If you get these emails often, you have to give credit to those who take the time to make them look legit. Like Mr. Mengfei. He gives us the classic three paragraph style letter (who we are? what we do/why we need you? What you get? But he cleans up all the bad spelling and punctuation, adds some numbers and other legitimizing facts about his organization and really sells it. So proud of you Mr. Mengfei. As you continue to find ways to lie, cheat and steal from naive lawyers, I encourage you to take some chances and provide us something a bit more entertaining.

Dear Sir/Madam,

The China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), founded in 1982, is one of the largest state-owned oil giants in China, as well as the largest offshore oil and gas producer.It is authorized to cooperate with foreign partners for oil and gas exploitation in China’s offshore areas. Headquartered in Beijing, it has a total staff of 5,000 with a registered capital of RMB 94.9 billion.

Due to some accounts in USA, Canada and North/South America not fulfilling their contractual obligations, we are currently looking to appoint a legal representative in your Country to ensure that our delinquent or past due accounts are settled and represent our company in the collection or possible law suit. We are incapacitated by distance logistics to directly collect payments that are due or to commence litigations directly in such cases, but our company cannot continue to absorb the continued losses from unpaid accounts. Below are the services we hope your organization can help us with.

1.Received payments that are due from our customers.(2.) Received the said funds of past due accounts and keep in a trust account on our behalf until requested by our company.(3.) Payments receive from USA, Canada and North/South America are used for the purchase of raw material, you will be instructed on how and when to disburse to our suppliers and supply us with monthly details of how much that was collected and subsequently disbursed.(4). In the event of any customer not wanting to pay their debt, help us in possible law suit.

Should your organization be able to provide these services to us, please contact me for more information by this email: mrwumengfei0ffice@msn.com

Mr.Wu Mengfei (Chief Financial Officer)
Human Resources Service Co.
CNOOC Oil Base Group Ltd.
Address:6 Dongzhimenwai Xiaojie,
Dongcheng District, Beijing, China 100027
Telephone:010-845210, 010-845319
Fax:010-646025
Website:www.cnooc.com.cn