Investment opportunity....Way off topic
shadowcat
Atlanta suburb
Dear Friend I am Mr Vincent Hong Non Executive Director of Hang Seng Bank Ltd, Hong Kong. An Iraqi named Haider Hanoon,a business man made a numbered fixed deposit of Forty Four million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only in my branch. Upon maturity several notice was sent to him, even during the war, Five years ago (2005). Again after the war another notification was sent and still no response came from him. We later found out that Haider Hanoon and his family had been killed during the war in Gunfire that hit their home at Mukaradeeb where his personal oil-well was. After further investigation it was also discovered that Haider Hanoon 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 is that according to the laws of my country at the expiration seven years six months the funds will revert to the ownership of the Hong Kong Government if nobody applies to claim the funds. I want to assure you that this project is real, and one hundred percent risk free and does not relate to any breach of law or proceeds from drugs. It is a matter of necessity to contact you for assistance without any further investigations about your person, it is therefore necessary that you tell me a little about yourself, I hope no form of betrayal will be experienced in the course of our collaboration, I must give you my trust because this transaction is no joke and such opportunity comes once in a life time. My proposal to you is that I prepared to front you as the sole beneficiary of my deceased client so that i can instruct HANG SENG BANK to release the deposit to you as the closest surviving relation or business partner. Upon receipt of the deposit, I am prepared to share the money with you in half 50/50 percentage. If interested do send me your full names, current home address, phone number, your occupation to this email account: [email protected] Your earliest reply will be appreciated. Yours Truly,Mr Vincent Hong,Non Executive Director,Hang Seng Bank Ltd, Hong Kong.Email: [email protected]
Any body else get an offer like this?
Any body else get an offer like this?
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I see some version of this scam often and I get a kick out of the bad grammar and implausible stories. What I don't understand is how anyone could actually fall for this kind of scam - but people DO get taken in.
If you want to play with these crooks, get a dead end email address and use an internet cafe (they do) to avoid getting tracked back to your IP, then enjoy telling them all kinds of false info!
One time I actually had one guy keep trying-he was buying my Stoopid thing, but he was having trouble finding it. Finally, I asked for some pictures of his preteen daughter. He actually wrote back, asking what kind of pictures. When I told him, he finally got the clue.
I use an account number like 000006969
The guys who fall for these scams are probably the same guys who are regulars to places like Cheeks and Diamond's Cabaret in Dayton.
I got an email from a girl from a website where I had no pic and almost no information on me. Her pic looked hot and she said she wanted to have sex with every guy in the state who was on the site. That's the kind of scam that gets my attention but I ignored it. Mysteriously to check out her profile, I would have to pay the site to upgrade my membership. Sounds like a setup to me. To further confirm my suspicions I got a number of other emails from hot girls from the same free website and all I had to do would be to upgrade my membership to read their emails and view their profiles. Never had so many hot girls send me messages wanting to contact me with not even a pic or any information on me on the free site. I think it was free to join but it cost something to actually use it. Scams are everywhere.