Email Fraud Alert received from: Recipient
I recently received an email with this subject line: Payment Review Kindly view the attached letter and booked for your claim 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:
The Group of 77 Summit Payment Review Panel 2016
Attention: Recipient,
Your case was top of the agenda in the board meeting held , first quarter this year 2016, concerning overdue unpaid
lottery benefit from the Email Addresses Awards/Rica Awards/Microsoft Awards/Yahoo Awards/Hotmail Awards/
Facebook Awards/Coca-Cola Awards and FIFA world cup lottery Awards valued at GBP £950,000.00 (Nine Hundred
and Fifty Thousand Great British Pound Sterling).
Please contact us indicating your CODE: UKSALP0434ZA via E-mail: financier.d@consultant.com for immediate
payout via ATM VISA CARD to be issued by ROYAL BANK OF LONDON UNITED KINGDOM. Kindly follow the
instruction as directed.
Your co-operation is essential to this demand.
Best Regards,
Mr. William Adams
Group of 77 First Secretary /Foreign Affairs.
Republic Of South Africa
Email: financier.d@consultant.com
The above email was sent by “INFO” from this email address: masegomabina@auto-sueco.co.bw
I, Recipient, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “INFO”:
OMW – so many awards and you only want to send me a measly GBP £950,000.00 – come on you can do better than that!