Email Fraud Alert received from: smanga
I recently received an email with this subject line: proposition 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:
Good day,
You may wonder why I am reaching out to you in spite of friends that I have known for years, the singular reason is that I have by the very nature of this proposition, and the required confidentiality decided to deal with a person that I have not met before so that we can develop the trust and execute this transaction without a third party. I would not have used this medium to reach out to you, but I chose to because it is the fastest, surest and most secured medium of communication. However, this correspondence is unofficial and private, and it should be treated as such.
I have decided to contact you first via SMS due to the urgency of this transaction. Let me start by introducing myself properly to you. I am Mr. Anthony Greg, an account manager with Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, USA; I am contacting you in respect of an investment you probably would be interested in.
I know you might be surprised how I got your contact number, I got your contact from the South African Chamber of Commerce and industry in a Private Search for a reliable person to stand as a next of kin or business associate to a deceased account. The investment has to do with the funds of a deceased client. Who has no next of kin as he died with his wife and only child; I was his account officer before he passed on. I am contacting you as I have all documents relating to the account and can facilitate the claim.
The client was having a total sum of Eight Million Five hundred thousand dollars ($8,500 000.00) in his fixed deposit account with my branch. The fund has been there in his account for over seven years with no one to claim the funds. I have made all arrangement to make you the beneficiary to the deceased to enable you to receive the fund in your account as the rightful beneficiary, and you will get 50% of the total fund while I get 50% of the total capital.
Please be assured that this transaction will be done legally and would have to be kept entirely confidential. When I get a reply from you, then I will give you more information on how to handle this transaction.
Thanks,
Mr. Anthony Greg.
Acc. Manager, HSBC
The above email was sent by “Anthony Greg” from this email address: anthonygreg704@gmail.com
I, smanga, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “Anthony Greg”:
How will you do that