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.

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