Spam #1:
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Envelope-to: *******@blogd.com
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 02:34:13 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
From: Eddy Green
Reply-To: eddy_personalaffairs1@nowzer.com
Subject: Dear Respected one
X-Originating-

Dear Respected one

I am Barrister Eddy Green, I am a private and
personalattorney to Mr. Mikhail Khodorkovsky,As a personal attorney to
him, He handed over to me in transfer of money of an American oil
merchant for his last oil deal with my boss. Already the funds have
left the shore of Russia to a Vault Company, While I was on the
process, My Boss got arrested for his Involvement in politics by
financing the leading and opposing political parties which poses treat
to President Vladimir Put in Second Tenure as Russian president, you
can catch more of the story on this website:www.*********.com/arrest/

I have a profiling amount in an excess of $18M,which I seek your
Partnership, you will be rewarded with $6m of the total sum for your
partnership, All I need from you is to stand as the beneficiary of the
above quoted Sum and I will re-profile the funds with your full name
and address, which will enable the vault Company release the
consignment that is containing the funds to you as the sole
beneficiary, As soon as I confirm your readiness to do the deal with me
I will give more details, I wait to hear from you for further
arrangement.

Warmest Regards
Barrister Eddy Green.

Spam #2:
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Envelope-to: *******@blogd.com
To: *******@blogd.com
From: Leonel Martins
Subject: Hi there!
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 16:42:12 +0100

Hi Luis..

I would like to congratulate you for your blog that I found some years ago, while searching stuff from Japan (a country that fascinates me). You have a very good blog, I just love your Japan focused posts (I like less the political post but I share your hate towards Bush).

Do you use AIM or MSN?

Greetings from Portugal.
—
Leonel Martins
****@****.com

AIM: *****
MSN: msn@****.com

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[Editor: I’m not sure what to make of this one….]

Spam #3:
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Envelope-to: *******@blogd.com
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:44:17 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
From:
Reply-To:
Subject: CONTACT DR ROY HANS FOR DETAILS
X-Originating-

CONTACT DR ROY HANS FOR DETAILS
MICRO/STAAT PROMOTION
Boeing Avenue 33
6612 PE Schiphol-Rijk.
The Netherlands.

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY “A”
DRAWS

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice,the results
of the
First Category draws of MICROSOFT
PROMOTION INT. We are happy
to inform you that you haveemerged a winner
under the First Category,
which is part of our promotional draws. The
draws are being officially
announced today 9th of June,2006. Participants were selected through
acomputer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of
individuals and companies
from Africa,America, Asia,Australia,Europe,
Middle East,and
Oceania as part of our International Promotions
Program.Your e-mail
address,attached to ticket number QZ-316-NL, with
serial number 8222-66
drew the lucky numbers 9-17-5-73-8-11 and
consequently won in the First
Category.You have therefore been awarded
alump sum pay out of 1,000,000
(One MillionEuros), which is the
winning payout for Category A
winners.This is from the total prize
money 1,500,000 shared among the two
winners in this category
CONGRATULATIONS! Your fund is now deposited with
the paying Bank.In
your best interest to avoid Disqualification we request
that you keep
theentire details of your award strictly from public
notice until the
process of transferring your claims has been completed,
and your funds
remitted to your account.this is part of our security
protocol to
avoid double claiming
or unscrupulous acts by non winners of this
program.You are advised to
contact claim department by email.Failure
to do so may
warrantdisqualification.
NOTE: For easy reference and
identification, find below
your Reference and Batch numbers. Remember
to quote these
numbers in your correspondence with your claims
Department.
REFERENCE NUMBER: LSLUK/2031/8161/04
BATCH NUMBER:
14/011/IPD
Please contact microsoftclaim department immediately for due
processing
andremittance of your prize money to a designated account
of your
choice:

********************************************************************************
Dr Roy Hans
Tel.:+31-*********
Email: *****@netscape.net
***************************************************************
N.B:
Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the
winners will
result to
disqualification. Contact your claim department
immediately.
Sincerely
Yours,
MRS. MARISKA NOWAK.
THE PROMOTION COORDINATOR.
MICROSOFT NL

[Editor: Damn! I’m disqualified, I just breached confidentiality!]

Spam #4:
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Envelope-to: ****@blogd.com
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 18:55:20 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
From:
Reply-To:
Subject: HURRY UP FOR UR CLAIM
X-Originating-

FROM THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
SELECT
LOTTO/DE LOTTO US
Ref.No: BGN/2300786008/06.
Batch No 10/044/SAN,

Dear
Winner,

We are pleased to inform you the result of the computer random
selection for the SELECT DE LOTTO/ LOTTORY International program held
on 5th June, 2006.Your personal or company email address, attached to
ticket number 205-11465886-629, with serial number 3772-99 drew the
lucky numbers 7-14-17-23-31-44, and consequently won the lottery in the
2nd category.
The email lottery draws was conducted from an exclusive
list of 900,000.000 e-mail addresses of individual, companies, and
corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search
ballot system from the Internet.
All participants email addresses were
extracted/selected through a computer balloting system drawn from
900,000.000 email Addresses from all over the world as part of our
International Promotions Program, which is conducted annually.
No
tickets were sold.

Again, It was a promotional program from our
software department in promoting the benefit of the Internet usage.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of (One
Million Untied Stated Dollars) $1.000.000.00
in cash credited to file
REF NO: BGN/2300786008/06 and Batch No 10/044/SAN,

This is from total
prize money of Two million Dollars shared among two international lucky
Winners in this category.
CONGRATULATIONS!!! Your funds have now been
deposited and insured with our affiliate security firm for transfer
into your nominated bank account either by means of wire transfers
through any of our correspondent banks or any other means suitable to
you.
We also advice that you keep your winning information very
confidential as our security policy demands to avoid double
claims/impersonation and unwarranted taking advantage of this program
by participants.

To begin your claims, you are urgently requested to
contact our claims agent (Textron Finance BV) Madrid-Spain immediately
with your telephone number and fax numbers, and make sure you quote
your, REF NO: BGN/2300786008/06, Batch No: 10/044/SLN your name and
contact details in all your
correspondence with the finance institute.
Your allocated claims agent details are as follows.

Company Name:
TEXTRON FINANCE BV
Officer in Charge: Dr. Gilbert Parker
Tel/Fax: + 34
605 535 337
E-mail: textronfinance@****.com

Remember, all winnings
must be claim not later than 30th of June, 2006. After this date all
unclaimed funds will be return to the promotion company.
Yours
sincerely,
Mrs. Noral Petterson
(Claims Coordinator)
SELECT LOTTO/DE
LOTTO

Spams # 5 & 6 are simple ads, not scams:

Spam #5:
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Envelope-to: ****@blogd.com
From: “Marc Shea”
To:
Subject: **** at $2.19 per d0se!
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:44:51 +0400

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Spam #6:
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Envelope-to: ****@blogd.com
From: “Erin Arnold”
To:
Subject: View Our Wholesale Rolex Replica ////atches Today!
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:44:51 +0400

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– Full 1-year Warranty
– Solid 14k or 18k Gold on two-toned models
– Guaranteed triple-wrapped gold on all-gold models
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Spam #7 was a repeat of the watch ad.

Spam #8 is a bank phishing attempt:
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Envelope-to: ****@blogd.com
From: “OhioSavings Security Service”
Reply-To: “OhioSavings Security Department”
To: ****@blogd.com, tempcomments**@blogd.com
Subject: Fraud Prevention Measures
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:01:38 +0400

Content-Type: text/html;

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Spam #9 just came in… from China!
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They are on a roll and the funny thing is this and other cons are really old and you would think that they would understand this and that Americans are hip to this and most cons. Greg

MICROSOFT PROMOTION
Boeing Avenue 33
6612 PE Schiphol-Rijk.
The Netherlands.

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY “A” DRAWS

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice,
the results of the First Category draws of MICROSOFT
PROMOTION INT. We are happy to inform you that you have
emerged a winner under the First Category, which is part
of our promotional
draws. The draws are being officially announced today 13th
of June,2006. Participants were selected through acomputer ballot
system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies
from Africa,America, Asia,Australia,Europe,Middle East,and
Oceania as part of our International Promotions Program.Your e-mail
address,attached to ticket number QZ-316-NL, with serial number
8222-66 drew the lucky numbers 9-17-5-73-8-11 and consequently won in the
First Category.You have therefore been awarded alump sum pay out
of 1,000,000 (One MillionEuros), which is the winning payout for Category A

winners.This is from the total prize money 1,500,000 shared among the two
winners in this category
CONGRATULATIONS! Your fund is now deposited with the
paying Bank.In your best interest to avoid
Disqualification we request
that you keep theentire details of your award strictly
from public notice until the process of transferring your
claims has been completed, and your funds remitted to your
account.this is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming
orunscrupulous acts by non winners of this program.You are advised to
contact claim department by email.Failure to do so may warrant
disqualification.
NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below
your Reference and Batch numbers. Remember to quote these
numbers in your
correspondencewith your claims Department.
REFERENCE NUMBER: LSLUK/2031/8161/04
BATCH NUMBER: 14/011/IPD
Please contact microsoftclaim department immediately for
due processing andremittance of your prize money to a
designated account of your choice:

***************************************************************************
*****
Dr Roy Hans

I’ve fallen a bit behind in logging the spam.

Spam #10, coming on June 14th, was mostly HTML coding, creating a table filled with imported graphics. The only message was:

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Spams #11 & 12 came on June 15th, and consisted of a simple 5-character code followed by a graphic embedded in the email; I have reproduced it here (it’s on my site, no connection to the spammers; I even renamed it). It’s a stock ad.

Spam #13, from June 16:
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Envelope-to: ****@blogd.com
From: “Will Pearce” tkuhn@****.com
To: ****@blogd.com
Subject: Beautiful quartz, water-resistant Replica Watches!
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:44:51 +0400

[INSERT_LANDING_PAGE_URL]VIP REPLICA //ATCHES!

We offer a free gift box with every VIP watch ordered. You can use it as a lovely gift for your friends or
relatives or keep your gorgeous watch there. No matter what you do with your watch, you will enjoy it.

-All Time Classics
-Exquisite R0lex Replica
-Superb Quality //atch

and others!#

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I find it interesting, by the way, that these spams try to mask the word “watch” from the spam filters, but leave “Replica” and “Rolex” out in the clear–not to mention leaving the word “Watches” in the subject header. Why mask the same word later?

Spams #14 & 15 came in, just like 11 & 12, with an embedded graphic. It’s from the same people, just with different email addresses & names. The ad was bigger, but was also a stocks ad. The headers read as:

Envelope-to: ****@blogd.com
From: “Allie Michaud” – tkono@****.com
To: ****@blogd.com
Subject: Re:
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 07:50:59 -0540

Envelope-to: ****@blogd.com
From: “Amie Pollock” – tkrahn@****.com
To: ****@blogd.com
Subject: Re:
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:00:32 -0480

Spam #16:
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Envelope-to: ****@blogd.com
From: “Delmer Ewing” – tknowlton@****.com>
To: ****@blogd.com
Subject: Re:
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2020 05:46:06 +0240

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Notice the multiple intentional misspelling of “mortgage”–obviously this trips way to many spam filters. I’m surprised that they left “refinance” in there.

A few other interesting points:

Notice how several of the spam emails are dated April of this year, and the last one is dated the year 2020. A lot of these carry bogus dates as well as other false information.

I am also interested in a few other points. For example, I am only getting an average of one spam a day. That’s down quite a bit from last time, two years ago, when after two weeks 33 spams had come in, as opposed to about 15 this time.

Also, only one Nigerian and one Lottery scam each have come in, as opposed to last time, when fully a quarter of all the emails had been Nigerian scams.

Also the last time, things exploded right about now. After 2 weeks, only 33 spam had come in; after 6 weeks, almost 300 had come in. So we’ll see how it works out this time.

Spam #17: Back to Nigerian Spam!
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Envelope-to: ****@blogd.com
From: “MR Daniel Sankoh,”
Reply-To: sarakonte@**hoo.co.uk
To: ****@blogd.com
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:02:52 +0200
Subject: Business Assistance

Dear Sir/Madam,
I inherited a huge amount of money from my late father,I wrote you in order to solicite for your help and assistance with hope you will understand my situation.
My name is Daniel Sankoh .I am 24 years old from the republic of Liberia in west Africa,now seeking refuge in Dakar Senegal under the Unite Nation High
Commission For Refugees (UNHCR).My (late) father Dr. William Sankoh ,was the managing director J & D Oil company in (MONROVIA) Liberia. But he was killed along side with my senior brother during the longing civil war by rebels and all our properties was totally destroyed.
However,after their death and burial I managed to escape with a very important document (DEPOSIT CERTIFICATE)of(US$15.5m) Fifteen million Five hundred thousand U.S Dollars,this document indicated me as the Next of Kin .Meanwhile,I am saddled with the problem of securing a trust worthy foriegn personality or an organisation to help me transfer the money over to his/her country with the intention of investing it in a business under his/her directives and supervisstions,because I have no knowledge of investment.
Please if you are so kind as to assist me I shall send to you all vital informations for your confirmation regarding the financial house where the fund was lodged. I am giving you this offers as mentioned with every confidence on your acceptance to assist me as your son and manage the money in my behalf untill such a time I am able to stand on my feet.I will be happy to hear
from y ou.
God Bless you as you consider my plea.
Daniel Sankoh,
NB;my handset no.OO22***77097

Spam #18:
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Envelope-to: ****@blogd.com
From: “Darius Aaron” tl.com@****.com
To: ****@blogd.com
Subject: Feel Better Now!!
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:44:51 +0400

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I just got spams #19 & 20, and they are viruses.

Envelope-to: ****@blogd.com
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:24:38 +0800
To: “Cowboy” [****@blogd.com]
From: “Acyong” [acyong@****.com.my]
Subject: Ellyn

I love you
Use password [image] to open archive.

Attachment converted: gua****rhm.gif (GIFf/�IC�) (003F84B1)
Attachment converted: Anthonye.zip (pZIP/�IC�) (003F84B2)

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The other one was identical except for the junk text strings. The GIF image displayed a number, necessary as a code to unzip the compressed archive. The archive unzips to a Windows “exe” application file, with an accompanying folder with a .dll file included. An interesting twist–making you give a password to unzip a virus, instead of counting on it being automatically unzipped and executed.

Of course, on my Mac, there’s no danger involved, so I was able to go ahead and decompress the thing.

Turns out that they are copies of the W32.Beagle / Bagle virus, designed to lower security on Windows computers, and to open a back door for hackers to take over your computer.

Okay, a lot more spams now. Most came in on Friday. Nos. 22, 27, 28, 29, and 30 are repeats of the Beagle virus. I have wondered about this, because my initial test scored the same result–lots of viruses. But why? Are the spammers so careless? That would be stupid–spread viruses to the people they’re trying to get to buy stuff, when the virus would necessitate the wiping of the disk were it to be opened? Or is there a malicious virus spreader who is also using email harvesting techniques?

Anyway, Spam #21:

Envelope-to: ****@blogd.com
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 04:12:54 -0330
From: “Christi Hatfield” [tkudo@****.com]
Reply-To: “Christi Hatfield” [tkudo@****.com]
To: ****@blogd.com
Subject: Fwd:

ST0CK ALERT!
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IFSA Strongman
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Spam #23:

Envelope-to: ****@blogd.com
From: “Mack Holbrook” [tkv@****.com]
To: [****@blogd.com]
Subject: Software Compatibility….ain’t it great?
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:44:51 +0400

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Spam #24:

Envelope-to: ****@blogd.com
From: “Rachael Hobbs” [tknowles@****.com]
To: [****@blogd.com]
Subject: replica watches :: rolex replicas :: fake watches ::
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:44:51 +0400

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We offer a free gift box with every VIP watch ordered. You can use it as a lovely gift for your friends or relatives or keep your gorgeous watch there. No matter what you do with your watch, you will enjoy it.

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-Exquisite R0lex Replica
-Superb Quality //atch

and others!#

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Spam #25: (Interesting–a combination of Nigerian and Lottery spam!)

Envelope-to: ****@blogd.com
From: “postiga” [postiga_martin01@****.co.in]
Reply-To: postiga_martin@****.com
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:45:19 +0000
Subject: confidential

Dear Friend,

SUBJECT:- TRANSFER OF 9. 7 MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS

Strictly Confidential

In a brief introduction, I am Mr. Postiga Dan Martins. I am the Director
Processing and Payment of Euro Millions Lottery Company based here in Lisbon (Portugal). My office oversees all lottery payment, all payment files are
handled by this office.

In our last Christmas Sweepstakes Promotions Program held on December 25,
2005, one of our beneficiaries did not show up for the claiming of his prize
money totaling US$9, 700, 000. All my efforts to contact him proved
abortive. I have made uncountable efforts to locate the gentleman but all to
no avail.

Our lottery payment procedures authorizes the Lottery Company to declare
this fund Unclaimed Fund if the beneficiary fails to show up for claim
within Six (6) months from the first notification.

As the Director Processing and Payment, my office has the ability to effect
changes on the beneficiary�s payment file and replace it with another
persons name. With the help of the Director of Auditing and Accounting
Department, these changes will be made legally and the money in question
will be transferred smoothly without any hitch. The fund is currently in our
paying bank account with Millennium BCP Bank awaiting final payment
instruction from my office as the director of processing and payment.

I and my colleagues in the auditing and accounting are working closely to
claim this fund and we need your co-operation in this matter. Therefore I
humbly request for your permission to present you as the beneficiary of this
fund. We will provide you with all the information the bank would need to
transfer the fund into your bank account as the beneficiary.

For the success of this business you must maintain absolute confidentiality
as you can imagine what would happen to me should this business fail. I
count all my trust in you hoping you will not disappoint me. Once the
transaction is over, all traceable records will be carefully deleted from
our system.

For your assistance, you will keep 30% of the total sum while 70% will be
for my colleagues and me involved in this transaction. Please contact me
urgently through my private email address postiga_martin@****.com [mailto:postiga_martin@****.com] For security reasons all
communication should be through email for now. I will provide you my office
contact information as we progress.

Yours faithfully,

Mr. Postiga Dan Martins
Director Processing and Payments.

Spam #26: (Nigerian Spam)

Envelope-to: ****@blogd.com
X-Originating-
X-Originating-User: [trCd66JczW]
From: “Greg” [office7@****.az]
Reply-To: office1@****.az
To: ****@blogd.com
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:02:22 +0000
Subject: From Gerg R

Good day,

I am Mr.Greg Stevenson, staff of Kleinwort Benson. I am contacting you
concerning a deceased customer and an investment he placed under our
banks management three 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 am contacting you independently of our investigation and no one is
informed of this communication. I would like to intimate you with
certain facts that I believe would be of interest to you. In the year
2002, the subject matter; came to our bank to engage in business discussions with
our private banking division. He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of
Six 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 chief operations officer of the
private banking sector then, 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 advice 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 Two 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 2003, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to
make an urgent investment requiring cash payments in Helsinki- Finland.
He directed that I liquidate the funds and deposit it with a security
firm. I informed him that my 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 9.5 % deduction from the funds
to cater for banking and statutory charges. He complained about the
charges but later came around when I explained to him the complexities of the task
he was asking of us.

Cash movement across boarders has become especially strict since the
incidents of 9/11. I contacted my affiliate and made the funds
available to the security firm. I undertook all the processes and made
sure I followed his precise instructions to the letter and had the funds
deposited with the security firm. The Security Firm is a specialist
private firm that accepts deposits from high net worth individuals and blue
chip corporations that handle valuable products or undertake transactions
that need immediate access to cash. This small and highly private
organization is familiar especially to the highly placed and
well-connected organizations. In line with instructions, the money was deposited
with the security firm. The deceased told me he wanted the money there in
anticipation of his arrival from Norway later that week. This was the last
communication we had, this transpired around 25th of November 2003.In June last
year, we got a call from the security firm informing us about 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 the security firm, and I could not understand
why the deceased had not come forward to claim his deposit. I made
futile efforts to locate the deceased. I immediately passed the task of
locating him to the internal investigations department of Kleinwort
Benson.Four days later, information started to trickle in, apparently
our client was dead. A person who suited his description was declared
dead of a heart attack in canne, in Southern part of France.We were
soon enough 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 also gives the choice to depositors of having
their mail sent to them or held at the bank itself, ensuring that there are
no traces of the account and as I said, rarely do they nominate next of
kin. Private banking clients apart from not nominating next of kin also
usually in most cases leave wills in our care, in this case; the
deceased died without a 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 present official capacity as the Head of Finance dictates that I am
the only party to supervise the investigation and the only party to
receive the results of the investigation. What this means,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.

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 that 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 Six
Million dollars deposited in a security firm, 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
my Bank is concerned.

The transaction with our late customer concluded when I sent the funds
to the security firm, all outstanding interactions in relation to the
file are just customer services and due process. The security Firm has
no sign or idea,history or nature of the deposit. They are
simply awaiting instructions to release the deposit to any party that
comes forward. 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.

This is what i want to do,I now seek your permission to present you as a next of kin
to the deceased, as all documentations will be carefully worked to make
you the beneficiary to the funds $6,000 000 00 (Six Million United
states Dollar),I am prepared to place you in a position to instruct
The security Firm 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. That is:- I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and
have them release the deposit to you. We share the proceeds 60/40.I
would have gone ahead to ask that the funds be released to me, but that would have
drawn a straight line to me and my involvement in claiming the
deposit.

I assure you that I could have the deposit released to you within a few
days. I will simply inform Kleinwort Benson of the final closing of the
file relating to the deceased. I will then officially communicate with
The Security Firm and instruct them to release the deposit to you. With
these two things: all is done. The alternative would be for us to have
The Security Firm 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 The Security Company. We can fine-tune this based on our
interactions am aware of the consequences of this proposal. I ask that
if you find no interest in this project that you should discard this
mail. I ask that you do not be vindictive and destructive. If my offer
is of no appeal to you, delete this message and forget I ever contacted
you. Do not destroy my career because you do not approve of my
proposal. You may not know this but people like myself who have made
tidy sums out of comparable situations run the whole private banking sector.

I am not a criminal and what I do, I do not find against good
conscience, this may be hard for you to understand, but the dynamics of
my industry dictates that I make this move. Such opportunities only
come ones’ way once in a lifetime. I cannot let this chance pass me by,
for once I find myself in total control of my destiny. These chances
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. 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 luck that
has planted you into the center of relevance in my life. Let’s share
the blessing. If you find yourself able to work with me, contact me
through this email account. If you give me positive signals, I will
initiate this process towards a conclusion. I wish to inform you that should you
contact me via official channels; I will deny knowing you and about
this project. I repeat, I do not want you contacting me through my
official phone lines nor do I want you contacting me through my
official email account. Contact me only through the numbers I will provide for you
and also through this email address. I do not want any direct link between you and
myself. My official lines are not secured 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 that I am a family man, I have a wife and children.
I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to what the
consequences, but I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing
gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter of
gold. This is the one truth I have learned from my private banking
clients. Do not betray my confidence.

Kindly send your response to my private email:office@****.az
I await your response.

Mr. Greg Stevenson

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