The other day, I received yet another scam e-mail. It arrived via my AR contact address. This latest e-mail was worthy of a Shakespearean drama.
The protagonist's mother dies, when she is only 6 years old. She is lovingly raised by her father. Her father, a successful businessman, travels abroad, on a business trip, with his uncle. While on that trip, he is murdered, the result of a sinister plot that the uncle has master-minded.
Before he succumbs, the father manages to summon his secretary and reveal to him that he has stashed away $15.7 million. It is in a (security?) box at a leading African Security company. He instructs the secretary to deposit the funds in his beloved daughter's name. He then scratches out implicit instructions, to his lawyer. He takes his last breath, and dies. CURTAIN...end of ACT I
The daughter, an innocent University student, is now an orphan and homeless. She is totally on her own. She does not know who to turn to, for help. Whom can she trust, who will advise her, who will take care of her, where can she live? She is depressed and disheartened.
A light dawns. She knows what to do. She will scan the members of ActiveRain. After all, who is more trustworthy than a REALTOR®? The funds are unimportant. She will give this person whatever percentage of the money, he wants. She rushes to her computer to find her victim saviour. CURTAIN...end of ACT II
ACT III
If anyone is foolish enough to fall for this plot, he (she) will divulge all of his personal information, in order to transfer the funds. He will end up losing his identity and everything he owns.
After all...it is a Shakespearean tragedy.
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LOL. This is the one I got earlier this week:
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Good Day,
Let me start by introducing myself. I am Mr. Patrick K.W. Chan (Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer) of the Hang Seng Bank Ltd. I have an obscured business suggestion for you.
Before the U.S and Iraqi war our client Gen. Abbas Radhi Ismail who was with the Iraqi forces and also businessman made a numbered fixed deposit for 18 calendar months, with a value of (Twenty Four million Five Hundred Thousand United State
Dollars only) in my branch. Upon maturity several notices was sent to him, even during the war which began in 2003. Again after the war has subsided, another notification was sent and still no response came from him. We later find out that the General along with his wife and only daughter had been killed during the war in a bomb blast that hit their home.
After further investigation it was also discovered that Gen. Abbas Radhi Ismail 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, Twenty Four million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars is still lying in my bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me most is that according to the laws of my country at the expiration of 5 years the funds will revert to the ownership of the Hong Kong Government if nobody applies to claim the funds.
Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Gen. Abbas Radhi Ismail so that you will be able to receive his funds.
MODALITIES:
I want you to know that I have had everything planned out so that we shall come out successful. I have an attorney that will prepare the necessary document that will back you up as the next of kin to Gen. Abbas Radhi Ismail, all that is required from you at this stage is for you to provide me with your Full Names and Address so that the attorney can commence his job. After you have been made the next of kin, the attorney will also file in for claims on your behalf and secure the necessary approval and letter of probate in your favor for the move of the funds to an account that will be provided by you.
There is no risk involved at all in this matter, as we are going adopt a legalized method and the attorney will prepare all the necessary documents. Please endeavor to observe utmost discretion in all matters concerning this issue.
Once the funds have been transferred to a nominated bank account we shall then share in the ratio of 70% for me, 30% for you. Should you be interested please send me the following:
1. Full names
2. Private phone/fax
3. Current residential address
and I will prefer you reach me on my private email address below and finally after that I shall provide you with more details of this operation.
Your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated.
Kind Regards
Mr. Patrick Chan.
E-mail: chanw117@yahoo.com.hk
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