Email Fraud Alert received from: Colleen
I recently received an email with this subject line: £ 590,983 GBP 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:
Tsb Bank
P.O. Box 3463
3076 Sir Francis Drake’s Highway
Road town, London, England.
Phone 🙁 +44)7087695312
Fax: + (44) 707 515 7998
E-mail: onlinelloydsbankplc@yahoo.co.uk
Dear Esteemed Customer,
We are in receipt of your email, all winning prize money is bonded by the terms of service, in line with the rules and regulations of the Gaming Board of Great Britain and as such we cannot deduct from the winning prize money to set up this account. If you can’t not pay for the account is activation we cannot transfer your winning,
If you need more information about your winning prize Of 590,983 Pounds Sterling you can contact the Lloyds Bank Office for more information.
All winning prize money is bonded by the terms of service, in line with the rules and regulations of the Gaming Board of Great Britain and as such we cannot deduct from the winning prize money to set up this account.
We expect to get a prompt response from you.
Regards,
Head Foreign Transfer Unit
Lloyds Bank.
E-mail: onlinelloydsbankplc@yahoo.co.uk
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The above email was sent by “Charung.K@samtel.samartcorp.com” from this email address: Charung.K@samtel.samartcorp.com
I, Colleen, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “Charung.K@samtel.samartcorp.com”:
Oops – looks like I may have committed a criminal offence by making this phishing attempt public.
Not that I really care.
This mail evaded all of my spam filters so I just want to warn people to be careful out there.