Thursday, August 16, 2007

Wing Kee Email Scam

Here are emails I received from Wing Kee a con artist with an interesting proposal as you can see. Beware of these kind of scams.


Now that we have found you, lets work hand in hand to actualize this.
A family member of yours (perhaps) in Singapore died Twelve years ago leaving
behind an estate/capital of(US$12.5M with interest accrued till date) in the
Bank of East Asia Ltd, Singapore where I work as an External auditor.please for
more details visit the website for comprehensive details www.beaheir.iwarp.com
To affirm your willingness and cooperation to this once in a life time
opportunity please reply to my private email only wkee58@katamail.com

Yours Sincerely,

Wing Kee.

Hello Melinda,

Thank you for your reply to my proposal (Private & confidential) and
for sending your details. My colleagues and I thought it wise to first
send you by return email and later put a call through to you for detailed
discussion.

As you would agree with me, we do not know you well. We are making this proposition to you because of the relevance of your surname in actualizing this transaction. Can you in your reply tell us a bit about yourself; (what you do for a living, married or single) anything to reassure us that you are a gentle person and that you could not disappear with the whole funds once the business is completed?


I will like you to read this explanation about the business for better
understanding. We are obviously happy to find you with a matching
surname as the investor.

However, we will need your continuous reassurance that after we approve
your application and Bank of East Asia Ltd transfer the funds to your bank account in your country, you MUST RETURN by way of bank transfer OUR AGREED Share of the funds and that you will not disappoint us in this regards. Because once we approve the payment of the funds to your bank account in your country, we cannot disapprove it. Our faiths are virtually in your hands and we
hope that you would not take advantage of this fact. If you and we are
both happy to proceed after you receive this letter, the following is how
this transaction can be best achieved. According to the banking and the
Singapore laws, to make an inheritance claim of this magnitude, you
must do so through a Singapore based lawyer/solicitor. If you already have
a trusted lawyer here in Singapore whom you would like to use for this
transaction, you should give us his information for us to first approve
of him before you appoint him/her. On the other hand, if you do not
have a trusted Singapore based lawyer, we can source for one and relay
such lawyer’s details to you for you to appoint him/her to act on your
behalf in applying and submitting all the necessary applications to the
relevant departments including Bank of East Asia Ltd and the courts here in Singapore for the release of the funds ($12.5 million) by wire transfer into your
nominated bank account. For clarity, here are your role and our role after
we have agreed on the lawyer you are to us for the claim process. These
instructions are the only way we can succeed with this transaction
without any present or future consequences.

Your Role:

1. We will give you the reference number relating to the inheritance
claim/investment deposit account reference in Bank of East Asia Ltd.
2. You make contact with the solicitor/lawyer and instruct him to act
on your behalf in the pursuit of your inheritance claim by giving the
solicitor/lawyer the inheritance reference number that we will give you.
3. You must never inform the solicitor/lawyer that you are working with
my colleague and me.
4. Once the solicitor/lawyer put in the application for the claim on your behalf, your role stops and our role begins.

Our Role:
The application goes through the normal application process for
verification and approval with the Bank of East Asia Ltd and end up with me and my colleagues for final approval.

My colleagues and I have people at these departments to verify and
approve the application.
After application is approved, payment is issued out to your nominated
bank account and notification and all relevant papers and certifications stating that these funds have been released to your bank account will be forwarded to you via the solicitor who acted on your behalf. And that is the end of the claim process.

This whole process would take between 7 to 14 working days from start
to finish. Once the funds arrive in your nominated bank account, we (my
colleagues and I) will fly to your country to meet with you and give
you our banking particulars for you to transfer our share of this
business which we would like to invest in your country based on your advise, while you retain your share, less any expenses
incurred by both parties . We then shake hands and everybody
will be happy. If the above procedures are acceptable to you, say so by
return email and we will proceed immediately.

CONFIDENTIAL MOBILE TELEPHONE: 011-882-1646652213.
TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBER: 011-65-6491-5274

Thank you,
Wing Kee.

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