Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 2:05 AM
Subject: FROM COLIN STEVENS / YOUR RESPONSE IS HIGHLY NEEDED, PLEASE
REPLY BACK ASAP.
I am Colin Stevens, British citizen and Credit and Risk Manager
for the Heritable Bank Limited in London. A staff of Yokozona consultancy firm
got in touch with me regarding the estate of Chi Woo Kong. And an investment
placed under our banks management some years back. 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 contact 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 1997, the subject matter; Chi Woo Kong came to our
bank to engage in business discussions with our private banking division. He
informed us that he had a financial portfolio of 8.35 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, 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 10
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 1998, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to make an
urgent investment requiring cash payments in United Kingdom. He directed that I
liquidate the funds and had it deposited with financial Wale's investments UK
(in their Securities Trading Firm). I informed him that Heritable Bank Limited
London 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
in United Kingdom and had the funds available in Financial Wales investments. I
undertook all the processes and made sure I followed his precise instructions to
the letter and had the funds deposited at Financial Wales investments UK United
Kingdom. Finance Wale's investments and securities UK is a specialist bank 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. In Line with instructions, the money was deposited with Financial Wales
investments UK (in their Securities Trading Firm). Chi Woo Kong told me he
wanted the money there as soon as he got into the United Kingdom, This was the
last communication we had, this transpired around 25th February 1999.
In
Sept last year, we got a call from Financial Wales investments UK 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
International private banking sector I was the only one who knew about the
deposit at Financial Wales investments UK, and I could not understand why Chi
Woo Kong had not come forward to claim his deposit. I made futile efforts to
locate Chi Woo Kong. Four days later, information started to trickle in,
apparently Chi Woo Kong was dead. A person who his description was declared dead
of AUTO ACCIDENT TRAUMA in Birmingham England. 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.
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; Chi Woo
Kong died in 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. You have unfortunately declared, and I
know that you are in no way affiliated with this individual. 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, Financial Wales investments UK will by
the end of this quarter broadcast a request for statements of claim to Heritable
Bank Limited in London, failing to receive viable claims they will most probably
revert the deposit back to Heritable Bank Limited in London. This will result in
the money entering the Heritable Bank Limited in London 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
off 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 US$ 8,370,000.00 deposited in Financial Wales
investments UK, 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 Financial Wales investments UK is concerned, the
transaction with Chi Woo Kong concluded when I sent the funds to Financial Wales
investments UK, all outstanding interactions in relation to the file are just
customer services and due process. Financial Wales investments UK has no single
idea of 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 family. The
investigation has come to an end.
My proposal, I am prepared to place you
as the next of kin in a proposal to instruct Financial Wales investments UK 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 in 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 Chi Woo Kong I will then officially communicate with Financial
Wales investments UK and instruct them to release the deposit to you. With
these: all is done.
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 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. I am a family man and
this is an opportunity.
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 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 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. If we can be of one accord, we should plan
a meeting, soon.
I await your response.
Respectfully,
Colin
Stevens
P.S. Kindly forward your response to my private mailbox {
colinstevens002@gmail.com } on more
detalis and how to accomplished the great opportunity of life
time.