‘Fake Payment’ scam emails

Today's date, there is rise in Payment Scams And Fraud Winning Notifications.

These all are “fraud” which begins with an unexpected email notification i.e. “Payment”, "You have won!" etc. with a large sum of money. Such types of email scams use the names of legitimate corporations/companies, banks but this does not mean that the legitimate organizations are in any way involved with the scams.

The day before, these new scam has been circulated with the subject line 'Payment'.

The actual email says that:

DEAR BENEFICIARY,

YOUR E-MAIL ID APPEARED ON OUR PAYMENT SCHEDULE LIST OF BENEFICIARIES THAT WILL RECEIVE THEIR FUNDS IN THIS 2ND QUARTER PAYMENT OF THE YEAR FOR WORLD BANK  INHERITANCE AND COMMISSIONING PAYMENT. THIS PAYMENT IS GIVEN TO YOU UNDER FINANCIAL COMPENSATION FOR VICTIMS OF ONLINE CRIME/SCAM AS ENDORSED BY THE NATIONAL COMPENSATION CENTER LAUNCHED AT THE 39TH G8 SUMMIT.

YOUR E-MAIL ID WAS MENTIONED BY OUR SECURITY INTELLIGENT MONITORING DATABASE VIA COMPUTER HARD-DISK, YOU ARE HEREBY ADVISED NOT TO COMMUNICATE OR DUPLICATE THIS MESSAGE TO ANYONE TO PREVENT DOUBLE CLAIMS. YOU WILL RECEIVE YOUR COMPENSATION PAYMENT THROUGH ATM CARD VALID FOR 3 YEARS FROM MONTH OF ISSUANCE, IT IS AN EUROPAY MASTERCARD AND VISA (EMV) CHIP AND PIN DEBIT CARD,USED ACROSS ALL CHANNELS INCLUDING POS, ONLINE AND ATM. CARD CASH WITHDRAWALS IN THE CURRENCY OF THE COUNTRY YOU ARE MAKING YOUR WITHDRAWAL AND MAXIMUM DAILY CASH LIMIT IS $25,000.00 PER DAY AND POS SPENDING IS UPGRADED TO S DAILY LIMITED OF $50,000.00.

FOR THE RECORDS A TOTAL NUMBER OF 1,056 BENEFICIARIES ARE ALREADY IN CONTACT WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE SETTLEMENT CENTER AND A TOTAL NUMBER OF 678 BENEFICIARIES HAVE BEEN PAID AS OF APRIL 2015. OVER 500 ARE ALREADY AT THE LAST VERIFICATION STAGE AND WILL RECEIVE THEIR PAYMENTS WITHIN DAYS.

PLEASE PROVIDE FOLLOWING INFORMATION AS STATED BELOW:
1. YOUR FULL NAME:
2. CONTACT / POSTAL ADDRESS (FOR SHIPPING OF CARD)
3. YOUR AGE:
4. OCCUPATION:
5. MOBILE TELEPHONE NUMBER:

ALL RESPONSE SHOULD BE SENT TO DIRECTOR OF LEGAL DEPARTMENT AT THIS GIVEN ADDRESS AND QUOTE YOUR RELEASE CODE FIC/EDS/EMV/42/2015 FOR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION:

ATTN: BARRISTER PHILIP HUNTS
E-MAIL: barphiliphunts@outlook.com
PHONE: +447593344785

PLEASE BE WARNED, THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSIONING PAYMENT DEPARTMENT DOES NOT INSTRUCT ANY OTHER BANK OR AGENT IN THIS PAYMENT TRANSACTION,WE ADVISE YOU TO STOP ALL OTHER COMMUNICATIONS YOU ARE HAVING WITH ANY OTHER AGENT OR BANK OFFICIALS TO AVOID UNNECESSARY COMPLICATIONS.

REGARDS,
MR. MANGATAS DUNGA
INTERNATIONAL COMMISSIONING PAYMENT
WORLD BANK GROUP MILLBANK TOWER, 12TH FLOOR, 21-24 MILLBANK LONDON SW1P 4QP UNITED KINGDOM.


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Beware from from such a fake emails.