From: "Lindemann B Thomas" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <Lindemannthom@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 21:23:20 -0500
Subject: Deal Request

I am Thomas b.Lindemann of Standard Bank Plc, United

Kingdom . I am contacting you concerning a deceased

customer and an investment he placed under our banks

management three years ago, and 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 am contacting 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 the year 2004, the subjects matter;

came to our bank to engage in businessdiscussions. He

informed us that he had a financial portfolio of Ten

million United States dollars, which he wished to have us

turn over(invest) on his behalf.

I decided to treat his case personally; I made numerous

suggestions in line with my duties as the de-facto chief

Intermediary Sales department of the bank, 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 primeratings. The favoured 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 One

million United States Dollars, this margin was not the

full potential of the fund but he desired low risk

guaranteed returns on investments.

In November 2005, he asked that the money be liquidated

because he needed to make an urgent investment requiring

cash payments in Finland.Where he said, he is investing

with a Firm that is building a housing estate outside

Helsinki for the government of Finland .He directed that I

liquidate the investment and deposit the funds with a

security firm. I informed him that Standard Bank Plc 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 and

made the funds available to a security firm. I undertook

all the processes and made sure I followed his precise

instructions to the letter and had the funds deposited

with the security firm. The Security 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 with the security

firm. The Customer 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 2006.In June last year,we got a call

from the security firm
informing us about 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 at the

security firm, and I could not understand why the Customer

had not come forward to claim his deposit.I made futile

efforts to locate the Customer. I immediately passed the

task of locating him to the internal investigations

department of Standard Bank Plc 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 canne, in Southern part of

France . The body was identified and the cause of death

was confirmed.The bank immediately launched an

investigation into possible surviving next of kin to alert

them 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 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 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, after

investigating the last batch of names forwarded to us as

possible relatives, we have come to the conclusion 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 Security Firm will by

the end of this year broadcast a request for statements of

claim to Standard Bank Plc,failing to receive viable

claims they will most probably revert the deposit back to

Standard Bank Plc. This will result in the money entering

the Standard Bank Plc 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 that

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 Ten million dollars

deposited in a security firm, 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 Standard Bank Plc is concerned.

The transaction with our late customer concluded when I

sent the funds to the security firm, all outstanding

interactions in relation to the file are just customer

services and due process. The security 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 come 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; I am prepared to place you in a position to

instruct the security Firm to release the deposit to you

as the closest surviving relative. Upon receipt of the

deposit I am prepared to share the money with you. That is

I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have

them release the deposit to you and share the proceeds

with you
in a percentage we will arrive at taking into

consideration our individual level commitment. I would

have gone ahead to ask that the funds be released to me,

but that would have drawn a straight line to me and my

involvement in claiming the deposit. But presenting you as

a relative with the right to claim the deposit as a next

of kin will mask my involvement and participation in

diverting the deposit for personal use. You will get all

the documents needed to effect this claim immediately you

notify me of your acceptance to claim this deposit for our

mutual benefit.

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 the Security 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 Security 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 Security Company. 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

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 luck thathas planted you

into the center of relevance in my life. Let's share the

blessing. If you find yourself able to work with me,

contact me through this email account Lindemannthom@gmail.com

.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

want 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 myself. My official lines are

not secured 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 learned from my private banking

clients. Do not betray my confidence.


Sincerly,

Thomas b. Lindemann.
Lindemannthom@gmail.com