I received the following e-mail:
Los Angeles Federal Credit Union (LAFCU)
201 N. Los Angeles Street, Space #201
Los Angeles, CA USA
www.lafcu.org Ref: LAFCU|44.96|16:00 EDT|09/17/2010
Dear beneficiary
Re: Contract/Inheritance funds claims notification
We are trying to contact you to clarify and resolve the misunderstanding and problem at hand. We do not intend to send to you a scam or any sort of fraudulent email because You also need to know if you are being impersonated by the unknown, therefore, this email should not be regarded as unsolicited, as our intention is to your best interest and to protect our good image and reputation, and to maintain our leadership in professionalism.
Los Angeles Federal Credit Union (LAFCU) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.1 trillion and operations. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management, and private equity. Los Angeles Federal Credit Union serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the worlds most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients.
Be informed that we the Los Angeles Federal Credit Union (LAFCU) have received instruction to release the approved sum of Ten Million Dollars (US$10, 000, 000.00) to you, as your Contract/Inheritance fund. We have with us the entire documentation required for your payment. We shall be waiting to hear from you for the immediate payment.
After this resent approval of your contract/inheritance fund payment of $10Million to be released to you from my bank and for your immediate payment, Mr. Hancock from Washington DC contacted my bank requesting for the release of your funds in his name as your next-of-kin/beneficiary hence you are proclaimed dead. And the below are his bank account details he provided, urging my bank to transfer your fund into immediately before it is too late:
His Bank Account Details:
Bank name: Bank of America
Account No.: 9085686846
Routing No.: 54664564
Understand that our intention for contacting you is to confirm if you are dead as this man falsely said. If he is wrong, kindly provide in the below order, the required details from you to enable us update your payment document and to secure your funds so that your payment would take place without delay:
Full names:
House address:
Occupation:
Phone/fax:
Age/sex:
Copy of ID.
We wait hearing from you with the above details to start your payment processing. You can call me ASAP on 3232479237
yours faithfully,
Chuck Rubin
Board Chairperson,
LAFCU
Tel: 3232479237
www.lafcu.orgNow, okay, the spelling and grammar alone tell you all you need to know. But there's a phone number attached. Why would they do that - isn't it easy to trace? Or is it the real phone number and those poor people are being inundated with calls? This is obviously about identity theft and trying to get your information, but has anyone actually done this? There must be people who have for these cretins to keep sending these out so relentlessly. Maybe I'll call the number.
