Legal Question in Banking Law in United Kingdom

Re: Gentleman seeking help to invest inheritance in UK

Although it might disappoint you, the number of sons, cousins, businessmen, chiefs and relatives of warlords from African countries that seem to be around wanting to give people a share of between 20 and 40% of certain sums of money that came into their hands on the most incredible of ways is quite astonishing.

In particular lawyers are rather frequently the recipients of such requests and, as far as I know, all of those have been a sham. This does not necessarily mean that this is the case here as well but let's face it: it's rather likely.

My recommendation would therefore be to simply ignore it.

Common sense would probably tell you the same: since when is Britain a country that would make it overly cumbersome to willing investors to bring much needed funds to the country? Wouldn't you normally go through a recognised bank (in particular for larger amounts of money, their private-client units are rather helpful)? When you look at it this way, it sounds rather fishy, doesn't it?

Sincerely,

Volker Hirsch