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419Eater is my life Joined: 27 Jan 2015 Posts: 331

Very odd exchange with a Next-of-Kin lad:

Lad’s initial email:

Quote:

Greetings,
We are contracted probate researchers. This is an investigation about a client with whom you share the same surname, your assistance will be greatly appreciated. Please clarify if you have any relative whose last known contact address was Monte-Carlo, Monaco? Are you aware of any investment made by such a person at RBS Private Bank?

Thank you for your assistance.

Yours sincerely,
<snip>
Corona Consulting.
For - RBS Private Bank

My character replies:

Quote:

Hello. I’m not sure you have the right person. I do have an uncle with my last name, his name is Clarence Pxxx, but we lost track of him years ago. The last I heard he was living in France. Is that far from Monaco? I am terrible at world geography, sorry.

This is my usual type of reply to next-of-kin scams, and in the past the lads have always come back with confirmation. Then they plug my dead relative’s name into their certificates. However, in this case I got this:

Quote:

Hello,
Thank you for your response to the enquiries. I take it by your response that you have no explicit knowledge of the subject. The fellow with the previously referred description: Mr. Desmond Pxxx died intestate and nominated no next of kin after having made substantial investments with RBS Private Bank. Standard procedure dictates that we seek out and exhaust all channels to find any one related to inherit the title that his estate may pass on.

From what I see, we have not been successful. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
Thank you for your kind understanding.
Yours sincerely,

Is he expecting ME to suggest I pose as a relative? I’ve never gotten a rejection letter like this from a lad before. I’m so hurt. Sad

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 12:08 pm

Maybe he's just being careful and looking only for the unscrupulous who won't have an attack of conscience.

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 12:35 pm

^^^ Either this, or it's REAL. Shocked

419Eater is my life Joined: 27 Jan 2015 Posts: 331

I wondered for a second if it could be real, but this company is listed elsewhere on scam sites.

My character's unscrupulous brother has replied:

Quote:

Look, my sister is an idiot. This is her brother, Elmer Pxxx and I can stand in as the relative of this Desmond Pxxx if there is a large inheritance involved. I will kick back some of it to you if you can OK me as a legit relative. What do you think?

This is a shared email account for our business, so put FOR ELMER in the subject line. Then she won’t read it. -Elmer

Hopefully the bait will be back on. It's nice to have one that doesn't require having to read huge walls of script for the first couple of weeks.

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 3:01 pm

Some lads stick to the script better than others. I'm curious to see if the lad responds to Elmer.

419Eater is my life Joined: 27 Jan 2015 Posts: 331

Just to wrap this up – today my original character (not the brother Elmer) received an email from a second lad that started:

Quote:

I am Glyn Thomas. I am contacting you as a follow up to an earlier contact which you received from a member of staff of Corona Consulting on behalf of RBS Private Bank.

Followed by two pages of typical lad script. Sad

Baiting Guru Joined: 10 Oct 2010 Posts: 3877

well, than just tell him, that you thought about it, and that it must be your gay uncle who disappeared years ago, etc, who has stolen your familys money...

this way, the lad feels that he just needs to extract extra information about him to add details to his own story.

as a side effect, this throws the lad offscript on his own.