Even if this were all true, you would be committing several
felonies and would end up in prison. In reality, it is all a scam.
Dan Watkins (not his real name, obviously) hopes to con you into sending money for various "fees" to free the fortune.
If you would like a step by step
explanation of how this type of "Advance Fee Fraud" works, click here!
Notice (highlighted below) that the scammer sent out a bulk
email to many, many people!
-----Original Message-----
FROM AUDITOR DAN WATKINS
HEAD OF AUDITING DEPARTMENT IN A BANK
Hello Sir/Madam,
My name is Dan Watkins, a senior staff and executive of a bank here in Scotland, United Kingdom. I have only written to seek your indulgence and
assistance. I wish to make a transfer involving a huge amount. I am proposing to make this transfer to a designated bank account of your choice. Thus, for your indulgence and support, I propose an offer of 25% of the total amount to be yours after the transfer has been successfully concluded.
Kindly reply me stating your interest, and I shall furnish you with the details and necessary proceedure with which to make the transfer.
I anxiously await your response. Thanks and Godbless.
Sincerely yours,
Dan Watkins
Hello Friend,
Thanks for your response and your willingness to participate in this
business. I am assuring you that you are not going to regret anything in this
deal, so feel free to corporate with me. However, I will like to let you know
more details of this business and reason why I contacted you.
First, let me introducemyself to you, I am Mr. Dan Watkins, 49yrs old audit
Manager of Alpha Bank here in London, happily married with one wife Mary by name
she is 35yrs with three children, 2boys and 1girl. I am from a reputable family
here in London.
I and my entire family will ever remain indebted to you if your willingness
to assist me in this very transaction becomes true.
I contacted you independently, based on my internal audit investigation and
no one is informed of this communication except me and you and I decided to
intimate you with certain facts that I believe would be of interest to you.
HOW THE MONEY CAME ABOUT:
On 22nd March 1999 an Amerian Citizen Native of Alaska most prominent
business leader and the CEO of Akardis Ltd UK Late Mr Morris Thompson, Made a
(Fixed deposit) valued at (15,000,000.00US) Fifteen Million Pounds Strealing GPD
Only with our bank (Alpha Bank London) which he wished to have us turn over on
his behalf. I was assigned to his transactions with the bank/investments. I made
numerous suggestions in line with my duties as the Consulting Investment Auditor
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 600 traditional stocks and bonds managers and 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 (15,000,000.00US) Fifteen
Million Pounds Strealing GPD, this margin was not the full potential of the fund
but he desired low risk guaranteed returns on investments.
On January 2000, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to
make an urgent investment requiring cash payments in other parts of Europe. He
directed that I liquidate the funds and had it deposited with HANDELS BANKEN, a
top Swedish bank. I informed him that our 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 for. I contacted my affiliate in
Sweden. However, the exercise was not carried out due to the complex nature of
the task and having been instructed again to stop further proceedings in line
with his instructions the transfer was stopped. He told me he would use the
money thereafter upon his arrival from America later that week. This was the
last communication I had from him which was around 27th January 2000.
Four days later, information started to trickle in that Late Mr. Morris
Thompson and his wife Thelma Thompson with their only child Sheryl Thompson was
among the victims of the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed
on January 31st 2000. On hearing about this information, 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 deposit. In his bio-data form,
he listed her only child Sheryl Thompson as his next of kin to his eastate. In
the field of private banking, opening an account 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. As things stands now, my bank has no
single idea of the history or nature of the deposit. They are simply awaiting
instructions to release the deposit to any party that comes forward with the
correct information to this account.
PLANS FOR THE TRANSFER:
To summerize my proposal i am seeking your consent as a foreigner to stand
and act as the next of kin to Late Mr. Morris Thompson so that my bank will
approve the money to you. All documents and proofs to enable you get these funds
will be carefully worked out. I have secured from the probate an order of
mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries, and more so I am assuring
you that this business is risk free involvement. If this proposal is acceptable
by you do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed on you as you
have to assure me that I am not misplacing my trust on you concerning to this
matter.
Please, note that i have been working with Alpha Bank London for more than 10
years, I want you to have in mind that I intend to use only very secure and
legitimate banking procedures in line with British inheritance claim Act" and
how it concerns this kind of transaction to move this money out of my bank in
your name as the beneficiary. As the informant, I have all the information and
also know what to do for the money to be approved and remitted into your account
as soon as possible, Send to me your personal profile
i.e:
1. DATE OF BIRTH
2. YOUR OCCUPATION
3. YOUR PICTURE I.D
4. YOUR CONTACT ADDRESS
5. YOUR PRIVATE TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS
6. A ZERO BALANCE CREDIT ACCOUNT DETAILS FOR THE
TRANSFER.
Upon the receipt of the above information from you, I will apply to the
Foreign Payment Approval in your favour in other to obtain Foreign payment
Control Approvals from our bank, HMT Treasury, Judiciary and the Bank of England
for the transfer to be made to your nominated account, please if you don't have
it,that means that you need to open a new bank account as a matter of urgency.
Once the transaction is concluded, our disbursement ratio will be 75/25, that is
75% of the total amount will be for me while 25% of the total amount will be
yours. Finally, I will put resignation letter to my bank to enable me travell to
your country once the money has been transferred to your designated account and
transfer concluded. I want you to understand that we have no time in regards to
this transaction before the eyes of the Scottish’s Financial Control takes the
money to the purse of the Government treasury. I awaits hearing from you so that
i will advise on the next step to follow or you can as well contact me with my
private telephone and fax numbers:
Tel: +44 704 0125139, Fax:
+44 870 4796545.
Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Dan Watkins.
NOTE: HERE ARE MY OWN DETAILS/INFORMATIONS.
MR. Dan Watkins
AGE: 49 Years
TEL: +44 704 0125139
FAX: +44 870 4796545
OCCUPATION: BANKER
OFFICE ADDRESS: Alpha Bank, 66 Cannon Street,London
EC4N 6EP United Kingdom
HOME ADDRESS: 55 Sloane Street London SW1X 9SR United
Kingdom
