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Hello I'm New here! Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 3

It sounds like a scam, here it is:

Greetings,

I am Thomas K. S. Cheng, Managing Director, General Administration
Group for the China Trust Commercial Bank in China. I have a business
transaction of Eight million, thirty-five thousand United States
dollars ($8.035m) that is related to you after my research.

If you Should be interested, please send me your full names, to be
sure if I am Sending this email to the right person, and also your
private phone/fax Number to email address ([email protected])
and finally After that I shall provide you with more details of this
operation.

King regards,

Thomas K. S. Cheng

I did reply (with fake details of course) and got a reply back.

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 8:45 am

Yep, a scam - probably a Dead Bank Customer.

419Eater is my life Joined: 19 Sep 2006 Posts: 416

A good first test is to ask yourself:

"Are there any circumstances in which I would ever write to someone whose name I don't even know, to offer them a gift of eight million dollars?"

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:17 am

The managing director of a Chinese bank wouldn't need to contact strangers abroad for assistance, and take the risk of being reported for disclosing details of confidential accounts.

As managing director the sum involved would be less than the salary and perks he would be receiving as remuneration.

If he were ever tempted to perform a fraud, there would be safer ways to do it, that amount would be trifling and he wouldn't need to involve strangers.

If the sender were trying to remain anonymous he might use a yahoo addie rather than one from the bank domain for anonymity, but then he wouldn't be so stupid as to draw attention to himself by choosing the name of his bank. DOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH - though strangely the addie doesn't quite match the name of the bank.

419 scammers are neither inventive nor bright. It's standard scammer drivel.

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:31 am

Real banks don't use Yahoo! e-mail addresses Wink

Please bait the sucker and let us know how it goes.

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:25 am

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