Monday, February 4, 2008

Another Bank Scam full of Mispelled Words

Here's another Bank spam scam. After receiving over 1000 of these they all begin to sound familiar. One of the things that amazes us the most is the consistent spelling and grammatical errors made in most of these emails. You would think someone serious enough to try and scam you out of your hard earned money would at least take the time to use some type of spell checking software. We counted 12 spelling or tense errors and we only did a quick scan of this spam. This is especially perplexing because so many of these scammers proclaim to be Attorney's or Dr.'s.

Another interesting part of these email scams is the part where the "scammer" claims we shouldn't trust anyone else with this opportunity. We assume this paragraph has been added after many of us "fight back" and contact the authorities.

If these people would concentrate their efforts on something useful they would probably be fairly successful based on their ability to find email lists.

Here's one of today's many scams:

HSBC BANK UNITED KINGDOM THE WORLDS LOCAL BANK.
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref:UK/9420X2/68
Batch:074/05/ZY369
28-1-2008


Greetings:Fund Beneficiary:

We apologise if this email causes you any embarrasment or shock. We have
intended this to be an informal approach so that you will know that We
have not contacted you in error or through spam.

We hereby confirmed receipt of part payment of US$25,000,000.00 dollars
only, into our official ESCROW account with the Central Bank Of Nigeria,
by order of the Central Newly Introduced 2008 Settlement Of Debt Scheme
(SDS) incharge of Foreign Debt Recovery Committee on Overdue Contract
/Next of Kin payments in Africa, as indicated in our database.

This programme was introduced to all bank in Africa such as the Central
Bank Of Nigeria, for payment and settlement of Foriegn Debt,as the African
Nation, has suffered a lot of loss becuase of debts owed
internationally,the 2008 budget has the payment order and you are approved
and schedulded for payment immediately, forthwith and unconditionally,your
funds will be deliverd to you through diplomatic courier services like a
consignment. to your door step.

Meanwhile forward the below infromation immediately, so that as soon as
the diplomatic arrive in your country they will call you immediately to
notify you.

Kindly provide us with the below information by
Email/hsbcbank_hsbc_code1@yahoo.ca /to reconfirm your details in our
database for immediate release of your fund to your destinated home
address.

Beneficiary Full Name:...............

Address:.........................................

Tel:.............................................
Fax:.........................................

Age/sex:.........................................

Occupation:......................................

A copy of your working ID:...........

We sincerely apologize for the delays and advice you to STOP any further
communication with your associate in any of the African countries for they
contributed 100% hindrances to the release of your funds.

Our finalfund release order will be forwarded to our operational paying
bank, the HSBC Bank in London, UK for immediate transfer of your
allocation into your designated account upon receipt and official
re-confirmation of your information in our database.

Note: We are to pay through our diplomatic services.

Your full co-operation is fully required , as this might be the only
available payment order for the year.

Note: Fund will be retrieved to treasury after ten (10) working days of
this notice.

Yours in service,

Dr Chris Anderson
Manager, foreign Operations Dpt.
HSBC Bank, Liverpool, London
United Kingdom.
Telephone: + 44-704-573-8078
Fax : + 44-845-2801-195
hsbcbank_hsbc_code1@yahoo.ca

2 comments:

Jack Payne said...

Yeah, you are right. Absence of a spell-checker so often jumps out at you in their communications screaming, Fraud. These scamsters often act like migrant birds who have lost their homing instincts, and are caught in a dream of perpetual,static flight.

Spambuster said...

What amazes me is based on the amount we receive there has to be someone who actually falls for this stuff. Hopefully they'll find our blog and "smell the coffee". Lost migrant birds...LOL. More like lost migrant bird droppings.