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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 jo" <need_poon105@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 02:22:12 -0800
Subject: DEAR FRIEND A PROPOSAL
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.An Iraqi named
Hamadi Hashem 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, four years ago (2003). Again after the war another notification
was sent and still no response came from him. We later found out that
Hamadi Hashem and his family had been killed during the war in bomb blast
that hit their home at Mukaradeeb where his personal oil well was located.
After further investigation it was also discovered that Hamadi Hashem
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 Hamadi Hashem 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 do not be vindictive and destructive. If my offer is of no
appeal to you, delete this message and forget 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: joseph_poon85@yahoo.com.hk
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 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, we should plan meeting,or start communicating as soon as
possible.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: joseph_poon85@yahoo.com.hk
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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