Brandon Mla - Bank of China - brandonmla37@gmail.com
Posted: 03 November 2020
from: Brandon Mla <brandonmla37@gmail.com>
date: Nov 2, 2020, 10:22 AM
subject: Re: re
mailed-by: gmail.com
Hello,
My name is Brandon Mla, an executive of Bank of China South Africa Branch and I am contacting you concerning a customer who placed an investment under our bank many years ago.
Firstly, I discreetly request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential. I would like to intimate you with certain facts that I believe would be of interest to you.
In 2004, a customer established a portfolio of $11,600,000. (Eleven million, six hundred thousand United States Dollars). This money was determined to be turned over in investment and at that time I was the account officer to this client.
As at 2006, the client requested for liquidation due to urgent investments in Europe. I have waited to hear back from him as to what he wants me to do as his personal accountant but got no response from him after several messages via email which was our means of communication except for times when he comes to the bank in person or we call him directly.
I made futile efforts to locate him hand in hand with the internal investigations department of the bank. Information was gathered which showed that apparently he was dead. A person who suited his description was declared dead of a heart attack in Richards Bay South Africa. The bank immediately launched an investigation into possible surviving next of kin to alert them about the situation and also to come forward to claim his estate. The investigation has come to an end.
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.
You should have begun by now to put together the general direction of what I propose. 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 this is concerned, the transaction with our deceased customer concluded when I sent the funds to the firm, all outstanding interactions in relation to the file are just customer services and due process. They are simply awaiting instructions to release the deposit to any party that comes forward. This is the situation.
I am prepared to place you in a position to give instruction for the release of the deposit to you as the closest surviving relation. Upon receipt of the deposit, I am prepared to share the money with you 50 percent. That is I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them release the deposit to you.
I will inform the bank of the final closing of the file relating to the customer and then officially communicate with the firm and instruct them to release the deposit to you. The alternative would be for us to have the 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 firm. We can fine-tune this based on our interactions. I am aware of the consequences of this proposal.
I have evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here is from you declining to work with me and alerting my bank. I ask that if you find no interest in this project that you should disregard and discard this mail, otherwise contact me through this same email account. I will provide you with my phone number in order that we discuss.
I await your positive response.
Brandon Mla.
date: Nov 2, 2020, 10:22 AM
subject: Re: re
mailed-by: gmail.com
Hello,
My name is Brandon Mla, an executive of Bank of China South Africa Branch and I am contacting you concerning a customer who placed an investment under our bank many years ago.
Firstly, I discreetly request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential. I would like to intimate you with certain facts that I believe would be of interest to you.
In 2004, a customer established a portfolio of $11,600,000. (Eleven million, six hundred thousand United States Dollars). This money was determined to be turned over in investment and at that time I was the account officer to this client.
As at 2006, the client requested for liquidation due to urgent investments in Europe. I have waited to hear back from him as to what he wants me to do as his personal accountant but got no response from him after several messages via email which was our means of communication except for times when he comes to the bank in person or we call him directly.
I made futile efforts to locate him hand in hand with the internal investigations department of the bank. Information was gathered which showed that apparently he was dead. A person who suited his description was declared dead of a heart attack in Richards Bay South Africa. The bank immediately launched an investigation into possible surviving next of kin to alert them about the situation and also to come forward to claim his estate. The investigation has come to an end.
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.
You should have begun by now to put together the general direction of what I propose. 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 this is concerned, the transaction with our deceased customer concluded when I sent the funds to the firm, all outstanding interactions in relation to the file are just customer services and due process. They are simply awaiting instructions to release the deposit to any party that comes forward. This is the situation.
I am prepared to place you in a position to give instruction for the release of the deposit to you as the closest surviving relation. Upon receipt of the deposit, I am prepared to share the money with you 50 percent. That is I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them release the deposit to you.
I will inform the bank of the final closing of the file relating to the customer and then officially communicate with the firm and instruct them to release the deposit to you. The alternative would be for us to have the 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 firm. We can fine-tune this based on our interactions. I am aware of the consequences of this proposal.
I have evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here is from you declining to work with me and alerting my bank. I ask that if you find no interest in this project that you should disregard and discard this mail, otherwise contact me through this same email account. I will provide you with my phone number in order that we discuss.
I await your positive response.
Brandon Mla.