Advance Fee Frauds and Email Scams
Major Fadi Basem of Iraq (2006)
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From: Peter Wong peter_wong2006@hatespeople.com
Reply-To: peter_wong_dop2006@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Sep 4, 2006 9:08 PM
Subject: KIND REGARDS FROM MR.PETER WONG.
From: Mr. Peter Wong.
Hang Seng Bank Ltd
17 Des Voeux Road, HQ Branch.
Hong Kong.
Private Email: peter_wong_dop2006@yahoo.com.hk
Hello,
I sincerely ask for your forgiveness for I know this may seem like a complete intrusion to your privacy but right about now this is my only option of communication. This mail might come to you as a surprise and the temptation to ignore it as unserious could come into your mind; but please consider it a divine wish and accept it with a deep sense of humility. I am Mr. Peter Wong, Director of Operations of the Hang Seng Bank Ltd. I have an obscured business suggestion for you.
Before the U.S and Iraqi war our client Major Fadi Basem who was with the Iraqi forces and also business man made a numbered fixed deposit for 18 calendar months, with a value of USD24.5M (Twenty Four million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only) in my branch. Upon maturity several notice was sent to him, even during the war and early this year. Again after the war another notification was sent and still no response came from him. We later find out that the Major and his family had been killed during the war in bomb blast that hit their home.
After further investigation it was also discovered that Major Fadi Basem 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, US$24.5M 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 3 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 Major Fadi Basem 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 Major Fadi Basem, all that is required from you at this stage is for you to provide me with your Full Names & 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 will be adopting 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 we shall share in the ratio of 60% for me, 40% for you.
Should you be interested, please send me your full names, private phone/fax and current residential address, and I will prefer you to reach me on my private email :peter_wong_dop2006@yahoo.com.hk 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. Peter Wong.
