Email Fraud Alert received from: Gerrit
I recently received an email with this subject line: Finacial intelligence settlement 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
Fax Number: 086 760 7268
Office No: 7 Kikuyu Road Sunninghill Sandton Gauteng South Africa
Dear Email Owner/FWld Beneficiary,
IRREVOCABLE PAYMENT ORDER VIA ATM CARD
This message is directed to you based on the letter Office of Mr Pravrn Jamnadas Gordhan, the Honorable
(Minister of Finance) Republic of South Africa recerved from the lntemcrtronal Monetary Funds Agency (LM.F) and
the GB Summit meeting headed last regarding the settlement of all Wrnmng/lnheritance funds to the Beneficiar ies.
Now, we have actually been authorized by Mr. Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan, the Honorable (MiniSter of Finance)
Republic of South Afnca and the International Monetary Fund (JMF) secretary general to contact you for your
overdue payment. Thrs rs the third time your Payment file has come to my table, and every trme 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 recerved another
permanent Authority/IrrevocablE’ Release/Unconditronal payments guarantee by the Honorable Minrster of Finance,
Mr. Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan to pay you off your Winning/Inheritance Funds vra ATM Visa Card.
Also note thai from the record rn my file your outstanding Winning/Inheritance p11yment rs USD$1.5MIIIIon dollars
(One Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) only Now your new Payment Reference No.-
35460021, Allocation No 674632 Password No: 339331. Pin Code No 7644 and your Certificate of Mer it Payment
No: 103, ATM Vrsa card Released Code No 0763; Immediate TeleJr confirmation No· -1114433, Secret Code No:
XXTN013, Having recerved these vital payment numbers. therefore You are qualified now teo received and confirm
Your payment with the HSt'(: BANK PLC LONDON UNITED KINGDOM vra ATM Vrsa Card.
To issue the ATM Visa Card, you are therefor~ advrsed to contact the HSBC BANK PLC LONDON UNITED
KINGDOM, this is so because the Unrted Nations Anti-Cnme Commissron 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. enablefo consumers, businesses, financial institutions and
governments to •Jse digital currency instead of cash and ~hecks. Krndly 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 Pic London UK)
Contact Email: drmarshall1012@aol.com
Direct Office lines: +44 703 195 0142 EXT .002
Please provide us with 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. Cell/Mobile Number:
6. Email address~
NOTE: You are advrsed to furnrsh DR. W. R. MARSHALL with your correct and valid details. Also be informed that
the amount to be paid to you now is USD$1.5MIIIIon (One Million Five Hundred Thousand United State
Dollars) only. W’d expect your urgent response to this email as to enable us monitor th1s payment effectively
thereby making contact with DR W. R. MARSHALL as directed to avoid further delay.
Please Be Warned, as The Unrted Nations Anti-Crime Commrssion 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 communrcatrons you arE’ having wrth any other Agent or
bank officials in Europe, As1a and Afnca regarding to your payment
Thanks for your understanding as you follow instructions.
Yours in Services.
M .. ANDREW MOOR
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER
(FIC) SOUTH AFRICA.
The above email was sent by “PUBLIC OFFICER “ from this email address: faustina@cantv.net
I, Gerrit, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “PUBLIC OFFICER “:
The idiots ! since when does a bank in London use a aol.com email address ? There is a saying ” if something is too good to be true, it usually is !”