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Good day,I am Ma Delun,a staff of Private Banking Services at theBank of China (BOC) United Kingdom. I am contacting you concerning ourcustomer and, an investment placed under our banks management 5 years ago.I would respectfully request that you keep the contents ofthis mail confidential and respect the integrity of the informationyou come by as a result of this mail. I contacted you independently of ourinvestigation and no one is informed of this communication. I would liketo intimate you with certain facts that I believe would be of interest toyou.In 2003, the subject matter; ref: bb/boc/bank/0012 came toour bank toengage in business discussions with our Private BankingServices Department. He informed us that he had a financialportfolio of 8.35 million United States Dollars, which he wished to haveus turn over(invest) on his behalf.I was the officer assigned to his case; I made numeroussuggestions in line with my duties as the de-facto chief operationsofficer of the Private Banking Services Department, especially given thevolume of funds he wished to put into our bank. We met on numerousoccasions prior to any investments being placed. I encouraged him to considervarious growth funds with prime ratings. The favored route in my advice tocustomers is to start by assessing data on 6000 traditional stocks andbond managers and 2000 managers of alternative investments. Based on myadvice, we spun the money around various opportunities and made attractivemargins for our first months of operation, the accrued profit and intereststood at thispoint at over 10 million United States Dollars, thismargin was not thefull potential of the fund but he desired low riskguaranteed returns on investments. In mid 2005, he asked that the money beliquidated because heneeded to make an urgent investment requiring cash paymentsin Europe. Hedirected that I liquidate the funds and had it depositedwith a firm.I informed him that the bank would have to make specialarrangements to havethis done and in order not to circumvent due process, thebank would have to make a 9.5 % deduction from the funds to cater forbanking and statutory charges. He complained about the charges but latercame aroundwhen I explained to him the complexities of the task he wasasking of us.Cash movement across borders has become especially strictsince the incidents of 9/11. I contacted my affiliate in and had thefunds available. I undertook all the processes and made sure Ifollowed his precise instructions to the letter and had the fundsdeposited in a security consultancy firm, the firm is a specialistprivate firm that accepts deposits from high net worth individuals and bluechip corporations that handle valuable products or undertaketransactions that need immediate access to cash. This small and highlyprivate organization is familiar especially to the highly placed andwell-connected organizations. In line with instructions, the money wasdeposited .He told me he wanted the money there in anticipation of hisarrival from Norway later that week. This was the last communication wehad, this transpired around 9th October, 2005.In January last year, we got a call from the security firminforming us that the inactivity of that particular portfolio. This wasan astoundingposition as far as I was concerned, given the fact that Imanaged the private banking sector I was the only one who knew about thedeposit , andI could not understand why he had not come forward to claimhis deposit. I made futile efforts to locate him I immediately passed thetask oflocating him to the internal investigations department ofthe bank of china. Four days later, information started to trickle in,apparently he was dead. A person who suited his description was declareddead of a heart attack in Canne, South of France. We were soon enough ableto identify the body and cause of death was confirmed. The bank immediatelylaunched an investigation into possible surviving next of kin to alertabout the situation and also to come forward to claim his estate. Ifyou are familiar with private banking affairs, those who patronizeour services usually prefer anonymity, but also some levels ofdetachment from conventional processes. In his bio-data form, he listed nonext of kin. In the field of private banking, opening an account with usmeans no one will know of its existence, accounts are rarely held under aname; depositors use numbers and codes to make the accounts anonymous. Thisbank also gives the choice to depositors of having their mail sent to themor held at the bank itself, ensuring that there are no traces of theaccount and as I said, rarely do they nominate next of kin. Private bankingclients apart from not nominating next of kin also usually in most casesleave wills in our care, in this case; he died intestate.In line with our internal processes for account holders whohave passed away, we instituted our own investigations in good faith todetermine who should have right to claim the estate. This investigationhas for the past months been unfruitful. We have scanned every continent andused our private investigation affiliate companies to get to theroot of the problem. The investigation did not ever yield any result Myofficial capacity dictates that I am the only party to supervise theinvestigation and the only party to receive the results of theinvestigation.This leaves me as the only person with the full picture of whatthe prevailing situation is in relation to the deposit and the latebeneficiary of the deposit. According to practice, the firm will by theend ofthis financial Year broadcast a request for statements of claim to BOC,failing to receive viable claims they will most probably revert thedeposit back to BOC. This will result in the money entering the BOCaccounting system and the portfolio will be out of my hands and out of thePrivate Banking Services Department. This will not happen if I have my way.What I wish to relate to you will smack of unethicalpractice but I want you to understand something. It is only an outsider tothebanking world who finds the internal politics of the banking worldaberrational. The world of private banking especially is fraught with hugerewards for those who occupy certain offices and oversee certain portfolios.You should have begun by now to put together the general direction of whatI propose. There is US$ 8,370,000.00 deposited , I alone have thedeposit details and they will release the deposit to no one unless I instructthem to do so. I alone know of the existence of this deposit for as far asBOC is concerned, the transaction with our deceased customerconcluded when I sent the funds to the firm, all outstanding interactions inrelation to the file are just customer services and due process. Theyare simply awaiting instructions to release the deposit to any partythat comes forward. This is the situation. This bank has spent greatamounts of money trying to track this man's family; they haveinvestigated for months and have found no family. The investigation hascome to an end.My proposal; I am prepared to place you in a position togive instruction for the release of the deposit to you as the closestSurviving relation. Upon receipt of the deposit, I am prepared to share themoney with you in half. That is: I will simply nominate you as the next ofkin 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 wouldhave drawn a straight line to me and my involvement in claiming thedeposit. I assure you that I could have the deposit released to you withina few days. I will simply inform the bank of the final closing of the filerelating to the customer I will then officially communicate with firmand instruct them to release the deposit to you. With these two things:all is done. The alternative would be for us to have firmdirect the funds to another bank with you as account holder. This way therewill be no need for you to think of receiving the money from the firm. Wecan fine-tune this based on our interactions.I am aware of the consequences of this proposal. I ask thatif 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 noappeal to you, delete this message and forget I ever contacted you. Do notdestroy my career because you do not approve of my proposal. You may notknow this but people like myself who have made tidy sums out ofcomparable situations run the whole private banking sector. I am not acriminal and what I do, I do not find against good conscience, this maybe hard for you to understand, but the dynamics of my industry dictatesthat I make this move. Such opportunities only come ones' way once in alifetime. I cannot let this chance pass me by, for once I find myself intotal control of my destiny. These chances won't pass me by. I ask that youdo not destroy my chance, if you will not work with me let me know and let memove on with my life but do not destroy me. I am a family man and thisis an opportunity to provide them with new opportunities. Thereis a reward for this project and it is a task well worth undertaking. Ihave evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here is from yourefusing to work with me and alerting my bank. I am the only one who knowsof thissituation, good fortune has blessed you with a name that has planted youinto the center of relevance in my life. Let's share the blessing.If you find yourself able to work with me, contact methrough this same Email account. If you give me positive signals, I willinitiate this process towards a conclusion. I wish to inform you thatshould you contact me via official channels; I will deny knowing you andabout this project. I repeat, I do not want you contacting me through myofficial phone lines nor do I want you contacting me through my officialemail account. Contact me only through through this email address. I donot want any direct link between you and me. My official lines are notsecure linesas they are periodically monitored to assess our level of customer carein line with our Total Quality Management Policy. Please observe thisinstruction religiously. Please, again, note I am a family man; I havea wife and children. I send you this mail not without a measure offear as to what the consequences, but I know within me that nothingventured is nothing gained and that success and riches never come easy oron a platter of gold. This is the one truth I have learned from my privatebanking clients. Do not betray my confidence. If we can be of oneaccord, send me your response on this email immediately on my privateemail address(ma.delun@hotmail.com) to enable uscommence this line of discussion.I await your response.Ma Delun.