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)

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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.