Interesting Letter from "Chinese policeman"

[AlbertaSatellite]

Is this real, or some kind of scam? They want ID, bank receipts, etc. I have never done business with email addresses noted - they may have sent me email with pricing, but I receive hundreds of those.

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A letter for foreign internet businessman

Dear ladies and gentlemen,
This is putian public security bureau internet supervisory department.

Thank you for your trading with Chinese and promoting Chinese economy. But we hope you will take a few moments to read this letter.

We found out that maybe you were one of the victims when we investigated a defrauding case from the internet false information. The suspects do that always this way: they have been scattering information that they have lots of goods to sell since November,2006 .when you contact them, they will negotiate with you at much lower than the current market price and ask you pay beforehand. After taking the money, the suspect will make an excuse like ‘I did not receive your money.’ ‘I sent the product’ to you; they will even send you something useless. So far, products they used to cheat you we found are MP4 Players, play station(PS),ipods, xboxs and etc. If you have contacted the supects through producttop@hotmail.com, producttopmay@hotmail.com, producttop@yahoo.com.cn, producttopmay@yahoo.com.cn to buy their products as above-mentioned and paid for them , but you did not receive the products you want after a long time, maybe you are have been cheated.

In order to verify the case,to protect your legal rights and interest and punish the suspects, we need your assistance.

We will accuse the suspect in the Chinese court instead of you on the basis of the materials you supplied. The material includes 1,your real ID credential of your country and area.2,the receipt or invoice of the bank’s remittance.3, copies of the e-mails you comunicated with the suspect through the e-mail box as above -mentioned. We need copies of the products name, quantity, total remittance amount, and the account number of the banks or western union . Copies you telling the suspect that you have sent the money to him are also needed.

After Chinese policemen investigate your case and Chinese courts pronounce judgment, we will try our best to return what you lost. Of course,you must guarantee the evidence you supplied is real and not forged.

We are only investigating the cases related to the four e-mail boxes as mentioned above. If the suspects did not communicate to you through these e-mail boxes , please do not answer this letter, because the suspects are not the ones we are investigating.

Please remember our information.

Address: Putian municipal public security bureau , Fujian province, china
Tel: 0086-594-2682802,e-mailtga@winmail.cn, Homepage: www.putian.cyberpolice.cn/index.asp

Please contact us by e-mail.

Thank you for your assistance and welcome you to coutinue your trade with china.

Chinese policeman
3,23.2007
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ptga
2007-04-12

[_Odyssey]

PMSL ...

What Chinese police officer would sign off on a communique like that as:

Chinese Policeman

lol sounds like a variation of the old "Nigerian 419" email scams. And who ever wrote it contradicts himself here >

"We are only investigating the cases related to the four e-mail boxes as mentioned above. If the suspects did not communicate to you through these e-mail boxes , please do not answer this letter, because the suspects are not the ones we are investigating"

If he's not investigating the suspects, than who is he investigating?

That bit doesn't make sense to me... ditch the email and don't respond dude. It's a scam.

[Ely]

I would not give this message much credit either unless you have a lot more prove of its authenticity, however the email does make sense when they say that if the email addresses do not match the ones listed then those are "Some other suspects" and not the "suspects" they are looking for regarding this specific case. it makes perfect sense to me, maybe its a language grammatical thing. Again I don't believe police from another part of the world would be contact you via email, it just doesn't sound authentic.

[Hotboxx]

The average Chinese policeman can not speak, read or write English. And this letter is not personal, just copy/paste. Delete it, or play a game with them to find out what is the next step. .............let me guess, they will ask your creditcard number.............OMG!!!, they did allready by asking for your receipts, and on the receipts can be your creditcard number.

[_Odyssey]

Originally Posted by Hotboxx";p=&quot

The average Chinese policeman can not speak, read or write English. And this letter is not personal, just copy/paste. Delete it, or play a game with them to find out what is the next step. .............let me guess, they will ask your creditcard number.............OMG!!!, they did allready by asking for your receipts, and on the receipts can be your creditcard number.

Spot on Hotboxx! They're fishing for personal information. Or "Phishing" as it's called. They gather as much info about someone as they can, steal their identity, use it for all kinds of ill purposes and then the local police rock up on your doorstep, take you away and lock you up for a very long time while the crims are sitting pretty somewhere ready for the next victim.

[lattesurf]

Just delete the mail.

It's the new "we have 10million USD with the Johannesburg Government, and we need your help to recover the money. Send us your bank account details and we will give you 20% of the amount...."

Crap.

But seriously, do not ever give your personal details away, no matter how much money they promise you. My friend did it, and his bank account got frozen by the South Australian Police, on grounds of money laundering. His account got frozen for about almost 2 months for investigation, and he can't even withdraw his own money to pay rent!