Well I must say, the nice well educated Chinese Banker has got back in touch with me. This time with a somewhat more verbose email, just asking me to prove who I am – quite reasonable when you consider that he’s going to give me some $8.35 Million. The email is below;

Dear Friend,
 
First I wish to thank you for your response and I sincerely appreciate your interest to assist me in this transaction and be rest assured this is for real, however I would like to be sure of your willingness, trustworthiness and commitment to execute this transaction with me,I cannot afford to compromise these virtues and none of your personal information will be shared with anybody whatsoever I have my principles. Before i proceed it is about one of my late client who died in a auto crash with the family some eight years ago and every effort for me to trace any know person proved to be abortive. Considering the money involved,it is necessary for me to be sure of the person to whom I will be entrusting this transaction,my trust is not given out lightly,I need to be convinced that you are a matured person with some integrity hence may i know your FULL NAMES,OCCUPATION,RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS AND PHONE NUMBER. Before we proceed any further i will like to remind you on how we are to share the money at the end. At the end of the transaction the money will be shared 50% for me,50% for you.
I want to let you know of myself so that you will be rest assured of whom you are transacting with. I am married with two children Liu my daughter and Lee my son. My address is #1, Fortune Garden, 20 Wing Ting Road, Ngan Chi Wan, Kln, and Hong Kong. i have lived here for the last 13 years. It is not ideal to have your documents send via mailing you can scan and attached or still send via email.
With regards to the legality, I want to inform you that an attorney will prepare the Affidavits which shall legally put you in place as next of kin, he will obtain the necessary clearances which will cover all the aspects involved in this transaction from the Hong Kong authorities including the Justice department. I am happy to inform you that i have already set aside some amount of money to pay the lawyer for his services. I am not making use of my own lawyer since i want it to be highly confidential as in my wife is not even aware of it. This is because i do not want anybody who know me to know of it since they might want to discourage me so i will like you to act the same way as well. What I expect from you is trust and commitment, I want this large sum of money transferred with your assistance, and as a banker I know that if we follow up this transaction diligently it would be completed within 12 working days. I want to know if you are willing to follow up this business seriously before I can give you more details about this transaction, as a result of which I shall be waiting for your response and assurance, you need to be someone whom I can rely upon, at least for absolute comittment.
 
I await your response.
 
Sincerely yours,
Patrick Chan.
 
I’ll have to think a little bit about this and try and give a convincing response to keep him interested, comments are welcome – at least he follows process. Well I’ve had a think, I decided I’m really interested in getting my hands on this money so I replied to the nice much more verbose chinese man as follows.
 
 

Dear Patrick or do you prefer Paddy,

 

I like very much the sound of you business proposition, I can understand that you don’t want me to send paper mail to you Pat. To tell you the truth I have a lot of paper mail go missing at my address, I think the man in the other room steals it and smokes it (there’s a lot of that going on here). So to speed this up Patrice I will send the details electronically, please rest assured that I will be very discrete Paddey – I won’t tell a soul about our little arrangement.

 

I very much like the idea of having an attorney (We call them Lawyers in the UK except when we don’t like them – then we call them something else Patric) do the work, that means that it will all be legal. Anyway thank you for sharing your personal details with me Patrice, I feel I should do the same so as you know I too am a real person. I also am married with two children a Boy and Girl, I also understand why you don’t want the wife to know about this – I wont be telling mine either Paddie.

 

My name is Beauregarde and I’m a Company Director live in a town called Gateshead, the address is 6 Poplar Crescent, Bensham, Gateshead, NE81QD, United Kingdom.

 

Just tell me what else you need from me and we’ll get this thing rolling Patrique.

 

Kind Regards Beauregarde