I received this message the other night and it looks like an ID theft attempt.


Dear Sir,
I work with the International Remittances Department of the Central Bank (CBN), I saw a file in respect of fund that has been abandoned. The amount in question is Twelve Million, Five hundred Thousand United States Dollars (USD$12,500,000.00) only.I suggest that I can assist you in getting this fund by issuing you a HSBC -ATM DEBIT CARD. What I need from you is acceptance for me to go ahead and we agree on what you will give to me at the end of the day. If it is ok by you, I will advice you to get back to me so that I will give you more details on Procedure.I will need your telephone and fax numbers for further communication.
Be rest assured that everything will work out fine.
Regards,
Dr Frank Wills


Beware folks

 

Daz, this is a very coarse attempt at ID Theft. The spelling and grammar are poor and the amount is unfeasibly large for an individual. I'd say this falls under the 'Nigerian Scam' definition where people are promised large sums for helping Princes, Politicians and Doctors etc get money back from a tied up acct or Government etc...this plays on peoples greed and vain hope that such a thing may be true..

There are far more sophisticated ID Fraud scams out there with highly advanced 'Phishing' scams with genuine looking bank emails and websites designed to trap the more security savvy people.

Simple working method is NEVER give ANY bank or personal details across unsolicited communications (net, email, telephone etc....). If it sounds genuine but you have ANY doubt then get their number and call them back..Ask for a manager to verify what they are doing..ask for their website address and ask where they are calling from (what call centre).

NO decent bank or financial institution will send you an email or call you to ask for your details because they've lost them or need to re-enter them in their systems. They may ring you to sell you something (called cross sell), but all they'll do is ask for your your security password or details of your last spend or direct debit (they have to do this for data protection reasons).. then they'll sell / offer you a product...

If anyone is in any further doubt, then I'll be happy to help identify an email, website or anything you feel is looking to rip you off...

 

I was going to say exactly the same with regards to the bad spelling and grammar ....... Dead give away !!

 

Give them Al's address, he'll track 'em down......after they've wiped out his Xmas club money

Hope you're well Daz

 

Hi CB long time off line, broadband problems and all that.

How's the driving school doing? Must be ok looking at that tv setup

 

Long hours, but going well. Winding down for Chrimbo now but I've been doing 12+ hours a day on top of the 12 1/2 hour weekend nightshifts and it's been getting me down a bit. The TV is to cheer me up (must get grumpy more often ). YHPM

 

thats a well old scam

 

What, pretending to be grumpy so's the missuse will let you have an expensive telly

 

Is that miss use of the telly? or misused or just used??

 

Pretending to be telly

 

Ere some telly blokes just had a crash!!
Whooo,telly rules!
don't know the fella,but heS on TV.Der

 

if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.