Sooner or later we hope the folks in China start getting pissed off that Nigerians are pretending to own companies over there in order to victimize English-speaking countries like the United States, UK and Canada. When you stop and think about it, it's kind of a form of terrorism. But it's the quiet kind that hardly anyone talks about, because it terrorizes individuals who become scared or humiliated to come forward.

The really crappy part about this offer is that not only do they want to steal your money and probably your identity too, but they want you to use your home equity line of credit to interact with them. Which means they plan on sending you LARGE fake checks to try to get you to wire large amounts of that line of credit to them. What'll happen is those NSFs will be deducted from your account after the fact. Essentially you lose the money twice -- once when you send it to the scammer and then again when your bank reverses the nonexistent funds.

We especially love how they tell you it's not related to money laundering and does not involve drug money. How many legitimate employers do you know who feel the need to mention that? ZERO, that's how many!

At the very least, remember this: genuine employers NEVER ask their employees to use their own bank accounts to manage company funds. EVER. Ask anyone. 

Message text:
Dear Friend,

My name is  Hu Chengzhong and i am an artist and the ownerof BYZANTINE ART
CO;LTD in China. I sell my products to my customers in U.S.A,Canada and Uk
which i find it very difficult in recieving my payments from them in the
past as they have requested to pay through a direct wire transfer into a
home equity line of credit account. I have had a lot of experiences in the
past when they were paying through checks and money orders.

I have resolved these issues with them that they cannot make payments via
checks and money orders any longer. We now accepted that all payments should
be made by swift wire transfer into a home equity line of credit account in
the United Sates. They requested all payments to be made into "A Home Equity
Line of Credit Account".Why they requested for such account is that the
funds will be more secured into such account and the IRS will never question
any amount of money coming in or going out of the account. I need you to be
my representative in the United States if you own such account. I will offer
you 5% of any of my payment that passed through your home equity line of
credit account. You will never invest any money at the course of this
transaction.

This transaction is 100% legal and does not relate to money laundering and
is free from Drug money. The amount of money depends on the volume of
facilities sold which ranges from $500,000.00 and above depending on the
limit of your account. I will detail you as soon as i hear from you.I will
forward a copy of my identification to you as we progress with this
transaction. Please do not forget to provide your direct telephone number so
i can also give you a call.

Email:huchengzhong1 @ yahoo.com.cn

NOTE: YOU WILL NOT PAY OUT ANY MONEY FROM YOUR POCKET TILL THE END OF THE
TRANSACTION

Best regards

Hu Chengzhong
byzantine art Company Ltd
11th Floor,byzantine
Mansion qingchun
road 164 hangzhou zhejiang
China

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