An Email with the Subject "From:Mr.Joe Ukpoma" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Wed, 23 May 2007 09:57:41 -0700 and has been classified as a Advance Fee Fraud/419 Scam Email. The sender shows as "Mr.Joe Ukpoma" <joejoeukpoma_201@yahoo.com.hk>.
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From:Mr.Joe Ukpoma {Executive Director,Int Operations Group(South)}IBTC Chartered Bank Plc, Email:(joejoeukpoma_201@yahoo.com.hk) Dear Friend, First I must solicit your confidence in this letter to you, this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret.Though I know that a proposal letter of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried due to the spam/scam mails that goes across the globe,but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. I decided to contact you due to the urgency needed, as I have been reliably awared of your discreetness and ability in transaction of this nature. My name is Mr.Joe Ukpoma, Head, Int Operations Group(South)}IBTC Chartered Bank Plc,I came to know about you in my private search for a reliable person to handle a confidential transaction on my behalf.l write in respect of a foreign customer with Current A/C number:14-2558-2004,who nfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000,including his wife and only daughter leaving nobody to claim the money.You shall read more news about the crash on visiting this site; http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/. The owner of this account Mr. Morris Thompson an American and great industrialist and a resident of Alaska.Since the death of this our customer Mr. Morris Thompson, I have kept a close monitoring of the deposit records and accounts since then. Nobody has come forward to claim the money in this A/C as next of kin to the late Mr. Morris Thompson. The total amount in the account US$18.5 million and it is a domiciliary escrow bank account.It is only an insider,the account owner or a next of kin who has information about the account that could produce the Code or password of the deposit particulars. Also the funds can only be released to a foreigner. I am willing to share this money with you in the ratio of 65-35%. You shall have 35% of the funds and I shall share the rest with my partner at the bank.I hope this is a fair sharing? If you are willing and ready to assist with this business then confirm to the following information of yours below for further proceedings: Full Name...............Contact Address................... Date of Birth............Occupation....................... Phone number............Mobile phone...................... Fax...................... I wait for your urgent response.this is my private e-mail (joejoeukpoma_201@yahoo.com.hk) Thanks and best Regards. Mr.Joe Ukpoma