Post by therealswordy on Jul 5, 2021 23:29:19 GMT
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Peter - The deceased leaving a large amount of money in the bank
Earnest - The victim (Me) A consultant paediatric gynaecologist of "flexible origins". Completely made up & never used before. All of a sudden becomes Peter's cousin
There are a couple of other persons included but more as garnish to the story.
HK - The Scammer. He is using a real person's name and job
MBH - The attorney Earnest is referred to by HK. Again a real person with a real business. (This scammer seems to have done some homework)
Introduction
14 June 2021 23:17 - Sent from an e-mail address that does not (yet) appear again. This was sent to my "dirty" e-mail address and there is no way he could know my surname at the time of sending as I hadn't thought of the character at the time.
Subject: VERY URGENT AND IMPORTANT.
Hello My Friend,
I am Mr. REDACTED, I am the Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking. REDACTED Bank, Dubai, U.A.E. I have a business proposal for you that concerns your last name that i wish to share with you, You will benefit from it, Please kindly contact me through my private Email Address to enable me give you further clarification on the Transaction and i know it will interest you, and it is 100% risk free.
Email: hkREDACTED004@gmail.com
I wait to hear from you soon.
Best Regards,
REDACTED
June 17th, 2021 - I just thought I'd throw something back, see if he bites.
Dear <%Name%> pratt@REDACTED.com <------ e mail never to be used again
Exciting to receipeted this annotation. Although I do like taking riskly.
Please tell me more.
"Earn"
** Earnest ******* <-------I have removed the surname although there is a joke in the play on words, a slight clue is in his shortened name.
Please excuse any delays, I am busy having Covid-19 <---------- Dodgy medical reference, and gives me an excuse for delays later on.
June 17th, 2021 - He came back pretty quickly, and having clearly read my fake surname proceeded with the hook. NB I have not at this time said what country I was from, It changes.
Attn: Dear Friend,
Good Day To You !!!
I am REDACTED, from Kuwait City. Managing Director, Head of Investment Banking, REDACTED Bank. I believe it is the wish of God for me to come across you. I have been in search of someone with this last name. I am having an important business discussion I wish to share with you and I believe will interest you, because it is in connection with your last name and you are going to benefit from it.
One Late Peter REDACTED, a citizen of your country, had a fixed deposit with my bank in 2005 for 108 calendar months, valued at US$45,000,000.00 {Forty Five Million United States Dollars} the due date for this deposit contract was last 22nd of July 2020. Sadly Peter bwas among the death victims in the 27th /May 2006 Earthquake disaster in Java, Indonesia that killed over 5,000 people. He was in Indonesia on a business trip and that was how he met his end.
My bank management is yet to know about his death, I knew about it because he was my friend and I am his account officer. Peter did not mention any Next of Kin/ Heir when the account was opened, and he was not married and had no children.
Last week my Bank Management requested that Peter should give instructions on what to do about his funds, if to renew the contract.
I know this will happen and that is why I have been looking for a means to handle the situation, because if my Bank Board of Directors happens to know that Peter is dead and does not have any Heir, they will take the funds for their personal use, so I don't want such to happen. That was why I contacted you and am happy to receive a response from you.
I am now seeking your cooperation to present you as Next of Kin/ Heir to the account, since you have the same last name with him and my bank headquarters will release the account to you. There is no risk involved; the transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law. It is better that we claim the money, than allowing the other Directors to take it, they are rich already.
I am not a greedy person, so I am suggesting we share the funds equal, 50/50% to both parties, Let me know your opinion on this and please treat this information as TOP SECRET. We shall go over the details once I receive your urgent response from you.
Have a nice day and anticipate your communication.
Best Regards,
REDACTED
So I did a bit of research into HK and his employment etc, and found out a bit more about the people who would know HK in real life and if I could drop them into the story. I will leave their names out as also they are real people.
Dear Mr REDACTED
May today of all days be your Saviour.
I am thankful for your response. This is very interesting as, quite out of the blue, you have answered a major family question which we have been unable to for the past 15 years, in that what ever happened to "Cousin Peter?". I have been trying to find out for many years. As cousins of a similar age growing up, we were quite close, and spent a lot of time doing what young men do. Oddly enough, it was around that time we met Mr REDACTED when he was a student at Manchester Business School, and we became quite friendly. I understand through other mutual fiends from the time, that REDACTED is now the CEO of your Bank, so likely would make him your boss. Please pass on my regards when you next see him.
We knew Peter was planning a business trip to Indonesia in 2006, as he had quite a lot of investments there, which he was brokering with the Norweigian Soverign Wealth Fund, but since then we have not been able to contact him. I know he had no next of kin or no family of his own, as, shall we say, he frequently sought out the company of other men, often of dubious morals. You could say his work and "social life" were his wife!
The $45m you mention, I expect, was placed in a holding account, probably "YOUR BANK" was chosen because of Peters contacts with REDACTED, until the legalities in Indonesian system were finalised. From personal experience I know it is very tricky and time consuming to get things done in Indonesia.
I think it would be easy to present me as his heir as we have a similar appearance, and I can show photographs of us in our younger days. I know there will be no legal risk as our family will stand up to scrutiny. As to the other directors taking the funds, I know that will not happen as now you have finally contacted me, we can make this transaction happen speedily.
As you say, you are not a greedy man, so I propose firmly, (as this is effectively our REDACTED family money), a split of 75% for me and 20% for you as a finders fee (which still equates to $9m, a tidy sum for little effort). The remaining 5% to be used for fees and disbursements which you shall facilitate from the funds in question from your end.
Please indicate your agreement by responding with your official bank ID, contact telephone number and certificate of Inoppolity for the funds, so we can conclude this business interfrastically. To show my credentials for this, my phone number is 778 *** *906, and a scan of my ID is here Earnest RED Passport Scan.
I am very busy so only respond to messages infrequently. E-mail to sREDCT1@pm.me is preferable.
My your god be with you.
"Earn"
Dr Earnest REDACTED
Please excuse any delays, I am busy having Covid-19
Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.
In the above I have introduced a potential place of birth for Earnest. The phone no is a real UK 2nd Line number, but presented in US format, the passport scan is a fake US passport using Earnest's fictitious birth location and the e-mail is a secure one. I have deliberately not given certain personal details in the text of the emails, which I know they will want, as I want him to click the link for the passport, phone or e-mail as they have Grabify links embedded. In a later e-mail I refer back to these. So far he hasn't opened the link or even questioned why, he's just progressing anyway.
It took HK a while but eventually
June 25th, 2021
Dear Sir,
Thanks for responding positively to my proposal I am freely giving you full details of this transaction bearing in mind that you will not betray me. The name of the bank I work for is REDACTED Bank and presently I am the Managing Director, Head of Investment Banking. You will read more about me on this website: www.REDACTED - THIS IS A REAL LINK TO A REAL ARTICLE -the-markets-are-back
This transaction requires utmost trust and dedication from your side, since you will be receiving the funds as the Next of Kin/ Heir to late Mr. Peter REDACTED, and shall be in control of the money, until I come over for my share. Regarding the sharing, I believe that my sharing ratio is acceptable to you, 50/50% is a fair deal. I want you to bear one thing in mind, there is no risk involved in this transaction. It is 100% risk free and secured once you follow my instructions and keep everything secret between us.
What I have to do is just to place your information in my bank system as the Next of Kin/ Heir to late Mr. Peter REDACTED, and you will apply for the claim through a lawyer here in U.A.E. You do not have to come down here for the claim the lawyer will represent you and handle all the documentation involved. As the Managing Director, Head of Investment Banking of my bank, the secret of the bank system is under my palm, placing your details in the system as the Next of Kin/ Heir to late Mr. Peter REDACTED is easy work for me. There is no risk involved; the transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect both of us from any breach of law.
I am going to introduce you to a good lawyer here in U.A.E who you shall contact and request for his legal services to represent you for the claim. Once this is done, the lawyer will do all the work and documentation required for the release of the funds to you as the rightful Next of Kin/ Heir to Late Mr. Peter REDACTED. I will present you as a relation to Late Mr. Peter REDACTED, and the only proof the bank will need is your identification, where your names are written.
This is a very smooth operation, with me in the bank it will not last more than 2 weeks and the funds will be released to you. The information I require to commence the process is as follows;
YOUR FIRST/MIDDLE NAME:
YOUR SURNAME:
DATE OF BIRTH:
OCCUPATION:
ADDRESS:
PHONE NUMBER:
VALID ID CARD OR PASSPORT COPY:
Once I receive the above mentioned information and conclude with my inside arrangements and changes, I shall send you the contact details of a Lawyer you shall contact for the representation. The lawyer in question is good and specializes in such cases. He is also a registered attorney with the Central Bank of U.A.E, which is the bank that will handle the transfer of the funds out of the country to your bank account.
As far as my bank is concerned, I will be in control. It has been my dream to have my own company and I believe that God has answered my prayers by creating this opportunity. Please, remember to treat this transaction with utmost confidentiality for our own good, i shall send you more information after reading from you.
I await your urgent response.
Thank you
Best Regards,
REDACTED
At this point I am beginning to be impressed with this scammers use of English, it is much better than many I have seen. He has also attached an absolute peach of an ID card with a Photo of the real HK I had already seen on the internet, and confirmed by a reverse image search.
Now we have the "official" request for personal details I can see if I can get him to click my grabify links. I've also given up on the 75%:25% split as really mathematically 75% of 0 is exactly the same as 50% of 0. So regardless I'd get 0, and so will he actually.
Oddly enough there is a large amount of fact in the second paragraph in that I did visit these companies and met these people.
June 27th, 2021
Dear Mr REDACTED
Thank you for your response. It is interesting to read about you, and your desire to have your own business, what do you want to do, something in fashion perhaps or the environment, a worthy cause, perhaps your can let me know and we can discuss further for interests sake?
Another surprise was to learn that **B is a part of The REDACTED Group of the UK which is interesting as many years ago when I was first in my previous profession in the food industry I used to visit several premises in Acton and Southall, London. The company I used to visit was REDACTED, owned then by Mr (now SIR) REDACTED. The REDACTED factory was on the same site as REDACTED Head Office at the time and REDACTED was a close friend of, now Sir REDACTED, the CEO of REDACTED whom I have also met several times. REDACTED was also a director of REDACTED
I wonder if they will remember me? It was a very long time ago and I have since moved back to the USA and re-trained in the medical profession.
Anyway, stories aside, I think I will agree with your proposal, and you can count on me to keep things confidential, my lips are sealed.
When will you inform me of the lawyer - I do have some contacts in Dubai, in the law offices of REDACTED Law Firm, I wonder if they would be the ones you would chose?
I think I have already provided most of the information you are asking for in me last e-mail of 17th June, so the transaction can proceed without delay I believe.
I note below:-
YOUR FIRST/MIDDLE NAME: Dr Earnest
YOUR SURNAME: REDACTED
DATE OF BIRTH: Given in Passport
OCCUPATION: Consultant Paediatric Gynaecologist
ADDRESS: 4168 Patterson Road, Brooklyn, NY, 11209 <-------THIS IS A FAKE ADDRESS BUT REAL ZIP CODE
PHONE NUMBER: Previously provided
VALID ID CARD OR PASSPORT COPY: Previously provided
I look forward to receiving your next communication in all due haste.
Yours bestly,
"Earn"
Dr Earnest REDACTED
Please excuse any delays, I am busy having Covid-19
HK then went quiet for a few days - I wondered if I had been busted, but then eventually, although he still hasn't clicked my grabify links:-
June 30th, 2021 at 20:46
Attn: Dear Friend,
Good Morning To You!!!
Hopefully you are doing great? I write to inform you that I have taken all the necessary steps on the changes in the account file in my bank as i informed you. Your names now appear in my bank system as the Heir and rightful Inheritor to the account of Late Peter REDACTED. The next step now is for you to contact the Attorney here in U.A.E who shall represent you in all matters that concerns the claim. The Attorney I want us to use in this claim is good and he is a registered Attorney with the Central Bank of U.A.E, because only registered Attorneys are allowed to handle Central Bank matters in connection with Inheritance claims of this nature and foreign transfers. He is a good Attorney, and specializes in Civil cases, such as this.
You have to contact him and request for his legal services in the claim of your relative company's account with the REDACTED Bank. You must not mention my name to him, meaning that he must not know my involvement in this transaction. Just tell him that you got his contact details from staff of the REDACTED Bank and you learn that he is a registered attorney with the Central Bank of U.A.E, so you wish to know if he can represent you in a Next of Kin claim with REDACTED Bank. Once he gets back to you, you shall inform me, so I can send you the information you shall pass to him.
Most importantly at this very stage of the transaction, before contacting the lawyer. The processing might cost us some amount of Money during or after the processing because everything is to be processed Legally. Please go on to contact the Lawyer if you agree to these terms, because after now there is no going back until the account is released to us which is 100% certain if you follow my instructions carefully.
HERE IS THE ATTORNEY CONTACT:
NAME OF ATTORNEY: MREDACTED.
EMAIL: excel_REDACTED@consultant.com
Alternative Email: excel.REDACTED@gmail.com
Please, Contact the Attorney immediately. However, I shall send you a draft letter right away as I promised, Thank you and God bless you. I am looking forward to a glorious future business relationship with you.
I await your urgent response.
Thank you
Best Regards,
REDACTED
REDACTED Bank.
Managing Director, Head of Investment Banking,
REDACTEDBank.
So I dutifully respond that I will, but I still want him to click my grabify link so ask for proof of the funds and the details he has input into his banks computer. I also thought a few Blackadder quotes may come in handy.
Dear Colleague to be
Thank you for your message. I note the contents and will do so interfrastically.
One point though, so far I have taken everything at face value as you have said to me. It would be prudent for me to ask for proof of the funds under deposit. I am sure that there must be some form of deposit certificate, or at least a copy print out of the account balance in question.
Also, I feel it would be useful for me to verify the information you have added into your bank's system to make sure there are no errors. I know that even the smallest spelling or grammatical error would cause huge problems once the lawyers get involved. I am sure you would agree. I think a simple screenshot of your computer screen would be sufficient, and very easy for you to do by taking a snap of your computer screen on your desk, showing my information, with your cell phone.
You did say "Please, Contact the Attorney immediately. However, I shall send you a draft letter right away as I promised, Thank you and God bless you. I am looking forward to a glorious future business relationship with you." -
I am contacting the attorney right now, but I have not yet received the letter you refer to, please send immediately with the above additional proofs of the deposit and my details as you have entered into your bank system (you have all of this from my previous mails).
I look forwards to your response and am anaspeptic with the feeling that this process will be concluded with compunctuous haste.
Yours frasmatically
"Earn"
Dr Earnest REDACTED
Please excuse any delays, I am busy having Covid-19
I then proceed to contact the attorney as duly instructed.
Dear Sir,
I have been advised to request for your legal services in the claim of a deceased relative's company's account with the REDACTED Bank. I was advised to contact you by the staff of the REDACTED Bank and I learnt that you are a registered attorney with the Central Bank of U.A.E, so I wish to know if you can represent me in a Next of Kin claim with REDACTED Bank.
Can you please advise if this shall be possible?
If so I will then formally instruct your firm and provide you with all the relevant details and documentation.
I look forwards to hearing back from you very shortly.
Kind Regards
"Earn"
Dr Earnest Feeling
Please excuse any delays, I am busy having Covid-19
Things are now hotting up. I received a response fairly rapidly from the Attorney
05/07/2021
Attention: Dr Earnest REDACTED
YOUR ARE WELCOME TO ESQ BARRISTER REDACTED CHAMBER
==============================================================
This is to acknowledge the receipt of your letter requesting for my legal services on the claim process of your inheritance. I must express my appreciation for choosing me to represent you here in UAE, I promise to be diligent in all legal matters concerning your claim. I am assuring you that you have chosen a good attorney, as I have good working experience in such matters.
Could you please, furnish me with some information about the account in question, all the related and reliant details of the account, including year it was opened. I need this information in order to conduct some verification at the bank to find out the present status of the account in question, which will determine the steps I shall follow to get the claim in your favor. Thereafter, I can state my terms and conditions of work.
I wait to hear from you soon. Once more, thank you for contacting my law firm as i have attached to this email my I.D and Call To Barr Certificate for your view. <------- THESE ARE WORKS OF ART - Especially the Bar certificate - I'll just clip a part for you below - who knew that Emirates Airline sponsored the International Bar Association? Yes Really the cert includes Emirates airline logo - I've flow with them probably more time than any other airline, except maybe Vietnam Airlines.
Regards,
REDACTED CHAMBER.
ESQ Barrister REDACTED
I have highlighted the clues that no self respecting high flying attorney would let past their e-mail gateway :-) Let alone the ID and Certificate. Now clearly HK getting impatient wants to know what is going on ......... I would have thought he would know in reality.
Dear Friend, PLEASE KEEP ME UPDATED ON DEALINGS WITH THE ATTORNEY.
Dear Friend,
Good Morning To You!!!
I write to you in regards to the claim process of your Late couin funds with my bank {REDACTED Bank}. I sincerely admire your simplicity, understanding and cooperation toward this transaction, and i promise you we shall be smiling within the next 2 weeks after a successful deal is completed.
I shall wait to get further information from you on your dealings with the attorney to enable me advise you further. I will get the deposit certificate and the death certificate ready if required by the Attorney to facilitate claim process.
Do have a blissful week ahead and remain blessed.
Thank you
Best Regards,
REDACTED
REDACTED Bank.
Managing Director, Head of Investment Banking,
REDACTED Bank.
I reply in my best business speak, with appropriate minor spelling and grammatical errors. Still trying to get him to do some more work to fake things or click the aforementioned links.
Dear REDACTED
Thank you for your e-mail.
I have had an initial e-mail back from the Attorney and he is asking for some information, as below:-
"Could you please, furnish me with some information about the account in question, all the related and reliant details of the account, including year it was opened. I need this information in order to conduct some verification at the bank to find out the present status of the account in question, which will determine the steps I shall follow to get the claim in your favor."
I have not yet received the letter you referred to in a previous mail nor the details I have requested to verify for myself the specific details of myself you have entered in your bank system. It is only me who can firmly confirm this. I do not wish there to be any issues come to light later on down the road.
Can you please confirm me the details ref the bank account and deposit so I can pass these on to the Attorny with all due expediency.
Kind Regards
"Earn"
Dr Earnest REDACTED
Please excuse any delays, I am busy having Covid-19
Then the attorney replied again from the other e-mail address. Surely they know what they have sent.
Attention: Dr Earnest REDACTED
YOUR ARE WELCOME TO ESQ BARRISTER REDACTED CHAMBER
==============================================================
This is to acknowledge the receipt of your letter requesting for my legal services on the claim process of your inheritance. I must express my appreciation for choosing me to represent you here in UAE, I promise to be diligent in all legal matters concerning your claim. I am assuring you that you have chosen a good attorney, as I have good working experience in such matters.
Could you please, furnish me with some information about the account in question, all the related and reliant details of the account, including year it was opened. I need this information in order to conduct some verification at the bank to find out the present status of the account in question, which will determine the steps I shall follow to get the claim in your favor. Thereafter, I can state my terms and conditions of work.
I wait to hear from you soon. Once more, thank you for contacting my law firm as i have attached to this email my I.D and Call To Barr Certificate for your view.
Regards,
REDACTED CHAMBER.
ESQ Barrister REDACTED
I reply politely
Dear REDACTED CHAMBER.
Thank you for your e-mail. I have contacted the bank to request the information you are asking for. I have already asked to personally verify the details the bank hold about myself so I can make sure there are no errors, but am still waiting for this detail to be provided.
Once this is clarified what are the next steps?
Regards
"Earn"
Dr Earnest REDACTED
Please excuse any delays, I am busy having Covid-19
This is as far as we have got at this time. I expect we will be getting to wanting fees payable in the next few days, any suggestions as to what pitfalls may befall this payment. We'll see what they want to do shortly. Until then...........
TO BE CONTINUED/........
Peter - The deceased leaving a large amount of money in the bank
Earnest - The victim (Me) A consultant paediatric gynaecologist of "flexible origins". Completely made up & never used before. All of a sudden becomes Peter's cousin
There are a couple of other persons included but more as garnish to the story.
HK - The Scammer. He is using a real person's name and job
MBH - The attorney Earnest is referred to by HK. Again a real person with a real business. (This scammer seems to have done some homework)
Introduction
14 June 2021 23:17 - Sent from an e-mail address that does not (yet) appear again. This was sent to my "dirty" e-mail address and there is no way he could know my surname at the time of sending as I hadn't thought of the character at the time.
Subject: VERY URGENT AND IMPORTANT.
Hello My Friend,
I am Mr. REDACTED, I am the Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking. REDACTED Bank, Dubai, U.A.E. I have a business proposal for you that concerns your last name that i wish to share with you, You will benefit from it, Please kindly contact me through my private Email Address to enable me give you further clarification on the Transaction and i know it will interest you, and it is 100% risk free.
Email: hkREDACTED004@gmail.com
I wait to hear from you soon.
Best Regards,
REDACTED
June 17th, 2021 - I just thought I'd throw something back, see if he bites.
Dear <%Name%> pratt@REDACTED.com <------ e mail never to be used again
Exciting to receipeted this annotation. Although I do like taking riskly.
Please tell me more.
"Earn"
** Earnest ******* <-------I have removed the surname although there is a joke in the play on words, a slight clue is in his shortened name.
Please excuse any delays, I am busy having Covid-19 <---------- Dodgy medical reference, and gives me an excuse for delays later on.
June 17th, 2021 - He came back pretty quickly, and having clearly read my fake surname proceeded with the hook. NB I have not at this time said what country I was from, It changes.
Attn: Dear Friend,
Good Day To You !!!
I am REDACTED, from Kuwait City. Managing Director, Head of Investment Banking, REDACTED Bank. I believe it is the wish of God for me to come across you. I have been in search of someone with this last name. I am having an important business discussion I wish to share with you and I believe will interest you, because it is in connection with your last name and you are going to benefit from it.
One Late Peter REDACTED, a citizen of your country, had a fixed deposit with my bank in 2005 for 108 calendar months, valued at US$45,000,000.00 {Forty Five Million United States Dollars} the due date for this deposit contract was last 22nd of July 2020. Sadly Peter bwas among the death victims in the 27th /May 2006 Earthquake disaster in Java, Indonesia that killed over 5,000 people. He was in Indonesia on a business trip and that was how he met his end.
My bank management is yet to know about his death, I knew about it because he was my friend and I am his account officer. Peter did not mention any Next of Kin/ Heir when the account was opened, and he was not married and had no children.
Last week my Bank Management requested that Peter should give instructions on what to do about his funds, if to renew the contract.
I know this will happen and that is why I have been looking for a means to handle the situation, because if my Bank Board of Directors happens to know that Peter is dead and does not have any Heir, they will take the funds for their personal use, so I don't want such to happen. That was why I contacted you and am happy to receive a response from you.
I am now seeking your cooperation to present you as Next of Kin/ Heir to the account, since you have the same last name with him and my bank headquarters will release the account to you. There is no risk involved; the transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law. It is better that we claim the money, than allowing the other Directors to take it, they are rich already.
I am not a greedy person, so I am suggesting we share the funds equal, 50/50% to both parties, Let me know your opinion on this and please treat this information as TOP SECRET. We shall go over the details once I receive your urgent response from you.
Have a nice day and anticipate your communication.
Best Regards,
REDACTED
So I did a bit of research into HK and his employment etc, and found out a bit more about the people who would know HK in real life and if I could drop them into the story. I will leave their names out as also they are real people.
Dear Mr REDACTED
May today of all days be your Saviour.
I am thankful for your response. This is very interesting as, quite out of the blue, you have answered a major family question which we have been unable to for the past 15 years, in that what ever happened to "Cousin Peter?". I have been trying to find out for many years. As cousins of a similar age growing up, we were quite close, and spent a lot of time doing what young men do. Oddly enough, it was around that time we met Mr REDACTED when he was a student at Manchester Business School, and we became quite friendly. I understand through other mutual fiends from the time, that REDACTED is now the CEO of your Bank, so likely would make him your boss. Please pass on my regards when you next see him.
We knew Peter was planning a business trip to Indonesia in 2006, as he had quite a lot of investments there, which he was brokering with the Norweigian Soverign Wealth Fund, but since then we have not been able to contact him. I know he had no next of kin or no family of his own, as, shall we say, he frequently sought out the company of other men, often of dubious morals. You could say his work and "social life" were his wife!
The $45m you mention, I expect, was placed in a holding account, probably "YOUR BANK" was chosen because of Peters contacts with REDACTED, until the legalities in Indonesian system were finalised. From personal experience I know it is very tricky and time consuming to get things done in Indonesia.
I think it would be easy to present me as his heir as we have a similar appearance, and I can show photographs of us in our younger days. I know there will be no legal risk as our family will stand up to scrutiny. As to the other directors taking the funds, I know that will not happen as now you have finally contacted me, we can make this transaction happen speedily.
As you say, you are not a greedy man, so I propose firmly, (as this is effectively our REDACTED family money), a split of 75% for me and 20% for you as a finders fee (which still equates to $9m, a tidy sum for little effort). The remaining 5% to be used for fees and disbursements which you shall facilitate from the funds in question from your end.
Please indicate your agreement by responding with your official bank ID, contact telephone number and certificate of Inoppolity for the funds, so we can conclude this business interfrastically. To show my credentials for this, my phone number is 778 *** *906, and a scan of my ID is here Earnest RED Passport Scan.
I am very busy so only respond to messages infrequently. E-mail to sREDCT1@pm.me is preferable.
My your god be with you.
"Earn"
Dr Earnest REDACTED
Please excuse any delays, I am busy having Covid-19
Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.
In the above I have introduced a potential place of birth for Earnest. The phone no is a real UK 2nd Line number, but presented in US format, the passport scan is a fake US passport using Earnest's fictitious birth location and the e-mail is a secure one. I have deliberately not given certain personal details in the text of the emails, which I know they will want, as I want him to click the link for the passport, phone or e-mail as they have Grabify links embedded. In a later e-mail I refer back to these. So far he hasn't opened the link or even questioned why, he's just progressing anyway.
It took HK a while but eventually
June 25th, 2021
Dear Sir,
Thanks for responding positively to my proposal I am freely giving you full details of this transaction bearing in mind that you will not betray me. The name of the bank I work for is REDACTED Bank and presently I am the Managing Director, Head of Investment Banking. You will read more about me on this website: www.REDACTED - THIS IS A REAL LINK TO A REAL ARTICLE -the-markets-are-back
This transaction requires utmost trust and dedication from your side, since you will be receiving the funds as the Next of Kin/ Heir to late Mr. Peter REDACTED, and shall be in control of the money, until I come over for my share. Regarding the sharing, I believe that my sharing ratio is acceptable to you, 50/50% is a fair deal. I want you to bear one thing in mind, there is no risk involved in this transaction. It is 100% risk free and secured once you follow my instructions and keep everything secret between us.
What I have to do is just to place your information in my bank system as the Next of Kin/ Heir to late Mr. Peter REDACTED, and you will apply for the claim through a lawyer here in U.A.E. You do not have to come down here for the claim the lawyer will represent you and handle all the documentation involved. As the Managing Director, Head of Investment Banking of my bank, the secret of the bank system is under my palm, placing your details in the system as the Next of Kin/ Heir to late Mr. Peter REDACTED is easy work for me. There is no risk involved; the transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect both of us from any breach of law.
I am going to introduce you to a good lawyer here in U.A.E who you shall contact and request for his legal services to represent you for the claim. Once this is done, the lawyer will do all the work and documentation required for the release of the funds to you as the rightful Next of Kin/ Heir to Late Mr. Peter REDACTED. I will present you as a relation to Late Mr. Peter REDACTED, and the only proof the bank will need is your identification, where your names are written.
This is a very smooth operation, with me in the bank it will not last more than 2 weeks and the funds will be released to you. The information I require to commence the process is as follows;
YOUR FIRST/MIDDLE NAME:
YOUR SURNAME:
DATE OF BIRTH:
OCCUPATION:
ADDRESS:
PHONE NUMBER:
VALID ID CARD OR PASSPORT COPY:
Once I receive the above mentioned information and conclude with my inside arrangements and changes, I shall send you the contact details of a Lawyer you shall contact for the representation. The lawyer in question is good and specializes in such cases. He is also a registered attorney with the Central Bank of U.A.E, which is the bank that will handle the transfer of the funds out of the country to your bank account.
As far as my bank is concerned, I will be in control. It has been my dream to have my own company and I believe that God has answered my prayers by creating this opportunity. Please, remember to treat this transaction with utmost confidentiality for our own good, i shall send you more information after reading from you.
I await your urgent response.
Thank you
Best Regards,
REDACTED
At this point I am beginning to be impressed with this scammers use of English, it is much better than many I have seen. He has also attached an absolute peach of an ID card with a Photo of the real HK I had already seen on the internet, and confirmed by a reverse image search.
Now we have the "official" request for personal details I can see if I can get him to click my grabify links. I've also given up on the 75%:25% split as really mathematically 75% of 0 is exactly the same as 50% of 0. So regardless I'd get 0, and so will he actually.
Oddly enough there is a large amount of fact in the second paragraph in that I did visit these companies and met these people.
June 27th, 2021
Dear Mr REDACTED
Thank you for your response. It is interesting to read about you, and your desire to have your own business, what do you want to do, something in fashion perhaps or the environment, a worthy cause, perhaps your can let me know and we can discuss further for interests sake?
Another surprise was to learn that **B is a part of The REDACTED Group of the UK which is interesting as many years ago when I was first in my previous profession in the food industry I used to visit several premises in Acton and Southall, London. The company I used to visit was REDACTED, owned then by Mr (now SIR) REDACTED. The REDACTED factory was on the same site as REDACTED Head Office at the time and REDACTED was a close friend of, now Sir REDACTED, the CEO of REDACTED whom I have also met several times. REDACTED was also a director of REDACTED
I wonder if they will remember me? It was a very long time ago and I have since moved back to the USA and re-trained in the medical profession.
Anyway, stories aside, I think I will agree with your proposal, and you can count on me to keep things confidential, my lips are sealed.
When will you inform me of the lawyer - I do have some contacts in Dubai, in the law offices of REDACTED Law Firm, I wonder if they would be the ones you would chose?
I think I have already provided most of the information you are asking for in me last e-mail of 17th June, so the transaction can proceed without delay I believe.
I note below:-
YOUR FIRST/MIDDLE NAME: Dr Earnest
YOUR SURNAME: REDACTED
DATE OF BIRTH: Given in Passport
OCCUPATION: Consultant Paediatric Gynaecologist
ADDRESS: 4168 Patterson Road, Brooklyn, NY, 11209 <-------THIS IS A FAKE ADDRESS BUT REAL ZIP CODE
PHONE NUMBER: Previously provided
VALID ID CARD OR PASSPORT COPY: Previously provided
I look forward to receiving your next communication in all due haste.
Yours bestly,
"Earn"
Dr Earnest REDACTED
Please excuse any delays, I am busy having Covid-19
HK then went quiet for a few days - I wondered if I had been busted, but then eventually, although he still hasn't clicked my grabify links:-
June 30th, 2021 at 20:46
Attn: Dear Friend,
Good Morning To You!!!
Hopefully you are doing great? I write to inform you that I have taken all the necessary steps on the changes in the account file in my bank as i informed you. Your names now appear in my bank system as the Heir and rightful Inheritor to the account of Late Peter REDACTED. The next step now is for you to contact the Attorney here in U.A.E who shall represent you in all matters that concerns the claim. The Attorney I want us to use in this claim is good and he is a registered Attorney with the Central Bank of U.A.E, because only registered Attorneys are allowed to handle Central Bank matters in connection with Inheritance claims of this nature and foreign transfers. He is a good Attorney, and specializes in Civil cases, such as this.
You have to contact him and request for his legal services in the claim of your relative company's account with the REDACTED Bank. You must not mention my name to him, meaning that he must not know my involvement in this transaction. Just tell him that you got his contact details from staff of the REDACTED Bank and you learn that he is a registered attorney with the Central Bank of U.A.E, so you wish to know if he can represent you in a Next of Kin claim with REDACTED Bank. Once he gets back to you, you shall inform me, so I can send you the information you shall pass to him.
Most importantly at this very stage of the transaction, before contacting the lawyer. The processing might cost us some amount of Money during or after the processing because everything is to be processed Legally. Please go on to contact the Lawyer if you agree to these terms, because after now there is no going back until the account is released to us which is 100% certain if you follow my instructions carefully.
HERE IS THE ATTORNEY CONTACT:
NAME OF ATTORNEY: MREDACTED.
EMAIL: excel_REDACTED@consultant.com
Alternative Email: excel.REDACTED@gmail.com
Please, Contact the Attorney immediately. However, I shall send you a draft letter right away as I promised, Thank you and God bless you. I am looking forward to a glorious future business relationship with you.
I await your urgent response.
Thank you
Best Regards,
REDACTED
REDACTED Bank.
Managing Director, Head of Investment Banking,
REDACTEDBank.
So I dutifully respond that I will, but I still want him to click my grabify link so ask for proof of the funds and the details he has input into his banks computer. I also thought a few Blackadder quotes may come in handy.
Dear Colleague to be
Thank you for your message. I note the contents and will do so interfrastically.
One point though, so far I have taken everything at face value as you have said to me. It would be prudent for me to ask for proof of the funds under deposit. I am sure that there must be some form of deposit certificate, or at least a copy print out of the account balance in question.
Also, I feel it would be useful for me to verify the information you have added into your bank's system to make sure there are no errors. I know that even the smallest spelling or grammatical error would cause huge problems once the lawyers get involved. I am sure you would agree. I think a simple screenshot of your computer screen would be sufficient, and very easy for you to do by taking a snap of your computer screen on your desk, showing my information, with your cell phone.
You did say "Please, Contact the Attorney immediately. However, I shall send you a draft letter right away as I promised, Thank you and God bless you. I am looking forward to a glorious future business relationship with you." -
I am contacting the attorney right now, but I have not yet received the letter you refer to, please send immediately with the above additional proofs of the deposit and my details as you have entered into your bank system (you have all of this from my previous mails).
I look forwards to your response and am anaspeptic with the feeling that this process will be concluded with compunctuous haste.
Yours frasmatically
"Earn"
Dr Earnest REDACTED
Please excuse any delays, I am busy having Covid-19
I then proceed to contact the attorney as duly instructed.
Dear Sir,
I have been advised to request for your legal services in the claim of a deceased relative's company's account with the REDACTED Bank. I was advised to contact you by the staff of the REDACTED Bank and I learnt that you are a registered attorney with the Central Bank of U.A.E, so I wish to know if you can represent me in a Next of Kin claim with REDACTED Bank.
Can you please advise if this shall be possible?
If so I will then formally instruct your firm and provide you with all the relevant details and documentation.
I look forwards to hearing back from you very shortly.
Kind Regards
"Earn"
Dr Earnest Feeling
Please excuse any delays, I am busy having Covid-19
Things are now hotting up. I received a response fairly rapidly from the Attorney
05/07/2021
Attention: Dr Earnest REDACTED
YOUR ARE WELCOME TO ESQ BARRISTER REDACTED CHAMBER
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This is to acknowledge the receipt of your letter requesting for my legal services on the claim process of your inheritance. I must express my appreciation for choosing me to represent you here in UAE, I promise to be diligent in all legal matters concerning your claim. I am assuring you that you have chosen a good attorney, as I have good working experience in such matters.
Could you please, furnish me with some information about the account in question, all the related and reliant details of the account, including year it was opened. I need this information in order to conduct some verification at the bank to find out the present status of the account in question, which will determine the steps I shall follow to get the claim in your favor. Thereafter, I can state my terms and conditions of work.
I wait to hear from you soon. Once more, thank you for contacting my law firm as i have attached to this email my I.D and Call To Barr Certificate for your view. <------- THESE ARE WORKS OF ART - Especially the Bar certificate - I'll just clip a part for you below - who knew that Emirates Airline sponsored the International Bar Association? Yes Really the cert includes Emirates airline logo - I've flow with them probably more time than any other airline, except maybe Vietnam Airlines.
Regards,
REDACTED CHAMBER.
ESQ Barrister REDACTED
I have highlighted the clues that no self respecting high flying attorney would let past their e-mail gateway :-) Let alone the ID and Certificate. Now clearly HK getting impatient wants to know what is going on ......... I would have thought he would know in reality.
Dear Friend, PLEASE KEEP ME UPDATED ON DEALINGS WITH THE ATTORNEY.
Dear Friend,
Good Morning To You!!!
I write to you in regards to the claim process of your Late couin funds with my bank {REDACTED Bank}. I sincerely admire your simplicity, understanding and cooperation toward this transaction, and i promise you we shall be smiling within the next 2 weeks after a successful deal is completed.
I shall wait to get further information from you on your dealings with the attorney to enable me advise you further. I will get the deposit certificate and the death certificate ready if required by the Attorney to facilitate claim process.
Do have a blissful week ahead and remain blessed.
Thank you
Best Regards,
REDACTED
REDACTED Bank.
Managing Director, Head of Investment Banking,
REDACTED Bank.
I reply in my best business speak, with appropriate minor spelling and grammatical errors. Still trying to get him to do some more work to fake things or click the aforementioned links.
Dear REDACTED
Thank you for your e-mail.
I have had an initial e-mail back from the Attorney and he is asking for some information, as below:-
"Could you please, furnish me with some information about the account in question, all the related and reliant details of the account, including year it was opened. I need this information in order to conduct some verification at the bank to find out the present status of the account in question, which will determine the steps I shall follow to get the claim in your favor."
I have not yet received the letter you referred to in a previous mail nor the details I have requested to verify for myself the specific details of myself you have entered in your bank system. It is only me who can firmly confirm this. I do not wish there to be any issues come to light later on down the road.
Can you please confirm me the details ref the bank account and deposit so I can pass these on to the Attorny with all due expediency.
Kind Regards
"Earn"
Dr Earnest REDACTED
Please excuse any delays, I am busy having Covid-19
Then the attorney replied again from the other e-mail address. Surely they know what they have sent.
Attention: Dr Earnest REDACTED
YOUR ARE WELCOME TO ESQ BARRISTER REDACTED CHAMBER
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This is to acknowledge the receipt of your letter requesting for my legal services on the claim process of your inheritance. I must express my appreciation for choosing me to represent you here in UAE, I promise to be diligent in all legal matters concerning your claim. I am assuring you that you have chosen a good attorney, as I have good working experience in such matters.
Could you please, furnish me with some information about the account in question, all the related and reliant details of the account, including year it was opened. I need this information in order to conduct some verification at the bank to find out the present status of the account in question, which will determine the steps I shall follow to get the claim in your favor. Thereafter, I can state my terms and conditions of work.
I wait to hear from you soon. Once more, thank you for contacting my law firm as i have attached to this email my I.D and Call To Barr Certificate for your view.
Regards,
REDACTED CHAMBER.
ESQ Barrister REDACTED
I reply politely
Dear REDACTED CHAMBER.
Thank you for your e-mail. I have contacted the bank to request the information you are asking for. I have already asked to personally verify the details the bank hold about myself so I can make sure there are no errors, but am still waiting for this detail to be provided.
Once this is clarified what are the next steps?
Regards
"Earn"
Dr Earnest REDACTED
Please excuse any delays, I am busy having Covid-19
This is as far as we have got at this time. I expect we will be getting to wanting fees payable in the next few days, any suggestions as to what pitfalls may befall this payment. We'll see what they want to do shortly. Until then...........
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