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[Dr. Buck]

Just wait until this beauty pops into your in-box:

From: Jang Doo-Hwan <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Subject: Still waiting for your response.
To: [email protected]

Good day,

Sorry for contacting you in this manner. It is largely due to the urgency and confidentiality nature of this transaction.

Let me introduce myself correctly, my name is Jang Doo-Hwan, The brother of Mr. Chun Doo-Hwan, the former President of South Korea who seized power in a military coup in 1979 and who ruled from 1979 to 1987.

My brother was pushed out of office and charged with treason, corruption and embezzlement of over 21 billion won . [About 1200 won to the dollar. Still, that's a lot of won.] He was wrongly sentenced to death but fortunately Amnesty International stepped in and commuted the sentence to life. We thank God that he has finally being released though still under house \arrest in the sense of conditions of the freedom.

During my brother's regime as President of South Korea, we realized some reasonable amount of money from various deals that we successfully executed. I have plans to invest this money for my children's future on real estate and industrial production.

Before my brother's was overthrown, I secretly siphoned the sum of thirty 30 million american dollars out of Seoul and deposited the money with a security firm that transports valuable goods and consignments through diplomatic means.

I am contacting you because I want you to deal with the security company and claim the money on my behalf since I have declared that the consignment belong to my foreign business partner.
You shall also be required to assist me in investment in your country. I hope to trust you as a God fearing person who will not sit on this money when you claim it, rather assist me properly, I expect you to declare what percentage of the total money you will take for your assistance.

When I receive your positive response I will let you know where the security company is and the payment pin code to claim the money which is very important. What we need is to indicate your interest that you will assist us by receiving the money on our behalf in Europe. For this, you shall be considered to be the beneficiary of the money. The project in brief, is that the funds with which we intend to carry out our proposed investments in your country, is presently in the custody of a security company.

We cannot do this ourselves because we do not have any relatives living outside South Korea and moreover we do not want the government of my Country to know about the money because they will believe I got the money from my brother while he was still in office as president.

Once you confirm the receipt of the money ,I will come over with my Children to your Country or any Country in Europe to start a new life with my Family. As soon as payment is effected, and the amount mentioned above is successfully transferred into your account, we intend to use our own share in acquiring some real estates abroad. For this too you shall also be our overseas manager of all our properties and you will be paid based on a certain percentage agreed on by both parties. For now, let all our communication be by e-mail because my line is right now connected to the South Korean Telecommunication Network services therefore we can not take the chances of being over-heard.

Please also send me your telephone and fax number. I will ask my son to contact you to give you more details on after I have received a response from you. I am going to introduce you to him as an age long friend so as to prevent him from using any of his own friends who I regard as sycophants who are around him for financial gains and treacherous if he gives them this opportunity. This I got from the experience I had when the people turned against Chun, my brother that became the prelude of our sorrow.

The reason why it took this long was that the security company's agreement with me was that my brother must personally sign the Power of Attorney that will transfer title to the prospective beneficiary. It was a long wait but it paid off. His Excellency, Chun Doo-Hwan does not want to be personally involved for security reason.

Your quick response will be highly appreciated. Thank you in anticipation of your cooperation.

Yours faithfully,
Jang Doo-Hwan
Email: [email protected]

[Gwangjuboy]

I have received similiar e-mails from people purporting to be a representative from a Nigerian bank. (That was enough!) They then went on to claim that they had a large amount of money which belonged to a client(he had no relatives) who had perished in a plane crash. The money was to be transfered to my account. Of course, I never responded.

[Neil]

http://www.zone-h.org/419fraud

http://www.zone-h.org/nigerianfraud

http://www.fbi.gov/majcases/fraud/fraudschemes.htm#nigerian

Madness, forward them on to the FBI. Someone is actually tracking these things.

[Bulsajo]

I've seen my fair share of 419-style scam emails and I must say I really like this hook:

[The Man known as The Man]

I hope the person who mailed that to the OP gets into a spitting contest 11 floors up takes a running start takes a header and dies.


Peace

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[Mr. Pink]

[The Lemon]