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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: Cheung Pui <ee@ya.co>
Reply-To: cheunpu@netscape.net
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:20:24 +0200
Subject: PERSONAL
Cheung Pui
Lloyds TSB Pacific Limited
Hong Kong Branch
Thank you for giving me your time. Please be patient and read my email
to you.
I am a staff of Lloyds TSB 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/tsb/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. In line with
the internal processes for account holders who have passed away, an
investigation was instituted in good faith to determine who should have
right to claim this fund since the Depositor left no Next of kin or
Will. This investigation has for the past months been unfruitful. Every
continent has been scanned and also by means of private investigation
affiliate companies to get to find any immediate relative and our
search has been unfruitful and has now come to a close. It is this
investigation that resulted in my being furnished with your details.
All that is actually required to successfully claim this fund is for
you to act as the benefactor of this fund.
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$
14,000,000.00 deposited, I alone have the deposit details and this will
be release 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. 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 half and no more. That is, I will simply nominate you as
the next of kin and have them release the deposit to you. We share the
proceeds 50/50.
If you find yourself able to work with me, contact me through this
email account cheunpu@netscape.net
If you give me positive signals, I will initiate this process towards a
conclusion. I await your quick response.
Sincerely,
Cheung Pui
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