KASS-BK poses as KAS BANK

This is an example of a false e-mail send by someone who calls himself Edward H. Antony, who is certainly not an employee of KAS BANK, as is suggested here. Instead, the persons hiding behind e-mail aliases like kasbk@dutchmail.com are criminals.

*****QUOTE
We received your signed agreement, and my office is working with the notary section to have it officially legalized. In the meantime, We would like you to contact the bank and have the off-shore account opened.

Kindly, find the email to the bank kasbank@kass-bk.com or kasbk@dutchmail.com. Banking name is Kas Bank, write them an email and confirm your intention of opening an account.

Also inform the bank that Mr. Edward H. Antony, referered you to them so they can give you
all the necessary assistant.
*******UNQUOTE

Please refrain from any contact with kasbk, kass-bk, kas investment bank, kas financial services or any other spoofing name pretending to be a part of Amsterdam-based KAS BANK N.V., a bank registered in the Netherlands and supervised by regulatory authorities!

This fraudulent e-mail is send from www.gnalekopartners.info. Gnaleko is supposed to be a Polish law firm, but this is just part of the cover-up. So this website to serves no other purpose than to lure victims to pay advance fees for services which will never be delivered!

kasb-nl.com spoofing site

A new spoofing site was detected today: http://nl.kasb-nl.com/nl/

This site is used by cybercriminals together with false e-mail messages to lure the victim into opening an account.

Once the victim has given all kinds of personal details (copy of identity card, bank account and credit card number, and so on) he is prompted to pay a few thousand dollars to cover the costs of opening the socalled account.

Attention!

• Don't do "business" with Kas Bank International
  
  There is no registered bank known as Kas Bank International. This is certainly not related to Amsterdam-based KAS BANK N.V. (see their website here: http://www.kasbank.com/ and their security warning against fraud here: http://www.kasbank.com/Submenu/Security.aspx ).
  


• Don't contact these criminals!
  
  There is no Edwin van der Berg, e-mail info@nl.kasb-nl.com Tel: +31 626 425 501 Fax: +31 84 716 3218 - do not contact!

kasgrouponline.com spoofing site

www.kasgrouponline.com/ was detected today. It is a spoofing site claiming to be part of Amsterdam-based KAS BANK (see their webpresence here: www.kasbank.com/ ). The same fraudulent website was hosted in January 2007 as www.kasbank-nl.com (no longer live).

Here is the text of the fraudulent email, promising USD 475,000.00 if one opens an account with kasgrouponline.

Dear sir,

We write to inform you that Mr. Musa Kabore Has deposited the sum of USD $ 475,000 (Four Hundred and Seventy five Thousand dollars) with our bank instructing that the funds should be paid/transfer to the beneficiary ***. In line with the monetary regulatory policies guiding the banks that operates in Netherlands, the transfer of your funds into your nominated bank account cannot be initiated until you have an account with us. You will therefore be required to open a non residential domiciliary dollar account with us, once that is done will go ahead to credit your account with the total sum of US $ 475,000 dollars. A customer login ID and password will be provided to you which will enable you access your account online and make transfer of your funds online to your nominated bank account. To apply for an online domiciliary dollar account, you are advise to login to our website through www.kasgrouponline.com click on account set up and follow the instruction. If you find the procedure difficult you can contact us for more directives.To ascertain that we are dealing with the rightful person you are also required to foward to us either your passport or drivers licence for identification. Looking forward to serving you better,

Thanks
Mr. Andrew Pick
Foreign payment officer

It will be readily understood that once you apply for an online ID and password, you're prompted to pay advance fees for opening a bank account, transfer costs, etcetera. Also it will be readily understood that once you have paid these hefty costs, that is the end of the story. There is no registered bank with a website kasgrouponline.com. There is no Mr. Andrew Pick.

Gaming Board Authority Award Scam

Be aware of the latest version of an Award Scam, mentioning BNH-DELLON (meaning BoNY Mellon?) and KAS Financial Services (certainly no registered bank and no relation to KAS BANK at all).

The story is as follows: numerous spam e-mails are sent out to tell each and every recipient that they have won 750,000 USD. Next the "winner" is asked to give all kinds of personal information. Next he will be asked to pay an advance fee in order to collect his prize. Once such fees are paid, the "winner" has lost exactly the amount he paid in advance, his "award" he will never receive.

Here is a copy of a "legal" document:

Here is some email correspondence.

DO NOT CONTACT THESE PEOPLE!

With regards your last mail, please you are kindly advised to contact our payment bank with below information,and find attached your winning documents which will be required by our payment bank.

HARM VAN DEN BERG.
BNH-DELLON.
TEL:+31-619898858.
FAX:+31-619898859.
Email: info@nl.bnhdellon.eu

Congratulation once again.

MR.WALCOTT GENT.
Kas Financial Services,
Weeps-The Netherlands.
TEL: +31-6247-47752.
FAX: +31-847-268926.
Email: info_kasclaimsdept@aol.nl

18 Nigerian spammers arrested, 800 websites shut down

More to come say Nigerian scam police

Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is promising to push the country out of the top ten for fraudulent emails thanks to arrests and proactive action to scan all emails.

So far "Operation Eagle Claw" has seen members of 18 syndicates arrested and 800 scam websites shut down.

At the moment, Eagle Claw has delivered the following results:

Over 800 fraudulent e-mail addresses have been identified and shut down.

There have been 18 arrests of high profile syndicates operating cyber crime organizations.

Nigeria has become so synonymous with spam crimes that they are known as 419-ers after the relevant section of Nigeria's penal code.

KAS-BK changes name to KASS-BK

In an attempt to escape legal actions this scammer hosts a fake website http://www.kass-bk.com/ That is, untill it will be taken down.

Through http://www.kass-bk.com/online/login.php you can login, without a secure connection! If you have received an account number, login and password through e-mail, you might see that there is 10,500,000.00 USD in your account.

Please be aware of the following facts:

• Of course KASS-BK is not a real bank, it certainly has nothing to do with Netherlands based KAS BANK (see http://www.kasbank.com/).



• And of course you will never have access to this money.



• All the scammer wants is the fees that you have to pay upfront to get your account, login, password and fake 10,500,000 USD.
  


• KASS-BK now introduces itself through a Joseph Stevenson. To be sure, this is not a real person. It is a fake name for a scammer.

New wine into old wineskins

Here is an example of a form used by the well-known scammer from the last posting.

Instead of Joseph Richardson the contact person now calls himself Mark Stevenson. Needless to say there is no Joseph Richardson nor a Mark Stevenson at KAS BANK, and that all documentation provided by this scammer is false and fraudulent.



Finally, please note that initial correspondence is signed by

Brigadier General Lloyd E. Dodd.
Senior General Surgeon
US Army Airforce.
AFB, Colo.
g.lloyddodd@live.com

To be sure, the e-mail is false, the person however has a real identity. See the website of the US Air Force here: http://www.af.mil/information/bios/bio.asp?bioID=5238

One wonders how long it will take before scammers will sign there e-mails with Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin or Hu Yintao.

Scam e-mail from a Mark Stevenson

This email is to illustrate criminal practices of scammers. The receivers of such massively sent out correspondence ALL should get 8,5 million. Only a very small number of them actually believe they will receive such an amount out of the blue. As you can read below, they will have to tell all of their personal data, send in copies of their identity papers. The next part of the scam is that one should pay an advance fee for lawyers, banking costs and the like, say 5,000 or 8,500 USD. This money will be lost. Than the scam ends (if you're lucky, they still got all your personal data).

Date: 6th July,2009.

Dear Sir,

This is to inform you that we have received a credit advice for the sum of Eight Million Five Hundred thousand United States Dollars (US$8,500,000.00) for release to you. ( Reference: Liquidated Bond of Gen, Lloyd E. Dodd). Since you do not have a regular account with our bank, your funds will be lodged in a suspense account opened on your behalf to facilitate this transaction.

You are therefore required to fill and return the attached account opening forms as scanned attached to our e mail address or our fax number (+31 848 380 210) immediately with a valid copy of picture identification. (Driver's license or Passport) We also acknowledge your transfer advice to your account.

A transaction request has been lodged with The Euro Belastingdienst (Tax Authority) for tax-exempt clearance as a procedural matter. Your transfer will be effected within 24hours of receipt of this clearance. Should you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us. Thank you for banking with us.

Best Regards,

Mark Stevenson Manager,
International Banking.

Scammer Zhejiang Yinmao on LinkedIn

Zhejiang Yinmao Export and Import Company represented by a Paul Liu Ming is offering a Business Partnership/Clearance Officer position on LinkedIn.

See: http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=694272 (the link is now dead, thanks to LinkedIn).

This job posting is a fraud. Soon after accepting this "job" the Clearance Officer is asked to pay $2,500 to open an account at KAS Finance International.

KAS Finance International is not in any way related to Amsterdam-based KAS BANK (see http://www.kasbank.com/) and not a financial institution at all. It's just a fraud name.

Evidently, persons who where accepted for this "job", were unwilling to pay company's expenses from their own pocket. One of them called Mr. Paul Liu Ming, who surprisingly spoke with a strong African accent. Commented upon, Mr. Ming stated he had been "away from China a long time"!

1,000,000 $ lottery scam

Someone introducing himself as professor Dan Annah has set up a lottery scam involving 1,000,000 American dollars.

Of course the winner never gets his money, he should contact a Mr. Tony Woods, Private Online Banking Officer at KAS BANK U.K. London (Such a ridiculous function nor a mr. Woods is known at KAS BANK).

His email is: tonywoods2009@hotmail.co.uk Can you imagine that a registered financial institution has no @company.com email, instead uses FREE hotmail accounts? This stinks!

Sample e-mail from Andrew Pick

This is an example of a fraudulent e-mail re promising a huge inheritance through an African bank, on the condition that some steep administrative fees are paid upfront. Naturally, as soon as the victim pays such fees, this is the end of the inheritance scheme.

Dear sir,

We write to inform you that we have today received from Unity Monetary Services Amsterdam Netherlands a payment instruction attached with approval letter from Banque Atlantique Benin to transfer into your bank account the sum of US$18.5 Milion Dollars being your inheritance funds as approved by Banque Atlantique Benin.

Having received the payment instruction, to enable us successfully transferred your funds without hitch through our bank, you shall be required to open a non residential domiciliary online dollar account with us as to enable us credit your account with the above mentioned sum. This will enable you access your account through our online banking services and make transfer of your funds to any bank of your choice.

This is in accordance with the procedures of this bank in the payment of huge sum aimed at serving our customers better. You can visit our website at www.kasgrouponline.com and apply for an online domiciliary dollar account setup by clicking account setup.

Look forward to serving you better.

Thanks
Mr. Andrew Pick

New scammer alias kasgrouponline.com

Combining parts of brand names and business terms is a favourite passtime of scammers. After KAS Investmentbank, KAS Loans, KAS Finance we now have KAS Group with kasgrouponline.com. A mr. Andrew Pick is posing as representative of KAS Group.

There is no website though. If you are being scammed, you might want to contact the registrant of this fraudulent domain through web2001s@hotmail.com

Kasgrouponline is inviting people to pay upfront fees for opening of a "non residential domiciliary online dollar account" in order to receive a major inheritance - in cash. As soon as such advance fees are paid, the scammer disappears, there is no account, no money transfer.

What can one do to avoid being a victim of the criminals hiding behind kasgrouponline.com?

• be realistic. Don't believe you'll be a millionaire out-of-the-blue, overnight, gratis, because you have won a lottery you never knew you participated in, get a huge grant through a charity for which you did not apply, get a huge inheritance from someone you never knew existed.
• don't pay upfront fees for services banks usually don't charge for
• never give personal information through the web, through websites or e-mail

The price of the prize: Microsoft lottery prizes and advance fee fraud prices

KAS BANK INTERNATIONAL, United Kingdom, Foreign Accounts Department:

Tel: + 44-703-192-4980 / 44-703-194-0657
Fax:+ 44-700-606-9468 / 44-700-604-6990

Email: kas-foreign-accnts@accountant.com
Contact Persons: Gloria McCoy Germaine Fludo

will gladly pay you your lottery prize of £1,000,000.00 (ONE MILLION BRITISH POUNDS STERLING).

Attention! The price of this prize is between 650 and 2,000 GBP!

1. EXCO BASIC: this type of account requires an initial deposit of £650 (Six hundred and fifty British pounds sterling) and has the facilities and privileges adequate to handle a maximum transfer of £200,000.00 (two hundred thousand British pounds sterling) within one month.
2. REGULAR ACCOUNT: this type of account requires an initial deposit of £950 (Nine hundred and fifty British pounds sterling) and has the facilities and privileges adequate to handle a maximum transfer of £500,000.00 (Five hundred thousand British pounds sterling) within one month.
3. PREMIUM ACCOUNT: this type of account requires an initial deposit of £1,450 (one thousand four hundred and fifty British pounds sterling) and has the facilities and privileges adequate to handle a maximum transfer of £700,000.00 (Seven hundred thousand British pounds sterling) within one month.
4. GOLD ACCOUNT: this type of account requires an initial deposit of £2,000 (Two thousand British pounds sterling)) and has the facilities and privileges adequate to handle a maximum transfer of £1,000,000.00 (One million British pounds sterling) within one month.
   

Attention!
Before paying up - I bet you'll settle for the 2,000 pounds GOLD account, won't you? - there are a few things you should consider:

You will never be paid One Million British Pounds Sterling!

KAS BANK International is not related to KAS BANK, it's just a scammers cover!

There is no Germaine Fludo, no Gloria McCoy.

Real banks do not use gratis @gmail addresses to handle business correspondence.

Scammer lures victim to use cell phone

Someone claiming to be an employee of KAS BANK sends out emails stating that all bank main landlines are being repaired and that all calls to bank are being rerouted to cell phones.

These emails are on Kas Bank letterhead. He uses he email address of www.transferunit@kasbankltd-uk.net.tc.

At the same time, he is requesting COT fees for a confidential transaction.

This comes to anyone receiving this fraudulent email by a seeminly legitmate barrister in the UK. That barrister sents copies of his identification and his pictures match his pictures at his prominent lawfirm's website.

So, we have people posing as other people from any firm, luring victims to call them on their own cell phone and then request money from them.

KAS International Bank now subsidiary of Natwest

According to scam e-mail messages KAS International Bank is now a subsidiary of Natwest. It has moved offices, apparently, from London to Edinburgh:

8 George Street
Edinburgh, EH2 2,
United Kingdom
+44 845 366 1965‎

The telephone number in the scam messages however is +44 702 407 8637, which is not a Natwest number. Also, the e-mail address fund.release.dept@live.com is a joke. It is an e-mail account at a free provider.

To conclude: KAS International Bank is not a registered financial institution. It is not a subsidiary of either KAS BANK or Natwest or any other bank. The people behind this scam are fraudsters. There is no mr. David Carl, there is no mr. Richard Hudson at a Microsoft Award dept. People who receive a Payment Advice to the sum of GBP 850,000 are potential victims of advance fee fraud, there is no prize, no payment. All of it is fake, a scam.

Scammer launches phishing site www.kasbvv.com

The same advance fee fraudster that operates under the name KAS Financial now simply poses as KAS BANK. Contact person is a Joseph Richardson. Please note there is no Joseph Richardson at KAS BANK. Moreover, this registered financial institution is not an investment bank at all, and not involved in commercial funding.

The process is generally as follows:

• through e-mail or through B2B-sites enormous sums of credit are promised
• once the victim agrees, obstacles are raised: forms have to be filled in, and, most important, huge consultancy fees have to be paid
• once the upfront fees are paid, the scamming process comes to a halt, needless to see no credit is ever granted.

This scammer launched http://www.kasbvv.com/ recently. The role of this website is to make the victim believe that millions of dollars are booked into an account. Which of course they are not.

Fake payment advice from KAS International Bank

Scammer KAS International Bank is organizing a fake "Microsoft Award" sweepstake, promissing 850,000 GBP to every e-mail in their spam list. The socalled "winner" of this lottery should, of course, pay: 1,840 GBP in this case.

Advice:

• never pay upfront to receive prizes
• never give personal data like home address, banking details, credit card details, copies of passport, identity card or driver's licence.

Here is the text of the fake "payment advice"


RE: PAYMENT ADVICE (FILE #780010XX1025)

Welcome to KAS INTERNATIONAL BANK. We are located in London, United Kingdom with our other offices worldwide. We are pleased to be at your service. KAS INTERNATIONAL BANK is regulated and Stipulated by the Financial Service Authority (FSA), the financial institutions that govern all financial activities in the United Kingdom and Worldwide.

Your Payment advice has been received from Mr. David Cole of Microsoft Award Team. We have an instruction to contact you for further payment release modalities for ?50,000.00 GBP to be effected.

Your response to this notification will justify our instruction and will necessitate further actions from our remittance department to lodge your expected funds into a non residential account in our
holding accounts pending other instructions.

Kindly in your response give us further advice on your status as we will require banking co-ordinates for fund release order. You are to fill the attached bank form provided and send it back to us for the
processing and transfer of your fund.

The mode of the transfer of the funds is BANK TO BANK TRANSFER, consequently you will be required to open and activate an online transit/Offshore account with our esteemed bank. This is to enable us
successfully transfer the fund to your home country. Do find below details for the opening of online transit/Offshore account with us and we advise you proceed with the payment as instructed below so that we
can proceed with the account opening.

Account Opening Deposit: .....................995.00
Administrative Charges: .......................425.00
TOTAL: .................................................420.00
($2,124.81 USD)

Note that payment should be directed directly to our account receiving officer via western union money transfer or money Gram International Transfer. You are to send evidence of payment such as the scanned copy of the payment slip. As soon as payment is confirmed, we shall proceed with the creation of an online account for you with which we shall provide you with the activation code and account number which will
enable you to access the account and proceed with the transfer of fund to your nominated bank account.

You are to make the payment to the below details;
Receiver: Nelson Parker,
Address: 5th Floor 10 Old Broad Street EC2N 1AA
London, United Kingdom.

Be advised also that there is a specific fund release instruction on your payment file as sent, which needs to be attended to within the fund release procedures.

This notification has a valid and expiration period of 72hours from the time of the message receipt. We look to serve you with our expertise and expect a prompt response from you to enable us implement
our instructions as given.

Be guided accordingly.
Yours Truly,
Mr. Raymond Carl
(Foreign Exchange Officer)

**************************************
Note:

• KAS International Bank is not a registered bank.
• It is not established at the address mentioned.
• There is no Mr. Carl or Mr. Parker at KAS BANK, nor is there a Microsoft Award Team.
• The address Payment.release@kasbank.com does not exist.