An Email with the Subject "DEAR FRIEND," was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:18:33 -0700 and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email. The sender shows as "MR.JOSEPH POON" <josephpoonnnnnnnn@yahoo.com.ph>.
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DEAR FRIEND, I am Mr.Joseph Poon Executive Director Of Operations of the Hang Seng Bank Ltd,Sai Wan Ho Branch,171 Shaukiwan Road Hong Kong. An Iraqi named Hamadi Hashem a business man made a numbered fixed deposit of (346,736,899.68 HKD) for 18 calendar months; this is valued to Forty Four million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only in my branch. Upon maturity several notices was sent to him, even during the war,four years agoresponse
came from him. We later found out that Hamadi Hashem and his family had beenwhere his
personal oil well was. After furtherinvestigation it was also discovered that Hamadi Hashem did not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paperwork of hisoffice that
no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank.So, Forty Four million Fiveone will
ever come forward to claim it.What bothers me most is that according to the laws of my country at the expiration five years six months the funds willto claim
the funds. My proposal, I am prepared to place you as the next of kin in a position to instruct HANG SENG BANK to release the deposit to you as the closest surviving relation. Upon receipt of the deposit, I am prepared to share the money with you in half. That is: I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them release the deposit to you. We share the proceeds FIFTY - FIFTY. I would have gone ahead to ask the funds be released to me, but that would have drawn a straight line in my involvement in claiming the deposit. I assure you that I could have the deposit released toclosing of the
file relating to Hamadi Hashem I will then officially communicate with my Bank and instruct them to release the deposit to you. With these:all is done. I am aware of the consequences of this proposal. I ask that if you find no interest in this project that you should discard this mail. I ask that you do not be vindictive and destructive. If my offer is of no appeal to you, delete this message and forget I ever contacted you. Do not destroy my career because you do not approve of my proposal. Should you be interested please send me your full names,Phone Number and current residential address and I will prefer you to reach me on the emailafter that I
shall provide you with more details of this operation. Your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated. I await your response. Mr.JOSEPH POON.