Goodday,
I am David Palmer, staff of SMITH & WILLIAMSON Private Banking.I am contacting you
concerning one the deceased, customer and an investment he placed under our banks
management three 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 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.In 2000,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 Thirty million united states
dollars,which he wished to have us turn over (invest) on his behalf.Iwas 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 ten million United States Dollars, this margin
was not the full potential of the fund but he desired low risk guaranteed returns
on investments.In mid 2001, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed
to make an urgent investment requiring cash payments here in the united kingdom. He
directed that I liquidate the funds and deposit it with a security firm. I informed
him that SMITH & WILLIAMSON 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 the
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 deceased 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 2003.In June last 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 at the
security firm, and I could not understand why the deceased had not come forward to
claim his deposit. I made futile efforts to locate the deceased. I immediately
passed the task of locating him to the internal investigations department of SMITH
& WILLIAMSON. 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, South of France.We were soon enough able to identify the body and
cause of death was confirmed. 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 whopatronize 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,
you being the last batch of names we have considered, is 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 financial year broadcast a request for statements of
claim to SMITH & WILLIAMSON,failing to receive viable claims they will most
probably revert the deposit back to SMITH & WILLIAMSON. This will result in the
money entering the SMITH &WILLIAMSON 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 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 Thirty 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 SMITH & WILLIAMSON 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 whats the history
or nature of the deposit. 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 money trying to track this mans family; they have investigated for
months and have found no family.
The investigation has come to an end.
My proposal; you share the same surname With our late client; I am prepared to
place you in a position to instruct The security Firm 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.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. But on the other
hand, 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 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 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 account: dav_palmer12uk@yahoo.co.uk 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 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 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.
Kindly send your response to my private email address: dav_palmer12uk@yahoo.co.uk
I await your response.
David Palmer.
dav_palmer12uk@yahoo.co.uk
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