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CHEN GUANGYUAN - RESPECT THE INTEGRITY OF THIS EMAIL

Below is a real example of a fake business proposal. 


CHEN GUANGYUAN < wilpennings@home.nl > wrote:

Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 13:38:20 +0100
From: CHEN GUANGYUAN <wilpennings@home.nl>
Subject: RESPECT THE INTEGRITY OF THIS EMAIL

Good day,

My name is Mr. Chen Guangyuan, I am a staff of Bank of China, Our late client named Ghazi Musa Hassan made a fixed deposit amount of $17,300,000, he did not declare any next of kin in any of his papper work, I want you as a foreigner to stand as the beneficiary to transfer this funds out of my bank into your account, after the successful transfer, we shall share in the ratio of 30% for you and 70% for me.

I want to assure you that all is well planned as we shall do this inline with all legal and banking requirements. All i need from you is your willingness, trust and confidentiality so that we can work together to achieve success. Should you be interested please send me the required information below.

1, Full names,
2, private phone number,
3, current residential address

And I will prefer you reach me on my private email address below:
chen1986guangyuan@yahoo.com.hk

Sincerely,
Mr. Chen



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