Goodday,
I am David Palmer, staff of SMITH & WILLIAMSON Private Banking.I am contacting you
concerning a 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 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,
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:david_palmer8uk@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: david_palmer8uk@yahoo.co.uk
I await your response.
David Palmer.
david_palmer8uk@yahoo.co.uk
