Dah Sing bank /China Trust Commercial Bank

I have contacted to several times by person below, I have received faxes from bank, I am pretty sure this is a scam! How do I know for sure?

Dear Bart,

I have an update of process for you the solicitor have already put forward our claims with my bank and they will contact you any time from now

Below is some information about late Abbot Boyle, Just in case the Bank calls you to ask Tell them he was your uncle and tell them to e-mail you but if via e-mail it is better. And kindly e-mail me as soon as they contact you, on no account should they know of my involvement, Kindly study it

Up onto his death he lived at 12 Heijao Road of the Tao Mao province of Beijing. He died at the age of 67 in 2003. He was a heavy investor in real estate and solid minerals. Never married but had a Chinese partner who passed on in 1999. Has no child. Believed to have come to China immediately after the Second World War.

You should understand I was very careful when I contacted you as your refusal and your telling my establishment of this deal will mean an end to my career hence I contacted you in that manner but I have attached my international passport for your perusal while I expect to see any form of your identification too I will call you later in the day but you should endeavor to feel free to call me anytime for further explanation on +852-81203576.

Best regards

Lee
from Agr Dept <[email protected]>
sender-time Sent at 12:20 AM (UTC). Current time there: 4:17 PM. ?
to [email protected]
date Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:20 AM
subject urgently urge you
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Dear Bart,

I urgently urge you to contact the solicitor James fujiro on this email address and tell him due to health reason you can not make long journey at this time hence you want him to represent you for the endorsement and verification ceremony you tell him that you await his responds and I have given you my word that I will get all the require document ready on my honour as my solicitor is expressly work on it in order to meet the deadline before the Bank solicitor get back to you I assure you the need document will be ready.

Attached is a drafted agreement which protects both our interest,kindly study it and signed it while you send me a signed copy as this is very important and also the Death Certificate send it with the Fax memo you recevied from my Bank and your Driver License to James fujiro while my solicitor is working on the Last will of testament right now this is already costing me my life savings but I know what I stand to gain and will not do anything that will jeopardise my career while you should also bear in mind that the orator of this deal there is no way I can endanger you and not implicate myself the most important thing is to enjoy this money with absolute pace of mind as I have a happy family and want to secure a better future for them.

Kindly follow my instruct to contact the solicitor for our best interest.

Best regards

Lee


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Welcome! This is very definitely a scam. Good for you for being suspicious. It's a very typical example of advance fee fraud. Please see this topic for more explanation: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3252

The basics of the scam are:
A stranger contacts you via email asking you to take part in a transaction that involves a large sum of money
The person puts you in touch with supposed other characters, including (but not limited to) bankers, barristers/lawyers, and diplomats. The scammer is playing all of these roles himself.
In order to complete the transaction, which the scammer claims is urgent, you will have to pay fees BEFORE receiving any monies.

The whole thing is a lie. Everyone you have talked to regarding this is the same scammer playing different roles and any documents you have received are fake.
If there is a bank involved, it is a scammer impersonating a real bank. If the scammer has given you a website for the supposed bank, it may be a fake bank site. Please post it.

Let us know if you have any questions.

Dear Brapozo,

thank you for posting this.
There is no doubt in my mind that this is a scam - no real bank would ever contact anyone ( unsolicited, I would assume ) asking for help to transfer funds out of one of their accounts. That just does not happen. It's a classic case of advance fee fraud - if you were to continue playing along, it wouldn't be long before all kinds of fees start to surface that need to be paid before the funds can be transfered; solicitor's fees, clearance fees, strange taxes and duties, and so on. You will be asked to pay for those by Western Union or similar before receiving the "prize money". Of course in reality there is no account and no money, and whatever "fees" you send away will be lost forever.
One dead give-away is the use of a free hotmail address in supposedly official correspondence - again, this just doesn't happen in real life.
My advice would be to immediately cease all contact with this person. It's a scam, and nothing good can come off it.

Just to add to the excellent observations of my colleagues Brapozo

I spent my whole working life working for a major UK bank and I can assure you that it is illegal

1 for a bank to disclose any details of a customer''s financial affairs to any third party without his authority (and if he's dead he can't give it)

2 for anyone to misrepresent themselves as another person, especially if it is to fraudulently obtain money to which they aren't entitled.

This is a person who is telling you that he is a fraudster, who will want you to pay him money to perform another fraud. The only real fraud is the one he will perform on you. Once he's got your money why should he do anything more ? - but he's lying anyway and the scam he says he'll help you perform would never work, but is all lies anyway.

I have been contacted by these same people, was very sceptical from first contact which was through the post. Had direct phone numbers and e mail addresses, with a Peking address. I refused to give ny bank details, full stop. Like I said was very sceptical, suspicions were raised when one of the emails I recieved from this 'Lee Fu Park' changed font and text size half way through the e mail and then back to the original size, like he copied and pasted a section of text from elsewhere.
A later e mail he gave the details of the said deceased, I thought I wonder if I put this address into Google maps, see what this place comes up with, problem is I clicked on web search and not google maps, ( I typed '12 heijao road, peking'). It brought up this web forum at the top.
Later e mails he told me he had to mortgage his families rice paddy field to pay for a crooked solicitor
After a few e mails back and forth I told this person, Lee Fu park, I had lost my job and would not be able to help with any costs.
E mails stopped for a couple of weeks, got an e mail from 'Lee', telling me to be wary of scam e mails and calls, 1/2 an hour later I got an e mail supposedly from Shenzhen Development Bank. If I could not attend a meeting personally, a banks solicitor could be appointed.
I replied asking if this was where I would start to be asked for release fees and taxes before this inheritance could be released to myself. I said was they going to try and bleed me dry of money. Have now received an e mail saying they are concerned about my last e mail and I would have to attend the bank personally myself and not through a solicitor. I will send an e mail back saying I am still unemployed and canot raise any money for airfair, unless they can send me a ticket, there is nothing I can do.

Welcome to Scamwarners.

like he copied and pasted a section of text from elsewhere.

That's a pretty safe bet. The standard of English often varies for the same reason. We don't recommend carrying on emailing scammers after you've realised if it's a scam.

Brapozo,

in the email you posted I saw the receiving address - if it is your real one, please delete it, or your inbox will be flooded by spam and scam mail - criminals comb the internet for working addresses.
Alternatively, could a mod look into it? - Thanks!