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 Seven 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: d_palmer203uk@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: d_palmer203uk@yahoo.co.uk
I await your response.
David Palmer.
d_palmer203uk@yahoo.co.uk
