From: "Amancio Slim" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <am_s@post.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:44:47 -0700
Subject: Prospective Project

Compliments of the Day,

I am contacting you concerning a deceased customer and an investment he
placed under our banks management three years ago, and 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 am contacting 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 the year 2008 the subjects matter; came to our bank to engage in
business discussions. He informed us that he had a financial portfolio
of Eight Million three hundred and seventy Thousand British Pounds
Sterling, which he wish to have us turn over(invest) on his behalf. I
decided to treat his case personally; I made numerous suggestions in
line with my duties as the de-facto chief Intermediary Sales department
of the bank, 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 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 2009, he asked that the money be liquidated because he
needed to make an urgent investment requiring cash payments in Finland .
Where he said,he is investing with a Firm that is building a housing
estate outside Helsinki for the government of Finland . He directed that
I liquidate the investment and deposit the funds with a security firm. I
informed him that our Bank 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 a 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 Customer 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 2011.In June last year, we got a call from the security firm
informing us about the inactivity of that .

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 Customer had not come forward to claim his deposit. I made
futile efforts to locate the Customer. I immediately passed the task of
locating him to the internal investigations department of our Bank 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, in Southern part of France . The body was identified
and the cause of death was confirmed. The bank immediately launched an
investigation into possible surviving next of kin to alert them 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 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 t estate. 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, after investigating the last batch of
names forwarded to us as possible relatives, we have come to the
conclusion 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 year
broadcast a request for statements of claim to our Bank, failing to
receive viable claims they will most probably revert the deposit back to
Bank. This will result in the money entering the 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 that 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 Eight
Million three hundred and seventy Thousand British Pounds Sterling
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 establishment
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
come 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 instruct the
securityn Firm 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 at taking into consideration our individual
level commitment. I would have gone ahead to ask that the funds be
released to me, but that would have drawn a straight 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 immediately
you 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.I will simply inform the bank of the final closing of the file
relating to the deceased. I will then officially communicate with The
Security 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
The Security 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 Security Company. 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 luck 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 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 the numbers I will provide for you and
also through this email address. I do not want any direct link 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,
Amancio Slim