I get one of these emails every day--do people still fall for these scams?


karim karoui <______@gmail.com> Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:45 AM

Hello sir,


I am Mr. Karim Karoui Head of Business Planning & Financial Control of
the First Gulf Bank Abu-Dhabi Main Branch, Abu-Dhabi - United Arab
Emirates (www.fgb.ae). I am making this proposition to you in regards
to a deposit to the tune of us$35,000,000.00 with my bank. As the head
of business planning & financial control department of the bank, it is
my duty to approve and release any fixed deposit unclaimed with my
bank.


In the month of November 2007, a customer to my bank by name Mr. Zack
Shahin who was the CEO of Deyaar Development one of the largest
real-estate companies deposited the above mentioned amount under fixed
deposit with my bank and now the said Mr. Zack Shahin a USA citizen is
jailed here in UAE for charges that was not disclosed to the public.
According to UAE law, any property or deposit that is identified to
belong to Mr. Zack Shahin will be confiscated by the Government of
UAE. Based on this, Mr. Zack Shahin whom I have been visiting in the
jail since month of April have asked me to source for a foreign
investor who I can present you claim his deposit with my bank.


Mr. Zack Shahin is willing and ready to endorse any kind of agreement
that I will prepare stating that the deposit with my bank was given to
him by the foreign investor as a bridge of loan and with such letter
signed by Mr. Zack Shahin and you which will be backdated, the
Government has no right to confiscate the funds and the bank will
approve and transfer the deposit into any account that you shall
nominate as beneficiary of funds. I am 100% sure of this arrangement
and Mr. Zack Shahin is ready to endorse letter that will prove that
you have given the said deposit to him as loan and with such letter
signed by Mr. Zack Shahin, you as beneficiary of funds have the right
according to UAE financial law to claim the deposit from the bank and
I have a reputable attorney here that can represent you claim the
deposit without upfront payment of attorney fees.


If you agree to execute this deal, the rewards/percentage will be
shared thus: 40% for you, 40% you will keep in your account for Mr.
Zack Shahin till his release and 20% for me for my role in this deal.
For more details about Mr. Zack Shahin's case, input his name on
google.com and click on the second report (2ndUPDATE:UAE Deyaar CEO
Zack Shahin Jailed In Dubai-Official)


Get back to me for more explanation on how we can work things out to
have the funds transferred to your account and I must let you know
that this deal is risk free to the law of UAE as far as Mr. Zack
Shahin is willing and ready to endorse agreement indicating that the
funds belongs to you.


Await your early response.


Thanks,
Mr. Karim Karoui