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Hello I'm New here! Joined: 13 Feb 2016 Posts: 2

I received an SMS from my phone about someone saying it's important I write an email to this email address [email protected] because he has an important message.

I thought it was something to do with my job application but as it was too suspicious to me, I used a different email address and here's what I got:

Greetings,

Thank you for getting back to me as I have requested, I just wanted to a way we can fully understand each and I believe that corresponding through the email will make for a better understanding as well as give confidentiality to the matter. I want our communication to be basically through the email, please. My name is Mr. George R. Turner and I ask for your help in getting the money left behind by late Mr. Alfredo Aquilino Navarro who was a citizen of your country. If this will endanger your position and reputation, I would not have contacted you. This is safe and beneficial to both of us financially. I am presently the operations manager of our bank here in Minnesota, United States and please do keep these information to yourself. I will give you more details of myself, our bank and the transaction itself once you accept to do this with me.

Late Mr. Alfredo Aquilino Navarro lived and worked in Minnesota, United States as a real estate businessman and he deposited in our bank the sum of eight million, twenty two thousand US dollars (US$8,022,000) as fixed deposit for a period two years in 2003 and this deposit has not been claimed until this moment. It is the routine of our bank to transfer all deposits whose owners are not in touch with by the bank for a period exceeding ten years to the US Department of the Treasury and this account has been listed among those to be transferred to the Department of the Treasury. One thing with this particular account that attracted my interest is that the depositor did not put any beneficiary at the time he made the deposit and therefore did not leave anyone for our bank to contact where he is not available. I have on my own undertaken an independent investigation to know his whereabouts since there is no one else to contact and I realized that he died in 2004 as a result of heart related illness in Mexico while on vacation. Our bank does not know about his death even as I write you this email.

I have gone to his last known address and everyone that knew him confirmed he was dead and I also inquired from the registrar of deaths in Mexico, his death was registered and there is no known relative of him as well. All these made it impossible for me to locate any of his relatives, since this is the issue, I want to put your name as his beneficiary in his records with our bank so you can apply and make the claim as the legal beneficiary of the money. I know there are lots of Filipinos living here in the United States but because of the way our bank works, it is only someone outside of United States that can successfully make the claim. It does not matter if you knew him or not, it does not matter if you had any kind of relationship with him or not, I will guide you all the way until the claim is made. It is not a matter of being greedy, we are not hurting anyone by making this claim and it is not the best to leave the money to eventually end up in the hands of few corrupt government officials while we have the opportunity to live better with the money when claimed. This transaction is a risk free one and as the operations manager of our bank, the final approval of your application will be done by me. Once I approve it, you will have the right to claim the money.

We will share the money into two equal parts (50:50) when the claim is made and I will come over to your country for my own share of the money. Everything will be done successfully as I am in a position to influence things in our favor, have no fear about this. Right now, I have all the copies of documents relating to the deposit he made that you will file to back up this claim. All I require is your sincerity and honest cooperation to enable us make this claim successfully and we have to do this within the shortest time possible because the money will be reverted to the government's account if not claimed now. If you are willing to do this with me, write back and reconfirm the below information of yours to enable me put them up in his records as his beneficiary:

1. Full Names:
2. Residential Address:
3. Telephone Number:
4. Age:

Once I receive the above information, I will put them in his records and once done, I shall inform you on what next to do to make sure you receive the money. Please, make sure you have a valid identity bearing the name you will give me, it is very important as our bank will require your identity proof before letting you have the money. I am waiting for your consent and details in order to move to the next step towards getting the money. Please, this is really a serious transaction and I want you to take it seriously too. Thank you.

Yours sincerely,
Mr. George R. Turner.
Phone: +1-651-436-0392.

There you have it. I'm thankful for this site by the way as you had provided me information on how to detect this kind of scam. I feel it is a scam. It scared me because they can now reach our mobile phone. I'll report this to Gmail but I need some opinion about it as well.

Something the mods dream up Joined: 22 Apr 2014 Posts: 905

Has he got any of your RL info? If yes, drop him like a red hot brick.

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 13 Feb 2016 Posts: 2

None. My name on that email is not my real name, no last name, no date of birth. I use that account for online dating but more on watching YouTube vids. I'm not sure if my celphone number was on display but I changed my password on my gmail even if 2-way verification is enabled.

I reported the email to the Gmail team and it was removed. If anyone wants to bait this person, they're welcome to it.

Baiting Guru Joined: 10 Oct 2010 Posts: 3876

you did very well at not responding to him from your real email address. this is clearly a scam. to get the money, you need to pay fees over fees, and you'll never get that money.

a little notice for the future: if you report the mail-address to the mail-provider, it gets shut down. the scammer will then be forced to reopen a new address, which takes him just a minute. if another victim wants to know anything about it and searchs the (new) mail address in google, the victim wouldn't find anything (because the email-address is fresh).

so it's better to let the mail address of the baiter open, so others can find in threads like this on the internet.

Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2016 3:09 pm

A quick Google search on that email addy shows it being reported for use in scams.

Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 6:00 am

The email address is still active. I'm getting replies.

Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 11:18 pm

He gave me some forms to print and fill out and scan.

The lad wrote:

I want to know if you have sent the filled form and death certificate to our bank? If you have not done that, please try and do same now because we do not have much time left to make this claim and the little we have now should not be wasted. The earlier it is sent, the better it is for us. Thank you.

I wrote:

I have told you that I do not have a scan. Can I type the information into an email and send it to the bank?

The lad wrote:

Show commitment to this transaction, please use the computer house

I'll take that as a yes.