Example text of Microsoft Lottery Scam

REMITTANCE AND ACCOUNT DEPARTMENT,
KAS INTERNATIONAL BANK
8 George Street,
Edinburgh,
United Kingdom.
Tel: +(44)702-407-8637,
Fax: +(44)203-031-1314
Email: fund.release.dept@live.com

Dated:08/12/2008

RE: TRANSFER CONFIRMATION (FILE #780010XX1025)(TRANSFER#3768GYU3687NTB)

Dear XXX, Good day from the remittance/account department of the KAS INTERNATIONAL BANK,UK. We received your detail informations from Microsoft Award Department for the transfer of her funds amounting to the sum of £850,000.00 GBP ($1,686,536.97 USD) to your account in your country . We also received instruct from the legal department of KAS Finance that you have being cleared for payment and all vital document needed for the transfer of your fund are ready and to this extent, you have being CLEARED and APPROVED for payment by the INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER DEPARTMENT. We wish to inform you that our transfer department has decided to initiated the wire transfer of your Lottery winning valued at the sum of £850,000.00 GBP ($1,686,536.97 USD) to your nominated bank account in IRAN or were ever you want it to be transfered to and for this a transit account has being created for for you this morning. This account will be valide for 30days from today and we believe that you must has finish the transfer of fund before then.

(...)

Yours Truly, Mr. David Carl (Foreign Exchange Officer)

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For all those who might fall victim to this scam:

• you have not won money
• Microsoft is not involved
• KAS International Bank is not a bank and certainly not affiliated to KAS BANK N.V.
• there is no Mr. David Carl
• do not answer to scammers, do not give them any information on your person
• do not pay the 2.550 GBP or any other sum they ask as upfront fee
  

Scammer KAS Finance UK on www.e-transferonline.com

Our infamous scammer KAS Finance aka KAS International has put up a phishing website on www.e-transferonline.com



To be sure, this has nothing to do with KAS BANK N.V. who use their own brand name in their url (www.kasbank.com).

This site was hosted recently, as whois.com gives no results.

It might seem obvious to those acquainted with wholesale banking that texts that appear on subpages are ridiculous and nonsensical ("unsecured broking").

The purpose of the site, however, is to lure people into login. The login credentials are sent by e-mail, as soon as the victim of this scammer has responded to a sweepstake lottery e-mail or any other scam.




Here is the login, which is in no way secure and serves the only purpose of convincing victims they have won or are entitled to GBP 850,000. In order to get this amount of money, they, of course, have to pay upfront fees.