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Ladies and Gentlemen,
I'm contacting you with the following problem:
About a year ago, a person I have known for some years, whose father died three years ago, left an estate of a fund of over US$ 3 mill. I was to act as trustee. The person in question is the sole heir to this fund. After much deliberation, I finally agreed. The fund was then transferred to me and placed in trust in my name. The person in question currently lives in Burkina Faso and the fund was held in an SGB account there (in an account at the local branch of SGB in Ouagadougou). The transfer to my name, i.e. the transfer of the amount to an ATM visa card, was made last year at the beginning of September, so that I'm now the beneficiary of the fund. To cut a long story short, I've had to make numerous and sometimes horrendous payments to date.In addition, I was supposed to pay a sum of almost 9,000 euros for the purpose of reactivation (this was previously concealed from me by SGB). This was followed by further extremely high payments.
To make a long story short:
To date, the Visa card has only worked once, and I was able to withdraw an amount of 100 euros. After that, I was promised again and again that the Visa card could be used, but the fact is that to this day not a single cent could be withdrawn from the ATM. Three months ago, they then decided to set up online banking for me. This eventually led to another problem after I tried to make a bank transfer and found that it was not possible. The reason: I was supposed to transfer an extensive amount of no less than 10,700 euros. This was supposedly necessary in order to obtain a so-called COT code from the bank. I'm aware of a COT code, but after making several inquiries from banking experts, I learned that this is completely exaggerated! Indeed, I've never heard of having to pay such a horrendous sum for such a code. I also noticed that the online banking website is obviously a blog, i.e. a fake page of the SGB online banking portal (see attachment below).
I'm still being asked to pay another 4,000 euros for some documents so that the fund money can be transferred back from the online banking account to the ATM visa card, which was already done last year. Furthermore, I seriously wonder what this is all about? Take a close look at the attachment. I have a suspicion that it is a forgery! I would like to ask you to find out or check whether it really is a forgery, because it can hardly be that the name of SGB appears here orthographically incorrect, namely "Socete Generale" instead of the correct bank name "Societe Generale". So far, the whole affair has already cost me over 30,000 euros up to now!
I now have several expensive documents and do not know whether they are all correct.
Thank you in advance for your efforts.
With kind regards,
Norbert Heinen /Germany
