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From: "Daniel Cole" <daniel_cole76782@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: info_daniel_cole_1@yahoo.fr
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:38:57 +0000
Subject: HSBC BANK
Good day,
I am Daniel Cole, staff of International Private Banking at HSBC Bank.
I am
contacting you concerning a deceased customer and an investment he
placed
under our banks management three years ago. I would respectfully
request
that you keep the contents of this mail confidential and respect the
integrity of the information you come by as a result of this mail.
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 came
to our
bank to engage in business discussions with our private banking
division. He
informed us that he had a financial portfolio of Forty Eight Million
Three
Hundred And Fifty Thousand United StatesDollars ($48,350,000.00 USD)
,which
he wished to have us turn over(invest) on his behalf. I was the
officer
assigned to his case, I was made numerous suggestions in line with my
duties
as the de-facto chief operations officer of the private banking sector,
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 advise to customers is to start by assessing data on 6000
traditional
stocks and bond managers and 2000 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
and interest stood at this point at over ten 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 2002, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to
make
an urgent investment requiring cash payments in here in the United
Kingdom.
He directed that I liquidate the funds and deposit it with a security
firm
here in London. I informed him that HSBC 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 boarders has become especially
strict
since the incidents of 9/11. I contacted my affiliate in here in
London and
made the funds available to the security firm. I undertook all the
processes
and made sure I followed his precise instructions to the letter and had
the
funds deposited at the London based security consultancy firm,
Corporate
Securities Co. Corporate Securities Co 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 with Corporate Securities
Co. The
deceased 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 June 2003. In June last year, we got a call from
Corporate Securities Co informing us that the activity 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 at Corporate Securities Co, and I could not
understand why the deceased had not come forward to claim his deposit.
I
made futile efforts to locate the deceased. I immediately passed the
task of
locating him to the internal investigations department of HSBC. Four
days
later, information started to trickle in, apparently our client was
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; the deceased died
without a testament .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
has
for the past months been unfruitful. 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 being furnished
with
your details as a possible relative of 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, you
being the last batch of names we have considered, is 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, Corporate Securities Co will by the end of this
financial year broadcast a request for statements of claim to HSBC,
failing to receive viable claims they will most probably revert the
deposit
back to HSBC. This will result in the money entering the HSBC
accounting
system and the portfolio will be out of my hands and out of the private
banking division. This will not happen if I have my way. 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.
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 HSBC is concerned, the transaction with our late
customer concluded when I sent the funds to corporate securities, all
outstanding interactions in relation to the file are just customer
services
and due process. Corporate Securities Co has no single idea of what 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. My proposal; you share similar
details to
the late fellow; I am prepared to place you in a position to instruct
Corporate Securities Co 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. 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.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 within a few
days. I will simply inform the bank of the final closing of the file
relating to the deceased I will then officially communicate with
Corporate
Securities Co and instruct them to release the deposit to you. With
these
two things: all is done. The alternative would be for us to have
Corporate
Securities Co 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
Corporate Securities Co. 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 and 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 myself 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, for once I find myself in total
control
of my destiny. These chances wont pass me by. I ask that you do not
destroy
my chance, if you will not work with me let me know and let me move on
with
my life but do not destroy me. I am a family man and this is an
opportunity
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 has
blessed you with a name that has planted you into the center of
relevance in
my life. Let share the blessing. If you find yourself able to work with
me,
contact me through this same email account. If you give me positive
signals,
I will initiate this process towards a conclusion. I wish to inform you
that
should you contact me via official channels; I will deny knowing you
and
about this project. I repeat, I do not want you contacting me through
my
official phone lines nor do I wouldn’t you contacting me through my
official
email account. Contact me only through the numbers I will provide for
you
and also through this email address. 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 have a wife and children. I send you this mail not
without a measure of fear as to what the consequences, 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 learnt
from
my private banking clients. Do not betray my confidence. If we can be
of
one accord, we should plan a meeting, soon.
I await your response.
Daniel Cole.
N/B
Kindly send your response to my direct email
address: info_daniel_cole_1@yahoo.fr
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