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An Email with the Subject "FROM HSBC HEAD OFFICE NEW YORK." was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:57:16 -0800 and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email. The sender shows as HSBC <privatecontact36@yahoo.com.ph>.
The email address was probably spoofed. Do not reply to or contact any persons or organizations referenced in this email, or follow any URLs as you may expose yourself to scammers and, at the very least, you will be added to their email address lists for spam purposes.
FROM HSBC HEAD OFFICE NEW YORK. Dear Beneficiary , I am the Executive Secretary HSBC NEW YORK. This is to bring to your notice that my office has taking over all the money transaction originated from any part of America, Africa and Europe and Asia countries as contract payment, Fund Inheritance or Lottery Winning due to Unauthorized/incapability of financial Institutions/security companies in releasing such huge sum of money due to Fraud, terrorist and money Laundry activities going on world wide. The World Bank Group has Mandated this BANK to release funds to beneficiaries Hence Your Name appears as one of The fund beneficiaries whom their fund was successfully due for payment. Your money will be released to you through an Online Banking System Payment by (HSBC) United States to avoid paying excess charges. You are therefore advised to re-confirm your contact address and direct telephone numbers, to us for immediate release of your money, Most importantly be aware that (one Million United States Dollars Only (US$1, 000, 000.00) was allocated to you as the approved amount due to you, as we have so many scam victims to compensate. With the help of the (OFAC) U.S Treasury Department's and with the FBI we have noticed that people have being asked to pay outrageous amount of money by these impostors for the transfer of their funds to them. We want you to stop all communication that has to do with these fraudsters who have been requesting unreasonable sums of money from you to release your funds which they do not have access to. you are to get back to me immediately for an immediate payment. Yours Faithfully, John H. Butler a Senior Vice-President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary HSBC, NEW YORK. |