Just got this email!!! I'll be buying a lot of chips at convention this year!!!

DEAR FRIEND,

I am Mr.Joseph Poon Executive Director Of Operations of the Hang Seng Bank
Ltd,Sai Wan Ho Branch,171 Shaukiwan Road Hong Kong.

An Iraqi named Hamadi Hashem a business man made a numbered fixed deposit of
(346,736,899.68 HKD) for 18 calendar months; this is valued to Forty Four
million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only in my branch. Upon
maturity several notices was sent to him, even during the war, three years ago
(2003). Again after the war another notification was sent and still no response
came from him. We later found out that Hamadi Hashem and his family had been
killed during the war in bomb blast that hit their home at Mukaradeeb where his
personal oil well was.

After further investigation it was also discovered that Hamadi Hashem did not
declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work of his
bank deposit. And he also confided in me the last time he was at my office that
no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank. So, Forty Four million Five
Hundred Thousand United State Dollars is still lying in my bank and no one will
ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me most is that according to the
laws of my country at the expiration five years six months the funds will revert
to the ownership of the Hong Kong Government if nobody applies to claim the
funds.

My proposal, I am prepared to place you as the next of kin in a position to
instruct HANG SENG BANK to release the deposit to you as the closest surviving
relation. Upon receipt of the deposit, I am prepared to share the money with you
in half. That is: I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them
release the deposit to you. We share the proceeds FIFTY - FIFTY. I would have
gone ahead to ask the funds be released to me, but that would have drawn a
straight line in my involvement in claiming the deposit. I assure you that I
could have the deposit released to you within a few days. I will simply inform
the bank of the final closing of the file relating to Hamadi Hashem I will then
officially communicate with my Bank and instruct them to release the deposit to
you. With these: all is done. I am aware of the consequences of this proposal. I
ask that if you find no interest in this project that you should discard this
mail. I ask that you do not be vindictive and destructive. If my offer is of no
appeal to you, delete this message and forget I ever contacted you. Do not
destroy my career because you do not approve of my proposal.

You may not know this but people like myself who have made tidy sums out of
comparable situations run the whole private banking sector. I am not a criminal
and what I do, I do not find against good conscience, this may be hard for you
to understand, but the dynamics of my industry dictates that I make this move.
Such opportunities only come ones way once in a lifetime. I cannot let this
chance pass me by, for once I find myself in total control of my destiny. These
chances won’t pass me by. I ask that you do not destroy my chance, if you will
not work with me let me know and let me move on with my life but do not destroy
me. I am a family man and this is an opportunity to provide them with new
opportunities. There is a reward for this project and it is a task well worth
undertaking. I have evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here is from
you refusing to work with me and alerting my bank. I am the only one who knows
of this situation, good fortune has blessed you with a name that has planted you
into the center of relevance in my life. Let’s share the blessing.

If you give me positive signals, I will initiate this process towards a
conclusion. I wish to inform you that should you contact me via official
channels; I will deny knowing you and about this project. I repeat, I do not
want you contacting me through my official phone lines nor do I want you
contacting me through my official email account. Contact me only through the
numbers I will provide for you and also through this email address:
joepoon001@yahoo.com.hk I do not want any direct link between you and me. My
official lines are not secure lines as they are periodically monitored to assess
our level of customer care in line with our Total Quality Management Policy.
Please observe this instruction religiously. Please, again, note I am a family
man, I have wife and children. I send you this mail not without a measure of
fear as to what the consequences, but I know within me that nothing ventured is
nothing gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter of
gold. This is the one truth I have learned from my private banking clients. Do
not betray my confidence. If we can be of one accord, we should plan a meeting,
soon.

Should you be interested please send me your full names, Phone Number and
current residential address and I will prefer you to reach me on the email
address below.
E-mail: joepoon001@yahoo.com.hk
and finally after that I shall provide you with more details of this operation.

Your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated.

I await your response.
Mr.JOSEPH POON.