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> From: Ma.Delun <delun@boc.com>
> Subject: Dear Friend
> To:
> Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 7:19 AM
> Good day,
>
> I am Ma Delun,a staff of Private Banking Services at the
> Bank of China (BOC) United Kingdom. I am contacting you
> concerning our
> customer and, an investment placed under our banks
> management 5 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 2003, the subject matter; ref: bb/boc/bank/0012 came to
> our bank toengage in business discussions with our Private
> Banking
> Services Department. 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 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 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 thispoint 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 2005, he asked
> that the money be
> liquidated because he
> needed to make an urgent investment requiring cash
> paymentsin Europe. He
> directed that I liquidate the funds and had it deposited
> with a firm.
>
> I informed him that the bank would have to make special
> arrangements to havethis 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 in
> and had the
> funds available. I undertook all the processes and made
> sure I
> followed his precise instructions to the letter and had the
> funds
> deposited in a security consultancy firm, the 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 .
>
> He 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 9th October, 2005.
>
> In January last year, we got a call from the security firm
> informing us that the inactivity of that particular
> portfolio. This was
> an astoundingposition 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 , and
> I could not understand why he had not come forward to claim
> his deposit. I made futile efforts to locate him I
> immediately passed the
> task oflocating him to the internal investigations
> department of
> the bank of china. Four days later, information started to
> trickle in,
> apparently he was dead. A person who suited his description
> was declared
> dead of a heart attack in Canne, 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; he died intestate.
>
> 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. The investigation did not ever yield
> any result My
> official capacity dictates that I am the only party to
> supervise the
> investigation and the only party to receive the results of
> theinvestigation.
>
> 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 firm
> will by the
> end of
> this financial Year broadcast a request for statements of
> claim to BOC,
> failing to receive viable claims they will most probably
> revert the
> deposit back to BOC. This will result in the money entering
> the BOC
> accounting system and the portfolio will be out of my hands
> and out of the
> Private Banking Services Department. 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. There is US$ 8,370,000.00 deposited , 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
> BOC is concerned, the transaction with our deceased
> customer
> concluded when I sent the funds to the firm, all
> outstanding interactions in
> relation to the file are just customer services and due
> process. 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 in a position to
> give instruction for the release of 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 customer I will then officially communicate
> with 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 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 firm. 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 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
> 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 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 learned
> from my private
> banking clients. Do not betray my confidence. If we can be
> of one
> accord,send me your response on this email
> (ma.delun@live.com) immediately
> on my private email address to enable us
> commence this line of discussion.
>
> I await your response.
>
> Ma Delun.
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