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.