"Your ATM Master Card Is Ready" Phishing Scam
The email message below with the subject: "Your ATM Master Card Is Ready," which claims there is an ATM Visa Card that contains millions of dollars that is ready for the recipients, is a phishing scam. Recipients of the fake email message should not respond to it with their personal information or any other information that is requested by the senders. The fake email message was sent by scammers/cyber-criminals. Every month, thousands of these email messages are sent out by scammers/cyber-criminals to trick their potential victims into stealing their personal and financial information, which the same scammers will use afterward, to trick the recipients into sending them their money and financial information.
Remember, never send your personal information to anyone in an email message or send money to someone who contacted you via an email message.
The Phishing Email Message
From: "eric9188@netvigator.tw"
Sent: Monday, August 1, 2016 12:26 AM
Subject: YOUR ATM MASTER CARD IS READY
Attn:Payment Notification
This is to bring your notice that,I have paid the re_activation fee and the delivery of your ATM MASTER CARD,I paid it because the ATM MASTER CARD 4.5 million inside has less than three days to expire and when it expires,the money inside will go in to government purse. with that i decided to help you pay the money so that the ATM MASTER CARD will not expire,because I know that when you get your ATM MASTER CARD definitely you must pay me back for helping you.
Now i want you to send your full delivery information
You’re name
You’re country
You’re home address
You’re Tel phone number
include your ID Card to UPS delivery company so that they can deliver your ATM card The only thing you have to pay is the keeping fee charges,which is $105 only.
Contact person: MR JERRY LEO, UPS DELIVERY COMPANY
Phone number: +229 6855 0783
Email address :deliverycompay2@gmail.com
Regards
MR JOHN EMERSON
ATM CARD; Federal Republic of Benin West Africa
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