Email Fraud Alert received from: Worst
I recently received an email with this subject line: Business proposal 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:
Good Day Mr./Madam
Kindly read the attached file for my business proposal and get back to me.
Regards,
Mr. Alfred Best
The Attached pdf file read as follows:
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing to seek your cooperation over this business proposal. First I must solicit your
confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top
secret.
Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried,
but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. Let me start by introducing myself
properly to you. I am Mr. Alfred Best, an account manager with Clydesdale Bank international
United Kingdom. I came to know you in my Private Search for a Reliable and Reputable Person to
handle this Confidential Transaction, which involves the transfer of huge sum of Money to a
Foreign Account requiring Maximum Confidence.
In my department, i discovered an abandoned sum of £5million (FIVE MILLION BRITISH POUND)
Only, in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire
family in a plane crash that took place in Kenya, East Africa, the bank now expects a next of kin as
beneficiary. Valuable efforts are being made by the Bank to get in touch with any of the Bromley’s
remaining family or relatives but all to no success. The Late DR. GEORGE Bromley is a known
Philanthropist in Africa and U.SA.
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over
and claim his money because it cannot be released unless somebody applies for it as next of kin
or business associate to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately all
his supposed next of kin died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for
the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and
release the funds to you via your foreign bank account by standing as the next of kin/ Business
associate to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement. The Banking law and
guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after seven years, the money will
be transferred into the HM treasury account as unclaimed fund.
The sharing of the fund is thus: 40% for you the account owner, 50% for me and the remaining
10% for expenses for both parties. If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not make undue
advantage of the trust i have bestowed in you. On your interest, kindly respond with your details,
such as: 1.
5.
Your Full Names: 2. Cell Phone Numbers: 3. Fax Numbers: 4. Postal Address:
Occupation
and
6.
Date
of
birth.
Reply
to
my
private
email:
alfredbestprivate@gmail.com and mine as well shall be sent to you for you to know
whom you are dealing with.
Best regards,
Mr. Alfred Best
The above email was sent by “Mr. Alfred Best” from this email address: alfredbestmanagment@gmail.com
I, Worst, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “Mr. Alfred Best”:
My recommendation is that you BEST stay away from this one.