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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
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From: "poon offical" <poons12@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:35:41 +0000
Subject: JOB OFFERS!!!
DEAR FRIEND,
I am Mr.Joseph Poon Executive Director Of Operations of the Hang Seng
Bank Ltd,Sai Wan Ho Branch,171 Shaukiwan Road Hong Kong.
A Briton named Rimell, Ian a business man made a numbered fixed deposit
of (346,736,899.68 HKD) for 18 calendar months; this is valued to Forty
Four million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only in my branch.
Upon maturity several notices was sent to him, even during the war, three
years ago (2003). Again after the war another notification was sent and
still
no response came from him. We later found out that Rimell, Ian had been
killed during the war in a Small arms fire attackthat hit him at
mosul,Iraq:http://icasualties.org/oif/Civ.aspx
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hereford/worcs/3084454.stm
After further investigation it was also discovered that Rimell, Ian did
not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work
of his bank deposit. And he also confided in me the last time he was at my
office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank. So, Forty
Four million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars is still lying in my
bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me most is
that according to the laws of my country at the expiration five years six
months the funds will revert to the ownership of the Hong Kong Government if
nobody applies to claim the funds.My proposal, I am prepared to place you as
the next of kin in a
position to instruct HANG SENG 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
FIFTY - FIFTY. I would have gone ahead to ask the funds be released to me,
but that
would have drawn a straight line in 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 Rimell, Ian I will then officially communicate with my Bank
and instruct them to release the deposit to you. With these: all is done. I
am aware of the consequences of this proposal. I ask that if you find no
interest in this project that you should discard this mail. I ask that you
should 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 myself 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 find 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 wont' 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 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. Lets' share the blessing.
If you give me positive signals, I will initiate this process towards a
conclusion. I wish to inform you that should you 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 the
numbers I will provide for you and also through this email address:
josephylegal@yahoo.co.uk 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 instruction religiously.
Please, again, note I am a family man, I have 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, we should plan a meeting, soon.Should you be
interested please send me your full names, Phone Number and current
residential address and I will prefer you to reach me on the
email address below.
E-mail:josephylegal@yahoo.co.uk
and finally after that I shall provide you with more details of this
operation.
Your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated.
I await your response.
Mr.JOSEPH POON
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