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The message below (shown in yellow) is a typical example of a bank/investment scam. The sender (who is just a scammer and doesn’t work at a bank) claims to have millions of dollars that he/she wants to invest in your country. But if you make the mistake of contacting the scammer, you’ll soon be told that the money will be available once you send the required “transfer fee” or “currency exchange fee” or something similar. If you make the bigger mistake of sending that “fee,” the scammer will quickly disappear with your money and will never be heard from again.
My name is Ms. Wai Wan, Vice Chairman/Ceo/Executive Director of my bank in Hong Kong.
After several official inquiries from the foreign trade office of our Chambers of Commerce and Industry, I decided to contact you directly for your cooperative assistance. I am interested to transfer funds to your country through your assistance.
I am in Hong Kong presently and I have the sum of Forty Eight Million US Dollars which I would like to transfer into your account to invest in your country if possible.
I made this money (US$48,000,000.00) through genuine banking means in the 2014 fiscal year. I choose you because I cannot be directly involved because I am still working with my current bank, I hope you can understand my situation and assist me to receive and i nvest this money properly as this is my only hope.
You will get 40% of the total fund as commission for your sympathetic co-operation while 60% will be for me.
If you accept this offer, I will appreciate your timely response.
With respect.
Ms. Wai Wan.
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This is a variant of the good old “next-of-kin” scam. “Garrick Wong” needs your help “re-profiling funds” (whatever that means), and he’ll give you a cut of the profits. He says it is because your name is the same as his (imaginary) client — and that’s what he says to everyone. Once he has your “transaction fee” in his pocket, however, he’ll disappear and you’ll never hear form him again.
This is a personal email directed to you and I request that its been treated as such.I got your email from online directory, I would need your assistance in re-profiling funds belonging to my late client who shares similar surnames with you. Contact me for more detailed information.
Regards,
Garrick Wong
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This is a typical “mystery scam” message with a psychological twist. Why haven’t you answered the previous two messages “Elsheikh Abdalla” has sent you? Don’t you know how important this is? Scammers often employ that kind of psychological manipulation to try to get their victims on the hook.
From: Elsheikh Abdalla Elsheikh.Abdalla@rescue.org
Subject: RE
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016
Reply-To: “maoc74@yahoo.com.hk”
A PROPOSITION PARTNERSHIP AND THIS IS MY THIRD EMAIL TO YOU, IF INTERESTED EMAIL : maoc74@yahoo.com.hk
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This is a typical example of a charity scam message that claims to have a fortune ready to deliver to you. If you make the mistake of replying, you will find that it’s just a new version of the good old advance-fee fraud.
I have decided to DONATE £6,000,000.00 Six Million Pounds to you for the good work of GOD to promote humanitarian works. I.e. and assisting the less privileged. Contact me privately Via E-mail ( perker198@yahoo.com.hk ) for details of claim.
Best Regards,
Mrs. Melanie Parker.
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This is an example of a charity scam message, very similar to the lottery scam messages that also circulate online. In this example, a charity you’ve probably never heard of has awarded you a fortune. What could be better? Unfortunately, “Jurgen Aschhoff” is just a name being used by a scammer to try to pick your pocket — don’t fall into the trap.
Reply-To: psriatcher@yahoo.com.hk
From: “Jurgen Aschhoff”meli@tesk.org.tr
Subject: Transfer Notification of US$2,620,000.00 to your bank account
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015
Reference No. UNF/CG-24021
Dear Sir,
RE: US$2,620,000.00 Grant Award Notification
Are you the owner of this email address? if yes, then congratulations!
This is to notify you that you have been selected by the board of trustees of the United Nations Charity Foundation based in the United Kingdom for a cash grant award of US$2,620,000.00 with reference No. UNF/CG-1802B, for your business, economic and social research developments of your community.
The United Nations Charity Foundation grant award is conducted online annually and geared towards global humanitarian development and poverty eradication.
Participants emails were choose worldwide from different categories based on their personal and business development of their respective environments.
For further details and to collect your US$2,620,000.00 cash grant award, kindly send your Official Name, telephone and fax number today by email with the above reference number.
Yours sincerely,
Jurgen Aschhoff
Notification Officer
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Scammers often pose as bank officials who need your help in transferring money out of their home country. The example below, sent to thousands of random people around the world, claims to be from an official at the Hang Seng bank in Hong Kong. In reality, it’s from a scammer who is just trying to make contact with you so he can eventually pick your pocket.
Subject: Business-Proposal:
From: Leung Wing Lok
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015
Reply-To: Lwing622@outlook.com
Complement of the day,
I am Mr. Leung Wing Lok director of operations, Hang Seng Bank, Hong Kong. I have urgent and confidential business proposition involving transfer of $19,500,000.00 USD that will be of great benefit for both of us. I will give you more details as regards this transaction as soon as you notify me of your interest.
Please reply to my private email: Lwing622@outlook.com
Regards,
Mr. Leung Wing Lok.
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This message is a new version of the same old kind of advance fee fraud message. (Read more about how advance fee scams work.) In this example, “Dave Moore” says there was some money that was supposed to be paid to you but wasn’t, and now the money is ready. You just have to ask to get it:
Reply-To: davemore2013@yahoo.com.hk
From: “Mr. Dave Moore” info@holidaylodgepitt.com
Subject: APPROVED TRANSFER OF YOUR FUND.
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015
Date: 17th June, 2015.
FROM MR. DAVE MOORE.
HEAD OF FINANCIAL SERVICE AUTHORITY INVESTIGATION AND SETTLEMENT TEAM, UK.
RE: File Number: FSAIST/L-UK/US/0024/13.
I am glad to inform you that from our investigation as directed by FSA, we discovered an unpaid/unclaimed fund in your name which was supposed to be paid out to you a long time ago, but was not due to some logistic reasons.
However, an arrangement has been made for you to receive your outstanding fund through our corresponding payment bank in Europe by online transfer.
It may interest you to know that we have successfully concluded arrangements with our corresponding payment bank to transfer your fund to you through online transfer.
We have already moved your payment file to the appropriate department of our corresponding payment bank and you will be directed on how to contact the bank as soon as you indicate your readiness to receive your fund through the bank.
You are hereby advised to confirm your readiness to receive your fund through our corresponding payment bank, so that we shall send you the contact details of the officer to contact in the bank to enable you contact him for your fund transfer.
You are also advised to re-confirm the following information;
1, FULL NAME AND ADDRESS…..
2, AGE AND MARITAL STATUS…..
3, OCCUPATION…..
I look forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Mr. Dave Moore.
HEAD OF FINANCIAL SERVICE AUTHORITY INVESTIGATION AND SETTLEMENT TEAM, UK
Email scammers didn’t used to send messages as attachments, but more and more this is being done. It gives them a chance to send a short email to hook you, and then an official-sounding letter to try to seal the deal. The example below is a classic “deceased foreigner” scam. “Alfred Abbott” died and abandoned a fortune in the bank, and if you’ll help “Bao Chang” get it out then you can have a percentage.
My contact with you is with respect to the estate of a deceased client, and an investment placed under our banks management 5 years ago. I am Bao Chang, Deputy Manager for the China Trust Commercial Bank, China.
Please see the attachment for full details. If you are unable to open the attachment, please send me a mail and I will resend full details to you.
Regards,
Bao Chang
And this is the contents of the attachment — better written than a lot of scam messages:
FROM THE DESK OF: BAO CHANG.
Date: May 14th, 2015
I am Bao Chang, Deputy Manager for the China Trust Commercial Bank, China. I am getting in touch with you regarding the estate of a deceased client, and an investment placed under our banks management 5 years ago.
I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity of the information you come by as a result of this mail. I contact you independently and no one is informed of this communication. In 2009, the subject matter; Alfred Abbott came to our bank to engage in business discussions with our private banking division. He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of Forty-One Million, Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars, which he wished to have us invest on his behalf.
Based on my advice, we spun the money around various opportunities and made attractive margins for our first months of operation, the accrued profit and interest stood at over Six Million. In mid 2012, he instructed that the principal sum be liquidated because he needed to make an urgent investment requiring cash payments in Hong Kong.
We got in touch with the Kincheng Banking Corporation which is a specialist bank in China, and has now been merged with the Bank of China, with a foreign representative branch in Hong Kong who agreed to receive this money for a fee and make cash available to Alfred.
However, Bank of China got in touch with us this year that this money has not been claimed. On further enquiries we found out that Alfred was involved in an accident in Mainland China, which means he died Interstate. On further investigation we found out that Late Alfred left behind no next of kin and this is the reason I am writing you.
What I propose is that since I have exclusive access to his file, and I can make you the beneficiary of these funds. My bank will contact you informing you that money has been willed to you. On verification, which will be the details I make available to my bank, my bank will instruct Bank of China to make payments to you. You do not have to have known him. I know this might be a bit heavy for you, but please trust me on this. For your assistance I propose to give you 30% of the total amount in question. In banking circles this happens from time to time, where people die without leaving a Will or beneficiary. The other option is that the money will revert back to the state once it is unclaimed within a specific time frame.
Nobody is getting hurt; this is a lifetime opportunity for us. I hold the KEY to these funds, and as a Chinese National we see so much cash and funds being re-assigned daily. I would want us to keep communication for now strictly by fax/mail, as time goes on I shall furnish you with my telephone number, so you can also reach me by phone. My spoken English is not too good, but you should be able to understand me.
Please, again, note I am a family man; I have a wife and children. I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to the consequences, however, I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter of gold. This is the one truth I have learned from my private banking clients. Do not betray my confidence. If we can be of one accord, we should act swiftly on this.
I await your positive response.
Bao Chang.
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This is an example of the trend toward shorter and shorter scam messages that do little more than pique your interest without providing any details. “Daniel Klimowicz” wants to send you a fortune, but why? Will he claim it’s an unknown inheritance that is owed to you, or money from a forgotten bank account? It doesn’t really matter, because his only real interest is in transferring your money to his account.
Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 16:28:20 +0700 (WIB)
From: “Mr.Daniel Klimowicz” sarana@unisba.ac.id
Reply-To: “Mr.Daniel Klimowicz” dklimowicz80@yahoo.com.hk
Subject: From Daniel Klimowicz
Auditor Head,
ABL, LONDON
Dear Sir,
I am requesting for your help, to assist me in getting £42,000,000.00 to your account. please do indicate your interest for more information’s. dklimowicz80@yahoo.com.hk
Yours Truly,
Mr.Daniel Klimowicz,
Auditor Head,
ABL, LONDON
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Clydesdale Bank sounds like a business operated by show horses, but even if the name were legitimate, this particular message is clearly a standard advance fee scam. “David Thorburn” isn’t a real person: he’s a scammer promising you riches, if you’ll just go along with his secret game. The problem is it’s your riches he’s after, and if you take his bait he’ll reel in the money that you have in your pocket.
from david thorburn davidburn4@yahoo.com.hk
reply-to davidburn99920@yahoo.com.hk
date Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 7:52 AM
subject Greetings
Greetings,
I am David Thorburn Chief Operating Officer, Clydesdale Bank. I am getting in touch with you regarding the estate of a deceased client with similar last name and an investment placed under our banks management 10 years ago. I believe would be of interest to you.In 2000, the subject matter; came to our bank to engage in business discussions with our private banking division. He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of fifty million united states dollars ($50,000,000,00).i want you to stand as the bona-fide next of kin to the desease.
My proposal; you share the same surname With our late client; We share the proceeds 50% for me, 50% for you Should you be interested i shall provide you with more details of this transaction.
I await your response.
thorburndavid13@yahoo.com.hk
Regards,
David Thorburn
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Please be aware that scammers often use the names of real people and legitimate businesses in their fraudulent messages. Why? To lend an air of legitimacy to their criminal enterprise. Just because the name of a real person or a real bank or a real government agency appears in a scam message that doesn't mean the person or organization in question is involved in the scam in any way. The scammers are just stealing these names in order to make themselves look legitimate.
