Thanks for giving me your time.I am Dr.Mark Coleman, 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.Mark Coleman
Email: mc2007mc@consultant.com
mc2004mc@myway.com
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