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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
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From: "manuel kempton" <kemptonman_7@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 08:20:05 +0200
Subject: From: Manuel Kempton
MR. MANUEL KEMPTON
INVESTEC PRIVATE BANKING LIMITED
SOUTH AFRICA
Direct line: 27 73 6415300
Direct fax: 27 11 5076626
Email: kemptonman_7@hotmail.com
Thank you for giving me your time. Please be patient and read my letter to
you.
I am a staff of INVESTEC GROUP attached in Private Banking Services. I am
contacting you concerning a customer and, an investment placed under our
banks management 3 years ago, I contacted you independently of our
investigation and no one is informed of this communication and I would like
to intimate you with certain facts that I believe would be of interest to
you. In 2000, the subject matter; ref: bb/inv/bank/73 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 8.35 million United
States Dollars, which he wished to have us turn over 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
Services Department, especially given the volume of funds he wished to put
into our bank. We met on numerous occasions prior to any investments being
placed. I encouraged him to consider various growth funds with prime
ratings. The favored route in my advice to customers is to start by
assessing data on 600 traditional stocks and bond managers and alternative
investments. Based on my advice, we spun the money around various
opportunities and made attractive margins for our first months of operation,
the accrued profit and interest stood at this point at over 10 million
United States Dollars, this margin was not the full potential of the fund
but he desired low risk guaranteed returns on investments. In mid 2001, 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 had it deposited with 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 a 9.5 %
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.
I contacted my affiliate in Europe and had the funds available in main land
Europe. I undertook all the processes and made sure I followed his precise
instructions to the letter and had the funds deposited in a security
consultancy firm, the firm is a specialist private firm that accepts
deposits from high net worth individuals and blue chip corporations that
handle valuable products or undertake transactions that need immediate
access to cash. This small and highly private organization is familiar
especially to the highly placed and well-connected organizations. In line
with instructions, the money was deposited. 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, this transpired around 25th February 2002. In
June last year, we 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 days later, information
started to trickle in, that he was apparently dead. A person who suited his
description was declared dead of a heart attack in Cannes, South of France.
We were soon enough able to identify the body and cause of death was
confirmed. The 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. This
bank also gives the choice to depositors of
having their mail sent to them or held at the bank itself, ensuring that
there are no traces of the account and as I said, rarely do they nominate
next of kin. 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 in
testate.
What I wish to relate to you will smack of unethical practice but I want you
to understand something. It is only an outsider to the banking world who
finds the internal politics of the banking world aberrational. The world of
private banking especially is fraught with huge rewards for those who occupy
certain offices and oversee certain portfolios. You should have begun by now
to put together the general direction of what I propose. There is US$
17,370,000.00 deposited, I alone have the deposit details and they will
release the deposit to no one unless I instruct them to do so. I alone know
of the existence of this deposit for as far as the finance firm, the
transaction with our deceased customer concluded when I sent the funds to
the firm, all outstanding interactions in relation to the file are just
customer services and due process. The finance firm has no single idea of
what's the history or nature of the deposit. They are simply awaiting
instructions to release the deposit to any party that comes forward. This is
the situation. This bank has spent great amounts of money trying to track
this man's family; they have investigated for months and have found no
family. The investigation has come to an end. I am prepared to place you in
a position to instruct the finance firm to release the deposit to you as the
closest surviving relation. Upon receipt of the deposit, I am prepared to
share the money with you in 60 for me/40 for you. That is: I will simply
nominate you as the next of kin and have them release the deposit to you. I
would have gone ahead to ask the funds be released to me, but that would
have drawn a straight line to me and my involvement in claiming the deposit.
I assure you that I could have the deposit released to you in a few days. I
will simply inform our bank of the final closing of the file relating to the
customer. I will then officially communicate with the finance company and
instruct them to release the deposit to you. With these two things: all is
done. The alternative would be for us to have the firm direct the funds to
another bank with you as account holder. This way there will be no need for
you to think of receiving the money from the firm. We can fine-tune this
based on our interactions. I am aware of the consequences of this proposal.
I ask that if you find no interest in this project that you should discard
this mail. I ask that you do not be vindictive or destructive. If my offer
is of no appeal to you, delete this message and forget I ever contacted you.
Do not destroy my career because you do not approve of my proposal. You may
not know this but people like me who have made tidy sums out of comparable
situations run the whole private banking sector. I am not a criminal and
what I do; I do not find against good conscience, this may be hard for you
to understand, but the dynamics of my industry dictates that I make this
move. Such opportunities only come ones' way once in a lifetime. I cannot
let this chance pass me by I hope you understand because for once I found
myself in total control and face to face with my destiny. There is a reward
for this project and it is a task well worth undertaking. I am the only one
who knows of this situation, Let's share the blessing. If you find yourself
able to work with me, contact me through this email account:
kemptonman_7@hotmail.com or by my direct number above. If you give me
positive signals, I will initiate this process towards a conclusion. Please
observe this instruction religiously. If we can be of one accord, we should
plan a meeting, soon.
I await your response.
Regards,
MR MANUEL KEMPTON
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