relatives but no fruitful information about the relatives. This Lead to the bank to abandoned his account file since they are unable to trace his next of kin.

Three months later before the last year auditing the bank received a letter from the co-operate office saying " Mr. Rudolf XXX's account was not registered with "kin" which means he did not specify anybody as his next of kin before his death. Presently this account is dormant and need to be activated but nobody can activate this account because it was unclaimed.

Now, as the the account officer, I can use my position in the bank to get a foreigner to place a claim on this fund with your name since you bear same last name with Mr. Rudolf XXX. I want you to know that all the required documents to fortify this claim can be provided by my colleague and I. My colleague is working with me in this project and as such, we believe that we can work together and achieve this great goal. Therefore we will be successful to claim the fund with your name as soon as you are willing to comply and take the offer of 40% of the total amount after the claim and transfer of the fund into your designated account.

We cannot claim this account ourselves because we do not have same last name and the bank knowing full well that we are not citizens of his country and this is why I have contacted you so that you can apply to the bank with your name ( since you share the same last name ) and lets claim this account/fund successfully and transfer into your account in your country. Have no fear or worry as all document needed before the bank can approve you as the next of kin will be provided by my colleague and I. We will send the document to you upon request by the bank so that you can send the document to the bank.

We also need absolute confidentiality when claiming this account because I do not want the bank to know that we are the people whom contacted you about this fruitful opportunity and that is why you must keep this transaction secret until these fund is transferred directly into your account successfully.

This transaction does not require any type of delay because the bank will close the account after three months and this is why we need to work toward this claim immediately and claim the fund within 5 bank working days to enable the bank approve the claim and remit the funds into your account.

Please provide me with the following:

Full name ( Including your middle name)
Mobile telephone number
Contact address and occupation

As soon as i receive these information's from you, I will send you a drafted application which you have to fill and send to the bank.
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Last edited by AlanJones on Tue Sep 16, 2014 1:17 pm, edited 1 time in total.
  by AlanJones
 
Dear XXX

I sent you the details of the business in response to your mail. Please check your bulk folder in case you do not find the mail.

Please confirm to me if you received the mail. As soon as i get the confirmation from you, i will send you an application form which you have to fill and send to the bank. Please feel free to call me on my telephone: +447700081798

Steve
  by AlanJones
 
Dear XXX,

Thanks for your mail with the information requested. For us to successfully claim this fund, you will have to start by sending an application to the bank.

Find as attached to this mail, the application form you have to fill and send to the bank.

I want you to know that my colleague is among those that will handle your application as soon as you send it to the bank. Any document needed by the bank will be provided by my colleague and I to you so that you can send them to the bank.

The name of the bank is : Clydesdale Bank Plc, United Kingdom.

Please fill the application below and send it along with the attached form to the email address of the bank below:
[email protected]

Please note that the type of application is: INHERITANCE FUNDS. So tick inheritance funds in the application form. If you have any question in filling the attached form, please do not hesitate to ask me. You can also call me +447924332456
Please print out the application form, fill it manually and send it to the bank along with this letter below:


APPLICATION FOR CLAIM OF MY LATE RELATIVE ACCOUNT
CLYDESDALE BANK PLC, UNITED KINGDOM.
EMAIL: [email protected]

Dear Sir,

I Mr/Mrs -------------------------------------humbly apply as the next of kin of Rudolf XXX who was a registered customer of your bank, he is the holder of a fixed deposit account in your bank. This account is said to hold an estimated. £7,500,000.00 (SEVEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS STERLING).

Below is the account information of my late cousin:

Account # : 10034206
Beneficiary: Rudolf XXX
Deposited : £7,500,000.00BPS (only)

Please kindly be informed that my late relative, Mr. Rudolf XXX operated a private enterprise in Glasgow Scotland, by the name of Chrome Resources Ltd, in Glasgow, Scotland. United Kingdom.

Since his death, I have been unable to come forward to claim this fund due to family problems and personal issues. Upon acknowledging this application, I would be pleased to provide more information that may be required. Hence I would like to send in all his necessary documents if required in other to prove my status claim. I respectfully request your expedience in treating this matter with utmost urgency, hence I will need the funds to continue running the family's business in our country.
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  by AlanJones
 
From Clydesdale Bank Plc UK - [email protected]
DEAR SIR,

WE ACKNOWLEDGE THE RECEIPT OF YOUR TENDERED APPLICATION.

YOU ARE REQUIRED TO GO THROUGH THE ATTACHED QUESTIONNAIRE AND PROVIDE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS TO ASCERTAIN YOUR STATUS OF CLAIM AS THE NEXT OF KIN TO THE DECEASED.

THANKS.

MANAGEMENT
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  by AlanJones
 
Dear XXX

I had to take my time to get the answers. Below are the answers to the questions. Please send the answers to the bank:

1. Full name of the deceased as stated in the bank account file:
= Rudolf XXX

2. Nationality of the deceased as stated in the bank account file:
= Germany

3. The Release Code issued to the late Depositor:
= 23xx4sdf

4. Date of deposit:
= March 6th 2007

5. The deceased "Kin" as stated in the deposit file:
=None

6. The deceased account number and type of account:
=Account number:10034206, He was operating a fixed deposit domiciliary account

7. The secret question as stated in the deposit file:
=Birthday date

8. The secret answer as stated in the deposit file:
=1956
Last edited by AlanJones on Wed Sep 24, 2014 3:29 am, edited 1 time in total.
  by AlanJones
 
The bank now has a new email address. The new email address of the bank is:

[email protected]

please send it now
  by AlanJones
 
My colleague said that the bank just sent you a mail. pls check the mail and forward to me
  by AlanJones
 
From [email protected]
DEAR SIR,

PLEASE SEE DOCUMENT AS ATTACHED.

THANKS.

MANAGEMENT
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  by greymar777
 
hello.... how does this scam work?.. what is its purpose?... they never asked for any money during the process......
  by Bryon Williams
 
^^^ Its a classic Advance Fee Fraud.

The scammer sent the original email to a mass of people. As you can see he does not know your name.

The scammer will have you pay fees for Documents, Lawyers/Barristers, Courier and Etc.
  by AlanJones
 
Scammer using the same script, claiming to be Philip Thomas - [email protected]
  by thomasss
 
please sir
i want your help
what can he do with these papers?
  by Bryon Williams
 
It is a scam.

Delete them and stop all communication with scammer.

Please post his email address.