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From: JOHN CHEN LUI <wchenlui@gmail.com>
Reply-To: jcluihk@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:17:44 -0500
Subject: {Spam?} MY PLEASURE
Good Day,=20
I am JOHN CHEN LUI a staff of HANG SENG BANK LTD (Private Banking
Services department) HONG KONG. I am contacting you concerning our
customer and, an investment placed under our banks management 6 years
ago.=20
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.=20
In 2002, the subject matter; ref: bb/boc/bank/0012 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 10.370
million United States Dollars, which he wished to have us turn over
(invest) on his behalf.=20
I was the officer assigned to his case; I made numerous suggestions
in line with my duties as the de-facto chief=0D
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 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 12 million United
States Dollars,this margin was not the full potential of the fund but
he desired low risk guaranteed returns on investments.=20
In 2005, 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.
I informed him that the=0D
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 incident of 9/11. I contacted my affiliate
in and had the funds available.=20
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,=0D
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 9th October 2005.=20
In January this year, we got a call from the security firm informing
us that 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 the bank. Four days later, information
started to trickle in, apparently he was dead. A person who suited his
description was declared dead of a heart attack in Canne, South of
France. =20
The bank immediately launched an investigation into possible
surviving next of kin to alert about the situation and=0D
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 interstate.=20
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=0D
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. The investigation did not ever
yield any result 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.=20
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 HAND SENG BANK. failing to receive viable claims they will
most probably revert the deposit back to HSB HONG KONG. This will
result in the money entering the HSB 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.=20
What=0D
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$13,875,000.00 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 HSB 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.=20
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=0D
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.=20
My proposal; I am prepared to place you in a position to give
instruction for the release of 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 customer I
will then officially communicate with the firm 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=0D
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.=20
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.=20
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=0D
of
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 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's share
the blessing.=20
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=0D
lines nor do I want you contacting me through my
official email account. Contact me only 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.=20
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 learned from my private banking clients. Do not betray my
confidence.=20
Best regards,=20
John Chen Lui.
--=20
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