Musings of a Marketing Maven

Do they think we’re crazy enough to fall for an obvi­ous scam like this?

The Project
Tseng Tzu-Jung
Chong Hing Bank Lim­ited
347–349 Des Voeux Rd.
West, HK
www.chbank.com

Dear Friend,

I am a staff of Chong Hing Bank Limited,Hong Kong attached in Pri­vate Bank­ing ser­vices; I am con­tact­ing you in ref­er­ence to an invest­ment oppor­tu­nity which I believe would be of sig­nif­i­cant reward to the par­ties involved. It´s about a cus­tomer that came to Chong Hing Bank Limited,Hong Kong to engage in Pri­vate Bank­ing ser­vices. The cus­tomer had a finan­cial port­fo­lio of $15,500,000.00 and this I help turned over in the pur­chase of secu­ri­ties in the cap­i­tal mar­ket. I was the bank adviser assist­ing the cus­tomer in the man­age­ment of the fund. Given the instruc­tion to liq­ui­date the funds after 4 years for some Invest­ment requir­ing cash pay­ments in Europe. In line with this instruc­tion, the money was liq­ui­dated; he told me he wanted the money to make some pay­ments on his arrival from Nor­way later that week. This was the last com­mu­ni­ca­tion we had, this tran­spired around Feb­ru­ary 26th 2004. In June last year,information started to trickle in, that he was appar­ently dead, a per­son who suited his descrip­tion was declared dead of a heart attack in Cannes, South of France; we were soon able to gather more infor­ma­tion and the cause of death was confirmed.

Since the orig­i­nal owner listed no next of kin in his bio-data form, my propo­si­tion is this; I am pre­pared to place you in a posi­tion to instruct my Bank to release the deposit to you as the clos­est sur­viv­ing rela­tion. Upon receipt of the deposit,we share the pro­ceeds 50/50. If you find your­self able to work with me, con­tact me through this email account: tzujung_t@yahoo.com.hk with your full names,residential address and phone num­ber. If you give me pos­i­tive sig­nals, I will ini­ti­ate this process towards conclusion.

Regards,

Tseng Tzu-Jung.

I hope no one falls for this stu­pid scam!

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