Saturday 4th August 2012

Posted By: Isabella Connor | Posted Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Could this be a scam?

 

Had the following email, and am quite excited about it. I could be moments away from being a multi-millionaire.

 

Dear Customer. We received payment instruction from CBN to pay you the sum of $10,500.000.00 we have the deposit Slip with us kindly get back to us with the below information's to enable commence this transfer immediately. YOUR FULL NAME.YOUR TEL/CELL PHONE.YOUR HOUSE ADDRESS.YOUR BANKING DETAILS.YOUR OCCUPATION. A COPY OF YOUR I.D We are waiting to receive the above information from you. Thanks you. Customer Server Bank of America

 

For some reason,  the message was not in the body of the mail, but was actually above the From and To bit - Lord knows how they managed that one.

 

But, I digress. Could this possibly be a scam? Not that the untidy/unprofessional layout and punctuation errors have alerted me. And not to mention, 'get back to us with the below information's'. Maybe Bank of America were just having an off day. After all, there's no spelling mistakes. (That must be a first).

 

Talk about going for the jugular. No hard luck story here. Just right in there asking for full name, phone number, address, bank details and a copy of my ID.  Over-confidence or plain stupidity?  These email addresses we're supposed to respond to - surely there must be some way of finding out who's behind them? Though maybe the only way to beat these scammers is through better education - the point needs to be hammered home to the whole population, that you never, ever, get something for nothing, especially not several million pounds.

 

Saturday 4th August 2012
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