New lottery scam involving Int'l Court of Justice and KAS BANK

Today we report a new email scam in the category sudden wealth. This is how it goes: spam emails are sent out. The contents of the email tells the receiver that his/her email address has been selected in a sweepstake. Now, to collect the prize of 1,000,000 Euro the victim of this scam is asked to pay an advance fee for legal and administrative expenses. Such money will be lost, their is no prize, no sudden wealth.

What to do?

• Never give personal data through email and keep from contact
• Report any (attempt at) fraud to your local police

Here is some of the artwork that is presented as legal documentation. As a matter of course this documentation is null and void.

New scammer Foreign Debt Reconciliation Center

Another scammer is fraudulently using established institutions like KAS BANK, Bank of Africa Group and so on in a pitiful lottery scam. The prize is 850,000 Euro, victims are asked to pay and upfront fee for collecting the money through the Foreign Debt Reconciliation Center at Binnen Wieringerstraat 11 in Amsterdam, Netherlands (not in the business district by a long shot). A Mr Richard Briggs and Ms Claudia Overmars are mentioned as the personel to be contacted. Initial contact is made through spam e-mailing. Then some interesting documents are prepared, here are some clippings:




Therefore it will be out of question for you to direct the affairs and activities of this Fudiciary office as mandated by the Paying Correspondent Bank , the Bank of Afirica working in conjunction with the Clearing House, the Nerdelandsche Bank and the Kas Bank. Our priority is to release your approved sum of 850.000.00 Euro recommended for immediate release to you upon the fulfilment of the laid down Procedure. We must not go extra length to explaining our obligatory functions as mandated by the above Authority, hence you will be assured through this medium that the released of your approved sum as mentioned above will not be delayed any bit upon your satisfactory fulfilment of the mandatory requirement, thus we do not owe you any additional or extra obligation rather than that of releasing your approved sum as mandated by the Bank of Africa. In summary we hereby advice you to fill and complete the forms as forwarded to you at various time from this office and return same back to this office, to enable us process the release of your mode of payment formula prior to your arrival. The completion of this form ahead of time and prior to your arrival will determine the fulfillment of your request to have your money on the same date while in Amsterdam, hence the Bank transfer upon all neccessary certification before this office will bring you to the Bank where you will be required to endorse the Transfer Release Order etc. etc.

More fraudulent trade directory entries

Here are some more fraudulent entries for scammers using name and address of KAS BANK N.V. for their criminal activities.

It is important to note that

• KAS BANK are not in any way related to KAS Investment Bank, nor is the latter an established financial institution.
• KAS BANK are not in the investment or money lending business. KAS BANK does not have a loans department.
• There is no mr Andrew Caird at KAS BANK, telephone numbers and (free!) email addresses mentioned in the scammers entries are not those of KAS BANK.
• KAS Investment Bank is the scam name for a criminal organization working to get some advance fees from its victims for services never delivered.

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Note, again, the Yahoo mail address! As if an established financial institution would go by free email!

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and

indianyellowpages.com

and

tradenote.net

show that KAS Investment Bank have not stopped scamming through loans/investment fraud.

Recently, they posted on illinois-press-release.com to announce fake financial services.

Finally, we find an Andrew Caird of KAS Investment Bank on LinkedIN ! The fellow cannot show a single business connection, though...

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Also on zoominfo.com we find an entry for a mister Caird of KAS Investment Bank, showing three leads, the first of which contains a security warning as to the criminal objectives of this scammer.