I got a Nigerian Scam letter today, I was amused enough to share it.

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I am Michael Wang Lee, Principal Assurance manager for the China Trust Commercial Bank,China. I am getting in touch with you regarding the estate of a deceased client, and an investment placed under our banks management 9 years ago.

I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity of the information you come by as a result of this mail. I contact you independently and no one is informed of this communication. In 2000, the subject matter; Alfred Abbott came to our bank to engage in business discussions with our private banking division. He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of 18.350 million United States dollars, which he wished to have us invest on his behalf.

Based on my advice, we spun the money around various opportunities and made attractive margins for our first months of operation, the accrued profit and interest stood at over 2 million United States Dollars. In mid 2002, he instructed that the principal sum (18.35M) be liquidated because he needed to make an urgent investment requiring cash payments in Hong Kong. We got in touch with the Dah Sing Bank which is a specialist bank in China, with a foreign representative branch in Hong Kong who agreed to receive this money for a fee and make cash available to Alfred. However Dah Sing Bank got in touch with us last year that this money has not been claimed. On further enquiries we found out that Alfred was involved in an accident in Mainland China, which means he died intestate. On further investigation we found out that Late Alfred left behind no next of kin and this is the reason I am writing you.

What I propose is that since I have exclusive access to his file, and I can make you the beneficiary of
these funds. My bank will contact you informing you that money has been willed to you. On verification, which will be the details I make available to my bank, my bank will instruct Dah Sing Bank to make payments to you. You do not have to have known him. I know this might be a bit heavy for you but please trust me on this. For your assistance I propose that we split the money in half. In the banking circle this happens every time. The other option is that the money will revert back to the state.

Nobody is getting hurt; this is a lifetime opportunity for us. I hold the KEY to these funds, and as a Chinese National we see so much cash and funds being re-assigned daily. I would want us to keep communication for now strictly by email, as time goes on I shall furnish you with my telephone number, so you can also reach me by phone. My spoken english is not too good, but you should be able to understand me.

Please, again, note I am a family man; I have a wife and children. I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to the consequences, because 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 the one truth I have learned from my private banking clients. Do not betray my confidence. If we can be of one accord, we should act swiftly on this. Please if you accept my proposal respond back to me immediately via the above email.

I await your positive response.

Michael Wang Lee.
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Anyone want his e-mail?

Well, the question in my topic still stands...how the hell do people fall for this? Particularly now when -everyone- knows about the Nigerian Scam?

"Oh, this guy is Chinese, he must be legit!"

It just blows my mind how this is complete bullshit anyone could see through, and yet people buy it.

(I'm sharing it because it somehow managed to slip past my spam filter, and it intrigued me)

Slayer1 wrote:

I'm still expecting to get one of these from my Archaic E-Mail account on Yahoo... so far I've gotten about over 9000 (no pun intended ) Viagra supplements e-mails on it. How exactly did you get this e-mail Satsui?

No clue. Never got one before, that's why I was curious when it ended up in my non-spam box.