Beware of this scam

Beware of this scam I received at least twice



DEAR FRIEND,

I am Mr Song Lile Executive Director of the Hang Seng Bank Ltd,Sai Wan Ho
Branch,171 Shaukiwan Road Hong Kong.

An Iraqi named Haider Hanoon,a business man made a numbered fixed deposit
of (139,513,102.50 HK) for 18 calendar months,
this is valued Seveteen million Eight Hundred and Sixty Thousand United
States Dollars only in my branch. Upon maturity several
notice 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 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, Seveteen million Eight Hundred and Sixty
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 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 procentange 50/50. 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 Haider Hanoon 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 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 the email account that i will provide therein in this
email.

Further more be informed that the fact that you are a foreigner give you
the privilege to stand in as my deceased client beneficiary
as my deceased client had no relation all his family died with him during
the war and I can not use my relation because its not
accepted here in Hong Kong. Also I am very confident that we will be able
to establish the trust that is needed to complete this
deal and all that I need from the time been is your willingness and
commitment so that we can end this in the nest one weeks.

What you need to understand about this transaction is that I will make sure
that it passes through all international banking laws
regards to this I will take care of all the expenses and the cost of
retaining the service of my Attorney to give the transaction
the proper documentation that is required to perfect the finishing. Your
only obligation in this transaction will be to set up two
offshore accounts that can accommodate these funds and I will give you more
light later once you agree to partner with me.

Like I said before there is no risk involve as it will pass through
international banking laws and all documents related to this transaction
will be sent to you by post for your perusal and trust.

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 I will prefer you to reach me on the email
address below.
Your earliest response to this
letter will be appreciated.

I await your response.

Mr Song Lile.
songlileprivate11

Funny, I received the same email. I assumed it was a scam.

There are similar scams called Nigerian 419 scams, sent be email, promising to send you Millions of dollars. Many of these scams are from Nigerian, hence the name. They all have elaborate stories to make you feel sorry for them and to play on peoples greed. Once you agree, they hit you up with a small fee, for the processing or to send it or some other pretext. Why the heck would some stranger entrust you with millions of dollars? They are obviously scams, but people do fall for them. I read of a hollywood star who got bilked for millions, don't ask me how they pulled that one off.

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See also Financial Fraud Schemes: http://www.worldlawdirect.com/article/1090