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Good-day,

I am Melvin Graha of Standard Bank Plc, United Kingdom. I am contacting youconcerning a deceased customer and an investment he placed under our banksmanagement three years ago, and I would respectfully request that you keep thecontents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity of theinformation you come by as a result of this mail. I am contacting youindependently of our investigation and no one is informed of thiscommunication. I would like to intimate you with certain facts that I believewould be of interest to you.

In the year 2004, the subjects matter; came to our bank to engage in businessdiscussions. He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of Eight Million three hundred and seventy Thousand British Pounds Sterling, which he wished to have us turn over(invest) on his behalf.

I decided to treat his case personally; I made numerous suggestions in linewith my duties as the de-facto chief Intermediary Sales department of thebank, especially given the volume of funds he wished to put into our bank. Wemet on numerous occasions prior to any investments being placed. I encouragedhim to consider various growth funds with prime ratings. The favored route inmy advice to customers is to start by assessing data on 6000 traditionalstocks and bond managers and 2000 managers of alternative investments. Based on my advice, we spun the money around various opportunities and madeattractive margins for our first months of operation, the accrued profit andinterest stood at this point at over One million United States Dollars, this margin was not the full potential of the fund but he desired low risk guaranteed returns on investments.

In November 2005, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed tomake an urgent investment requiring cash payments in Finland . Where hesaid,he is investing with a Firm that is building a housing estate outsideHelsinki for the government of Finland . He directed that I liquidate theinvestment and deposit the funds with a security firm. I informed him thatStandard Bank Plc would have to make special arrangements to have this doneand 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 incidentsof 9/11. I contacted my affiliate and made the funds available to a securityfirm. I undertook all the processes and made sure I followed his preciseinstructions to the letter and had the funds deposited with the security firmThe Security Firm is a specialist private firm that accepts deposits from highnet worth individuals and blue chip corporations that handle valuable productsor undertake transactions that need immediate access to cash. This small andhighly private organization is familiar especially to the highly placed andwell-connected organizations. In line with instructions, the money wasdeposited with the security firm. The Customer told me he wanted the moneythere in anticipation of his arrival from Norway later that week. This was thelast communication we had, this transpired around 25th February 2006.In June last year, we got a call from the security firm informing us a bout the inactivity of that .
This was an astounding position as far as I was concerned, given the fact thatI managed the private banking sector I was the only one who knew about thedeposit at the security firm, and I could not understand why the Customer hadnot come forward to claim his deposit. I made futile efforts to locate theCustomer. I immediately passed the task of locating him to the internalinvestigations department of Standard Bank Plc Four days later, informationstarted to trickle in, apparently our client was dead. A person who suited hisdescription was declared dead of a heart attack in canne, in Southern part ofFrance . The body was identified and the cause of death was confirmed. Thebank immediately launched an investigation into possible surviving next of kinto alert them about the situation and also to come forward to claim hisestate. If you are familiar with private banking affairs, those who patronizeour 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 privatebanking, opening an account with us means no one will know of itsexistence,accounts are rarely held under a name; depositors use numbers andcodes to kin. Private banking clients apart from not nominating next of kinalso usually in most cases leave wills in our care, in this case; the deceaseddied without a t estate. In line with our internal processes for accountholders who have passed away, we instituted our own investigations in goodfaith to determine who should have right to claim the estate. Thisinvestigation has for the past months been unfruitful. We have scanned everycontinent and used our private investigation affiliate companies to get to theroot 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 theinvestigation and the only party to receive the results of the investigationWhat this means, after investigating the last batch of names forwarded to usas possible relatives, we have come to the conclusion that Our dear latefellow died with no known or identifiable family member. This leaves me as theonly person with the full picture of what the prevailing situation is inrelation to the deposit and the late beneficiary of the deposit.According to practice, The Security Firm will by the end of this yearbroadcast a request for statements of claim to Standard Bank Plc, failing toreceive viable claims they will most probably revert the deposit back toStandard Bank Plc. This will result in the money entering the Standard BankPlc 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 smackof unethical practice but I want you to understand something. It is only anoutsider to the banking world who finds the internal politics of the bankingworld aberrational. The world of private banking especially is fraught withhuge rewards for those that occupy certain offices and oversee certainportfolios. You should have begun by now to put together the general directionof what I propose. There is Eight Million three hundred and seventy ThousandBritish Pounds Sterling deposited in a security firm,I alone have the deposit details and they will release the deposit to no oneunless I instruct them to do so. I alone know of the existence of this deposit for as far as Standard Bank Plc is concerned.

The transaction with our late customer concluded when I sent the funds to thesecurity firm, all outstanding interactions in relation to the file are justcustomer services and due process. The security Firm has no single idea ofwhat's the history or nature of the deposit. They are simply awaitinginstructions to release the deposit to any party that come forward. This isthe situation. This bank has spent great amounts of money trying to track thisman'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 instruct the securityFirm to release the deposit to you as the closest surviving relative. Upon receipt of the deposit I am prepared to share the money with you. That is: I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them release the deposit to you and share the proceeds with you in a percentage we will arrive attaking into consideration our individual level commitment. I would have goneahead to ask that the funds be released to me, but that would have drawn astraight line to me and my involvement in claiming the deposit. But presenting you as a relative with the right to claim the deposit as a next of kin will mask my involvement and participation in diverting the deposit for personal use. You will get all the documents needed to effect this claim immediatelyyou notify me of your acceptance to claim this deposit for our mutual benefit.I assure you that I could have the deposit released to you within a few days.Iwill simply inform the bank of the final closing of the file relating to the deceased. I will then officially communicate with The Security Firm andinstruct them to release the deposit to you. With these two things: all isdone. The alternative would be for us to have The Security Firm direct thefunds to another bank with you as account holder. This way there will be noneed for you to think of receiving the money from The Security Company. We can fine-tune this based on our interactions. I am aware of the consequences ofthis proposal. I ask that if you find no interest in this project that youshould 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 dictatesthat 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 notdestroy 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 anopportunity 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 refusingto work with me and alerting my bank. I am the only one who knows of thissituation, good fortune has blessed you with a luck that has planted you intot he center of relevance in my life. Let's share the blessing. If you find yourself able to work with me, contact me through this email account. If yougive me positive signals, I will initiate this process towards a conclusion. Iwish 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 willprovide for you and also through this email address. I do not want any directlink between you and myself. My official lines are not secured lines as they are periodically monitored to assess our level of customer care in line with our Total Quality Management.

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.

Sincerely,

Melvin

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