From: Bunntett Wright <bunnttewright@gmail.com>
Reply-To: bunnettewright@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 11:25:46 +0100
Subject: DEAR FRIEND.

Dear Friend,

I am Wright Bunnette, head of international private banking at
Barclays. I am contacting you concerning a deceased customer and an
investment he placed under our banks management 3 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 contact you independently 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 2009, 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 4.35 million British Pounds Sterling,
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 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 6 million British
Pounds Sterling, this margin was not the full potential of the fund
but he desired low risk guaranteed returns on investments. In mid
2010, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to make
an urgent investment requiring cash payments.He directed that I
liquidate the funds and have it deposited with a security firm.

I informed him that Barclays 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. Large cash movements have become especially
strict since the incidents of 9/11. I contacted my affiliate and had
the funds available as he had requested. I undertook all the processes
and made sure I followed his precise instructions to the letter and
had the funds deposited with a security consultancy firm.

This security firm is an especially 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 them. 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
June 2012. In November last year, we got a call from the security
company 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 at the security company, and I could not
understand why our client 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 Barclays.

Four days later, information started to trickle in, apparently our man
was dead. A person who suited his description was declared dead of a
heart attack in Canne, South of France. We were soon enough able to
confirm all of this including cause of death. 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 even 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; our now
deceased client 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 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. It is quite clear now that
our dear fellow died with no known or identifiable family members.
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 company will by the end of this
year broadcast a request for statements of claim to Barclays, failing
to receive viable claims they will most probably revert the deposit to
Barclays. This will result in the money entering the Barclays
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 off 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 sit upon certain chairs and oversee certain
portfolios.

You should have begun by now to put together the general direction of
what I propose. There is 4,350,000.00 deposited in a security company.
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 Barclays is concerned, the transaction
with the late customer concluded when I sent the funds to the security
company all outstanding interactions in relation to the file are just
customer services and due process. The security company 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 I may
direct. 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 instruct the security company 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 ...You with the
same very name as the original depositor would easily pass as the
beneficiary with right to claim. I assure you that I could have the
deposit released to you within a few days. I will simply inform the
bank o f the final closing of the file relating to our late client. I
will then officially communicate with the security 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 security company
direct the funds to another bank with you as account holder. This way
there will be no need for you to thin k of receiving the money
directly from the security company as it is not a conventional
financial institution; they accept deposits from only organizations
thus; what you hand over to them is what you get back. They do not
have the means to process the money. 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 a tidy sum
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. This chance
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. Lets share the blessing.

If you find yourself able to work with me, contact me through this
email. If you give me positive signals,I will give you the relevant
details and initiate this process towards a conclusion. I wish to
inform you that you should not 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 this email account 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 email 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. I await your response.

Sincerely,
Wright Bunnette.