Bwahahahahaha!
Jun. 28th, 2006 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snorkackcatcherMost entertained today to receive an actual physical letter (as opposed to merely an email) for a 419-type scam:
TEL: +65-68299785
FAX: +65-649-15348
Email: stephenchan2015@yahoo.com.sg
Hello, My name is Stephen chan. I trained and work as an external auditor for the Development Bank of Singapore (DBS), working as part of a bigger team that covers the entire Asian region.. I had taken pains to find your contact through a colleague that is connected with the British Chamber of Commerce
On routine audit check last year, I discovered some investment accounts that had been dormant for at least twelve years. All the accounts belong to a single/one account holder with monies totalling a little above 13.6 million United States Dollars. New banking regulation/legislation in Singapore demand that I do notify the fiscal authorities after a statutory time span of twelve years when dormant accounts of this type are called in by the Singapore Monetary Regulatory bodies.
The above set of facts underscores my reason of writing and proposing to you. My investigations of the said account reveals that the investor, a Briton had died in 1992 – the exact time the account was last operated. I can confirm with certainty that the said investor died interstate and no next -of -kin to his estate has been found or has come forward all these years.
I am of the settled conviction that using my insider leverage, I, working with you can secure the funds in the account for us instead of allowing it pass as unclaimed funds into the coffers of the Government of Singapore. This is especially possible as you bear the same LAST NAME to the said investor. This exactly is why I crave your participation and co-operation. I am seized with all relevant documents (legal and Banking) that will facilitate our putting you forward as the claimant/beneficiary of the funds and ultimately transfer the money to an account to be nominated by you.
Of course you shall be handsomely rewarded for your part in this transaction as the people I am working with are prepared to allocate a 20% slice of the total funds for your efforts.
I shall however leave out the finer details of this transaction till I receive an affirmation of your desire to participate. Rest assured that I am on top of the situation all the time and there will be no risk whatsoever if you elect to come on board. Needless to say, UTMOST CONFIDENTIALITY is of vital importance if we are to successfully reap the immense benefits of this transaction.
Find above written telephone, fax and email contacts that you may reach me with. The numbers have been carefully chosen to ensure that 1 can be reached at anytime you choose to call or fax.
I do expect your prompt response.
Truly
STEPHEN CHAN
Quite educational -- I'd been thinking this sort of thing was purely an online scam (because sending out letters costs real money and you can't hijack somebody else's equipment to do it). But when I Googled to check what the 'Nigerian number' above was, it turned out to have quite a history.
And at that point, it dawned on me (::facepalm::) that I really should have remembered Joseph Ady (scroll down), who was sending out scam letters back in the early 19th century, and whose activities forced a change in the postal rules in the 1840s to make the sender liable for the postage on refused unpaid items. (I think I even have a photocopy of one of his letters somewhere, as a result of being the underbidder on it in an auction.)
TEL: +65-68299785
FAX: +65-649-15348
Email: stephenchan2015@yahoo.com.sg
Hello, My name is Stephen chan. I trained and work as an external auditor for the Development Bank of Singapore (DBS), working as part of a bigger team that covers the entire Asian region.. I had taken pains to find your contact through a colleague that is connected with the British Chamber of Commerce
On routine audit check last year, I discovered some investment accounts that had been dormant for at least twelve years. All the accounts belong to a single/one account holder with monies totalling a little above 13.6 million United States Dollars. New banking regulation/legislation in Singapore demand that I do notify the fiscal authorities after a statutory time span of twelve years when dormant accounts of this type are called in by the Singapore Monetary Regulatory bodies.
The above set of facts underscores my reason of writing and proposing to you. My investigations of the said account reveals that the investor, a Briton had died in 1992 – the exact time the account was last operated. I can confirm with certainty that the said investor died interstate and no next -of -kin to his estate has been found or has come forward all these years.
I am of the settled conviction that using my insider leverage, I, working with you can secure the funds in the account for us instead of allowing it pass as unclaimed funds into the coffers of the Government of Singapore. This is especially possible as you bear the same LAST NAME to the said investor. This exactly is why I crave your participation and co-operation. I am seized with all relevant documents (legal and Banking) that will facilitate our putting you forward as the claimant/beneficiary of the funds and ultimately transfer the money to an account to be nominated by you.
Of course you shall be handsomely rewarded for your part in this transaction as the people I am working with are prepared to allocate a 20% slice of the total funds for your efforts.
I shall however leave out the finer details of this transaction till I receive an affirmation of your desire to participate. Rest assured that I am on top of the situation all the time and there will be no risk whatsoever if you elect to come on board. Needless to say, UTMOST CONFIDENTIALITY is of vital importance if we are to successfully reap the immense benefits of this transaction.
Find above written telephone, fax and email contacts that you may reach me with. The numbers have been carefully chosen to ensure that 1 can be reached at anytime you choose to call or fax.
I do expect your prompt response.
Truly
STEPHEN CHAN
Quite educational -- I'd been thinking this sort of thing was purely an online scam (because sending out letters costs real money and you can't hijack somebody else's equipment to do it). But when I Googled to check what the 'Nigerian number' above was, it turned out to have quite a history.
And at that point, it dawned on me (::facepalm::) that I really should have remembered Joseph Ady (scroll down), who was sending out scam letters back in the early 19th century, and whose activities forced a change in the postal rules in the 1840s to make the sender liable for the postage on refused unpaid items. (I think I even have a photocopy of one of his letters somewhere, as a result of being the underbidder on it in an auction.)
