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sarettah
02-21-2003, 09:51 AM
----- Original Message -----
From: MR YONG WOO yongwoo@epatra.com
To:
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 5:00 PM
Subject: URGENT ASSISTANCE


FROM THE DESK OF

MR. YONG WOO
CHINATRUST COMMERCIAL BANK.
NAN KAN BRANCH, TAIWAN
REPUBLIC OF CHINA

I am Mr. Yong Woo, Bank Manager of Chinatrust Commercial Bank, Nan Kan branch, Taiwan, R.O.C. I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you.

On June 6, 1998, a British Oil consultant/contractor with the Chinese Solid Minerals Corporation, Mr. Smith Lawrence made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at US$30,000,000.00 (Thirty Million Dollars) in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, the Chinese Solid Minerals Corporation that Mr. Smith Lawrence died from an automobile accident. On further investigation, I found out that he died without making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless.

I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr. Smith Lawrence did not declare any kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank. This sum of US$30,000,000.00 is still sitting in my Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will ever come forward to claim it. According to Laws of Republic of China, at the expiration of 5 (five) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the Chinese Government if nobody applies to claim the fund.

Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to Mr. Smith Lawrence so that the fruits of this old man's labor will not get into the hands of some corrupt government officials. This is simple, I will like you to provide immediately your full names and address so that the attorney will prepare the necessary documents and affidavits that will put you in place as the next of kin. We shall employ the services of an attorney for drafting and notarization of the WILL and to obtain the necessary documents and letter of probate/administration in your favor for the transfer. A bank account in any part of the world that you will provide will then facilitate the transfer of this money to you as the beneficiary/next of kin. The money will be paid into your account for us to share in the ratio of 90% for me and 10% for you.

There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this transaction will be done by the attorney and my position as the Branch Manager guarantees the successful execution of this transaction. If you are interested, please reply immediately via the private email address above. Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details and relevant documents that will help you understand the transaction. Please send me your confidential telephone and fax numbers for easy communication.

Please observe utmost confidentiality, and rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your country.

Awaiting your urgent reply via my email address.

Thanks and regards.

Mr. Yong Woo.

************************************************** ******

lololol... aren't I the lucky one....

At lease this one isn't from South Africa....

:yowsa:


Just noticed that the "replyto" address is different than the addy it was sent from...

The replyto addy is: woo2003@ecplaza.net

edited to get the email addy to show and to add the replyto address



Last edited by sarettah at Feb 21 2003, 10:03 AM

originalheather
02-21-2003, 10:09 AM
Hehehe...I get those from Africa all the time.

One has to wonder just how many people fall for those things. It's scary, but if they didn't work, they wouldn't still be sending them after 4 years or so.

sarettah
02-21-2003, 10:47 AM
Originally posted by originalheather@Feb 21 2003, 10:17 AM
Hehehe...I get those from Africa all the time.

One has to wonder just how many people fall for those things. It's scary, but if they didn't work, they wouldn't still be sending them after 4 years or so.
4 Years ??

I saw the first one of those type of letters back in about 1987. My boss received it snailmail and brought it by my desk to see if I wanted to get rich real quick...lol

So, the scam has been around quite a while, it just moved from conventional means to electronic means.....

Jeremy-RR
02-21-2003, 11:01 AM
LOL - over here it's known as the Nigerian 419 scam and I think for us it started with fax machines and snail mail.....

Still, people fall for it:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29410.html

I've also seen something which reckons that every day there is at least 1 person waiting in one of London's hotels to meet their contact bringing them a suitcase full of cash. They tend to wait quite a while....

sarettah
02-21-2003, 07:08 PM
Speaking of the Nigerian 419......

Someone got killed over it (http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,57760,00.html)

slavdogg
02-21-2003, 08:06 PM
there is always a solutions to every problem :)

http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,57760,00.html

sarah_webinc
02-22-2003, 10:21 AM
i've had that from just about every continent. I am half expecting one from a penquin family on antartica.