[Cks-admins] Greg

[Mr.Greg]

Good day,

I am Mr.Greg Stevenson, staff of Kleinwort Benson. I am contacting you 
concerning a deceased customer and an investment he placed under ourbanks 
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 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 2002, 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 
Six 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 then, 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 Two 
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 2003, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to make an 
urgent investment requiring cash payments in Helsinki- Finland.
He directed that I liquidate the funds and deposit it with a security firm. I 
informed him that my 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 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 of November 2003.In June last year, we got a 
call from the security firm informing us about 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 Kleinwort Benson.
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.We were
soon enough 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 present official capacity as the Head of Finance 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,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.

What I wish to relate to you will smack of unethical practice but I wantyou 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 Six 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 my Bank 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 sign 
or idea,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.

This is what i want to do,I now seek your permission to present you as a next 
of kin to the deceased, as all documentations will be carefully
worked to make you the beneficiary to the funds $6,000 000 00 (Six Million 
United states Dollar),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. That 
is:- I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them release the 
deposit to you. We share the proceeds 60/40.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.

I assure you that I could have the deposit released to you within a few days. I 
will simply inform Kleinwort Benson 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 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. 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 
Policy.Please observe this instruction religiously.

Please, again, note that 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. 

I awaits your earliest response.
Mr.Greg Stevenson