Phish Bowl Alerts
Reminiscent of the "Nigerian 4-1-9 scam" that dates back decades to multi-generation copies of chain letters sent through US post, the World Bank provides this warning about "advance fee fraud" schemes. If you receive one, mark it as phishing (open the message in a browser, click on the stack of three dots to the right of the REPLY button and select "Report phishing").
From: Kuben Naidoo <br.mattias004@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 11:11 AM
Subject: REPLY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
To:
Attention.
I write in respect of the fund with reference number: WDRC/L-F/UK/0407/19 brought to the Reserve bank from the World Debt Remittance Committee, London, United Kingdom in your name.
From the information contained in the file that accompanied the fund, The fund was supposed to be paid to you by the World Debt Remittance Committee, UK before now, all their efforts to contact you proved abortive.The fund is equivalent to (AMOUNT WITHHELD) Are you aware of the fund or not?
I await your urgent response to commence your fund transfer/release process.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours Sincerely.
Mr. Kuben Naidoo.
Deputy Governor, South African Reserve bank.
deputygov_kuben@safrica.com