Good day,
I am Mr.Greg Stevenson, staff of Kleinwort Benson. 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 am contacting 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 the year 2004,
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 Six
Million United States dollars, which he wished to have us turn over (invest) 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 of the private banking
sector then, 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
advice tocustomers 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 Two 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 2005, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to make an
urgent investment requiring cash payments in Helsinki- Finland. He directed that I
liquidate the funds and deposit it with a security firm.
I informed him that my Bank would haveto 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 of November 2005.
In June last year, we got a call from the security firm informing us about 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 Kleinwort Benson.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, in Southern part of
France.We were soon enough 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 present official capacity as the Head of Finance
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,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. 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 that 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 Six
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 my Bank 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 sign or idea,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 family. The
investigation has come to an end. This is what i want to do,I now seek your
permission to present you as a next of kin to the deceased, as all documentations
will be carefully worked to make you the beneficiary to the funds $6,000 000 00 (Six Million United states Dollar),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.
That is:- I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them
release the deposit to you. We share the proceeds 60/40.I would have gone ahead
to ask that the funds be released to me, but that would have drawn a straight line to
me and my involvement in claiming the deposit. I assure you that I could have
the deposit released to you within a few days. I will simply inform Kleinwort
Benson 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 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 won't 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. 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 luck that has
planted you into the center of relevance in my life. Let's share the blessing. If
you find yourself able to work with me, contact me through this email account.
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 myself. My official lines
are not secured 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 that 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:office1@mail.az
I await your response.
Mr. Greg Stevenson
