Natwest Bank Group
Another phishing scam and this time they are using a code word of ‘TRUST’ - ya, right! Here is the message attached below:
Mr. David Greene
Senior Audit Officer
Natwest Bank Group
UK.
Dear Friend,
I am Mr.Mr.David Greene Senior Audit Officer of Natwest Bank Group UK.Natwest Bank London.I am writing following an opportunity in my office that will be of immense benefit to both of us.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of£20.5million British Pounds Sterling(Twenty million five hundred thousand British Pounds) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr.Morris Thompson an American who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000,including his wife and only daughter.
You shall read more about the crash on visiting this site.
[deleted]
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin or relatves to come over and claim his Natwest Bank Group money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only daughter died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of this Natwest Bank Group fund behind for the claim.It is therefore upon this discovery that I and two other officials in this department now decided to make business with you and release the money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of the funds for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don’t want this money to go back into Government treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such money remained after eight years the money will be transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed funds.
We agreed that 35% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, while the balance will be for me and my colleagues.I will visit your country for the disbursement according to the percentages indicated above once this money gets into your account. Please be honest to me and trust is our watchword in this transaction.
Note this transaction is confidential and risk free. As soon as you receive this Natwest Bank Group mail you should contact me by return mail.Please note that all necessary arrangement for the smooth release of these funds to you has been finalised.We will discuss much in details when I do receive your response.
Please if you are interested in this project contact me for further directives.
Best regards
Mr. David Greene
Remember that this is a scam and you should not try to contact them!
3 Responses to “Natwest Bank Group”
Leave a Reply
January 14th, 2008 at 2:58 am
From: “NATWEST BANK OF LONDON” Add to Address BookAdd to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
To: “Raj Kumar”
Subject: Commission Of Transfer
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:31:46 +0000
#message294184366342117792934017293901048284580 { overflow:auto; visibility:hidden }
#yiv1763919080 .hmmessage P { margin:0px;padding:0px;} #yiv1763919080 .hmmessage { FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma;} NatWest logo
Dear Raj kumar,
Compliments of the day to you. My sincere apologies for the little delay in contacting you. This is as a result of the usually high volume of work at my desk and some official duties. In respect of your lottery claims for account forwarded for the International wire transfer of the total sum of Eight hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling (£850,000) to your private/personal bank account.
The said amount in your account is £850,000(Eight hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling) to be wired to your bank account via swift bank transfer.Condition: The cost of COT (commission of transfer) being charged by our transferring bank, which is $400 will be paid by you to release your C.O.T Code
Furthermore, the funds transfer for the total prize winnings of £850,000 will be initiated immediately ( via bank swift code transfer which will be transfer by you online) on the completion of the above requirements and after due confirmation of payment of the above charges by the accounts department your C.O.T Code will be give to you. This transfer process should take about 12hrs maximum to reflect into you account.Note that your prize is protected by a hardcover insurance policy, which makes it impossible to deduct any amount from the money before it has been remitted to you. This means that your winnings sum will be transferred to you in full (i.e £850,000) and that the above charges cannot be deducted from the prize.I do hope you clearly understand these procedures as explained.
After the confirmation of your C.O.T Charges your code will be activated and send to you to commence your transfer to your private/personal account, with the receipt of above,Payment receipt will be given to you and your C.O.T code will be release by the bank to complete your transaction immediately.Congratulations once again and see above our protocol officer details for the transfer of your C.O.T charges.
Yours Sincerely,
Michael Grant
© 2007 NatWest BANK INTERNATIONAL.
Tel: +44 70319 47060
=============================================
This Email really or not, confirm me.
I am Rajkumar, from visakhapatnam, Andhrapradesh, india
January 27th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
My best friend is a former director of NatWest Bank, so I find these NatWest solicitations hysterically funny.
They are always from some high-level executive, yet they haven’t a clue as to how to sound credible. My favorite terminology idiocy was a few months ago from an audit department officer explaining that a person had died “inter-state”. (What…he was driving I-95?)
I just got another one today. But this guy wasn’t even offering me the whole thing; I’d only get 4 Million pounds out of the 12 he uncovered!
Seriously, though, I am sorry that NatWest Bank doesn’t think these attempts to defraud the public warrant an investigation.
February 18th, 2008 at 11:31 am
It seems funny are they cheating us?