Thanks for giving me your time.I am Dr.Carlley Elfman, a consulting auditor
attached with the
private Banking Services here in London.I contacted you independently of our
internal audit
investigation and no one is informed of this communication and I would like
to intimate you with
certain facts that I believe would be of interest to you.
I am contacting you concerning a customer of the bank who had an investment
placed under the
banks management 5 years ago. On May 22,2001, a british
accountant/consultant on Oil matters
with Sasol Petroleum International(PTY)Limited,of South Africa, Mr.Robert
J.Gerlich 56,made an
investment deposit valued at 14.2 Million Pounds in a bank here in
London, which he wished to have us turn over 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 and a consulting auditor of the Private
Banking Services
Department, 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 favoured route in my advice to customers
is to start by
assessing data on 600 traditional stocks and bonds managers and 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 16.4 Million
Pounds,this margin was not the full potential of the fund but he desired low
risk guaranteed
returns on investments.
In August 2001,he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to
make an urgent
investment requiring cash payments in Europe.He directed that I liquidate
the funds and had it
deposited with HANDELSBANKEN,a top Swedish bank.I informed him that our bank
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.I contacted my affiliate in
Sweden, however,the
exercise was not carried out due to the complex nature of the task and
having been instructed
again to stop further proccedings,in line with his instructions the transfer
was stopped.He told me
he would use the money thereafter upon his arrival from America later that
week. This was the
last communication we had,this transpired around 10th September 2001, Four
days later,
information started to trickle in,that he was among victims of the 9/11
World Trade Center attack.
On hearing about this information,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 deposit.In
his bio-data form,he listed no next of kin.In the field of private banking,
opening an account
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. As things stands now,there
is 18.5 Million
Pounds as value for his investment.The bank 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 comes
forward. 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 known
relative.The
investigation has already come to an end.
I am prepared to place you in a position and instruct the bank 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 and no more.That is,we share the proceeds 65% for me and 35% for you. We
can fine-tune
this based on our interactions and with my position in the bank,we can get
things done in a
smooth way.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 the bank.
I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to what the
consequences might be,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.If we can be of one accord,we should
plan a meeting soon.
I await your response via my Email blow.
Sincerely,
Dr.Elfman Carlley
Email: p_carlley@myway.com
p_carlley@accountant.com
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