Sir Earl Evans

 

I just had to post this fraudulent e-mail. It's so bad it's hilarious.

Attention I am Sir Earl Evans, one of the Director of HSBC Bank, London, United Kingdom. On the 2nd of January 2005, I received a call that one of my customer died in the Tsunami Disaster with his wife and only child while on vacation at Phuket Island in Thailand. Since then I have made several enquiries to locate any of my customer's extended relatives and until date have not succeeded. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money left behind by my client before it gets confiscated by our bank or declared unserviceable by our bank where this deposit is lodged. Now, the bank Directors has called a board meeting regarding this Funds. So my main motive right now is to share this great opportunity with you by presenting you as the Next of Kin to the Deceased since all his banking details are with me as his personal Account Officer. And the deceased Account valued at $10,000.000 (Ten million dollars). Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the biological relatives of my late client, I hereby seek your consent to present you to the bank as next-of-kin of the deceased since you are a foreigner, so that the proceeds of this account valued at $10,000.000 (Ten Million dollars) can be transferred to you as inheritance and thereafter, you and I can share the money; 50% to me and 40% to you, while 10% will be donated to the Tsunami Disaster Charity Fund. We shall start the first transfer with $5,000.000.00 (Five Million Dollars), upon the successful actualization of the first transfer without any disappointment from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining amount to your account. I have the original copy of Certificate of Deposit of the funds, which will be used to substantiate our inheritance claims. All I require is your consent and honest co-operation to enable us see the deal through. Furthermore, I guarantee that the transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Best regards, Sir Earl Evans HSBC BANK.

I suspect that this one was either written by someone who was brought up on Monty Python or a crook.

I do like the fact he's called Sir Earl Evans and some of the atrocious spelling and grammar. My English teacher said my English was bad, but...

If you fall for this one, there are more stupid idiots about than I thought.

Late News

I've just found another e-mail from Sir Earl. He's also a director of Barclays.