These scams (and many more that end up being the same scam)
are designed for one purpose - to use your "greed" to get you to
divulge your private bank account information - and then they steal your
money! In the "old" days we used to get these occasionally by mail or
fax, now they come in droves via the internet.
When you get an e-mail that looks like these, stop reading and delete them!
The e-mails will start something like this:
Greetings,
I am Dr. Lile Song, credit officer of the foreign operations dept. of the Hang
Seng Bank Ltd, Taikoo Shing Branch. I have a obscured business proposal for you.
Before the U.S and Iraqi war our client Colonel Sadiq Uday who was with the
Iraqi forces and also business man made a numbered fixed deposit for 18 calendar
months, with a value of Nineteen million Five Hundred Thousand United State
Dollars only in my branch.
Dear Respectable one,
It is my pleasure to write you regardless of the fact that we do not know
each other in person With warm heart I offer my friendship, and my greetings,
and I hope this letter meets you in good time. It will be surprising to
you to receive this proposal from me since you do not know me personally.
However, I am sincerely seeking your confidence in this transaction, which
I propose with my free mind and as a person of integrity.
HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL
I know that this message will come to you as a surprise
since we do not know each other before, but for
purpose of introduction, I am Mr.Charles mlambo,an Auditor
in AMALGERMATED BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA(ABSA).There is an
account opened in this bank in 1980 and since 1990 nobody
has operated on this account again.After going through some
old files in the records, I discovered that if I do not
remit this money out urgently it would be forfeited for
nothing. The owner of this account is Mr. Smith .Andreas, a
foreigner, and a miner at Kruger gold co., a geologist by
profession and he died since 1990. No other person knows
about this account or any thing concerning it,the account
has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me
as well that his company does not know anything about this
account and the amount involved is (USD$ 24M) Twenty Four
Million United States Dollars dollars.
