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5579. Robert Taylor

johnson.mail@btinternet.com
Subject: Acquisition

I am Robert Taylor, Director at Kleinwort Benson Private Bank, the private
banking arm of Dresdner Bank, which in turn, is a subsidiary of German
insurance giant Allianz. I am contacting you concerning a deceased customer,
and an investment he placed under our banks management 3years 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 contact you independently 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 2006, 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 8.7 million British Pounds Sterling, 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 spun the money around various opportunities and made attractive margins for
our first months of operation. In January 2008, he asked that the money be
liquidated because he needed to make an urgent investment requiring cash
payments. He directed that I liquidate the funds and have it deposited with a
security firm. I informed him that Kleinwort Benson Private Bank would have to
make special arrangements to have this done. I explained to him the
complexities of the task he was asking of us. Large cash movements have become
especially strict since the incidents of 9/11. I contacted my affiliate and had
the funds available as he had requested. I undertook all the processes and made
sure I followed his precise instructions to the letter and had the funds
deposited with a security consultancy firm. This security firm is an especially
private firm that accepts deposits from high net worth individuals and blue
chip corporations that handle valuable products or undertake transact!
 ions that need immediate access to
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 them. He 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 2008.

In October last year, we got a call from the security company informing us of
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 company,
and I could not understand why our client had not come forward to claim his
deposit. I made futile efforts to locate him.

I immediately passed the task of locating him to the internal investigations
department. Four days later, information started to trickle in, apparently our
man 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 confirm all of
this including cause of death. 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 even 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; our now deceased client died in 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. It is quite clear now that our dear fellow died
with no known or identifiable family members. 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 company will by the end of this year
broadcast a request for statements of claim to Kleinwort Benson Private Bank
failing to receive viable claims they will most probably revert the deposit to
Kleinwort Benson Private Bank. This will result in the money entering the
Kleinwort Benson Private 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 sit upon certain
chairs and oversee certain portfolios. You should have begun by now to put
together the general direction of what I propose. There is 8,700,000.00
deposited in a security company. 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 Kleinwort Benson
Private Bank is concerned, the transaction with the late customer concluded
when I sent the funds to the security company all outstanding interactions in
relation to the file are just customer services and due process. The security
company 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 I may
direct. 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 instruct the security company
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. 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 our
late client. I will then officially communicate with the security company 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 company 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 directly from the security company
as it is not a conventional financial institution; they accept deposits from
only organizations thus; what you hand over to them is what you get back. They
do not have the means to process the money.

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 a  
tidy sum 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. This chance wont passes 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 email. If you give me positive signals, I will give you the
relevant details and 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 my alternate email account:
taylorrbtttt2@googlemail.com

I do not want any direct link between you and I. 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. I await your
response.

Sincerely,
Robert Taylor

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