Fraud Alert

Chinese Letter Fraud

Attempts have been made to defraud members of the public by sending them unsolicited letters from individuals based in China.

The letters are always sent from an individual claiming for example, to be a private investment manager or a business relationship manager. The manager makes further claims, stating to have managed funds of either a relative or of someone who has a similar name to the letter recipient usually dated backing to the 1990’s.

In addition, the individual has been involved in an accident and has died intestate. The sums of money mentioned in the letter, is usually in millions of US Dollars. The letter recipient is asked for complete discretion and the manager will make them the beneficiary of the funds mentioned.

The only details on the letter of the sender are an email address and a telephone and fax number. No postal address is mentioned.

If you receive such a letter, DO NOT RESPOND TO IT and destroy it by using a shredder.

You can complain to the email address provider and include the original headers and footers. When you complain, you will need to include the headers and footers. For step by step advice on how to achieve this, see advice given at spam.abuse.net.

See below the email addresses in order to make your complaint.

Yahoo email address is Abuse@yahoo.com

Hotmail email address is Abuse@hotmail.com

AOL email address is Abuse@aol.com

If the email address is from any other address contact www.abuse.net that will find out the relevant email provider and pass the complaint on.

When you forward the email on to the relevant provider, always include a message from yourself stating why you are contacting them.