New scams coming out of Asia

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welsh

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It used to be that these things seemed to only come out of Africa.

Now it looks like it's becoming an Asian fad. What gives?

Anyone else getting message like this?
FROM:MR.LI LE SONG
Hang Seng Bank Ltd
Fu Shan Mansion
25 Taikoo Shing Road
Taikoo Shing Branch
Hong Kong.
Private E-mail: lilesong299@netscape.net

I am Mr. Li Le Song credit officer of the Foriegn Operations Dept. of
the Hang Seng Bank Ltd,Taikoo Shing Branch.I have a obscured business suggestion 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 millions Five Hundred Thousand United state Dollars Only (USD$19,5M) in my branch. Upon maturity several notice was sent to him, even during the war early last year.

Again after the war another notification was sent and still no response came from him. We later find out that the Colonel and his family had been killed during the war in bomb blast that hit their home.After further investigation it was also discovered that Colonel Sadiq Uday 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, Nineteen millions 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 most is that according to the laws of my country at the expiration 4 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 Colonel Sadiq Uday so that you will be able to receive his funds.

WHAT IS TO BE DONE:

I want you to know that I have had everything planned out so that we shall come out successful. I have contacted an attorney that will prepare the necessary document that will back you up as the next of kin to Colonel Sadiq Uday,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 fill
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 the matter as we are going to 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 your nominated bank account the sharing atio is open for negotiation for you . Should you be interested please send me your full names and current residential address and I will prefers you to reach me on the email address below
(lilesong299@netscape.net)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.Li Le Song
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Yep. What blows is that they've started flooding the university email accounts, and the filters don't catch alot of it. For a year and a half I could go through my email and expect every message to have some meaning. Not anymore. :cry:
 
All the shit like this i get makes me wonder if the people sending it actually make ANYTHING whatsoever. Then again, there are lots of fools in this world. I saw on the news this one guy who gave money to like 24 different people claiming he just needed to pay shipping or what have you to retreive millions of pounds he had supposedly won in lotterys!
 
It's the Nigerians who are behind it, just as they always were, not anyone from Asia or Hong Kong. That stuff earns you serious jail time over here, and unlike those crazy Carribean and African banks, Asian banks are affilated to the Citibank Group, Standard Chartered and other European/American banks.
 
Exitium said:
It's the Nigerians who are behind it, just as they always were, not anyone from Asia or Hong Kong. That stuff earns you serious jail time over here, and unlike those crazy Carribean and African banks, Asian banks are affilated to the Citibank Group, Standard Chartered and other European/American banks.
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Right.

Mohrg :twisted:
 
That address is completely false, too. Districts in Hong Kong have English names, like Victoria.

"Taikoo Shing" doesn't even sound like Cantonese.
 
Looks like it is just another refinement of the scam by adding another layer of lies to it. I suppose they have to keep it fresh after all the warnings.
 
I can't count the number of these types of emails that i've received over the years. It's such an obvious lie.. does anyone actually fall for this shit?

These things really piss me off. Spam in general is a pain in the as* but these things are getting ridiculous.

I read on one of my computer news resources that spammers have begun to infect ISP's mail servers with some sort of malware that causes their mail servers to mass mail spam. This makes it hard for spam filtering programs to block these messages since they appear to be coming from a valid ISP.

That's close to how it went anyway, it was awhile ago that i read it.
 
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