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Content preview: -- Name: Norris Stephen Email: [email protected] Good
Day, I am Norris Stephen, staff of Northern Rock Bank. I am contacting you
concerning a deceased customer and an investment he placed under our banks
management eight years ago. I would respectfully request that you keep the
contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity of the information
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Name: Norris Stephen
Email: [email protected]


Good Day,

I am Norris Stephen, staff of Northern Rock Bank. I am contacting you
concerning a deceased customer and an investment he placed under our
banks management eight 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 2001, 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 seventeen Million Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand United
States Dollars ($17,350,000.00 USD), 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, 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 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 2002, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to
make an urgent investment requiring cash payments in here in the United
Kingdom. He directed that I liquidate the funds and deposit it with a
security firm here in London. I informed him that the 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. Cash movement
across borders has become especially strict since the incidents of
9/11. I contacted my affiliate here in London and made the funds
available to the bank. I undertook all the processes and made sure I
followed his precise instructions to the letter and had the funds
deposited at the London based Bank , this bank 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 Bank, 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 June
2003. In June last year, we got a call from the Bank informing us that
the activity 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 Bank, and I could not understand why the deceased ha d 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 the Bank. 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 Cannes,
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 testament .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 Bank will by the end of this financial year
12th day of September, 2011 broadcast a request for statements of
claim to the Bank. failing to receive viable claims they will most
probably revert the deposit back to the Bank. This will result in the
money entering the Bank 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. 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 the Bank is concerned, the
transaction with our late customer concluded when I sent the funds to
the bank, all outstanding interactions in relation to the file are just
customer services and due process. The Bank has no single idea of what
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 similar details to the late fellow; I am prepared
to place you in a position to 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 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. 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 Bank 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 Bank 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 Bank. 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 chances, 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. Let share the blessing. If you find yourself able to work with
me, contact me through this same 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 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 learnt 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.

Mr Norris Stephen