收到一封来自 p_freeman12@bellsouth.net 的邮件，大概内容如下：

 

本人是 Smith & Willamson 私人银行（有这个银行吗？）的工作人员。我的一个客户离奇死亡了，他存入银行的3000万美元正在寻找继承人。银行发出通知，如果找不到此人家属来继承此笔遗产，3000万美元将归银行所有。

 

本人是唯一知晓此笔存款细节的工作人员，在此发出邮件，呼吁此人的家属赶紧与我联系（冒充也行），事成后，我们5/5分账。

 

有消息者，请尽快回复到 ppeter56@excite.com ，请对此邮件保密。

 

各位分析一下，此邮件是真是假。如果是假，目的何在？

 

Hello Friend,

 

I am Peter Freeman,staff of SMITH & WILLIAMSON Private Banking. I am contacting you concerning a deceased customer and an investment he placed under our banks management three years ago. I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity of the information you come by as a result of this mail.I am making this contact with you based on the committee's need for an individual/company who is willing to assist me to stand as the next of kin to my deceased client.

Being the deceased financial consultant before the untimely and sudden death and since i am the only one who has the knowledge where these funds ($30million) was moved to when the deceased demanded it be moved from  our office SMITH &WILLIAMSON to a security company,i can move this deal forward to it's successful end once we conclude to work together.What I expect from you is trust and commitment.There is a reward for this project and it is a task well worth undertaking.According to practice, the Security firm will by the end of this financial year broadcast a request for statements of claim to SMITH & WILLIAMSON Private Bank, failing to receive viable claims they will most probably revert the deposit back to SMITH & WILLIAMSON Private Bank. What I propose now is that if you are the relative to my client please let me know. I alone have the deposit details and they will release the deposit to no one unless I instruct them to do so. I alone know of the existence of this deposit for as far as SMITH & WILLIAMSON Private Private Bank is concerned, the transaction with our late customer concluded when I sent the funds to the security firm, all outstanding interactions in relation to the file are just customer services and due process. The Security firm has no single idea of what is the history or nature of the deposit. They are simply awaiting instructions to release the deposit to any party that comes forward. This is the situation.

 This bank has spent great amounts of money trying to track this man's family; they have investigated for months and have found no family. The investigation has come to an end. My proposal; you share similar details to the late fellow;

I am prepared to place you in a position to instruct the Securities firm 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 50/50.I would have gone ahead to ask the funds be released to me, but that would have drawn a straight line to me and my involvement in claiming the deposit. I assure you that I could have the deposit released to you within a few days.

 

I have evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here is for you to betray my confidence.

Hope to hear from you soon.

 

Peter