Scam Money Transfers - "We Have Your Payment Ready"
Example - Aliance Trust Bank or Alliance Trust Bank,
William Scott
Have you received an email from "William Scott" at "Aliance Trust Bank or Alliance Trust Bank",
claiming:
"We have received instruction from Archbsihop Walter Kasper, to contact you in respect of the payment of GBP4,800,000.00 (Four Million Eight Hundred Thousand UK Pounds) only. We will appreciate if you log onto our website to complete our online account opening form. "
All you have to do is log on to their website, fill out some
forms there and collect your money! It is a scam, made up to get money from you.
This one is so pathetic, it is almost humorous. What would an archibishop
be doing authorizing payments of $10,000,000? If that alone doesn't strike you
as a scam, you must have just fallen off the turnip truck.
See the example below, an actual email from the scammer, sent to a victim.
The scammer intends to to get hold of your money instead, by conning you into sending money for various "fees" to free the
"funds in escrow" or for the "Security company" or for the "courier".
If you would like a step by step
explanation of how this type of "Advance Fee Fraud" works, click here!
Note some of the obvious scam clues that we may have
highlighted in the email below,
such as excessive/incorrect use of CAPITAL letters, terrible spelling, grammar
and punctuation, the use of free email accounts rather than a domain and website that
matches the company's name, etc.
Scam email:
From: Aliance Trust Bank [mailto:
alliancetrustbank1plc@yahoo.co.uk
]
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:43 PM
To: Doug
Subject: Re: Alliance Trust Bank (ATB)
Alliance Trust Bank PLC.
Tel:+44 702 402 8299
Fax: +44 870 471 7789
Website: http://www.alliancetrustportal.com/myalliance
Date: 25th March, 2008
Attention: Douglas K. Nuss
Dear Sir,
Thanks for your email. We have received instruction
from Archbsihop Walter Kasper, to contact you in respect of the payment of
GBP4,800,000.00 (Four Million Eight Hundred Thousand UK Pounds) only. We
will appreciate if you log onto our website to complete our online account
opening form.
We operate 24 hours service a day, including
week-ends.
Please note that you can only transfer a maximum of
GBP100,000.00 (One Hundred Thousand GB Pounds) only per day, except when you
make a fresh application for an increase in the maximum amount to be
transferred. It will take 24 hours to process and approve, if and only if,
it is deemed necessary.
ONLINE REGISTRATION PROCEDURE:
Log on to our bank website: http://www.alliancetrustportal.com/myalliance
Access Code: account
Click: Online Banking
Then click on new user registration and complete the
form online.
Please note carefully: Do not include your email
address and telephone number in the account opening form. Just write N/A in
each of them.
Then click: submit.
As soon as you have done that, just send me a mail
or call me on +44 702 402 8299
Regards,
William Scott
FOR: A.T.B, LONDON
The image at left is all you see if you follow the link to their website.
The image at right is their website's home page. If that looks like a real banks
logon page or home page to you; we'd suggest you keep your money under your
mattress - you obviously don't get out enough! | 
