Robert Taylor

 

This is fraud.

One out of five.

I am Robert Taylor, Head of international private banking at Coutts and Co., the private banking arm of Royal bank of Scotland international I am contacting you concerning a deceased customer, and an investment he placed under our banks management 2years ago. 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.
I contact 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.
In 2005, the subject matter came to our bank to engage in business discussions with our private banking division. He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of 8.7 million British Pounds Sterling, which he wished to have us turn over (invest) on his behalf. 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 sector, especially given the volume of funds he wished to put into our bank.

Etc. etc.

I've published the headers here as they show how the e-mail is fraud.

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Note what might be a real e-mail address at roberttaylor@hhsreddevils.com and how he got his hotmail address with a .cocom extension.

Obviously, he's not Head of International Private Banking at Coutts and Co., as they wouldn't employ anybody quite so thick.

Well I hope not.