Create a scam-baiting response to the most recent email, to keep the scammer in a false sense of security by posing as a potential victim.

Email #1, from Cameron (scam-baiter):

Dear <PRESIDIO_ANONYMIZED_PERSON>,

Thank you for reaching out to me. Yes, I have received your message regarding a genuine and lucrative opportunity. Your offer has certainly piqued my curiosity, and I’m interested to learn more about what exactly this opportunity entails.

As one always exercises caution when greeted with unsolicited proposals, could you please provide some initial details to help me understand the nature of this venture? Specifically:

1. A brief overview of the opportunity, including its scope and the industry it pertains to.
2. The role you envision for me within this opportunity and why I might be a good fit for it.
3. Any initial requirements or steps that would need to be taken on my part.

Understanding these aspects will help me determine how to best proceed with our correspondence. If you could also let me know the best times to reach you for a more in-depth discussion, that would be very helpful.

Looking forward to your response and learning more about what you have in mind.

Best regards,

Cameron McCaffrey

Email #2, from Naomi:

Dear ,

Thanks for your response to my request to present you this proposal. I urge you to be attentive to enable you absorb details of the content of this project and for further consideration. My name is Ms Naomi Hayashi and I am a staff of Bank of China, here in Hong Kong attached to Private Banking Services. I contacted you independently and no one is informed of this communication; I would like to intimate you with certain facts that I believe would be of interest to you and benefits the both of us.

I am contacting you privately concerning a customer and an investment placed under our banks management; as a matter of fact it was roughly 5 years ago, At the very beginning of 2017, the subject matter came to our bank to engage in business discussions with our Private Banking Services Department. He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of $20 Million United States Dollars, which he wished to have us turn over (invest) on his behalf based on his instructions. I was the officer assigned to his case; I made numerous suggestions in line with my duties as the De-facto chief operations officer of the Private Banking Services Department,especially given the volume of funds he wished to put into our bank. We meet on numerous occasions prior to any investments being placed, and however I encouraged him to consider various growth funds with prime ratings.

Towards the end of 2018, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to make an urgent investment requiring cash payments in Europe. He directed that I liquidate the funds and have it transfer to a firm in Europe. 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 an 8.9% 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 of us. Cash movement across borders has become especially strict since the incidents of 9/11 but nevertheless I contacted the firm in Europe and had the funds transfer to mainland Europe, I undertook all the processes and make sure I followed his precise instructions. He told me he wanted the money there in anticipation of his arrival from Norway later that week. This was the last communication we had.

After about few weeks I got a call from the security firm informing us of the inactivity of that particular portfolio. This was an astounding position as far as I was concerned, given the fact that I managed the private banking sector I was the only one who knew about the deposit, and I could not understand why he had not come forward to claim his deposit. I made futile efforts to locate him; I immediately passed the task of locating him to the internal investigations department of our bank. Four months later, information trickle in from British homeland security, that he was apparently dead, a person who suited his description was declared dead of a heart attack in Norway; With this information at hand I inform the security firm to return the transfer back to our bank in Hong Kong. Then my 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. If you are familiar with private banking affairs, those who patronize our services usually prefer anonymity, but also some levels of detachment from conventional processes.

In his bio-data form, he listed no next of kin. In the field of private banking, opening an account with us 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. Private banking clients apart from not nominating next of kin also usually in most cases leave wills in our care, in this case; he died Intestate. It is this investigation that resulted in my decision to obtain your contact details and contact you, being as a foreigner, as a potential benefactor of the estate even if you are in no way affiliated with this individual (the deceased) On this moment there is $27,712,068.00 deposited.

My proposal; I am prepared to place you in a position whereby an instruction is given to officially release the deposit to you as the closest surviving associate, and all etiquette shall be done in accordance with the rule of banking laws and regulations. I certainly can guarantee you that, by the common law, the power of bequeathing is coeval with the first rudiments of the law, and this power has been extended to all. There is no ruling which prevents an inheritance from being so exhausted by legacies as to render it unworthy of the heir's acceptance; basically all persons of sound mind are competent to bequeath and devise real and personal estate, excepting infants. With all this I would say we have the clear advantage to carry out a smooth and perfect operation whereby the documentation work shall be coordinated in such a way that your status as a sole beneficiary is confirmed. Upon receipt of the deposit, I am prepared to share the money with you in half and no more.

If you find yourself interested to work with me, please do respond to my email positively, then I will initiate this process towards a quick conclusion. It is necessary to inform you that under no condition should you contact me via official channels; I will simply deny knowing you and about this project. I repeat, I do not want you contacting me through our official lines neither do I want you contacting me through my official email account. I do not want any direct link between you and me. My official lines are not secure as they are periodically monitored to assess our level of customer care in line with our Total Quality Management policy, please observe this instruction religiously.

I await your response with interest, to enable us proceed with the project.

Regards,
Naomi
Detailed Project Proposal Explanation