Dear Friend,
Greetings and thanks for
your response to my email. As a banker, I am aware of the various
atrocities and scams propagated over the internet but please this is not
of such. I am only contacting you in desperation out of the reality of
the circumstances and dilemma that I find myself. I was the personal
account officer and also, acquaintance to a certain customer of this
bank (HSBC, here in the United Kingdom) who was an independent oil
contractor here in the United Kingdom but died in the tsunami of 26th
December 2004 in Indonesia. He and his entire family were killed in that
disaster that shook the world. He operated a domiciliary investment
account with the private banking division of HSBC and that account was
one of numerous accounts assigned to me.
The
balance in the account was £8.8 million GBP when he died but accrued
interest over the past years to a little over £9.2 million GBP in the
last quarter of 2017. Before I continue, let me sensitize you with one
law in the United Kingdom banking act. It stipulates that any such funds
owned by a deceased customer in the banking system must be brought to
the notice of the government and subsequently taken over by the
government if at the expiration of 4 years no valid beneficiary or next
of kin applies for claim of such funds. The next of kin to the account
was his eldest daughter as his wife died of cancer several years ago and
he didn’t re-marry. The most tragic part of it all is that he died
along with his entire family (i.e. that same daughter listed as his next
of kin and two sons).
As the
relationship officer to the deceased customer, my bank appointed me to
oversee that a relative of his that can qualify as next of kin is
appointed so that they can take over the funds as inheritance. So, since
the death of the deceased customer, I have written several letters to
your country's embassy with the intent to trace and locate any of his
extended relatives to whom shall be bestowed upon as
claimants/beneficiaries of his abandoned personal funds in the custody
of my bank, but all such efforts have been to no avail. So this was the
situation with the deceased customer who coincidentally happens to share
similar details with you. This is why I am reaching out to you so
desperately.
Because the funds were to
be taken over by the government as prescribed in the banking act due to
our inability to get a next of kin for the deceased account by the
government. I had to initiate a transfer of the entire funds in the
account and retire it before it becomes too late. This became necessary
as the fund in the deceased account was almost due for scheduling as
unclaimed inheritance to the coffers of the United Kingdom government as
funds from an unclaimed estate. So I had to make a closure on the
deceased account and subsequently transferred the entire sum therein to a
number account in the private banking arm of Barclays Private Bank
(BPB) also here in the United Kingdom because the foreclosure and
eventual remittance of the funds to the United Kingdom government was
then due in a matter of weeks.
If I
hadn’t done that, the funds would have become the governments. I
couldn’t just sit and watch as all they would have used the money for is
to fund unnecessary wars and their unnecessarily large cabinets. I
saved the situation with that action of transferring that fund out of my
banks system to the number account (It’s a secret account that uses
only numbers and not names) in Barclays Private Bank that I set up for
this reason. It’s a very common type of account in Swiss banking. I did
all these because there was still no valid beneficiary or next of kin to
the funds.
After I had the funds
transferred from my bank, I went into extensive research to look for at
least any relative to the deceased but still there was just no lead. I
even had to employ the services of a private investigator and the result
was the same as before; no trace of Kin.
Now
another problem has arisen although I expected it. Barclays Private
Bank sent me a notice yesterday that a beneficiary hasn’t yet applied
for the transfer of £9.2 million GBP in their custody. They wrote that
they are obligated to reverse the transfer if no beneficiary applies for
the funds within the next 21 days. I can’t afford to let this happen as
the funds will come back to my bank and be declared as profit at the
end of the year.
This now brings us to
what I desperately need you for as you should have begun by now to put
together the general direction of what I now propose. I NEED YOU TO
APPLY FOR THE FUNDS with Barclays Private Bank! I will arrange all the
paperwork including probate and give you all the information you will
need including the transfer control keys which proves to Barclays
Private Bank that you are indeed the beneficiary to the transfer. I
assure you that we can have the entire £9.2 million GBP to your name
within the next 48 banking hours if you’ll grant your consent to this
project and follow my instructions to the letter. There is entirely no
risk to you me in this project as it’s already a concluded matter at my
bank. All that’s remaining for me to do is write a report that I was
able to get a valid next of kin (which shall be you) for the funds and
backing it up with a letter of probate from the Royal Court of Justice.
Upon
the receipt of your reply, I will send you by E-mail the next step to
take to facilitate this transaction in the shortest possible time. I
will not fail to bring to your notice that this proposal shall be
entirely hitch-free and legally conducted. You should not entertain any
fears as the required arrangements have been planned by me for the
completion of this project. If you choose to do this with me, I propose
that 50%(subject to review by you as you shall legally be in control of
the his estate) of the proceed of this project shall go into a
foundation in the name of the deceased customer to be overseen by me and
you and, that the remaining 50% shall be shared between us in equal
ratios as commission for our work. Please bear in mind that if you don’t
do this project with me, the funds will be returned to my bank and
there will never be any mention of the name of the deceased customer and
that of his family.
You should not
entertain any fears as the required arrangements have been planned by me
for the completion of this project. So, what I need from you now in
your reply email are:
(1) Your exact full names (First Name, Middle Name and Last name)
(2) Your current residential address
I need to harmonize them with my records. PLEASE SEND THEM IMMEDIATELY YOU GET THIS EMAIL.
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 me in this kind of situation have
made tidy sums out of comparable situations like this and they 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 one's' 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. 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’s 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 you should 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 are, 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.
So
all I require from you is your consent and solemn confidentiality on
this from you as it shall remain our secret forever. Deals like this
take place every day in the banking world and the reason you never hear
about them is because they never fail. The world of private banking
especially is fraught with huge rewards for those who occupy certain
offices and oversee certain portfolios. This is a one in a lifetime
chance for both me and you. Please don’t fail me.
My name is ,
Ian Mark Robson.
