Email Fraud Alert received from: Chris
I recently received an email with this subject line: Good News 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:
Attn: Category “E” Payment Beneficiary.
We hereby confirm receipt of your part payment of L750,000.00 (Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great Britain Pounds Sterling) only into our POUNDS STERLING BONDED ESCROW ACCOUNT, which is for deposits only from Bank of England (B.O.E) in charge of Foreign Debt Recovery Committee on overdue delayed payments such as Contract Payments, Inheritance Payments and Lottery Payments to rightful beneficiaries as indicated in our secure telephonic banking system database tagged as category “E” payment with Reference Number: PF008006UK14.
Please note that you will make your transfer by yourself from your land line or your cell phone via our secure telephonic banking system. Contact me for more details via any of this email addresses: mrsjenniferthompson@tech-center.com or jenniferthompsontbd7@gmail.com
Funds will be retrieved to treasury after ten (10) business days of this notice.
Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Jennifer Thompson.
Natwest Bank, Private Banking, London, United Kingdom.
(Director of Operations, Natwest Bank, Private Banking, Telephonic Bank Department)
The above email was sent by “Mrs. Jennifer Thompson” from this email address: jenniferthompsontbd7@gmail.com
I, Chris, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “Mrs. Jennifer Thompson”:
Oh why don’t you just go away making sexual movements?