An Email with the Subject "Urgent From Bank of China {Reply Now} !!!" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:04:07 -0800 and has been classified as a Advance Fee Fraud/419 Scam Email. The sender shows as "BANK OF CHINA"<info@ikobo.com>.
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I am Mr. Chen Guan, financial director, Bank of China. Our Client, Gen Zaiki Taha Abdel, a businessman and also who was with the Iraqi forces, made a fixed deposit, of Seventeen million Three Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only in my branch, a number of notices was sent to him, before the war which began in 2003 and also after the war but, no response came from him. We later found 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 more inquiry it was also discovered that the late Gen did not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work of his bank deposit. What bothers me most is according to the laws of my country at the expiration of 6 years the funds will be revert to the ownership of the Hong Kong Government if nobody comes for the funds, Against this scenery, I have all the information needed to claim these funds and I want you to act as the beneficiary of the deposit, there is no risk involved in this matter, as we are going to adopt a legitimate method and the attorney will prepare all the necessary documents. All I require is your honest co-operation and I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please click reply to this message to contact me directly. Please accept my apologies and keep my confidence. I await your prompt reply on this. Kind Regards Mr. Chen Guan