“We Have No Idea What We’re Doing” Banking Scam
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 03/08/2016 10:39 AM
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One of the worst banking email scams is making the rounds that are reportedly from the Bank of America.
The email reads as follows:
"I am Mr. Williams S. Harrison, The Managing director of Bank Of America branch in Washington DC USA. It is our pleasure to seek your consent in an unclaimed funds deposit of US$15.500,000.00Million recently discovered in our bank which has been abandoned for over 28 years ago by a late foreign investor bearing the same surname with you, who died in the Collapsed New World Hotel, 1986 according to the official report of our findings."
The Hotel New World collapse was an actual disaster in Singapore, but you can bet your last 15 million that no one did any investigation and the scammers are just hoping you will send them the info they request.
The mail asks for the usual assortment of personal information: name, account number, bank name, bank address, home address and phone number. In another smooth move, they went and used a Yandex address for their supposedly official email, and ask that all details be sent there. Yandex mail is a free service, and that combined with the sender address referring to a Turkish webhost service should really throw up all the red flags.
And for the final touch, before you throw it in the trash bin:
"Try your possible best to forward them / give a responds [sic] to our bank email...Once again please don't reply to this email that sent you message and try to forward your personal and banking details to the above email."
They sound like they are pleading with you to send them something, if you really feel like it.
This is not the sign of a scammer who really seems to have any real idea about their shenanigan-filled task at hand. Having said that, some people will respond to pretty much anything put in front of them at the first sign of “Free money = this direction”, so it’s definitely worth letting relatives know about this one.
Your bank will never:
Ask for login credentials
Send mails from free services
Request a list of personal information
Tell you they randomly found 15 million dollars with your name on it
Draft out their mail in comic sans
Source: Malwarebytes
The email reads as follows:
"I am Mr. Williams S. Harrison, The Managing director of Bank Of America branch in Washington DC USA. It is our pleasure to seek your consent in an unclaimed funds deposit of US$15.500,000.00Million recently discovered in our bank which has been abandoned for over 28 years ago by a late foreign investor bearing the same surname with you, who died in the Collapsed New World Hotel, 1986 according to the official report of our findings."
The Hotel New World collapse was an actual disaster in Singapore, but you can bet your last 15 million that no one did any investigation and the scammers are just hoping you will send them the info they request.
The mail asks for the usual assortment of personal information: name, account number, bank name, bank address, home address and phone number. In another smooth move, they went and used a Yandex address for their supposedly official email, and ask that all details be sent there. Yandex mail is a free service, and that combined with the sender address referring to a Turkish webhost service should really throw up all the red flags.
And for the final touch, before you throw it in the trash bin:
"Try your possible best to forward them / give a responds [sic] to our bank email...Once again please don't reply to this email that sent you message and try to forward your personal and banking details to the above email."
They sound like they are pleading with you to send them something, if you really feel like it.
This is not the sign of a scammer who really seems to have any real idea about their shenanigan-filled task at hand. Having said that, some people will respond to pretty much anything put in front of them at the first sign of “Free money = this direction”, so it’s definitely worth letting relatives know about this one.
Your bank will never:
Ask for login credentials
Send mails from free services
Request a list of personal information
Tell you they randomly found 15 million dollars with your name on it
Draft out their mail in comic sans
Source: Malwarebytes
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