Subject: OCEANIC BANK (For Your Urgent Attention)

Here's another one who should be writing novels instead of scam emails.

Hello ,

I am MR. HOMEPIROME PRAYOON, a Thailand National and a staff of Private Banking Services at the Oceanic Bank Plc, Nigeria, I am contacting you concerning our customer and, an investment placed under our banks management close to 12 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.

On Monday, 12 May, 1997, one Mr. Andreas Schranner, a Garman National, the subject matter; ref: bb/ocb/bank/0012/097 came to our bank to engage in business discussions with our Private Banking Services Department.

He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of 8.35 Million United States Dollars, which he wished to have us turn over (invest) on his behalf.

I was the officer assigned to his investment, At the commencement of his investment plan, I made numerous suggestions in line with my duties as the de-facto chief operations officer of the Private Banking Services Department of OCB, 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 options 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 30 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 1999, Mr. Andreas Schranner asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to make an urgent investment requiring huge cash payments in Europe.

He directed that I liquidate the funds and had it deposited with a particular Private Finance Firm.

I informed him that our 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 borders has become especially strict since the incidents of 9/11 in USA.

I contacted my affiliate and had the funds available. I undertook all the processes and made sure I followed his precise instructions to the letter and had the funds deposited in a Security Consultancy Firm, the 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 and Individuals. In line with instructions, the money was deposited .

Shortly, Mr. Andreas Schranner 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 28 July, 2000.

In January 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 , and I could not understand why Mr. Andreas Schranner had not come forward to claim his deposit.

We made futile efforts to locate him. I immediately passed the task of locating him to the internal investigations department of the Our Bank. Four days later, A shocking information started to trickle in, apparently he was dead.

Mr. Andreas Schranner was aboard the AF4590 plane, which crashed Monday, 31 July 2000 into the Hotelissimo. PLEASE VIEW THE BELOW WEBSIT ON BCC REPORT.

[Stupid BBC link.]

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 portfolio. 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. It was discovered that he died without making a WILL and all attempts to trace his next of kin proved fruitless.

On further investigation, it was discovered that Late Mr. Andreas Schranner did not declare any next of kin or relatives in all his official documents, including his Banks Deposit paper work here in our Bank.

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; he died intestate.

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. Now for so long, The investigation to determine a possible Next Of Kin did not ever yield any result . 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.

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 firm will by the end of this financial year broadcast a request for statements of claim to OCB, and failing to receive viable claims they will most probably revert the deposit back to OCB. This will result in the money entering the OCB accounting system and the portfolio will be out of my hands and out of the Private Banking Services Department. 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 US$ 19,500,000 deposited , 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 OCB is concerned, the transaction with our deceased customer concluded when I sent the funds to theSecurity 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 as family member or partner to the Late Depositor. This is the situation. This bank Oceanic Bank ( OCB ) has spent huge sums of money trying to track this man's family; they have investigated for months and have found no family.

The investigation has since come to an end.

MY URGENT PROPOSAL; 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 to Late Andreas Schranner and 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 that the funds be released to me directly, 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 if you can be of good help while I remain underground and allow you to handle the procees to this claim. I will simply inform the bank of the final closing of the file relating to the customer . 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 and you will relate with the firm to claim this ransom.

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 Firm and this instruction will come from you as the Next Of Kin. 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 or feel that you do not believe it, 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, PLEASE 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 despirado on what I do, I do not find it 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. I am a family man, my families are all here in AFRICA 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. We can share the blessing.

If you find yourself able to work with me, contact me through this email account hprayoon@bareed.alburaq.net


If you give me positive signals, I will initiate this process towards a conclusion. I wish to inform you that you should contact only me via official channels with my private email above. I will deny knowing you and about this project if you intend to expose me.

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 above private 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 Policy.

Please observe this instructions religiously.

Please, 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. If we can be of one accord, send me your response on my email immediately to enable us commence this line of discussion.

I await your response.

Sincerely,

MR. HOMEPIROME PRAYOON

h114prayoon@hotmail.com