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An Email with the Subject "Scam Submission" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 02:22:47 -0800 and has been classified as a Advance Fee Fraud/419 Scam Email. The sender shows as "David Crowter" <david.crowter@btopenworld.com>.
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I received an email from a Mrs Setia who said she
wanted to give $1.8 million to support a charity I run and asked me to contact
her lawyer, Barr. Mougor on 2332465773. email:galaxy2cute@yahoo.com
. I emailed him and he confirmed the money was to be transferred to
our account and requested that I contacted the International Commercial Bank at
Accra, Ghana. on email: inter_commercial_bank_ltd@financemail.net
This I did, giving the details of the names of the
people who requested me to make contact.
I then received a fax on the I C Banks
letterhead which read as follows:
Date 16th February 2006
Att. Mr David Crowter.
Urgent Required Information
Needed.
We thank you for your mail to our
bank.
This is to inform you that Barrister Mougor, the
attorney has briefed us of the donation of one million and eight hundred
thousand United States dollars to you by Mrs. Magret Setia. The said amount
is deposited in our Bank under an escrow account arrangement.
To enable commence the action on the transfer the
money to you, could you please send without delay the following:
1. The account information where you want the money
to be transferred to and your form of identification.
As soon as we receive the above, the remittance
process will commence.
Be informed that when all remittance formalities
are concluded, it will take only two business days for the money to reflect in
your account.
We look forward to hearing from you
soon.
Yours faithfully,
For: International Commercial Bank
Limited,
signed
Dr Mike Walters
Director - International Remittance.
ICB.
The phone/fax numbers on the
letterhead are:
Tel.
00233-24-2921219
Fax. 00233-21-418083
I sent an email in reply giving the details
requested but an account number which is dormant.
Being suspicious, I checked the details of the
ICB on the web and found the contact details, including tel. numbers were
different. Consequently, I called the Bank and asked for Dr. Mike
Walters. They replied that they did not employ any person with
that name.
Obviously the people involved are using the
Banks name for fraudulent purposes and should be immediately informed. Please
advise me if you do this and also what action you can take to deal with the
people concerned.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours etc.
David
Crowter
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