Fraudulent Email - "Your Outstanding Payment - Immediate Notification"
The so-called immediate payment notification email message below with the subject: "Your outstanding payment," which claims that the recipients' fund will be released with immediate effect, is a scam. The fraudulent email message was NOT sent by RBC BANK PLC UK, the British Government,the World Bank or the United Nations(UN), but by scammers, who are attempting to trick their potential victims into sending them money and personal information. Therefore, recipients of the fraudulent email message should delete it and not follow the instructions into it.
The Fraudulent Email Message
From: Mr. X abc17@dimoxz. onmicrosoft.com
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2016 12:41 PM
Subject: Your outstanding paymentROYAL BANK OF CANADA, LONDON BRANCH..
71 Queen Victoria St. City of London EC4V 4DE,
United kingdom.
Phone: +447418471452 Fax: +448723315926Attention: Honorable Beneficiary,
IMMEDIATE PAYMENT NOTIFICATION VALUED AT £3,820,000.00.It is my modest obligation to write you this letter in regards to the authorization of your owed payment through our most respected financial institution (RBC BANK PLC UK). I am Anne Jameston, The Director International Remittance Department. This is to inform you that the British Government, in conjunction with the WORLD BANK AND UNITED NATIONS (UN) on foreign payment matters, have empowered this bank after much consultation and consideration, to handle all foreign payments and release funds to their appropriate beneficiaries with the help of a representative from Federal Reserve Bank of New York. As the newly appointed/accredited International Paying Bank, we have been instructed by the World Governing Bodies, together with the Committee on International Debt and the Board of Foreign Payments on Inheritance Funds, Award claims, and Contract Review Panel, to release your overdue funds with immediate effect; with this exclusive Vide Transaction No.: WHA/EUR/202 and Transfer Allocation No.: RBCL/X44/701LN/WGB/GB, Password: 339331, Pin Code: 78569, Certificate of Merit No: 104, Release Code No: 0876, Immediate RBCL Telex Confirmation No: 222568, Secret Code: XXTN016. Having received these vital payment numbers, you are instantly qualified to receive and confirm your payment with the United Nations immediately.
Be informed that we have verified and certify your payment file ok as directed to us, and your file is next on the payment schedule list of our outstanding fund beneficiaries to receive their payment before the end of this year 2016. Be advised that because of too many beneficiaries due for payment at this quarter of the year, you are entitled to receive the sum of Three Million Eight Hundred and Twenty Thousand British Pounds (£3,820,000.00) only, this is to enable us pay other beneficiaries.to facilitate the process of this transaction, please kindly re-confirm the following information below:
1) Your full Name and Address:
2) Phones, Fax and Mobile No. :
3) Profession, Age and Marital Status:
4) Copy of any valid form of your Identification:Upon the receipt of the above mentioned information, your payment will be processed and released to you without delays. Be also informed that you are required to discontinue further communication with any other person(s) or office so as to avoid distortion of data; you are required to provide the above information for your transfer to take place immediately. Your prompt response to the above directive is highly imperative.
Yours truly,
Anne Jameston.
Director, Foreign Operations Department.
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