Dear Mr. Gates:

 

 

 

 

 

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Date:  Wed, 25 April 2007  11:00 WesternIndonesiaTime

Subject:  Inspiring Barclays Bid on ABN Amro

 

 

 

Barclays Bank Chief Executive John Varley (L) shake hands with ABN-AMRO's Chairman of the Managing Board Rijkman Groenink before giving a news conference in Amsterdam April 23, 2007.

(Jerry Lampen/Reuters)
Reuters - Mon Apr 23, 1:57 PM ET

 

The logo of Barclays bank is seen at a branch in central London April 20, 2007. British bank Barclays Plc has agreed to buy Dutch rival ABN AMRO for just over 67 billion euros ($91.1 billion) as it seeks to head off rivals to clinch the world's biggest ever bank takeover. Barclays said on April 23, 2007 it would pay 3.225 new shares for each ABN AMRO share, equivalent to 36.25 euros a share at Friday's closing price, to create a banking giant with 47 million customers and the world's biggest institutional asset manager. Picture taken London April 20, 2007. REUTERS/Toby Melville (BRITAIN) Reuters - Mon Apr 23, 4:27 AM ET

 

 

 

The chief executive officer of the Dutch bank ABN Amro, Rijkman Groenink (L), and the head of the British bank Barclays, John Varley, arrive for a press conference at ABN Amro headquarters in Amsterdam. Barclays has agreed to buy rival ABN Amro for 67 billion euros, creating Europe's second-largest bank and the fifth worldwide, shedding thousands of jobs.

(AFP/ANP/Marcel Antonisse)
AFP/ANP - Mon Apr 23, 1:36 PM ET

 

Barclays Bank Chief Executive John Varley (L) and ABN-AMRO's Chairman of the Managing Board Rijkman Groenink answers questions from the media during a news conference in Amsterdam April 23, 2007. British bank Barclays Plc has agreed to buy Dutch rival ABN AMRO for just over 67 billion euros ($91.1 billion) as it seeks to head off rivals to clinch the world's biggest ever bank takeover.

REUTERS/Jerry Lampen (NETHERLANDS)
Reuters - Mon Apr 23, 4:34 AM ET

 

 

 

Previously I only went on bicycle to the Internet shop, approximately 3 miles away from the house where I live. Or a little further away to a new branch of BCA bank, around 3 and a half miles away.

On Saturday 17 March 2007, for the first time I rode the bicycle to Cinere Mall, approximately 6 miles away. In front of the Mall, there are some two or three stories shop houses consisting of restaurants, laundries, bakeries, small stationery shop, and some banks. The banks are Bank Lippo, Bank Mega, Bank Danamon, Bank BCA, Bank Mandiri, Bank BNI.

In the evening when I was at home again, there was the news ticker about Barclays bank interested in the bid on ABN Amro bank. A few weeks later the merger took place, and it was then I knew that ABN-AMRO's Chairman of the Managing Board name is Rijkman Groenink. His first name Rijkman is like the combinaton of Paris Hilton's father Ricky Hilton, and my name Firman. As if the merger of Barclays Bank and ABN Amro Bank was inspired by my first time riding bicycle far away to the Mall, across the street of some banks, and the combination of my name and Paris father's name. And it was the world's biggest ever bank takeover. Hmmmm,........... I thank God for obtaining this rare experience in my life.

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

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Date:  Wed, 25 April 2007  11:22 WesternIndonesiaTime

Subject:  E-mails of Lottery Prize from UK Lottery and Barclays Bank

 

 

 

A pedestrian walks through the rain past a branch of Barclays Bank in west London April 4. 2000. Barclays Plc has approached Dutch bank ABN AMRO with a merger plan that would create a global bank worth 80 billion pounds ($155 billion), UK newspapers reported on Sunday.

(Dylan Martinez/Reuters)
Reuters - Sun Mar 18, 11:17 AM ET

 

The ABN Amro logo on display in Amsterdam. ABN Amro which is in exclusive talks with Britain's Barclays Bank about a takeover deal on Friday confirmed press reports that Bank of Scotland together with Fortis and Banco Santander also approached the Dutch bank about a possible acquisition.

(AFP/ANP/File/Rick Nederstigt)
AFP/ANP/File - Fri Apr 13, 4:42 PM ET

 

 

 

The news ticker at CNN: "Barclays seeking approval on ABN bid."

 

The news ticker at CNN: "Bank of England keeps interest rate....."

 

 

 

The news ticker at CNN: "Indonesia holds key interest rate....."

 

A selection of leaflets from Barclays bank. British bank Barclays outlined specific plans Tuesday for a merger with Dutch peer ABN Amro, but stopped short of announcing a formal takeover offer for the company.

(AFP/File/Leon Neal)
AFP/File - Mon Apr 9, 10:59 AM ET

 

 

 

The interesting thing was that around the days of Barclays interest in the bid on ABN Amro bank, I received an e-mail from Dr. Richard Allen Matlock, UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE SWEEPSTAKES, 12 Bridge Street, Staines Middlesex TW18 4TP, United Kingdom, informing me that I won the lottery prize of 250,000 pound sterling. He said my e-mail was randomly selected with other e-mails to participate in the lottery, and I won.

Of course I could not immediately believe in such e-mail. Yet I would like to know what he would do further, so I kept replying the e-mails. He then told me that the check of my winning prize has been deposited at Barclays Bank with Mrs. Kathy Tom, in Regent Street branch.

The following correspondences with Mrs. Kathy Tom also became interesting because I was still uncertain about whether she is really from Barclays Bank, yet some of her e-mails like related with the news at CNN news ticker. For example, when there was the news of Barclays Bank waiting for approval to continue the bid of ABN Amro bank, the e-mail of Mrs. Kathy Tom also has the subject with the word 'approval': "APPROVAL OF BANK TRANSFER DETAIL/PAYMENT OF COT CHARGES".

And when my reply asking her to use the bank's money for the charge of transfer that later on "......I would pay it back as soon as I get the prize, even with daily interest rate is allright for me......", it was then followed by a news ticker at CNN about Bank of England interest rate and Indonesian Central Bank interest rate. It made my trust on the originality of the prize going fluctuatively, sometimes higher sometime so low.

Yet when later on they kept asking me to pay the charge of transfer, I have no choice than to write to London police, asking for the originality for the lottery certificates. Also, since Dr. Richard Allen Matlock later on sent me a document from British Court asking me to sign and sent it back to him, I wrote to the Judiciary of England and Wales. The reply was that the originality of document sent by Dr. Richard Allen Matlock could not be confirmed, especially since the logo of British Crown Court looks unfamiliar.

 

 

 

 


 

 

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Date:  Wed, 25 April 2007  11:38 WesternIndonesiaTime

Subject:  Pound Sterling Reach Highest Value on US Dollar

 

 

 

A commemorative five-pound coin and banknote. Sterling rose sharply against the dollar after a stronger-than-expected housing survey increased the likelihood that the Bank of England (BoE) will be forced to hike interest rates to curb rising inflation.

(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)
AFP/File - Mon Mar 26, 12:23 PM ET

 

A one dollar chrome printing plate. Sterling has climbed above two dollars for the first time in 14 years after data showed British annual inflation breached the 3 percent barrier in March.

(AFP/File/Shawn Thew)
AFP/File - Tue Apr 17, 5:58 AM ET

 

 

Another interesting thing was that during my correspondences with so called Mrs. Kathy Tom from Barclays Bank, for the first time in 14 years the British pound sterling reaches highest value on US Dollar, one GBP equal to 2 US Dollar. But of course it means nothing to me unless I really received the so called lottery prize deposited at Barclays bank.

 

 

 

 

 


 

 


 

 

Thank's,

A.M. Firmansyah

[email protected]

Tel. +62812 183 1538

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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