Email Scam Example: Bank of China (BOC) – Mrs. Fiona Yensen

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<blockquote><p><strong>This is a fraudulent email from a theme &&num;8220&semi;<em>Bank of China &lpar;BOC&rpar; &&num;8211&semi; Mrs&period; Fiona Yensen<&sol;em>&&num;8220&semi;&period; Do not try to contact him by phone or email&comma; you risk being cheated or robbed of her well-known tricks&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<h2 id&equals;"from-&percnt;c2&percnt;a0&percnt;c2&percnt;a0mrs-fiona-yensen-ltfiona10111outlookcomgt" class&equals;"rb-heading-index-0-10849 gI"><span class&equals;"gI">from&colon;   <&sol;span><span class&equals;"gI"><span class&equals;"gD">Mrs&period; Fiona Yensen<&sol;span> <span class&equals;"go">&lt&semi;fiona10111&commat;outlook&period;com&gt&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;span><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;14683" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-14683" style&equals;"width&colon; 336px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignright"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;fraudswatch&period;com&sol;bank&lowbar;of&lowbar;china&lowbar;boc-2&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-14683"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-14683" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;fraudswatch&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;08&sol;Bank&lowbar;of&lowbar;China&lowbar;BOC-1-1-336x309&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Bank Of China" width&equals;"336" height&equals;"309" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-14683" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><em><strong>Bank Of China<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><span class&equals;"gI">to&colon;                  <&sol;span><span class&equals;"gI">b&&num;8230&semi;&period;sa a&&num;8230&semi;us &lt&semi;a&&num;8230&semi;&&num;8230&semi;77&commat;gmail&period;com&gt&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span><span class&equals;"gI">date&colon;              <&sol;span><span class&equals;"gI">Wed&comma; Apr 15&comma; 2015 at 9&colon;57 PM<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span class&equals;"gI">subject&colon;         <&sol;span><span class&equals;"gI">RE&colon; Wall Hanging<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span class&equals;"gI">mailed-by&colon;    <strong>fiona10111&commat;outlook&period;com<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 id&equals;"specification&percnt;c2&percnt;a0bank-of-china-boc&percnt;c2&percnt;a0important-mainly-because-it-was-sent-directly-to-you" class&equals;"rb-heading-index-1-10849 gI"><span class&equals;"gI">Specification&colon; Bank of China &lpar;BOC&rpar; <&sol;span><span class&equals;"gI">Important mainly because it was sent directly to you&period;<&sol;span><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p><strong>Letter 1&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote>&NewLine;<div><em>Dear Friend&comma;<&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><em> Thank you for giving me your time&comma; Let me start by introducing myself&comma; I am Mrs&period; <span class&equals;"il">Fiona<&sol;span> Yensen a staff of Bank of China &lpar;BOC&rpar; here in the United Kingdom&period; I am contacting you concerning a customer and an investment placed under our banks management&semi; as a matter of fact it was 6 years ago&period; I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail private and also to kindly respect the integrity of the information you come by as a result of this email&period; I contacted you independently of our investigation and no one is informed of this communication&semi; I would like to intimate you with certain facts that I believe would be of interest to you&period; it is of great importance for you to take care and understand every word which I have written down below&semi; please be patient and read the explanation in my email&period;<&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><em> In 2009&comma; the subject matter&semi; Ref&colon; FI&sol;TSB&sol;958&sol;042&sol;0500 came to our bank to engage in business discussions with our Private Banking Services Department&period; He informed us that he had a <a class&equals;"wpil&lowbar;keyword&lowbar;link" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;fraudswatch&period;com&sol;tag&sol;financial-fraud&sol;" title&equals;"financial" data-wpil-keyword-link&equals;"linked" data-wpil-monitor-id&equals;"459">financial<&sol;a> portfolio ofUSD &dollar;17&comma;991&comma;647 million United States Dollars&comma; which he wished to have us turn over &lpar;invest&rpar; on his behalf&period; I was the officer assigned to his case&semi; I made numerous suggestions in line with my duties as the de-facto chief operations officer of the Private Banking Services Department&comma; especially given the volume of funds he wished to put into our bank&period; <&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><em>Few months later his attention was needed regarding a business which i was going to discuss with him but i was unable to reach him&comma; I made futile efforts to locate him I immediately passed the task of locating him to the internal investigations department of our bank&period; Four days later&comma; information started to trickle in that he was apparently dead&comma; a person who suited his description was declared dead of a heart attack in Cannes&comma; South of France&semi; we were soon enough able to gather more information and the cause of death was confirmed&period; The bank immediately launched an investigation into possible surviving next of kin to alert about the situation and also to come forward to claim his funds&period; If you are familiar with private banking affairs&comma; those who patronize our services usually prefer anonymity&comma; but also some levels of detachment from conventional processes&period; In his bio-data form&comma; he listed no next of kin&period; In the field of private banking&comma; opening an account with us means no one will know of its existence&comma; accounts are rarely held under a name&semi; depositors use numbers and codes to make the accounts anonymous&period; This bank also gives the choice to depositors of having their mail sent to them or held at the bank itself&comma; ensuring that there are no traces of the account and as I said&comma; rarely do they nominate next of kin&period; Private banking clients apart from not nominating next of kin also usually in most cases leave wills in our care&comma; in this case&semi; he died Intestate&period;&period;<&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><em> There is USD&dollar;17&comma;991&comma;674&lpar;Seventeen million&comma; nine hundred and ninety one thousand&comma; six hundred and seventy four united states dollars&rpar; deposited&comma; I alone have the deposit details and they will release the deposit to no one unless I instruct them to do so&period; Also I alone know of the existence of this deposit for as far as the finance firm is concerned&comma; the transaction with our deceased customer concluded when I sent the funds to the firm&comma; all outstanding interactions in relation to the file are just customer services and due process&period; The finance firm has no single idea of what&&num;8217&semi;s the history or nature of the deposit&comma; they are simply awaiting instructions to release the deposit to any party that comes forward&comma; and this is the situation&period; This bank has spent great amounts of money trying to track the family of the deceased&semi; they have investigated for months and have found no family but however the investigation has officially come to an end&period; <&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><em> My proposal&semi; I am prepared to place you in a position whereby an instruction is given to the finance firm to officially release the deposit to you as the closest surviving relation&sol;associate&comma; and all etiquette shall be done in accordance with the rule of law&comma; I certainly can guarantee you that&period; By the common law&comma; the power of bequeathing is coeval with the first rudiments of the law&period; There is no ruling which prevents an inheritance from being so exhausted by legacies as to render it unworthy of theirs acceptance&semi; perfect operation whereby the paper work shall be co-ordinated in such a way that your status as a sole beneficiary is confirmed&period; Upon receipt of the deposit&comma; I am prepared to share the money with you in half and no more&semi; that is&colon; I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them release the deposit to you&semi; afterwards we share the proceeds 50&sol;50&period;<&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><em> I would have gone ahead to ask the funds be released to me&comma; but that would have drawn a straight line to me and my involvement in claiming the deposit&comma; but on the other hand&comma; you as a indifferent foreigner would easily pass as the beneficiary with the rights to claim&comma; I assure you that I could have the deposit released to you in a few days&period; I will simply inform our bank of the final closing of the file relating to the customer&comma; I will then officially communicate with the finance company and instruct them to release the deposit to you&semi; with these two things&colon; all is done&period; The alternative would be for us to have the firm direct the funds to another bank with you as account holder&comma; this way there will be no need for you to think of receiving the money from the firm&period; We can fine-tune this based on our interactions&comma; I am aware of the consequences of this proposal and I ask that if you find no interest in this project that you should discard this mail&period; I ask also&comma; that you do not be vindictive or destructive&comma; if my offer is of no appeal to you&comma; delete this message and forget I ever contacted you&semi; please do not destroy my career&period; You may not know this but people like me who have made tidy sums out of comparable situations run the whole private banking sector&comma; I am not a criminal and what I do&comma; I do not find against good conscience&comma; this may be hard for you to understand&comma; but the dynamics of my industry dictates that I make this move&period; Such opportunities only come ones&&num;8217&semi; way once in a lifetime&period; I cannot let this chance pass me by and I hope you understand&comma; because for once I found myself in total control and face to face with my destiny&period; These chances won&&num;8217&semi;t pass me by&comma; I ask that you do not destroy my chance&comma; if you will not work with me please let me know&comma; and hence move on with my life&comma; but do not destroy me&semi; I am a family woman and this is an occasion to provide them with new opportunities&period; There is a reward for this project and it is a task well worth undertaking&comma; I have evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here is from you refusing to work with me and alerting my bank&semi; I am the only one who knows of this situation&comma; good fortune will bless you and plant you into the centre of relevance in my life&comma; let’s share the blessing&period;<&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><em> If you find yourself interested to work with me&comma; please contact me specifically&comma; if you give me positive signals&comma; I will initiate this process towards a quick conclusion&period; It is necessary to inform you that under no condition should you contact me via official channels&semi; I will simply deny knowing you and about this project&period; I repeat&comma; I do not want you contacting me through our official lines neither do I want you contacting me through my official email account&period; I do not want any direct link between you and me&period; My official lines are not secure lines as they are periodically monitored to assess our level of customer care in line with our Total Quality Management policy&comma; please observe this instruction religiously&period; Please&comma; again&comma; note I am a Family woman&semi; I am happily married with kids&comma; I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to what the consequences might be&comma; but I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter of gold&comma; this is the one truth I have learned from my private banking clients&semi; do not betray my confidence&period; If we can be of one accord I shall have the pleasure of meeting you&comma; after this task has been completed plan a meeting&period; <&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><em>I await your response&period;<&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><em>Yours Sincerely&comma;<&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><em>Mrs&period; <span class&equals;"il">Fiona<&sol;span> Yensen&period;<&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><em>Phone&colon; &plus;447045784899<&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<h2 id&equals;"second-letter-from&percnt;c2&percnt;a0bank-of-china-boc-8211-mrs-fiona-yensen" class&equals;"rb-heading-index-2-10849">Second Letter From&colon; Bank of China &lpar;BOC&rpar; &&num;8211&semi; Mrs&period; Fiona Yensen<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<blockquote>&NewLine;<div><em>Dear B&&num;8230&semi;&period;&period;<a>sa A&&num;8230&semi;&period;&period;us <&sol;a>&comma;<&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><em> <&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><em>I want to thank you for your email response&comma; I sincerely appreciate your interest to assist me in this transaction&comma; however I would like to be sure of your willingness&comma; trustworthiness and commitment to execute this transaction with me&comma; I cannot afford to compromise these virtues because this transaction is highly sensitive&comma; I have my principles which will profit the both of us&period;  <&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><em> <&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><em>I know you might be wondering where I got your email contact but to be honest with you&comma; I got your contact email discretely on the internet during my search for a reliable partner who would be of assistance to me in order to have the funds transferred out&comma; if you read my previous emails properly I have explained why I need your assistance&comma; I did consider what you might think about my kind of person but the risk was worth taken and the fact remains that I cannot transfer the funds in my own name&comma; this is the main reason your assistance as a foreigner is required&period;   <&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><em> <&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><em>Considering the money involved&comma; it is necessary for me to be sure of the person to whom I will be entrusting this transaction&comma; my trust is not given out lightly and I do not expect you to trust me that easy too&comma; so I need to be convinced that you are a matured person with some integrity and I will also prove my integrity to you&period; With regards to the legality of this transaction&comma; I want to inform you that the attorney I am using will prepare the affidavits which shall legally put you in place as beneficiary&semi; and will obtain the necessary clearances which will cover all the aspects involved in this transaction from the Hong Kong authorities including the Justice department&period; Every documents will be done to meet all international beneficiary claim standards and I will be responsible for his payment so don&&num;8217&semi;t think about that&period;   <&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><em> <&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><em>I must also inform you that you will not have to travel to anywhere for any reason&comma; because the attorney shall be handling all matters of probate on your behalf&comma; you will be duly represented here by the attorney&comma; he is an accredited lawyer with vast experience in issues of inheritance here in Hong Kong&period; He will have all the documents perfected&comma; and with these documents he shall come forward to apply for the immediate release and transfer of the funds to you&period; I do not need you to send any money to me for any reason as I will take care of all expenses that will come my way on my end&period; <&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><em> <&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><em>What I expect from you is trust and commitment&comma; I want this large sum of money transferred with your assistance&comma; and as a banker for many years I know that if we follow up this transaction diligently it would be completed within 12 working days without any question&period;   <&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><em> <&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><em>I want to know if you are willing to follow up this business seriously before I can give you more details about this transaction&comma; as a result of which I shall be waiting for your response and assurance&comma; you need to be someone whom I can rely upon&comma; at least for absolute commitment&period;<&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><em> <&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><em>Yours Sincerely&comma;<&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><em>Mrs&period; <span class&equals;"il">Fiona<&sol;span> Yensen&period;<&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><em>Phone&colon; <a>&plus;447045784899<&sol;a><&sol;em><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p><em>Date&colon; Thu&comma; 16 Apr 2015 19&colon;22&colon;44 &plus;0200<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>Subject&colon; Give me more info&quest;<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>From&colon; a&&num;8230&semi;&period;7&commat;gmail&period;com<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>To&colon; <span class&equals;"il">fiona10111&commat;outlook&period;com<&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;

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  • do not fall for this scam , blames previous business partner. contact bank she says this transaction is through.. do not fund off shore account, your money will be taken. TOTAL SCAM!!!!

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