Email Fraud Alert received from: Debbie
I recently received an email with this subject line: ATM PAYMENT LETTER ATTACHED 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:
Human Settlements
FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE CENTRE (FIC)
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
Office No: 7 Kikuyu Road Sunninghill Sandton Gauteng South Africa
Fax Number: 086 760 7268
Dear Email Owner/Fund Beneficiary,
IRREVOCABLE PAYMENT ORDER VIA ATM CARD
This message is directed to you based on the letter Office of Mr. Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan, the Honorable (Minister of Finance)
Republic of South Africa received from the International Monetary Funds Agency (I.M.F) and the G8 Summit meeting headed last
regarding the settlement of all Winning/ Inheritance funds to the Beneficiaries.
Now, we have actually been authorized by Mr. Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan, the Honorable (Minister of Finance) Republic of South
Africa and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) secretary general to contact you for your overdue payment. This is the third
time your Payment file has come to my table, and every time an Executive Order comes from the government ordering that your
fund should be recalled back to the World Bank Escrow account, without any genuine reason. Meanwhile, our Payment
Settlement System (PSS) has received another permanent Authority/Irrevocable Release/Unconditional payments guarantee by
the Honorable Minister of Finance, Mr. Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan to pay you off your Winning/ Inheritance Funds via ATM Visa
Card.
Also note that from the record in my file your outstanding Winning/Inheritance payment is ZAR3, 500.000.00 (Three Million Five
Hundred Thousand Rand) only. Now your new Payment Reference No.-35460021, Allocation No: 674632 Password No: 339331,
Pin Code No: 7644 and your Certificate of Merit Payment No: 103, ATM Visa Card Released Code No: 0763; Immediate Telex
confirmation No: -1114433, Secret Code No: XXTN013, Having received these vital payment numbers, therefore You are
qualified now to received and confirm Your payment with the HSBC BANK PLC LONDON UNITED KINGDOM via ATM Visa Card.
To issue the ATM Visa Card, you are therefore advised to contact the HSBC BANK PLC LONDON UNITED KINGDOM, this is so
because the United Nations Anti-Crime Commission and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Honorable Minister of
Finance has chosen them to payout your fund, because HSBC Bank ATM Visa Card is a global payments technology that enables
consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments to use digital currency instead of cash and checks, Kindly contact
the HSBC Bank ATM Visa Card Issuance Department now with the below contact details:
Contact: DR. W. R. MARSHALL.
Director ATM VISA CARD Issuance Department
(HSBC Bank Plc London UK)
Contact Email: drwrmarshall@aol.com
Direct Office lines: +44 703 195 0142 EXT-002
Please provide us with the information as stated below:
1. Your Full Name:
2. Address Where You Want the Courier Company to Send Your ATM Card
To or (P.O Box)
3. Your Age:
4. Occupation:
5. Email address:
6. Cell/Mobile Number:
Be Warned & Note: We expect your urgent response to this email as to enable us monitor this payment effectively thereby making contact with DR. W. R.
MARSHALL as directed to avoid further delay and/or as The United Nations Anti-Crime Commission and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) does not
instruct any other Bank or agent in this payment except (DR. W. R. MARSHALL), whom we can only give attention to, and from now, we advice you to stop
all the communications you are having with any other Agent or bank officials in Europe, Asia and Africa regarding to your payment.
Thanks for your understanding as you follow instructions.
Yours faithfully,
MR. ANDREW MOOR
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER.
(FIC) SOUTH AFRICA.
The above email was sent by “public officer” from this email address: webzz5555@outlook.com
I, Debbie, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “public officer”:
Searched for the address and came up with several other fraudulant e-mails with the same address.