Email Fraud Alert received from: Joseph
I recently received an email with this subject line: Tranfer of funds and I am concerned that it could be an attempt at defrauding me. Let me know in the comments section what you think, please.
The full contents of the suspected fraudulent (phishing / scamming) e-mail appear below:
Dear Joseph Sibanda ,
I am Felix Joel, personal attorney to Late Mr. Dennis Sibanda, a national of supposedly your country who used to work with Shell Development Company in Lome-Togo as a contract Staff and who was also instrumental to the construction of the International Cement Company, Lome. On the 1st of June 2010, my client, his wife and their only daughter, were involved in a car accident along Mylo express Road on holidays to Marion while driving their personal car. Unfortunately, all occupants of the vehicle lost their lives. I decided to track his last name over the Internet, to see if I will be lucky to locate any member of his family, hence I contacted you. Perhaps, you may not be related to him but it behoves on us to seize this golden opportunity to salvage his savings since I could not locate any relation of his either dead or alive.
I have in my records his documents where he left behind the sum of Eight million Five Hundred Thousand United States of American dollars (US$8.5 million) in a Bank. I have contacted you to assist me in repatriating this fund left behind by my client before it gets confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Bank where this huge amount was deposited. The Bank has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have his account confiscated within the next twenty one official working days as the policy of the bank is to overrun over five years of unserviceable and dormant accounts. They have a veritable excuse as they knew that my client was dead. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relations all this while, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased since you have the same last (surname) name. This is to enable us salvage the proceeds of his account and get it paid to you instead. I have this obsession that if the directors of the Bank confiscate the money, it might not be put into proper and useful ventures to benefit the poor masses of this world. I wish to use part of my share to donate to charitable organisations and churches. Therefore, should this proposal appeal to you and on receipt of your positive response, we shall then discuss the sharing ratio and modalities for transfer. I have all necessary information needed to back you up for the claim
The above email was sent by “bariister.felixjoel” from this email address: bariister.felixjoel.tg@gmail.com
I, Joseph, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “bariister.felixjoel”:
I just want to check if i an not falling in to fraud or scam.i just wanted to help