Over the past 6 years, we have received thousands of fake and phishing emails that appear to have been sent from accountant.com. The fake emails attempt to trick recipients into responding with their personal information by claiming they are lottery winners, inheritors of large sums of money, or they have just been randomly chosen to receive thousands of dollars from some celebrity, lottery winner or organization.
Therefore, recipients of emails like the one below, which request personal information and appears to have sent from accountant.com, are asked to delete them, and should never follow the instructions in them.
A Fake Email from accountant.com
De : UNITED BANK ENGLAND SECURITY accesub@accountant.com
Envoyé : 6 mars 2019 00:57
À : Francine Bertrand
Objet : Attn: Francine Bertrand, STANDING ORDER TO TRANSFER FUNDS
Attn: Francine Bertrand,
STANDING ORDER TO TRANSFER FUNDS
Internal memo report has referred to this department by Mr.Gareth And Catherine Bull,to proceed with the final transfer of funds £1,500,000.00 GBP to your nominated bank account, being the cash funds as approved in your name.
To enable us honor the payment instruction to your nominated bank account, we demand that you make available the following via email as a scanned copy or via fax +44-743-693-6316
* Proof Of identification
* Full Bank Details/Co-Ordinates { Including Bank Name, Account Number, IBAN Number, Swift /BIC Code,Account Holder And Bank Address}
You are advised to contact the bank with Program Administrator/Coordinator with the following details to avoid unnecessary delay and complications:
VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM
(1) Your Contact Address/Private Email Address
(2) Your Tel/Fax Numbers
(3) Your Nationality/Country
(4) Your Full Name
(5) Occupation/Company
(6) Age/Gender
(7) Ever Won An Online Lottery?
(8) Data of the bank which you want to transfer the funds
(9) A copy of your bank card the back and front attached
Kindly fill the verification and fund and funds release form and respond back to us.
Bank values your right to privacy! Your information is 100% secured and will be used exclusively for the purpose of this award only.
It is our normal banking practise, that we shall act within 24 banking hrs after receiving the required details from you the beneficiary of the funds, to enable us effect the transfer of the funds to your nominated bank account.
Please be informed that the transfer to your account shall take 48banking Hours
We advise your prompt action, as we are hopeful that we can use this medium to serve you efficiently
UNITED BANK OF ENGLAND
Mr. Wilfred Richmond
International Transfer,
United National Bank(UK)
19 Rolle Street, Exmouth, Devon, EX8 1EZ
What is accountant.com?
There is no website at www.accountant.com; if you try to load it in your web browser nothing comes up. It seems accountant.com is only used for email services and it is possible the fake emails that appear to have been sent from them may have been spoofed or there is a scammer or cybercriminal abusing their email services.