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From: "Suraji Abu" <sabu90034@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:27:10 +0200
Subject: CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY!!!
Rana Talwar Chu
Lloyds TSB Pacific Limited
Hong Kong Branch
Two Exchange Square
Central, Hong Kong
Fax:852-301-67289
852-301-66221
Deer Friend,
Thank you for giving me your time, it is of great importance for you to take
care and understand every word which I have written down below; please be
patient and read my email.
I am a staff of Lloyds TSB Group Plc here in Hong Kong attached in Private
Banking Services. I am contacting you concerning a customer and an
investment placed under our banks management; as a matter of fact it was 3
years ago. I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of this
mail private and also to kindly respect the integrity of the information you
come by as a result of this email. I contacted you independently of our
investigation 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 2001, the subject matter; Ref: FI/TSB/957/048/0532 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 11.37 million United
States Dollars, 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 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, and however 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 200
managers of 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 with interest included, stood at
this point at over 13.2 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 2003, 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 mainland 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 October 2nd 2006. In
September 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 gather more information and the 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.
In line with our internal processes for account holders who have passed
away, we instituted our own investigations in good faith to determine who
should have right to claim the estate, this investigation for several months
were futile. We have scanned every continent and used our private
investigation affiliate companies to get to the root of the problem. It is
this investigation that resulted in my decision to obtain your contact
details and contact you, being as a foreigner or rather non-Asian, as a
potential benefactor of the estate even if you are in no way affiliated with
this individual (the deceased).My official capacity dictates that I am the
only party to supervise the investigation and the only party to receive the
results of the investigation. What this means, with you being a foreigner, I
have considered the fact that our dear late fellow died with no known or
identifiable family member. This leaves me as the only person with the full
picture of what the prevailing situation is in relation to the deposit and
the late beneficiary of the deposit. According to practice, the firm will by
the end of this financial year broadcast a request for statements of claim
to our bank, failing to receive viable claims they will most probably revert
the deposit back to our bank. This will result in the money entering our
bank's accounting system and the portfolio will be out of my hands and out
of the Private Banking Services Department. This will not happen if I have
my way.
What I wish to relate to you might be a 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 USD$ 11,991,674 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 is
concerned, 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, and this is the situation. This bank has spent great amounts of
money trying to track the family of the deceased; they have investigated for
months and have found no family but however the investigation has come to an
end. My proposal; 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; afterwards we share the
proceeds 50/50.
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,
but on the other hand, you as a indifferent foreigner would easily pass as
the beneficiary with the rights to claim, 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 and I ask that if you find no
interest in this project that you should discard this mail. I ask also, 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; please 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 and I hope you understand, because for once I found myself
in total control and face to face with my destiny. These chances won't pass
me by, I ask that you do not destroy my chance, if you will not work with me
please let me know, and hence move on with my life, but do not destroy me; I
am a family man and this is an occasion to provide them with new
opportunities. There is a reward for this project and it is a task well
worth undertaking, I have evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here
is from you refusing to work with me and alerting my bank; I am the only one
who knows of this situation, good fortune will bless you and plant you into
the center of relevance in my life, let’s share the blessing.
If you find yourself interested to work with me, please contact me
specifically, through this email account schlumconstruct_uk200@yahoo.co.uk
if you give me positive signals, I will initiate this process towards a
conclusion. It is necessary to inform you that under no condition should you
contact me via official channels; I will simply deny knowing you and about
this project. I repeat, I do not want you contacting me through our official
lines neither do I want you contacting me through my official email account.
Contact me only through this email address above; I do not want any direct
link between you and me. My official lines are not secure lines as they are
periodically monitored to assess our level of customer care in line with our
Total Quality Management policy, please observe this instruction
religiously. Please, again, note I am a family man; I happily married with
two kids, I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to what the
consequences might be, but I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing
gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter of gold,
this is the one truth I have learned from my private banking clients; do not
betray my confidence. If we can be of one accord, I shall have the pleasure
of meeting you after this task has been completed plan a meeting, soon.
I await your response.
Yours Sincerely,
Rana Talwar Chu
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