Email Scam Example: Private Banking Services at the Bank of China (BOC)

<blockquote><p><strong>This is a fraudulent email from a theme &&num;8220&semi;<em>Private Banking Services at the Bank of China &lpar;BOC&rpar;<&sol;em>&&num;8220&semi;&period; Do not try to contact him by phone or email&comma; you risk being cheated or robbed of her well-known tricks&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;17125" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-17125" style&equals;"width&colon; 336px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignright"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;fraudswatch&period;com&sol;private-banking-services-at-the-bank-of-china&sol;amp&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-17125"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-17125" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;fraudswatch&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;02&sol;Private-Banking-Services-at-the-Bank-of-China-1-336x227&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Private Banking Services at the Bank of China" width&equals;"336" height&equals;"227" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-17125" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><em><strong>Private Banking Services at the Bank of China<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<h3><strong>From&colon; <span class&equals;"gD">Mr Kim Wie<&sol;span> <span class&equals;"go gD">&lt&semi;yunusemre&commat;haberjournal&period;at&gt&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mh-content-ad"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js&quest;client&equals;ca-pub-9162800720558968"&NewLine; crossorigin&equals;"anonymous"><&sol;script>&NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle"&NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;"&NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article"&NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid"&NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-9162800720558968"&NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"1081854981"><&sol;ins>&NewLine;<script>&NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><i>Date&colon; Feb 21&comma; 2015 12&colon;33&colon;06 PM EDT<br &sol;>&NewLine;To&colon; undisclosed recipients&colon; &semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Subject&colon; <&sol;i><em><strong>Private Banking Services at the Bank of China &lpar;BOC&rpar;<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;Reply-To&colon;  <strong><span class&equals;"go gD"><a>yunusemre&commat;haberjournal&period;at<&sol;a><&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span class&equals;"go gD"><strong>Letter &colon;<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;">Hello&comma;<&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"> I am a&comma; staff of Private Banking Services at the Bank of China &lpar;BOC&rpar;&period; I am contacting you concerning our customer and&comma; an investment placed under our banks management 8 years ago&period;<&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"> 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&period; I contacted you independently of our investigation and no one is informed of this communication&period; I would like to intimate you with certain facts that I believe would be of interest to you&period;<&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"> In 2005&comma; the subject matter&semi; ref&colon; bb&sol;boc&sol;bank&sol;0019   came to our bank to engage in business discussions with our Private Banking Services Department&period; He informed us that he had a <a class&equals;"wpil&lowbar;keyword&lowbar;link" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;fraudswatch&period;com&sol;tag&sol;financial-fraud&sol;amp&sol;" title&equals;"financial" data-wpil-keyword-link&equals;"linked" data-wpil-monitor-id&equals;"452">financial<&sol;a> portfolio of 8&period;370 million United States Dollars&comma; which he wished to have us turn over &lpar;invest&rpar; on his behalf&period;<&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"> I was the officer assigned to his case&semi; I made numerous suggestions in line with my duties as the de-facto chief operations officer of the Private Banking Services Department&comma; especially given the volume of funds he wished to put into our bank&period; We met on numerous occasions prior to any investments being placed&period; I encouraged him to consider various growth funds with prime ratings&period; 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&period; Based on my advice&comma; we spun the money around various opportunities and made attractive margins for our first months of operation&comma; the accrued profit and interest stood at this point at over 10 million United States Dollars&comma; this margin was not the full potential of the fund but he desired low risk guaranteed returns on investments&period;<&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"> In mid 2006&comma; he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to make an urgent investment requiring cash payments in Europe&period; He directed that I liquidate the funds and had it deposited with a firm&period; I informed him that the bank would have to make special arrangements to have this done and in order not to circumvent due process&comma; the bank would have to make a 9&period;5 &percnt; deduction from the funds to cater for banking and statutory charges&period; He complained about the charges but later came around when I explained to him the complexities of the task he was asking of us&period; Cash movement across borders has become especially strict since the incidents of 9&sol;11&period; I contacted my affiliate in and had the funds available&period; 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&comma; the firm  is a specialist private firm that accepts deposits from high net worth individuals and blue chip corporations that handle valuable products or un<&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"> In January last year&comma; we got a call from the security firm informing us that the inactivity of that particular portfolio&period; This was an astounding position as far as I was concerned&comma; given the fact that I managed the private banking sector I was the only one who knew about the deposit &comma; and I could not understand why he had not come forward to claim his deposit&period; 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&period; Four days later&comma; information started to trickle in&comma; apparently he was dead&period; A person who suited his description was declared dead of a heart attack in Canne&comma; South of France&period; We were soon enough able to identify the body and cause of death was confirmed&period; 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&period; If you are familiar with private banking affairs&comma; those who patronize our services usually prefer ano<&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"> In line with our internal processes for account holders who have passed away&comma; we instituted our own investigations in good faith to determine who should have right to claim the estate&period; This investigation has for the past months been unfruitful&period; We have scanned every continent and used our private investigation affiliate companies to get to the root of the problem&period; 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&period;  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&period; According to practice&comma; the firm will by the end of this financial year broadcast a request for statements of claim to BOC&comma; failing to receive viable claims they will most probably revert the deposit back to BOC&period; This will result in the money entering the BOC accounting system and the portfolio wi<&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"> What I wish to relate to you will smack of unethical practice but I want you to understand something&period; It is only an outsider to the banking world who finds the internal politics of the banking world aberrational&period; The world of private banking especially is fraught with huge rewards for those who occupy certain offices and oversee certain portfolios&period; You should have begun by now to put together the general direction of what I propose&period; There is US&dollar; 8&comma;370&comma;000&period;00 deposited &comma; I alone have the deposit details and they will release the deposit to no one unless I instruct them to do so&period; I alone know of the existence of this deposit for as far as BOC is concerned&comma; the transaction with our deceased customer concluded when I sent the funds to the firm&comma; all outstanding interactions in relation to the file are just customer services and due process&period;  They are simply awaiting instructions to release the deposit to any party that comes forward&period; This is the situation&period; This bank has spent great amounts of money trying to trac<&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"> My proposal&semi;  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&period; Upon receipt of the deposit&comma; I am prepared to share the money with you in half&period; That is&colon; I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them release the deposit to you&period; We share the proceeds 50&sol;50&period;<&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"> I would have gone ahead to ask the funds be released to me&comma; but that would have drawn a straight line to me and my involvement in claiming the deposit&period; I assure you that I could have the deposit released to you within a few days&period; I will simply inform the bank of the final closing of the file relating to the customer  I will then officially communicate with  firm  and instruct them to release the deposit to you&period; With these two things&colon; all is done&period; The alternative would be for us to have firm direct the funds to another bank with you as account holder&period; This way there will be no need for you to think of receiving the money from the firm&period;  We can fine-tune this based on our interactions&period;I am aware of the consequences of this proposal&period; I ask that if you find no interest in this project that you should discard this mail&period; I ask that you do not be vindictive and destructive&period; If my offer is of no appeal to you&comma; delete this message and forget I ever contacted you&period; Do not destroy my career because you do not approve of<&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"> You may not know this but people like myself who have made tidy sums out of comparable situations run the whole private banking sector&period; I am not a criminal and what I do&comma; I do not find against good conscience&comma; this may be hard for you to understand&comma; but the dynamics of my industry dictates that I make this move&period; Such opportunities only come ones&&num;8217&semi; way once in a lifetime&period; I cannot let this chance pass me by&comma; for once I find myself in total control of my destiny&period; These chances won&&num;8217&semi;t pass me by&period; I ask that you do not destroy my chance&comma; if you will not work with me let me know and let me move on with my life but do not destroy me&period; I am a family man and this is an opportunity to provide them with new opportunities&period; There is a reward for this project and it is a task well worth undertaking&period; I have evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here is from you refusing to work with me and alerting my bank&period; I am the only one who knows of this situation&comma; good fortune has blessed you with a name that has planted you int<&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"> If you find yourself able to work with me&comma; contact me through this same email account&period; If you give me positive signals&comma; I will initiate this process towards a conclusion&period; I wish to inform you that should you contact me via official channels&semi; I will deny knowing you and about this project&period; I repeat&comma; I do not want you contacting me through my official phone lines nor do I want you contacting me through my official email account&period; Contact me only through  through this email address&period; I do not want any direct link between you and me&period; 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&period; Please observe this instruction religiously&period; Please&comma; again&comma; note I am a family man&semi; I have a wife and children&period;<&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"> I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to what the consequences&comma; 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&period; This is the one truth I have learned from my private banking clients&period; Do not betray my confidence&period; If we can be of one accord&comma; please reply me immediately to enable us commence this line of discussion&period;<&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"> I await your response to my private email box below&period;<&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;">  kimwie189&commat;yahoo&period;com<&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"> Mr Kim  Wie<&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h4>Letter Receives From  <strong>Richard<&sol;strong><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"mailto&colon;Welshlad69&commat;hotmail&period;com">Wels&&num;8230&semi;&period;&commat;hotmail&period;com<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"><em>An email I recieved this past week&period;<&sol;em><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"><em>From&colon; <span class&equals;"comment-link" title&equals;"mailto&colon;telhunkun&commat;gmail&period;com"><a class&equals;"comment-link" style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;" href&equals;"mailto&colon;telhunkun&commat;gmail&period;com">telhunkun&commat;gmail&period;com<&sol;a><&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"><em>Hello&comma;<&sol;em><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"><em>Please be patient to read the full next of kin proposal carefully and i am sure you will believe and want to partner me in this awesome project&period; I am Tel Hun Kun&comma;a staff of Bank of China &lpar;BOC&rpar; &period;I am contacting you concerning a customer who placed an investment under our banks management many years ago&period; I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential&period;I would like to intimate you with certain facts that I believe would be of interest to you&period;<&sol;em><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"><em>In 2004&comma; a customer informed us that he had a financial portfolio of &dollar;11&comma;600&comma;000&period; Eleven million&comma; six hundred thousand United States Dollars&comma; which he wished to have us turn over &lpar;invest&rpar; on his behalf&period; I was the officer assigned to his case&semi; I made numerous suggestions in line with my duties as the de-facto chief operations officer of the Banking Services Department&comma; especially given the volume of funds he wished to put into our bank&period; We met on numerous occasions prior to any investments being placed&period; I encouraged him to consider various growth funds with prime ratings&period; Based on my advice&comma; we spun the money around various opportunities and made attractive margins for our first months of operation&comma; the accrued profit and interest stood at this point at over 10 million United States Dollars&comma; this margin was not the full potential of the fund but he desired low risk guaranteed returns on investments&period; In mid 2006&comma; he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to make an urgent investment requiring cash payments in Europe&period; He directed that I liquidate the funds and had it deposited with a firm&period; I informed him that the bank would have to make special arrangements to have this done and in order not to circumvent due process&comma; the bank would have to make a 9&period;5 &percnt; deduction from the funds due to bank charges&period; He agreed and 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&period;<&sol;em><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"><em>In January last year&comma; we got a call from the security firm informing us about the inactivity of that particular portfolio&period; This was an astounding position as far as I was concerned&comma; given the fact that I managed the private banking sector I was the only one who knew about the deposit&comma; and I could not understand why he had not come forward to claim his deposit&period; 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&period; Four days later&comma; information started to trickle in&comma; apparently he was dead&period;A person who suited his description was declared dead of a heart attack in Canner&comma;France&period; We were soon enough able to identify the body and cause of death was confirmed&period; 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&period; If you are familiar with private banking affairs&comma; those who patronize our services usually prefer anonymity&comma; but also some levels of detachment from conventional processes&period; In his bio-data form&comma; he listed no next of kin&period; In the field of private banking&comma; opening an account with us means no one will know of its existence&comma; accounts are rarely held under a name&semi; depositors use numbers and codes to make the accounts anonymous&period; This bank also gives the choice to depositors of having their mail sent to them or held at the bank itself&comma; ensuring that there are no traces of the account and as I said&comma; rarely do they nominate next of kin&period;<&sol;em><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"><em>What I wish to relate to you will smack of unethical practice but I want you to understand something&period; It is only an outsider to the banking world who finds the internal politics of the banking world aberrational&period; The world of private banking especially is fraught with huge rewards for those who occupy certain offices and oversee certain portfolios&period; You should have begun by now to put together the general direction of what I propose&period; There is US&dollar; 11&comma;600&comma;000 deposited&comma; I alone have the deposit details and they will release the deposit to no one unless I instruct them to do so&period; I alone know of the existence of this deposit for as far as BOC is concerned&comma; the transaction with our deceased customer concluded when I sent the funds to the firm&comma; all outstanding interactions in relation to the file are just customer services and due process&period; They are simply awaiting instructions to release the deposit to any party that comes forward&period; This is the situation&period; This bank has spent great amounts of money trying to track this man’s family&semi; they have investigated for months and have found no family&period; The investigation has come to an end&period;<&sol;em><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"><em>My proposal to you is that 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&period; Upon receipt of the deposit&comma; I am prepared to share the money with you in half&period;That is&colon;I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them release the deposit to you&period; We share the proceeds 50&sol;50&period;I would have gone ahead to ask the funds be released to me&comma; but that would have drawn a straight line to me and my involvement in claiming the deposit&period; I assure you that I could have the deposit released to you within a few days&period; I will simply inform the bank of the final closing of the file relating to the customer I will then officially communicate with firm and instruct them to release the deposit to you&period; With these two things&colon; all is done&period; The alternative would be for us to have firm direct the funds to another bank with you as account holder&period; This way there will be no need for you to think of receiving the money from the firm&period; We can fine-tune this based on our interactions&period; I am aware of the consequences of this proposal&period;<&sol;em><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"><em>I ask that if you find no interest in this project that you should discard this mail&period; If my offer is of no appeal to you&comma; delete this message and forget I ever contacted you&period; Do not destroy my career because you do not approve of my proposal&period; You may not know this but people like myself who have made tidy sums out of comparable situations run the whole private banking sector&period; I am<&sol;em><&sol;span><br &sol;>&NewLine;<span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"><em>not a criminal and what I do&comma; I do not find against good conscience&comma; this may be hard for you to understand&comma; but the dynamics of my industry dictates that I make this move&period; Such opportunities only come ones’ way once in a lifetime&period; I cannot let this chance pass me by&comma; for once I find myself in total control of my destiny&period;These chances won’t pass me by&period; I am a family man and this is an opportunity to provide them with new opportunities&period; There is a reward for this project and it is a task well worth undertaking&period; I have evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here is from you refusing to work with me and alerting my bank&period;I am the only one who knows of this situation&comma; good fortune has blessed you with a name that has planted you into the center of relevance in my life&period;Let’s share<&sol;em><&sol;span><br &sol;>&NewLine;<span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"><em>the blessing&period;If you find yourself able to work with me&comma; contact me through this same email account&period;If you give me positive signals&comma; I will initiate this process towards a conclusion&period;I wish to inform you that should you contact me only through this email address&period;<&sol;em><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"><em>Please observe this instruction religiously&period; Please&comma; again&comma; note I am a family man&semi; I have a wife and children&period;I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to what the consequences&comma; 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&period; This is the one truth I have learned from my private banking clients&period; Do not betray my confidence&period; If we can be of one accord&comma;send me your response immediately to enable us commence this line of discussion&period;<&sol;em><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"><em>Note&colon; If you are fully interested&comma; i will provide you with my phone number and details and you also do the same for transparency&period;<&sol;em><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"><em>I await your positive response&period;<&sol;em><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"><em>Regards&comma;<&sol;em><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;3366ff&semi;"><em>Tel Hun Kun<&sol;em><&sol;span><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><strong>Thanks for sharing Richard<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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