Subject: good to meet you !
dear friend ,
i am paul yorke , staff of international private
banking at hsbc bank . i am contacting you concerning
a deceased customer and an investment he placed under
our banks management 3 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 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 was 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 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 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 in here london . i informed him
that hsbc 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 here in london
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 at the london based security consultancy
firm , corporate securities co . corporate securities co
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 corporate
securities co . 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 25 th february 2003 .
in june last year , we got a call from corporate
securities co 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 corporate securities co ,
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 hsbc . 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 . you have
unfortunately declared 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 , corporate securities co will by
the end of this financial year broadcast a request for
statements of claim to hsbc , failing to receive viable
claims they will most probably revert the deposit
back to hsbc . this will result in the money entering
the hsbc 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 us $ 8 , 370 , 000 . 00 deposited here in
the u . k , 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 hsbc is concerned , the
transaction with our late customer concluded when i
sent the funds to corporate securities , all
outstanding interactions in relation to the file are
just customer services and due process .
corporate securities co 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 similar details to the late fellow ; i am
prepared to place you in a position to instruct
corporate securities co 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 to me and my involvement in
claiming the deposit . but on the other hand , you with
the same very name as the original depositor would
easily pass as the beneficiary with right to claim . 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
corporate securities co and instruct them to release
the deposit to you . with these two things : all is
done . the alternative would be for us to have
corporate securities co 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 corporate securities co . 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 wont 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 . lets 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 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 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 , we should plan a meeting , soon .
i await your response .
paul yorke .
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