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Elite Baiter Joined: 16 Jul 2008 Posts: 1407

I am re-baiting an old fish that I tormented here:
http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1253728

Because of said above bait, a RL (almost) victim was able to avoid being scammed. I took it upon myself to re-bait. Things are going well, however I have gotten to the second part, and the "bank" emailed me this last night:

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[email protected]

responds to me:YOU TRIED OPENING AN ACCOUNT WITH US PREVIOUSLY. CAN YOU TELL US WHY YOU DID NOT COMPLETE THE PROCESS.

I've responded :

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To whom it may concern,

Previously I had sought council from a rather inept Barrister. I have since fired him due to his terrible lack of ability.

Please advise

Here is the initial contact:

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

I've had luck with the first addy, and my initial bait was on the 3rd addy. The (almost) victim had been in contact with the second addy. I've not had a response from that one.

If anyone has some time I would appreciate tying this joker up for a good long time. He is good for at least one fake offshore bank, and several bank account #'s.

Things are getting busy here at work so I may not have as much time as I would like to spend on this guy. Anyone that can help it would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Here is the bulk of the initial mail any potential victim would get:

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Good Day,

Greetings to you and your family, I am a staff of Private Banking Services here in
Bank of China(BOC). I am contacting you concerning one of our late customers
investment placed under our banks management 3 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
contacted 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 2002, the subject matter; ref: bb/boc/bank/0012 came to our bank to engage in
business discussions with our Private Banking Services Department. He informed us that
he had a financial portfolio of 8.375 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 Services
Department, 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 10 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 2004, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to make an urgent
investment requiring cash payments in Europe. He directed that I liquidate the funds
and had it deposited with a firm. I informed him that the 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 borders has become especially strict since the incident of 9/11. I contacted my
affiliate in and had the funds available.

I undertook all the processes and made sure I followed his precise instructions to
the letter and had the funds deposited in a security consultancy firm, the 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. He 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 9th October 2004.

In January this year, we got a call from the security firm 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 , and I could not understand why he had not come
forward to claim his deposit. I made futile efforts to locate him I immediately passed
the task of locating him to the internal investigations department of the Bank of
China. Four days later, information started to trickle in, apparently he 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 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; he 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. The investigation did not ever yield any result 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.

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, the firm will by the end of this financial year broadcast a
request for statements of claim to Bank of China, failing to receive viable claims
they will most probably revert the deposit back to Bank of China. This will result in
the money entering the Bank accounting system and the portfolio will be out of my
hands and out of the Private Banking Services Department. 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 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$ 8,375,000.00 deposited, 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 Bank of China is
concerned, the transaction with our deceased customer concluded when I sent the funds
to the firm, all outstanding interactions in relation to the file are just customer
services and due process.

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.

My proposal; I am prepared to place you in a position to give instruction for the
release of 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 in claiming the deposit. 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 the customer I
will then officially communicate with the 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 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 firm. 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
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. 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 center of relevance in my life. Let's share the blessing.

If you find yourself able to work with me, kindly 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
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 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. If
we can be of one accord, send me your response on this email to enable us commences
this line of discussion.

Best regards,

Wang Yan.

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 2:52 pm

I am willing to kill any fake bank, but a link to it and an email from it would be nice.

Elite Baiter Joined: 16 Jul 2008 Posts: 1407

Let me dig it up Bill. Thanks.

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From: Yan Wang <[email protected]>
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Subject: Do Contact The Bank Asap xxxxxxx
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Hello xxxxxxx,

Your mail has been noted, and i have already made discrete enquiries as to the best way to move these funds from here.Due to the events of 9/11, financial laws have been tightened and I will not want anything to happen to either one of us or the funds, so this is what I need you to do.You are to immediately make contact with one of the private institution that I know to be very proficient in handling such transaction. I know this as I have inside knowledge as someone who has been in this industry for a longtime and I have done my investigation well on the offshore financial institution Bank. The institution is affiliated with my bank and any transfer to this bank wil l seem like an in house transfer.

They will also be given the credit advice to settle the estate. Please, you have to send the bank an email requesting information as regards account opening and activation, Send the bank an email immediately so as to proceed further.

You will have to perfect this arrangement as soon as possible as the Intern ational Remittance Department of the Bank of China will request for the off shore banking detail as soon as the ratification exercise is over today. On the letter to the bank also state your contact details. That is your telephone numbers and fax numbers, as they may be very busy to respond back on time via emails.

Below is the contact details of the Offshore Private Bank.

FIRST CITIZENS OFFSHORE PRIVATE BANK
REGISTERED OFFICE ADDRESS:
#9 Queen's Park East, Port
of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
EMAIL: [email protected]
TELEPHONE: 1-800-925-3932
FAX: 1-610-423-1605
Contact Person: Sharon Christopher

Kindly open a Transit Account immediately with First Citizens Offshore Bank, which we shall use as our intermediary point to transfer the money to ours. From my investigations this bank is very solid and maintains very high level of confidentiality, which is an essential key to success in this transaction. Once you have opened and activated the account with them,you must then provide me with the account details in order that I can start to initiate the wire instruction using my position here.

Please note that you must have to forward to me as soon as you open your account with First Citizens Offshore Private Bank, the details of the Offshore Transit Account (account name, account number etc) so I can immediate make arrangements for the funds to be credited into that account from my bank.

I do hope all is well with you dear friend and I hope to hear from you as s=
oon as possible.

Best regards,

Wang Yan

Yahoo! http://hk.promo.yahoo.com/security/

Mod edit - edited to remove the duplicate email and the html formatting, please remove that in future prior to posting, cheers - SP