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From: gfgr hert <chan_leehj3@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 07:53:32 -0400
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL
FROM: MR. CHAN LEE
Bank of China (Hongkong)
Shop 1021, United Centre,
95 Queensway,
Hong Kong
Fax: + 852-301-01857
Good Day,
It is understandable that you might be apprehensive because you do not
know me but I know that if you read this letter to the last paragraph
you will have a second though about my plea for help. I have a
lucrative
business proposal of mutual interest to share with you. Let me start by
introducing myself. I am Mr. Chan Lee; . I am Mr. Chan Lee Foreign
operations manager of the Bank of China ( Hong Kong ).
Though I have an obscured business suggestion for you, but I am 100%
sure that it is achievable if we work in one spirit and if a mutual
understanding of this deal is reached. In June, 2001, My late client
Mr.
Hamadi Hashem, an Iraqi Crude oil merchant made a numbered fixed
deposit
of Seventeen million three Hundred Thousand United State Dollars
(US$17,300,000.00) only in my branch. Upon maturity several notice was
sent to
him, even during the war (U.S and Iraqi war), Four years ago (2003).
Again after the war another notification was sent and still no response
came from him. We later found out that Mr. Hamadi Hashem, and his
family had been killed during the war in a bomb blast that hit his home
at
Mukaradeeb where his personal oil well was.
http://www.iraqmemorialwall.org/iraqicasualties.html
After further investigation it was also discovered that Mr. Hamadi
Hashem's declared next of kin was his oldest daughter who died along
with
him. I am very positive that I am one of the few living people in the
knowledge that this amount (Seventeen million three 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 six {6} years the funds will revert to
the ownership of the Hong Kong Government if nobody applies to claim
the funds. Secondly, my boss has said nothing about it and her silence
puts her in a position that she might want to divert this funds.
Against
this backdrop, my suggestion is that I can arrange the paper work that
will place you a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Mr. Hamadi
Hashem so that you will be able to receive his funds for both of us.
MODALITIES:
I want you to know that I can set the machinery in motion at any time
that you are ready because I have had everything planned out to see
that
this deal of ours is 100% successful. I will use an attorney to prepare
the necessary document that will back you up as the next of kin to Mr.
Hamadi Hashem as I have all relevant details required by the attorney.
I have his date and place of birth, his daughter's date and place of
birth, security questions, answers and all other mandatory information
required by the attorney to issue you the probate documents, the WILL
OF
TESTAMENT. All that is required from you is to provide me with your
Full Names and 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 favour for the movement of the funds to you
without delay. We are going adopt a legalized method and the attorney
will
prepare all the necessary documents in your favour. There is a reward
for
this project and it is a task well worth undertaking. There is no risk
involved at all in this matter, I have evaluated the risks and the only
risk I have here is for you refusing to work with me and alerting my
bank. I am the only one who knows of this situation, good fortune has
blessed you with a name that has planted you into the centre of
relevance
in my life. Please Endeavour to observe utmost discretion in all
matters concerning this issue. Once the funds have been transferred to
your
nominated bank account we will share in the ratio of 70% for me, 30%
for
you. I send you this mail not without a measure of fear a to what the
consequences are, but I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing
gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter of
gold. This is once in a lifetime opportunity which I will not allow to
slip through my fingers. Please observe this instruction religiously
and
please send me an answer to the following;
1. Full Name
2. Private phone/fax number
3. Current residential or office address
4. Any reason why you will not participate in this transaction.
5. Your religious belief
I will prefer you reach me through my private tel/fax 00852 301 578 57
or email address (chan_leehj@yahoo.com.hk). I will give you more
information when I get a reply from you. Your earliest response to this
letter will be appreciated.
Kind Regards,
Mr. Chan Lee
_________________________________________________________________
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