WILLIAM MORIS - NATWEST BANK PLC - Andreas Schranner - NOK

This scam is pretty obvious but is being targeted at the Indian sub-continent where people know less about UK Law and how UK Banks operate.

The accident was real enough, but everything after that one fact is a complete fairy tale designed to persuade a person to give their money to a thief - and it has worked in the past and is working now.

NATWEST BANK PLC
LAMBETH PALACE RD
LONDON SE1 7EH
FROM THE DESK OF : MR WILLIAM MORIS

I am William Moris a staff of Natwest Bank plc London. I am the head of the accounts department.I am pleased to get across to you for a
very urgent and profitable business proposal which I believe will profit the both of us after completion. I contacted you after a careful thought that you might be capable of handling this business transaction, which i explained below. The sum of ( £ 12,500, 000.00 Million Pounds), has been floating as unclaimed since 2000 in my bank as all efforts to get across to the relatives of our client who deposited the
money have hit the stones. There is this immigrant Mr. Andreas schranner, property magnate who was based in the U.K., who happens to be one of our very good clients. On the 31 July, 2000 Mr. Andreas schranner, his wife Maria , their daughter Andréa eich, her husband Christian, and their children katharina and maximilian all died in the air France concord plane crash bound for New York in their plan for a world
cruise.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

All attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless. My position here at my office requires me to investigate and I therefore made further
investigations and discovered that Mr. Andreas Schranner did not declare any next of kin or relation in all his official documents, including
his bank deposit paperwork in my bank.According to the British Law. The money will revert to the ownership of the British government if nobody applies to claim the fund. To avoid this money being sent to the British treasury as unclaimed funds, I have decided to seek your assistance to have you stand as his next of kin so that the said fund ( £ 12,500, 000.00 million pounds), would be released in your name as the next of kin and paid into your account.All documents and proof that will have you claim this fund without stress will be forwarded to you
upon your response to this mail more so, i want to inform you that i have unanimously agreed to offer you (£4m) of the total sum for the
assistance and role you are going to play in this transaction,(£2m)will be given to charity organisations in your country with your supervision
while the remaining will be for me. Please send your confidential telephone and fax number in your reply to
this business transaction.PLEASE CHANNEL YOUR RESPONSE TO THIS EMAIL:
[email protected]

Kind regards,
Mr. WILLIAM MORIS
ACCOUNTS OFFICER .

This truly awful fake ID accompanied it

I knew the moment that I read this e-mail that it was a scam. However there are people out there that do believe these kinds of e-mails are true. I think that it's sick that they would use a story like that to get people to give there account information. I think that it is sick and twisted.

Hi eaglesfan and welcome
Yes, unfortunately some people do believe these stories, and yes these scammers are sick. There are no limits to the depths they will go to steal money, and it's usually from the people who have the least amount to spare. Contrary to what many unenlightened people think, it's usually desperation, not greed, that causes people to fall for scams.

Hello benjamin, and thank you for the welcome,
they I agree, and I know the lengthes that these types of people will go to get your money. This one time there was a massage on my machine from some guy in China, claiming that I need to open an account in my name so that he can claim this money, and he would give me a few million dollars. I can't believe that they can just get your phone number and stuff like that. I was so pissed off, because I never gave that information, and I never heard of this guy before.

Hi Eaglesfan,
As Benjamin say, these people will sink to any depth to rob people of their money. They care not if you are sick, or have lost relatives, and they will use anything from the news. They will even send pictures of sick and dying people that they get from the internet.
The Internet is a wonderful thing, but it the amount of information that is now in the public domain leaves us all open to risk.
I managed to surprise someone from a group I belong to in real life, where I only knew his first name and the name of the company he runs. I found his address, both home and mobile phone numbers as well as his surname and his middle name, the full name and address of his father, and some other personal details. All ideal for making contact as a scammer.
It is frightening the ease with which one can use the Internet for this sort of activity.
It is the sick way these scammers work that prompts us all to carry out our work to fight it. If there was only a way to persuade everyone to be more careful about what they put out on the web in the way of personal details and to realise what information is already out there, and the dangers that arise from the freedom of the Internet, then maybe less people would fall into the hands of these criminals.

Any publicity that can open the eyes of the public to these dangers is a help in the fight.