Dear Anthony, You haven’t replied to my last e-mail message so I am going to have to ‘betray your confidence’ and go public with our sordid affair.
HOW DID WE MEET?
How could I forget that Monday morning – it was hot and I still had my sleeping attire on as I contemplated another long pedestrian day in front of the computer.
The quiet sensuous ring of an email notification lured me to explore my box. With a short intake of breath there it was – a potential holy grail, a nugget of communication with the promise of great things…
Anthony P. Jenkins had singled me out for great things by saying; “FYI: We are in custody of an inheritance attached to your surname, Contact Mr A Jenkins on a.jenkinsmr@gmail.com with your full names for validation. Ts & CS.”
Of course Anthony (I shall call him Ant Man later) had sent his breathy words to my Gmail account and we all know that Gmail is NOT the place to have any sort of an affair so off I popped to my alter ego’s Proton Mail account and slipped into something sexy to set the mood
Mood set and box emptied I then hurriedly penned this note:
Dear Mr Jenkins
With reference to your unexpected mail message saying; “FYI: We are in custody of an inheritance attached to your surname, Contact Mr A Jenkins on a.jenkinsmr@gmail.com with your full names for validation. Ts & CS.”
S[redacted] C[redacted] B[redacted]
Warm Love and Regards
S[redacted]. B
Willyoupleasehelpmefixmykeyboard?Thespacebarisbroken.Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.
FYI – my REAL initials are AWS and NOT SCB.
So, maybe I was a bit sneaky replying with a name that ISN’T mine but all is fair in love and affairs right?
I was a bit apprehensive that my new suitor would see though my ruse and ignore me or toss me on a pile with his other used tissues.
BUT the Ant Man came through with a long love missive that went like this:
Dear S[redacted] C[redacted] B[redacted],
Thanks for your response. As you already know I am Antony P. Jenkins – Former group chief executive of Barclays.
Do understand that in a bid to explain the modalities of this transaction, I am sending you a very lengthy message which I indulge you to read carefully for better understanding. I am contacting you concerning a deceased customer and an investment I placed for him in a bank some years ago. The content of this communication has to be treated with utmost confidentiality, to avoid unnecessary complications. I contacted you independently out of my 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 2013, the subject matter, Dr Thomas B[redeacted], came to our bank to engage in business discussions with our retail and business division. He informed me that he had a financial portfolio of Twenty Three Million Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars), 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 retail and business banking sector, especially given the volume of funds he wished to put into our investment. We met on numerous occasions and discussed 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 year of operation, the accrued profit and interest stood out and my client was glad with the returns. In mid-2014, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to make an urgent Crude Oil investment requiring cash payments in the Middle east. He directed that I liquidate the funds and deposit it with a security firm in a private Bank.
I informed him that the 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 7.5 % 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 . I contacted my affiliate here in London 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 at the private Bank, (private Bank) is a specialist private Bank 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 Bank is familiar especially to the highly placed and well-connected organisations. 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 Germany later that week. This was the last communication we had, this transpired around 11th September 2014.
This was an astounding position as far as I was concerned, given the fact that I managed the retail and business 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 Barclays . Four days later, information trickled in, apparently our client was dead. A person who suited his description was declared dead in an accident in Frankfurt, Germany. As part of our duty, we made an 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 them about the situation and also to come forward to claim his estate. If you are familiar with private banking affairs, those who patronise 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 an estate. 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 the 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 Client died with no 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 private Bank will by the end of this financial year broadcast a request for statements of claim to Bristol & West, failing to receive viable claims they will probably revert the deposit back to Bristol & West. This will result in the money entering the Bristol & West accounting system and the portfolio will be out of my hands and out of the private Bank division. This will not happen if I have my way. What I wish to relate to you will sound unethical to my 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. I alone have the deposit details and they will release the deposit to no one unless I instruct them to do so. I know of the existence of the deposit and as far as Bristol & West is concerned, the transaction with our late customer concluded when I sent the funds to a private Bank all outstanding interactions in relation to the file are just customer services and due process.
The Bank has no single idea of 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. 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, you share similar details to the late fellow, 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 a few days. 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 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 the 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 you should 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).
Please observe this instruction religiously. Please again, note I am a family man, I have a wife and 2 children. I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to what the consequences are, 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.
Best Regards,
Antony P. Jenkins
+44 7883187215
“Sjoe”, I thought. what a wonderful man to be spending all this time on penning me such an interesting note in response to my few lines of information given.
He could only be deeply into me OR did he still think he was talking to AWS?
Of course I operate on the dictum of; “Treat them mean to keep them keen” and hastily fired off this reply:
Thank you for the reply.
I do seem to remember a Thomas in our family but not that he was spectacularly wealthy in any way.
Warm Love and Regards
S[redacted] C[redacted] B[redacted]
Warm Love and Regards
S[redacted]. B
Willyoupleasehelpmefixmykeyboard?Thespacebarisbroken.Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.
Obviously my reply filled him with confidence and a deepening love for myself as the Ant Man quickly came back with this message:
Hello,
Thanks for your response and commitment to this deal, I will assure you one more time that this deal will be handled legally and all documents to back up this deal will as well be prepared legally by a lawyer and it will be 100% risk free. Also you can call me on my personal number so we can discuss more about this deal.
Lastly your complete physical address will be needed by the lawyer for preparation of the documents needed. I will send you a copy of my ID for your perusal in my next email and will appreciate it if you can do the same because this is a huge amount coming our way so we need to build a little trust among ourselves by getting a little acquainted with ourselves. I want to give my words that with utmost privacy we can achieve our aim without further delays. Feel free to ask any questions in case you have any doubt.
Please provide the below information which is required to expedite action:
1. How old are you?
2. What is your religion and profession?
3, Can you handle such a huge amount?
4. Are you married?
5, Direct phone numbers/Fax
6. Address:I await your swift response.
Best Regards,
Antony P. Jenkins
+44 7883187215
“Bugger,” I thought with some disquiet at his omission to address me warmly as S[redacted] or even as Darling! So off I went to do what all smitten lovers do – I set out to stalk my Ant Man and see if I could maybe gaze lovingly upon his countenance. AND, what did I find? He has been cheating on me. WTF?
Of course S[redacted] is a girl (lol) of direct action so she (I) fired off this reply:
Hi
Are you or are you related to this person? https://stopscamfraud.com/viewtopic.php?t=23446
Warm Love and Regards
S[redacted]. B
Willyoupleasehelpmefixmykeyboard?Thespacebarisbroken.Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.
WHAT happened next?
The Ant Man is now ghosting me – and I thought it was the start of a beautiful relationship. Damn you Ant Man and your ill gotten Millions, damn you and those sexy calculator fingers, damn your accountant glasses, thinning hair and spreading rear – you HAVE NO IDEA how good I could have been for you!
My girlfriend tells me that I should have sent him the following information rather:
- Old Enough
- I own a brewery and lap dance in my spare time
- I am experienced enough to handle LARGE stuff
- Single and ready to mingle
- Let’s keep the mystery going a bit longer shall we?
- Whatever takes your fancy – A Dress, Slacks, Skinny Jeans, Lingerie, the Emperors New Clothes, you name it.
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