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"OakNorth Private Fund Transfer" Phishing Scam
OakNorth Private Fund Transfer Phishing Scam

The OakNorth Private email below is a phishing scam. The fake email is being sent by scammers who are attempting to trick potential victims into sending them their personal information. Never complete forms sent via unsolicited emails, especially ones requesting personal and financial information.

The "OakNorth Private Fund Transfer" Phishing Scam

From: OakNorth Private <oaknorthprivate@englandmail.com>

Date: Mon, May 28, 2018 at 10:54 AM

Subject: Kindly complete the attached form and get back to us

Attachment: Transfer form.pdf 40 KB

Good day,

Your email was received; we’ve been authorized to process and transfer your funds to you. In other to process your funds, you are advised to complete the attached form, and email it back to us with copy of your identification.

As soon as the dully completed form is received, we will immediately setup a special online account for you with our bank. The special account will temporarily hold your funds for onward transfer to your account in your country; due to the new EU monetary regulations, this is the only way to successfully transfer your funds to you.

Best regards,

Names: Mr. David Newton

Foreign Operations

Tel: +44-745-201-3936

Fax: +44-709-284-9794

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by an anonymous user from: Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

They told me that my payment have approved and I sent them the money they asked. What must I do to get it back coz they now dont respond

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by an anonymous user from: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

They sent me an email saying my payment has been approved,it's a lie and a scam

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by info

Report it to the police.

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by info

Another scam:

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: OakNorth Private
Date: Tue, May 14, 2019, 7:23 PM
Subject: Kindly complete the attached form and get back to us

Good day,

We’ve been authorized to process and transfer your funds to you. In other to process your funds, you are advised to complete the attached form, and email it back to us with copy of your identification.

As soon as the dully completed form is received, we will immediately setup a special online account for you with our bank. The special account will temporarily hold your funds for onward transfer to your account in your country; due to the new EU monetary regulations, this is the only way to successfully transfer your funds to you.

Best regards,

Names: Mr. Craig Anderson
Foreign Operations
Tel: 44-745-201-3936
Fax: 44-709-284-9794

OakNorth Bank Limited is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority. (Financial Services Register number: 629564. Registered Office: 6th Floor, Nightingale House, 65 Curzon Street, London W1J 8PE. Registered in England No. 08595042

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by an anonymous user from: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

I got one just like that, but I don't trust them

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by info

Here is another scam:

"Hi

Good day,


After several failed attempt to reach you last week; we decided to contact you through sms to inform you of the draw-# 1404 of the online-UK-Promotion held here in United-Kingdom. Your cell number is attach to the World Wide Web computer, generated the below reference. You have to take note of the below details:

Ticket-no: 50027310037

Reference-number: 77340824

Serial-number: 4822410

Batch-number: B324772

Winning-no: 15 35 21 09 23 Bonus 48

Amount: 800,000 GBP


This promotion was drawn last week here in London, cell number as the key identification for the draw. All valid phone numbers and email addresses in the worldwide web server are used for the draw; the numbers were selected randomly via computer balloting from a global website in collaboration with internet companies like eBay, PayPal, Google and also telephone companies.

Your payment file has been forwarded to Mr. Craig Anderson, the Director of International Remittance Department/monetary index of OakNorth Bank London for the payout of your winnings. You are requested to send the above winning details to OakNorth bank as instructed below to enable them process your funds and transfer it to you.


OAKNORTH BANK LONDON

Contact person: Mr. Craig Anderson

Tel: 44-745-201-3936

Email: oaknorthprivate-englandmail.com
oak.dn-obprivate.com

Mr. Craig Anderson will instruct you on how your funds would be best transferred to you without any delay. For your information, do not disclose this information to a third party (anyone) until the winnings is transferred to you; this is part of our security protocol to avoid double claim and unwarranted abuse of this program. I hope that the above information will be helpful to you,

Yours truly,

Mr. Fred Wales"

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by an anonymous user from: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

If I already submitted forms?

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by info

Just be careful going forward because the scammers will contact you and attempt to trick you into sending them money or more information.

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by an anonymous user from: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

I received an sms yesterday, 01 May 2019 from Fred Wales instructing me to claim R800,000. I asked the person how did they get my contact number.

His response: The on-line UK Promotion held in United kingdom. Your cell number was attached to the world wide web computer. He said I should claim
ticket number: 50027310037
Reference number: 77340824
Serial number: 4822410
Etc etc.

What bothered me is when they said in their email, shouldn't inform the third party until I get my funds.
Is it a scam or a real deal

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by an anonymous user from: Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

I got an SMS from the person called Fred Wales saying I have won 80O 000 that I should email him to claim.

He replied and said Mr Craig Adamson will send me a form that requires my personal information and I became suspicious and started to google aoknorth bank in London and I couldn't find such a person.

So what must I do because I need that money?

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by an anonymous user from: Randburg, Gauteng, South Africa

SCAM, SCAM, SCAM. Please do ignore them.

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by info

It is a scam.

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by an anonymous user from: Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

I received the message and they sent me two forms the one that says personal information and the approval letter and said I must go to nedbank..what must I do?

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by info

Ignore them. Do not follow their instructions.

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