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IMPORTANT BUSINESS PROPOSAL........
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mr Ste Barculo)
Tue Oct 23 04:01:35 2007
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:33:08 +0100 (MDT)
From: "Mr Ste Barculo" <stewartbuk545@yahoo.com.hk>
Reply-To: stebarculouk665@yahoo.com.hk
Standard Life Bank,
30 Lothian Road,
Edinburgh EH1 2DH
Email:stebarculo92uk@yahoo.com.hk
Goodday,
I am Stewart Barculo, Staff Standard Life Bank Limited.I am contacting
you concerning a deceased customer and an investment he placed under our
banks management three 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 2000, the subject matter;
came to our bank to engage in business iscussions with our private
banking division. He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of
Fifty 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 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
advise 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 2001, 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. I informed him that Standard Life House 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
and made the funds available to the security firm. I undertook all the
processes and made sure I followed his precise instructions to the letter
and had the funds deposited with the security firm. The Security 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 with the security firm.
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 February 2003.In June last year, we got
a call from the security firm informing us that the inactivity 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 security firm, and I could
not understand why the deceased had 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 Standard Life House.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 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; the deceased died without a 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. 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 Security Firm will by the end of this
financial year broadcast a request for statements of claim to Standard
Life House,failing to receive viable claims they will most probably
revert the deposit back to Standard Life House.This will result in the
money entering the Standard Life 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.There is
Fifty Million Dollars deposited in a security firm, 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 Standard Life House is concerned,the transaction with our late
customer concluded when I sent
the funds to the security firm, all outstanding interactions in relation
to the file are just customer services and due process. The security Firm
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 family.
The investigation has come to an end.
My proposal; you share the same surname With our late client; I am
prepared to place you in a position to instruct The security Firm 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% for me, 50% for you Should
you be interested please send me your full names,privatephone/fax number
and A valid identification,The only thing that you are going to do is to
open an account in your name and this is going to be your personal account
in an offshore bank and send the details to me for us to transfer the
funds from here. I will prefer you reach me on my private email address
below And finally after that i shall provide you with more details of this
transaction.Your earliest response to this letter will be highly
appreciated.
EMAIL ;stebarculo92uk@yahoo.com.hk
I await your response.
Mr Stewart Barculo
