Oliver Mayson - Tesco Bank - offdept1@gmail.com

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from: Oliver Mayson <offdept1@gmail.com>
date: Mar 3, 2020, 1:14 AM
subject: Re: Urgent Reply
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Thanks for your response. As you already know, l am Oliver Mayson in the UK- formerly Global Head of Marketing for Commercial Banking with HSBC but presently Independent Non-Executive Director of the Prudential Regulation Authority, Tesco Bank. (http://www.tescobank.com). Do understand that in a bid to explain these modalities of this transaction, l am sending you a very lengthy message which l indulge you to read carefully for better understanding. I am contacting you concerning a deceased customer and an investment he placed with our bank management five years ago. The content of this communication has to be treated with utmost confidentiality, to avoid unnecessary complications.

I contacted you independently of our investigation and no one is informed of this communication, I would like to intimate you about certain facts that I believe would be of interest to you. In 2009, the subject matter, Engineer Sylvester Sebastian came to our bank to engage in business discussions with our private banking division.

He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of 15.9 Million Great British Pounds, which he instructed us to 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 and discussed about viable investment opportunities.

I encouraged him to consider various growth funds with prime ratings. I invested his funds into trading in Stock Market, Crude Oil and Lending with Profit Returns, as my specialty is to advise customers to invest healthy and yield good profit. 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 out and my client was glad with the returns.

In mid-2009, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to make an urgent landed property investment requiring cash payments. He directed that l liquidate the funds and deposit it with National Westminster Bank Plc a private Bank. I informed him that Tesco 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 an 11.5 % 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 borders has become strict especially since the incidents of 9/11. I contacted my affiliate here in London and made the funds available to National Westminster Bank Plc.

I undertook all the processes and made sure I followed his precise instructions to the letter and had the funds deposited at National Westminster Bank Plc, which 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 Bank is familiar especially to the highly placed and well-connected organizations. In line with instructions, the money was deposited with a private Bank. The deceased told me he wanted the money there in anticipation of his arrival from Johannesburg, South Africa later that week. This was the last communication we had. In June last year, we got a call from the Bank informing us about the activity 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 private Bank, and I could not understand why the Client had not come forward to claim his deposit. I made futile efforts to locate the Client. I immediately passed the task of locating him to the internal investigations department of

National Westminster Bank Plc. Six weeks later, information trickled in, apparently our client was dead. He died on the Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A330 crashed on landing at Tripoli airport after a flight from Johannesburg. As part of our duty, we made effort to identify him, and confirmed the news about his 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.

The bank has spent great amounts of money trying to track the deceased Client family; they have investigated for months and have found no family. The investigation has come to an end. My proposal, I will change the deceased last name to match yours only if you are interested, I am prepared to place you in a position as the Next of Kin to the Private Bank 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. I assure you that I could have the deposit released to you within two weeks. I will simply inform the bank of the final closing of the file relating to the deceased, I will then officially communicate with the Private Bank and instruct them to release the deposit to you. The alternative would be for us to have the Private Bank direct the funds to another bank, where you are a beneficiary of the Account.

This way there will be no need for you to think of travelling to lay claim to the money from the Private Bank. We can fine-tune this based on our interactions. I am aware of the consequences of this proposal. If you find no interest in this project, please 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 me 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 fight 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 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.

I am a family man with children 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 centre of relevance in my life. Let's 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 my private mobile, 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 (TQM). Do not betray my confidence if we can be of one accord.

Regards

Oliver Mayson