Email Fraud Alert received from: Jacob
I recently received an email with this subject line: Foreign Payments (Contract/Inheritance dept) 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:
Mr. Kenneth Robertson
Director of Payments
Foreign Payments (Contract/Inheritance dept)
Pretoria 001, Johannesburg South Africa.
Attn: Beneficiary.
This is to officially notify you that your delayed contract/Lottery/Inheritance payment has finally been approved to be paid to you within the next 48 hours. This instruction came to our office to contact you immediately for the transfer of your approved amount to your designated bank account without any further delay.
This office oversees and approves all foreign payments coming out of Africa to Europe, Asia Far East and USA. Our job is to make sure that beneficiary’s funds are remitted to them within 48 hours once they have completed the requirements via our approved banks.
Just few hours ago, a man by name Mr. Tim Mallett contacted our office informing us that you have given him instruction and authority to receive the approved US$17,900,000.00 (Seventeen Million Nine Hundred Thousand US Dollars) only on your behalf. According to him, he said that you asked him to represent you in receiving this amount also he forwarded an account where your funds should be transferred to immediately.
Here is the information he forwarded to us for your own confirmation:
Tim Mallett
G&T Volunteers
370 Lacroix Street Chatham,
Ontario Canada N7M 2W3
TD Canada Trust
255 King Street at 3rd Chatham,
Ontario Canada N7M 1E6
Account# 0011-6243094
Transit & Branch # 060-00112-004
We want you to confirm to us immediately if you at any time instructed the above person to receive this amount on your behalf and if no, you are requested to immediately reconfirm your own details for immediate transfer of the above sum to your account.
Upon receipt of your confirmation, we shall immediately process your payment documents and forward it to our approved paying Bank to carry out your transfer within the next 48 hours after processing. If you sent this man, do reconfirm also to enable us process the payment and carry out transfer to him without any further delay.
We will appreciate your urgent response and confirmation as this office has been given until two weeks to carry out all approved payments or return them as unclaimed payment. Note that the earlier you respond to this message, the better as all modalities have been put in place for immediate transfer of the above sum to your account
Thanking you for letting us serve you better.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Kenneth Robertson
Director of Foreign Payments
Finance Ministry, South Africa
The above email was sent by “Mr. Kenneth Robertson” from this email address: kenrobertson995@bvn.co.za
I, Jacob, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “Mr. Kenneth Robertson”:
Dear Kenneth, could you rather send the money to:
Jacob Zuma
Nkandla Residence
Kwa-Zulu NatalWe would prefer that it be delivered cash and the addressee will sign for it.