Jordan
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Awesome Spam Email...FROM: Lee Raymond Wing Hung,
Bank of China, Hong Kong
Email:rayhung56
I am Mr. Lee Raymond Wing Hung, Chief Financial Officer, Bank of China, Tower Branch, 1 Garden Road Hong Kong. I have an obscure business proposal for you. Before the U.S and Iraqi war, our client Aajel Jaber Hassef a Merchant made a numbered fixed deposit valued at Twenty Four million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars, for 18 calendar months, in my branch. Upon maturity several notices were sent to him, even during the war which began in 2003. Again, after the war another notification was sent, but still no response came from him. We later found out that my client, his wife and two sons had been killed during the war;
*insert false web address*
After further investigation, it was also discovered that Aajel Jaber Hassef did not declare any next of kin in his official papers, including the paperwork of his bank deposit. 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 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 of 3 years and 6 months the funds will revert to the ownership of the Hong Kong Government, if nobody applies to claim it. Against this backdrop, I will like you, as a foreigner, to stand as next of kin to Aajel Jaber Hassef, so that we can receive his funds.
WHAT IS TO BE DONE:
I want you to know that there is no risk involved. I have had everything planned out so that we shall come out successful. I have contacted an attorney who will prepare the necessary document that will back you up as the next of kin to Aajel Jaber Hassef. All that is required from you, at this stage is for you to provide me with your Full Names, private phone/fax and current residential address, so that the attorney can commence his job. After you have been made the next of kin, the attorney will also file for claims on your behalf and secure the necessary approval and letter of probate in your favour for the move of the funds to an account that will be provided by you. Please endeavour to observe utmost discretion in all matters concerning this issue. Should you be interested I shall provide you with more details on this operation. You can reach me with the email below.
rayhung56@something
Your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated.
Kind Regards,
Lee Raymond Wing Hung.
So, am I gonna be very rich or very poor if I respond?  I found that in my junk mail on my hotmail account. I guess it makes a change from it being from Africa. Strangely though, I just bought something (very very cheap) from ebay from someone in China so...
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Jordan
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| Mumsytype wrote: | | Yet there must be SOME responses or they wouldn't bother continuing, surely? |
Indeed there are responses. It was mentioned on Watchdog a couple of months ago. Greed & Gullibility. Bless the poor fools. Whilst one should never look a gift horse in the mouth, a fool and his money are soon parted and of course if it looks too good to be true, it usually is!
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opheliarose
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What's worse, where I work, we get a LOT of requests from people in Nigeria and Ghana (and other developing countries) who REALLY want to come volunteer their time with us, if only we'd pay their expenses and most importantly, send them an invitation letter for their visa.
What really cracks me up is when they list their address as something like "Sidewalk in front of intersection by phone booth on such-and-such street..."
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Maid Marian
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I've just found three of these in my Gmail inbox.
Ah, 491 scam, how we love thee.
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katethegreat
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| Mumsytype wrote: | Ah so... email harvesting as the true purpose behind selling stuff on eBay... the old Nigerian scam, still going? I remember when that was fax-based and snowing all the solicitors' offices in London!
What puzzles me is that ANYONE with the basic intelligence required to operate a computer and internet connection might be greedy and stupid enough to respond to one of these things. Yet there must be SOME responses or they wouldn't bother continuing, surely? |
What's the Nigerian scam? Looks like I've been lucky enough not to come across any of this.
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Pounce
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| katethegreat wrote: | | Mumsytype wrote: | Ah so... email harvesting as the true purpose behind selling stuff on eBay... the old Nigerian scam, still going? I remember when that was fax-based and snowing all the solicitors' offices in London!
What puzzles me is that ANYONE with the basic intelligence required to operate a computer and internet connection might be greedy and stupid enough to respond to one of these things. Yet there must be SOME responses or they wouldn't bother continuing, surely? |
What's the Nigerian scam? Looks like I've been lucky enough not to come across any of this. |
Basically, any variation of the type of letter GayBoy received. I'm surprised you haven't received one yet. Apparently deceased people are carelessly leaving millions and millions in bank accounts around the world and unscrupulous people who don't even know your name are willing to share some of it with you.
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Jordan
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You should check your junk email box a little more carefully. I can't believe you haven't had one.
However, I bet you've had an email on how to add up to three inches to your penis, same as I've had emails guaranteeing I can get huge breasts without surgery. 
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Nudelkopf
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A keep getting some of those type ones from the SAME BLOODY "PERSON" from "Pakistan".
Pretty much along the same lines as Gayboy's.. money.. bank.. random thing.. bank.. reference number.. lol.
The strangest email (i don't think it was spam, just mistaken email address) was from an English man saying he was the guy who sat next to me at the AIDS conference in London the previous month, and he finally got my email address. He wanted a copy of the pamphlet I'd taken along. YEs.. I replied.. He replied, sounded rather embarrassed. Oh, and I magically turned into a 25year old man who lives in England.. 
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Mademoiselle Lanoire
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I doubt your email was actually from China. Go to whois.com and enter in the IP of the sender. 9 times out of 10 it'll be from Nigeria. (Though there are cases of similar scams being run out of other countries, such as South Africa or India.)
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katethegreat
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I probably have received a few of these - but I tend to just delete stuff from my junk mail box without reading it. I still find it amusing when I get told in the title how I can show her 'what a MAN I am' by adding a few extra inches
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Jordan
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| katethegreat wrote: | | I probably have received a few of these - but I tend to just delete stuff from my junk mail box without reading it. I still find it amusing when I get told in the title how I can show her 'what a MAN I am' by adding a few extra inches |
You mean you don't wanna add inches to your penis? See the upsetting thing about this is that men can quite easily get moobs, women still cannot (without very extensive surgery) get a penis. If that happens, in the majority of cases, we tend to stop referring to them as women. 
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katethegreat
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| GayBoy wrote: | | katethegreat wrote: | | I probably have received a few of these - but I tend to just delete stuff from my junk mail box without reading it. I still find it amusing when I get told in the title how I can show her 'what a MAN I am' by adding a few extra inches |
You mean you don't wanna add inches to your penis? See the upsetting thing about this is that men can quite easily get moobs, women still cannot (without very extensive surgery) get a penis. If that happens, in the majority of cases, we tend to stop referring to them as women. |
Ah, y'see - I've thought about it, but I thought it would look a bit weird in my swimsuit next time I go on holiday
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Jordan
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I got one today from the Irish Lottery telling me I'd won. How very peculiar that the Irish Lottery person who sent me the email had a yahoo email address instead of name@eirelottery (or whatever it is).
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