Email Fraud Alert received from: Ina
I recently received an email with this subject line: CLARIFICATION TO THE RESERVE BANK FOR PAYMENT 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:
Reserve Bank Building,
370 Church Street, PRETORIA
CLARIFICATION TO THE RESERVE BANK FOR PAYMENT
Attention: Fund Beneficiary.
This is an urgent notification to you. In our office today, Mr. John T. Kehoe of Cnr. Wimbledon
and Skool Street Black heath 8798, CAPE TOWN have filing application contrary to your
pending fund payment to be transferred into his personal account, that you have instructed him to
transfer the fund into his account.
Mr. John T. Kehoe, visited this Bank Last week with a power of attorney given in his favor by
your good self, granting him the benefit to process and claims your pending inheritance fund for
personal reasons. Mr. John T. Kehoe, he further stated that your online account should be
terminated while the fund should be wired to his account bellow in United State.
Bank account with Bank of America,
Account Number # 12908576457
Routing Number# 121000358.
Our office have ask Mr. John T. Kehoe to return back to the Bank within 48hours to enable us
have a personal confirmation from you being hitherto the beneficiary of this fund. And this fund
has been pending in our bank for some period of time. And authority letter have been issued to
all unpaid fund beneficiary to urgently claim their payment before the end of the Calendar, and
we have sent several notifications to you regards to this payment, but no responds. We are sorry
to have delayed your instruction in giving out this fund to Mr. John T. Kehoe. Please if you have
not instructed Mr. John T. Kehoe for the claim of this fund, you are advice to urgently contact
Mr. Francois E. Groepe on his email address francoisgroepe-remttdeprtsarb@accountant.com for
the confirmation and release of this payment into your account.
Your confirmation to the above will be appreciated. We look forward to hear from you soon.
Yours Faithfully
Ms G Marcus
The above email was sent by “G Marcus” from this email address: INFO@PRISM.IND.IN
I, Ina, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “G Marcus”:
This is not the 1st time I get a letter that is supposedly from The Reserve bank. Please note that the spelling is pathetic in most of these Phishing mails.