Don't Fall for the Delayed Bank Payment Phishing Email Scam

Oh, what’s this?

It’s another scam email to watch out for!

Although the email is signed by a Rev. Wilson P Klerk, recipients are “advice to contact” a Mr. Dickson Harry, who is allegedly on stand-by & waiting to provide a pin and transfer code in order to rescue your funds from “corrupt officials of the Bank.”

Um, yeah right…

The only corrupt parties involved are the senders. Seriously, I can smell the stench of lies and identity theft from here.

Here’s the full phishing email:

From: REV. WILSON P KLERK [un.wbununu@yahoo.com.ph]
To: undisclosed recipients:
Subject: IRREVOCABLE RELEASE OF YOUR PAYMENT

UNITED NATIONS NEW YORK
WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME
DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL
PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS.
10017WIRE TRANSFER/AUDIT UNIT
Our Ref: WB/NF/UN/XX02x79

ATTN: IRREVOCABLE RELEASE OF YOUR PAYMENT

We have actually been authorized by the World Bank and international monetary fund (IMF), to investigate the unnecessary delay of your payment Recommendation and approval of your claims for payment is certified as genuine.

During the course of our investigation, we discovered with dismay that your payment has been unnecessarily Delayed by corrupt officials of the Bank, who are Trying to divert your Fund into their private accounts, to forestall this, security for your funds Was organized in the form of your personal Identification number (PIN) and your transfer access code (T.A.C), this will enable only you have direct Control over this fund.

We have also agreed with the World Bank and international monetary fund (IMF) that, we will handle this payment ourselves to avoid the hopeless situation created by these corrupt Officials.

We have obtained an irrevocable payment guarantee on your Payment, from the World Bank and international monetary Funds (IMF).We are happy to inform you that based on our recommendation/instructions; your Entire contract fund/inheritance claim has been credited in your favor through our paying bank.

You are therefore advice to contact: MR DICKSON HARRY,of HSBC BANK LONDON the (un)payiny bank Liaison Office in UK London, EMAIL: costorma@hotmail.com, Tel:+447045742309 to collect your original payment slip with your pin and transfer access code. As soon as you submit these codes and your payment slip to your bank, they will credit your account without delay.

NOTE: YOU ARE ADVICED TO RE COMFIRM YOUR INFOMATIONS TO AVOID TRANSFER OF THIS FUND INTO A WRONG ACCOUNT.

CONGRATULATIONS.

REV. WILSON P KLERK
UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK

As you can tell, there are plenty of signs that this email is fake and all part of a scam.

What Gives a Scam Email Away?

• Poor grammar and spelling. English is obviously not the first language for whoever wrote this phishing email. Did you really think someone that’s supposed to be affiliated with the United Nations would write – let alone send – an email like that?


• It’s always coming from a foreign country. The signature says New York, but the sender’s email address has ‘ph’ in it, which stands for the Philippines. Not to mention person you’re supposed to contact is in London? Inconsistent much?


• The email addresses used never matches the organization they claim to represent. I doubt an email from someone representing the United Nations or a BANK would use FREE Yahoo and Hotmail email addresses to discuss business matters.


• You aren't the only one who got the message. Notice that the 'To' field shows undisclosed recipients? As in there was more than one recipient?

Sure, this time the scammer decided to leave the amount of money to be paid up to your imagination and they haven’t given a list of personal details to provide, but I’m sure it would come up in conversation if you bothered to take the bait.

Under no circumstances should you give scammers the satisfaction of a reply.

Instead, you should simply click the ‘Junk’ or ‘Spam’ button (if your filters didn’t mark it as spam already), followed by the ‘Delete’ button.

Hopefully the scammers will give up and get a real job.

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