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I hadn’t received many decent scam emails for awhile until today when I got this little beauty.
MR.Patrick K. W. Chan
(Executive Director & Chief financial Officer)
Hang Seng Bank Limited
83 Des Voeux Road, Central
Hong Kong SARFOR YOUR ATTENTION
It is understandable that you might be a little bit apprehensive because you do not know me but I have a lucrative business proposal of mutual interest to share with you. I got your reference in my search for someone who suits my proposed business relationship.
I am Mr. Patrick K. W. Chan Executive Director & Chief financial Officer of Hang Seng Bank Ltd. I have an obscured business suggestion for you. I will need you to assist me in executing a business project from Hong Kong to your country. It involves the transfer of a large sum of money. Everything concerning this transaction shall be legally done without hitch. Please endeavour to observe utmost discretion in all matters concerning this issue.
Once the funds have been successfully transferred into your account, we shall share in the ratio to be agreed by both of us
I will prefer you reach me on my private email address below (patk_wchan5@bullshit.com) and finally after that I shall furnish you with more informationÂ’s about this operation.
Please if you are not interested delete this email and do not hunt me because I am putting my career and the life of my family at stake with this venture. Although nothing ventured is nothing gained.
Your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated.
Kind Regards,
Mr. Patrick Chan
patk_wchan5@bullshit.com
The thing that strikes me as hilarious is that since this whole transaction is supposed to be entirely legal, why would it put his ‘career and the life of my family at stake with this venture?’ Smells of scam to me.
Again, why are there people who fall for this shit? What makes them thing that someone would virtually pull their name out of the virtual hat and want to bestow a bloody fortune at their feet? Come on guys, wake up to yourself, this sort of stuff is absolute and utter BULLSHIT!!
I have just done a quick search and this turkey has been sending out variations of this email since 2006
EDIT: Damn if I didn’t just get another one claiming he is working for the Hang Seng Bank. Man, these people at the Hang Seng Bank must have some serious security problems. 
This one definitely falls in the phishing category.
My name is Mr. Song Lile, I work with the Hang Seng Bank. There is a sum of $19,500,000.00 in my bank Hang
Seng Bank”,Hong Kong.There were no beneficiaries stated concerning these funds which means no one would
ever come to claim it. That is why I ask that we work together.I do solicit for your assistance in effecting this transaction.I intend to give 30% of the total funds as
compensation for your assistance. I will notify you on the full transaction on receipt of your response if
interested, and I shall send you thedetails and necessary procedures with which to make the transfer.I will
prefer you reach me on my private email address (song_lile134@bulshittinyou.com).Should you be interested? Please send me your:
1. Full names
2. Private phone number
3. Current residential addressKind Regards,
Mr. Song Lile
I like to add that a lot of these morons tend to use Yahoo mail accounts
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I actually got one of these today. I told the sender to go to hell. LOL. :) You should see what my colleague did after he got a similar email. He made the scammer believe that he took the bait only for the scammer to find out that he was just making fun of him. It was hilarious. :)
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I never answer any of these for security sake and would rather just make people aware of them so that they do not get sucked in. You would be amazed at how many hits some of these posts get and I suppose that it is from people checking on whether the email they received is legit. I hope that they are doing some good in that regard.
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I’ve worked once for Yahoo! and they have a department that takes care of it (especially if the domain name is yahoo). They automatically delete the account once you report the user and it was proven by their team that the user is a scammer. Anyhoo, I think it’s ok to reply to the email as long as you don’t click on any links that’s in the email message itself and of course as long as you don’t follow their dumb*ss insructions. LOL. :D
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You make a good point Vikki, thanks for your input.
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I have been told never to reply to these kinds of emails, even if you are making fun of them, because you will then be added to the mailing lists and you will get a lot more scam emails
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Actually Laura I have been told the very same thing. By answering you are confirming that they have an actual email address that works, and that makes them very happy, because like you said, they now have a confirmed target.
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thanks for putting this web site up. this is the second time i’m prevented from falling in to scams by cheking it on line first
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Thanks fro letting me know biegal, the knowledge that it is actually helping people makes it all worth while.
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Hi, thanks for this posting. Actually I’ve received email like this today from someone who called Mr. Patrick K. W. Chan. So, now I just know that this is an email scam and I must be careful and just delete this.
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I’ve get the same message from Patrick Chan few weeks ago. I’ve reply to him in some messages like “I’m very interested in your proposal… I’ll help you to provide this transaction… blah…blah…blah…”.
He wrote me many of e-mails. When he ask me to provide some info about me I’ve send a message with attached picture. On the picture there was a big black guy with a big… hmm… let’s say third leg. and wrote him “You will get THIS but not my money.” I did it just for lulz :)) and I always reply to similar messages to have some fun. And recommend it to YOU ;)
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Actually I’ve heard replying to those messages is the wrong thing to do as you’ve just told them that they have reached a legitimate address. I prefer to delete them, once I’ve posted about them so as to warn others.
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