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How should I respond to this letter?

Postby magikthrill » Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:55 pm

Hey guys i got one of this statement letters. Here its is below:


Dear Friend,

Let me start by introducing myself I am Mr.Cheung Pui,with Hang Seng
Bank Ltd here in HongKong.I have a concealed business proposition for
you.I humbly beg to crave your indulgence regards to this letter please
endeavour to observe utmost discretion in all matters concerning this
issue and my respect to you.Before the U S and Iraqi war, a client of ours
Major Fadi Basem who was with the Iraqi forces and also business man
made a numbered fixed deposit for 18 calendar months,with a value of
Twenty Four millions,Five Hundred Thousand United State dollars in a
domiciliary account in my branch. Upon maturity several notice was sent to
him without response, after the war another notification was sent to him
and still no response came from him. We later find out that the Major
and his family had been killed by Iraqi insurgents.

After further investigation my bank authorities discovered that Major
Fadi Basem did not declare any next of kin or beneficiary in his
official papers including the paper work of his bank deposit,and by virtue of
my position as his account officer this development was brought to my
notice, and as a civil servant and staff of the Bank,I cannot acquire
this funds in my name this is because as top civil servant I am not
allowed by law of the land to own or operate bank accounts outside this
country. What bothers me most is that according to the the laws of my
country at the expiration of 4 years the funds will revert to the ownership
of the Hong Kong Government if nobody applies to claim the funds, my
bank have agreed to invoke a clause in the property Act,to have the funds
confiscated at the expiration of the period by virtue of the property
Act,my suggestion to you is that I will like to front you a foreigner to
stand in as the beneficiary of the funds so that you will be able to
receive this funds based on the claims that will be instituted before the
Bank authorities through the Attorney that I will contact that the
deceased{Fadi Basem} before his death left a third party agreement in
respect to a beneficiary which will be the basis of motion that will be
moved by the Attorney with envidences of authority to lay claims to the
funds by seeking the interpretation of the law of inheritance in this
respect,I contacted you based on this facts before me which I will make
available to you in the course of this operation,by virtue of my
closeness to the deceased before his demise,against this backdrop I seek your
consent to present you as the beneficiary before the bank
Authorities.The bank only needs the facts as presented legally{take note} the rest is
between you and me,and with my guide we can have the funds established
in any of the secured bank account any where in the world, I want you
to know that I will carry out all planning professionally to make sure
we come out successful,I understands how you will feel by this, I
gurantee you that there will be no breach of the law as we are going adopt a
legalized method in all dealings and transactions.

WHAT IS TO BE DONE:

I will contact an Attorney that shall assemble all necessary documents
legally that will be used to back up this claim before the bank all I
require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction
through I guarantee you that every transaction will be done in accordance
to banking regulations that will protect you from any Breach of law.If
you give me positive signals,I will initiate this process towards a
conclusion.Firstly,my conviction of your transparency secondly,that you
treat this transaction with utmost secrecy and confidentiality.

Finally all that i required from you at this stage is for you to
provide me with your full names and current residential address so that I
can have them filed and presented to the Attorney that will be taking up
this job. After successfully establishing you as the beneficiary, the
attorney will also fill in for claims in your behalf and secure the
necessary approval of the funds and letter of probate in your favor
eventually we meet all perequisite required from us by the bank authorities as
it's conforms with HongKong inheritance laws,the process is rigorous
and beauracratic.

Regards to this transaction I wish to relate to you with smack of
unethical practice and to make you understand something,it is only an
outsider to the banking world who finds the internal politics of the
banking industry abberrational,I would respectfully request that you keep
the contents of this mail private and also to kindly respect the
integrity of the informations you come by as a result of this mail no one is
informed of this communication, it became imperative to act at this time
I want to you to know, I am not a criminal and this move I do not find
against good conscience I beg to crave your indulgence that you see
reason and understand with me I encourage you to be strong and courageous
I am a seasoned banker and I know how best to manage the system.


Once again send me your full names and current Home address and I will
prefers you to reach me on the email address
below{[email protected]}and finally after that I shall provide you with
more details of this operation. Once this is done we shall both share
in manner of mutual agreement between us.

I am looking forward doing business with you.


I await you response and Assurance.

Yours Sincerely,
Cheung


Can anyone think of a good way to get chatting with this guy?
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Postby Turkey (( * » Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:57 pm

If I understand fully, it came with e-mail. If I were you, I would not answer it and just erase it since these e-mails are usually a tactic of ripping off money from people.
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Postby cannedmoose » Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:59 pm

I get about 5 of these every week, best thing to do is ignore and delete them. If you respond, your email address will be sent to other pranksters like this.
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Postby demetriou_74 » Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:59 pm

hoping you know that its a fake and u want a laugh. just say that you would like to carry on with this opertunity and then say that you know somebody who works in that bank. (find it online and give the name of a senior person) then just keep telling lies. also get him to do things for you. there was a whole site about 'terrorising' these pople. it was on another thread.
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Postby petethegreek » Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:01 pm

Put it in da bin and forget about it. The only person geting rich from this is da other guy.
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Postby magikthrill » Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:02 pm

yeah i remember that thread thats why i was asking. im thinking of joking around with this person in a similar fashion.
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Postby petethegreek » Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:05 pm

Not a bad idea but make sure u dont give any "real" :wink: banking details to this bloke. Keep us updated at this post if ya gonna mess about with him.
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Postby demetriou_74 » Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:05 pm

if you got the orexi go 4 it
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Postby Michael Coumas » Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:19 pm

Mr magikthrill
Please beware, Hang seng bank never has and never would send out an email such as this as you obviously know. The financial authorities in Hong Kong would be interested in the matter presumably to ensure it is not coming from anyone within the bank. (You may find its origins are West African). Hang Seng is owned by HSBC & if you see fit you can contact the Banks people on Hong Kong 2822-0228 (Double check all this with whatever web sites are available) Beware of contacting the sender in order not to make your computer identifiable. I know the temptation is there to play along but these people are not only crooks they are not too forgiving either.
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Postby magikthrill » Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:24 pm

thank mr. coumas i will take your opinion into consideration. as demetriou said i dont really have the oreksi though anyway.
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