Email Fraud Alert received from: Sharon
I recently received an email with this subject line: Re:Funds Payment Approval Notification 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,
This mail serves to notify you that your funds have been approved for payment.
In order to execute the transfer of your funds; kindly contact the processing officer with the following contact details:
Name: Lee Hinton
Email:leehinton001@gmail.com
Payment reference info:HSBCRF/0039947721/06014
Do not respond to this email address as it is an unmanned email address.
Funds Transfer Team
HSBC Bank PLC
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HSBC Bank plc
Registered Office: 8 Canada Square, London E14 5HQ
Registered in England – Number 14259
Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority
This E-mail is confidential.
It may also be legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you
may not copy, forward, disclose or use any part of it. If you have
received this message in error, please delete it and all copies
from your system and notify the sender immediately by return E-mail.
Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be timely secure,
error or virus-free. The sender does not accept liability for any errors or omissions.
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The above email was sent by “jblair@hsbcprivate-bank.com” from this email address: jblair@hsbcprivate-bank.com
I, Sharon, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “jblair@hsbcprivate-bank.com”:
Just a warning – this one slipped past my spam filters – be careful people.