From: "Paul Barnett" (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 14:36:36 +0100
Subject: Re- Business

Hello Dear,

I decided to write you this message to see how we can help each other better. I am a bank officer here in
Istanbul, Turkey. I think it's God's wish that I find you now. I am having an important business discussion
that I want to share with you and I think you will be interested in it because you will benefit from it.
The late Mr. Ramesh Bansal, a citizen of India who was in the gold business here in Istanbul, had a fixed
deposit in my bank in 2007 for 108 calendar months, valued at US$1,500,000.00 (One million five hundred
US dollars). The due date for this deposit was last year. He was among the fatalities of the Covid19 2020
pandemic on April 30 in Ankara province in Turkey.
The management of my bank has not yet found out about his death, I knew because I was his account officer.
He did not mention any close relatives/heirs when the account was opened, he was not married and no
relatives were found. Last week my bank management had a meeting for a bank verification exercise to note
inactive and abandoned deposit accounts. I know this will happen and that is why I have been looking for a
way to handle the situation because if my bank manager finds out about his death, the bank will divert the
funds to be shared by their senior managers. So I don't want that to happen.
I now seek your cooperation to present you as the next of kin/heir to the account and my bank headquarters
will release the account to you through my assistance. There is no risk involved; the transaction will be
executed under a legitimate agreement that will protect you from any breach of the law. It is better that we
claim the money than allow the Directors of the Bank to take it out and divide it among themselves. I'm not
a greedy person, so I suggest we split the funds, 50/50 for you and me respectively. Let me know your
opinion on this and please treat this information confidentially. I will give you more details.
WhatsApp +90 534 484 1383