Email Fraud Alert received from: Max
I recently received an email with this subject line: NOTIFICATION OF YOUR PAYMENT VIA ATM CARD. 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:
From: Mr. Frank Edward
Director- General, ATM Card Payment.
Federal Republic of Nigeria
Central District Area, Lagos
Attention: Distinguished Beneficiary,
This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract file
presently on my desk, and I found out that you have not received your payment
due to your lack of co-operation and not fulfilling the obligations giving to
you in respect to your contract payment.Secondly,you are hereby advised to stop
dealing with some non-officials in the bank as this is an illegal act and will
have to stop if you so wish to receive your payment After the Board of
directors’ meeting held in Abuja,
we have resolved in finding a solution to your problem. We have arranged your
payment through our ATM CARD PAYMENT CENTER in Europe, America,Africa and Asia
Pacific,This is part of an instruction/mandate passed by the Senate in respect
to overseas contract payment and debt re-scheduling.
We will send you an ATM CARD which you will use to withdraw your money via ATM
MACHINE in any part of the world,and the maximum daily limit is five Thousand
United States Dollars($5,000.00) valued sum at two Million five hundred thousand United States
Dollars {$2.5000,000.00}.
If you desire to receive your fund this way, Kindly re-confirm your:
Full Name: —————–
Phone Number: ———–
Country: ———————-
Address:———————–
Occupation: —————–
Sex: ————————–
Age: ————————–
You will find below my personal email address and contact telephone number.
phone:(+234-807-7406-851)
Email:(frankedward720@gmail.com)
Name: Mr. Frank Edward.
We shall be expecting to receive your information as you have to stop any
further communication with anybody or
officer.
Thanks for your co-operation.
BEST REGARDS,
MR. Frank Edward
Federal Republic of Nigeria
from: Mr. Frank Edward.
reply-to: frankedward720@gmail.com
to:
date: Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 7:12 PM
subject: NOTIFICATION OF YOUR PAYMENT VIA ATM CARD.
mailed-by: dev2mail.com.br
The above email was sent by “Mr. Frank Edward.” from this email address: teste@dev2mail.com.br
I, Max, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “Mr. Frank Edward.”:
Am I to believe that this is NOT a Nigerian 411 scam as it purports to come from Nigeria? Pull the other leg Frankie Baby!
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