Standard Bank Group Limited
9th Floor, Standard Bank Centre
5 Simmonds Street
P O Box 7725, Johannesburg 2000
Johannesburg - RSA
www.standardbank.co.za
>From the desk of: Simon Ridley,
Chief financial officer
Greetings,
INTRODUCTION;
My name is Mr. Simon Ridley, the chief financial officer of Standard Bank Group Limited, Johannesburg, the Republic of South Africa. The Standard Bank Group Limited is one of the
prime banks in RSA and has maintained a good customer relation. My decission to contact you hindged on my personal conviction that you are an honest person with good considerations of business ethics.
Last month, the bank's chief internal auditor came to my office to discuss about one of the bank's customer, Mr. Peter Chew, who was killed in a mutiny with his entire family by a section of the Liberian rebel groups (the RUF) during the last civil war in that country. Mr. Peter Chew was into diamond trades in the Liberian capital - Monrovia where he had lived with his family. I learnt further that Mr. Peter Chew personal account with our bank has remained unserviced for two years now which prompted the bank's inquiries to his welfare. It was on this routine investigation that words reached our bank of the ill-fated death of Mr. Peter Chew and family.
Traditionally, it is the duty of the bank to pay off the account balance of a deceased customer to any of the near relative(s) that might come up for this claims. My auditor
informed me that he had made a personal inquiries from the embassey of Singapore (the country of origin of Mr. Peter Chew) to know if he could come in contact with any of his near or far relative but to no avail, hence the total account balance of USD25.5m (Twenty-Five million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only) belonging to the deceased customer, Mr. Peter Chew has remained unclaimed up till the moment. It is the duty of bank to turn over the above information to the RESERVE BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA based on a parliamentary acts after 90 days of the official presentation of this matter to the board of directors of the bank.
Since the public declaration of this account balance will eventually land on the hands of the politicians who would make personal use of this money, I decided to contact you to come forward as the next-of-kin to late Mr. Peter Chew since all the necessary information to this account is available and will be provided to you for a smooth claims of the above account balance. You have nothing to fear or loose as I will be there in the board of directors' meeting anytime your claims approvals is presented for approvals.
If you consider to work with us as the next-of-kin to late Mr. Peter Chew, you will be entitled to 35% of the total account balance after the successful transfer of this money into the bank account that you are to provide, 60% of this money will be retained for us here and the remaining 5% will be set aside for any contingencies that might arrise in the course of this transaction. If you agree to work with us in this direction, you are required to provide a good bank account that can receive the above sum without problem, your personal details (direct phone/fax number) and any other details that might be needed in the completion of this transaction.
Please respond as urgent on this matter as to afford me the time to take prompt decission before the time left for us to work (claim this money) I am awaiting your good and favourable consideration of this proposal.
Best regards and wishes.
Yours,
Simon Ridley
Chief financial officer
Standard Bank Group Limited
