He claimed he was selected as an independent contractor to rebuild a fleet of airplanes for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, who had wired him $3.5 Million Euros into his Swiss bank account at Neue Privat Bank.
His attorney, Phillip Richardson, said that he had to fly to Switzerland to unfreeze the funds.
He provided Sally with a bank statement showing his account held 5,239,800.
Sally also wired $261,000 on 13DEC2019 from a Navy Federal Credit Union account in the name of Top Slope Ventures, LLC. She also wired $150,000 on 26MAR2020 to a Citibank account in the name of KLAM Properties.
Richard met Samantha Smith online in October 2019, on the dating website Silver Singles.
Samantha had an attorney named Sousa Darius, who began calling him on the phone several times a week.
Richard had to go to an M&T Bank branch near his home to arrange for wire transfers, which he refused to do until he had a notarized contract from Sousa, proving he would get the money back.
37 from his pension account at Chase Bank to himself to cover that wire.
He did the wires, again to Delores R. Shawhan, and again moved funds from his Chase Pension account Part of these funds, $30,000, were sent via wire to Baines Properties.
At one point, Attorney Sousa informed Richard that Samantha was imprisoned, and needed additional funds, again.
When Richard pushed back, Sousa drew up a Power of Attorney and promised Richard that he would be given the ability to draw funds to repay himself directly from a Trust Fund that Samantha Smith's father had set up for her at Europa Off Shore Bank.
Later he received documents from Europa Off Shore Bank via email proving that the funds were really available and providing him a PIN that he could use to confirm this himself.
When he logged in to the Europa Off Shore Bank, he could see that more than $9 million were in the balance of the account but there wasn't a way that he could find to transfer any of the funds to himself.
When he contacted Europa Off Shore Bank's Customer Support via email, he was told that he could not withdraw the funds because there were fees that had to be paid first.
Dormant Account Fees totaling $88,950, Reactivation Fees totaling $52,000, and a Tracking Code fee of $45. To help cover these fees, he sent a cashier's check in the amount of $42,500 which the Europa Off Shore Bank had agreed would be enough to allow them to open the account.
After receiving the check, Europa Off Shore Bank informed him that there were still issues which must be resolved in person, and that he needed to fly to Amsterdam to do so.
To wrap up Richard's testimony ... he made six payments, totaling $205,500, which he says he would not have made had he known the gem mining project did not exist and that there was no Europa Off Shore Bank.
Turns out Samantha the Zultanite miner had something else in common with Samantha the Tanzanite miner.
She had an online bank account that she wanted Frank to access for her.
She had $2 million in the account and needed Frank to send her $300,000 from that account to help cover the Gem Certificate.
This Cyber News was published on garwarner.blogspot.com. Publication date: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 15:43:04 +0000