New Fraudulent Email Detected (April 2007) If you have received an email from Larry Lam, OCBC Bank’s Head of Group Audit, inviting you to send in your account information in order to claim the US$25.7 million left behind by the late Mr Andreas Schranner from Munich, Germany, Do NOT Respond.
Please note that under no circumstances will Larry Lam or any of our Bank employees ever send you an email asking you to participate in the purported transaction or to ask you for your personal information. You should not respond to such emails. You can visit www.fraudwatchinternational.com/nigerian-419/ for more information.
Should you receive further suspicious emails, you should notify OCBC Bank immediately by calling:
- 1800 363 3333 for individuals
- 1800 538 1111 for businesses.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sample of Content of Fraudulent Email From: "Larry Lam" Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 11:42:38 +0100 Subject: PROPOSAL FROM THE DESK OF MR LARRY LAM, RESPOND PLEASE.
*FROM THE DESK OF MR LARRY LAM,
EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT AND HEAD OF GROUP AUDIT,
OVERSEA CHINESE BANK (OCBC), SINGAPORE.*
*Dear,
I am the EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT AND HEAD OF GROUP AUDIT here in SINGAPORE. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$25m dollars (TWENTY FIVE MILLION US DOLLARS) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer (MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich, Germany) who died along with his entire family in July 2000 in a plane crash. FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT THIS SITE BELLOW
*Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking laws and guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking laws and guidelines here stipulate that if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transfered into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Scottish cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foriegn account , 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60% would be for me Thereafter, I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you arranged,you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where in the money will be remitted.Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application .
I will not fail to bring to your notice this transaction is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.
You should contact me immediately at:
**larry2lam@yahoo.com* *
as soon as you receive this letter.
When writing back to me i will like you to provide to me the answers to these questions:
1.your age
2.your marital status
3.your occupation
4.if you are ready to keep the transaction as top secret as i do not want it to jeopadise or have my reputable immage dented
5.your financial capability in handling this transcation as money will be involved
6.your credibility and reliability as to avoid betrayal from you or seating on my share when the funds finaly hits your bank account
7.that all my instructions as an insider and as the initiator of the transaction would be taken for the betterment of a hitch-free transfer and also include your private telephone and fax number.
Your immediate response shall be most appreciated as the urgency of the transfer implies; for we don't have enough time again to excute this transaction.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours Faithfully, MR LARRY LAM.*
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