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Last few days, I received an email with the title of “Urgent Business Proposal”. I thought it was from my customer or friend who has a business idea and would like to share with me.

Upon opening the mail, I saw the followings :-

From: Mr Peter T.S Wong < info_peterwong55@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 9:56 AM
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL
To: undisclosed-recipients

My name is Mr.Peter T.S Wong i am the director of operation in Hang Seng Bank
Hong Kong.I have an obscured business suggestion for you in the tune of One
Hundred & Twenty Five Million, Seven Hundred & Fifty Thousand U.s dollars
(125,750,000.00 USD),after the successful transfer Should you be interested
please contact me through my private email(peter_wong005@yahoo.com.hk)so we
can commence all arrangements and I will give your more information on how we
would handle this project as soon as i recieved your reply. Please treat this
business with utmost confidentiality and send me the following if you are
intrested.

(1)Full names, (2)Private Phone number, (3)Current residential address,
(4)Occupation, (5)Age and Profession.

Kind Regards,
Mr.Peter.T.S.Wong

The first thing came into my mind was that it must be a scam ! Common sense told me that for such a huge bank like Hang Seng from Hong Kong, would it sent out this kind of mail to anyone that it does not know ?

The second doubt was that why this so called “Director of operation” used yahoo email for correspondence purpose ? Isn’t it strange ?

Out of curiosity, I typed the title followed by hang seng bank on the Google Search, the top 3 results that I got were :-

1. Hang Seng Bank $24.5m Urgent ! Scam < < Gariell’s Weblog
2. (Next of Kin) Urgent Business Proposal for You From Hong Kong
3. Scam Email with subject “URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL

Obviously, this type of scam email has been circulating to all over the world. I believe someone from somewhere around the world’s corner might have fallen into this trap.

There is a chinese phrase says that ” greed will lead you to become poor”.

Think twice before you act on this.

There is no free lunch in this world, reward will be given to those who worked hard and smart !

There are many websites that provide the scam/fraud information, just to name 2 :-

1. Fraud Watchers
2. Scamdex

If you have time, just visit them and you will know there are thousands of spams and scams happening around the world everyday !