Chris L

Just found this one in my email in box that had evaded the spam filter. Hadn't seen one quite like this before. Of course I shall be filling it in (I have reported it to HSBC)

ATTENTION PLEASE!

We hereby confirm receipt of part payment of US$8,500,000.00 dollars only, into our official ESCROW account with the HSBC Bank in London by order of the African Development Bank (ADB) in-charge of Foreign Debt Recovery Committee on Overdue Contract / Next of Kin payments in Africa, as indicated in our database.

We sincerely apologize for delays and advice you to STOP any further communication with any other payment centres in Europe, as well as your associates in any of these African countries e.g., South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, Cote D'Voire, Angola and Benin Republic for they contributed 100% hindrance to the release of your fund.

Kindly provide us with the below information to reconfirm your details in our database and for our prompt payment procedures.

Beneficiary's name / Age:.............................................

Company's name / Rank in office:..................................
Address:.......................................... ..................

Tel:......................... *Fax:.................................

Receiving Bank:............................................. ........

Address:.......................................... ..................

Bank Routing Number:................. Swift Code:...................

Account number:........................................... ..........

Your fund will be released by wire transfer through our operational paying bank, HSBC bank in London, UK.

Our final fund release order will be forwarded to our operational paying bank, the HSBC Bank in London, UK for the immediate release of your allocation to you upon receipt and official re-confirmation of your information.

For any further inquiry, please contact the undersigned officer as funds will be retrieved to treasury after ten (10) business days of this notice.

Yours In Service,
Mrs. Rebecca.A Cooper
Manager,
Foreign operations Dept., Fast Global Finance, U.K.
Pls. Respond to: fastglobalfinuk@yahoo.co.uk

SWRTWannabe

Cheapskates didn't even bother to set up a new domain for Fast Global Finance UK.

Having said that, there was a time at work where our mail system was so unreliable, we all resorted to hotmail instead

Lee-B STi Type UK

If I saw that in my inbox or anything like it I would instantly delete it, (would love to reply and send them some kind of terrible computer virus tho )

Sad thing is a lot of (stupid/gullible) people will reply with their details

Thats why this kind of stuff is rife


Lee

Dave1980

makes you wonder how they think they can get away with having a yahoo email address in the uk.

i get loads of these in my hotmail junk mail and they always amuse me what they try to pull off.

josie

Holy mackerel!

How lucky is that!

I was just filling the very same form in and I stumbled across this thread.

Thanks for the heads up Chris L <mops brow>

Cipher

These scams rely on people's greed as well as their stupidity. Anyone who falls for it deserves to be ripped off.

r32

I cant believe that any one really takes these seriously?

Chris L

Thanks Josie - I'll take that post with the large pinch of salt with which I'm sure it was meant to have I've seen most of the scams going, but this was a little unusual in that it evaded my email filters, which suggests it is a new version of the con.

r32 - you'd be amazed. There was a 419 scammer arrested recently (in Belgium I think) with something like 1.3m Euros...