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REPLY IMMEDIATELY.REPLY IMMEDIATELY.
-----Original Message-----
From: MR STEWART BARCULO [mailto:walson@singnet.com.sg]
Sent: 23 November 2007 18:23
To: ste@yahoo.com
Subject: REPLY IMMEDIATELY.
Standard Life Bank,
30 Lothian Road,
Edinburgh EH1 2DH
Email:stewart_barculo30@yahoo.com
Goodday,
I am Stewart Barculo, Staff Standard Life
Bank Limited.I am contacting you concerning
a deceased customer and an investment he
placed under our banks 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 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 iscussions with our
private banking division. He informed us
that he had a financial portfolio of Fifty
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, 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
ten 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. I informed him that
Standard Life House 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 February 2003.In June last
year, we got a call from the security firm
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 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 Standard Life House.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. 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, The Security Firm
will by the end of this financial year
broadcast a request for statements of claim
to Standard Life House,failing to receive
viable claims they will most probably
revert the deposit back to Standard Life
House.This will result in the money
entering the Standard Life 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 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 Fifty
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 Standard Life House 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 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 the same surname
With our late client; 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 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% for me, 50%
for you Should you be interested please
send me your full names,privatephone/fax
number and A valid identification,The only
thing that you are going to do is to open
an account in your name and this is going
to be your personal account in an offshore
bank and send the details to me for us to
transfer the funds from here. I will prefer
you reach me on my private email address
below And finally after that i shall
provide you with more details of this
transaction.Your earliest response to this
letter will be highly appreciated.
EMAIL: stewart_barculo30@yahoo.com
I await your response.
Mr Stewart Barculo
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