I’m not dead yet
And this email isn’t going to make me want to go on the cart, either:
My name is Dr. Michael Grant from International Monetary Fund (IMF) Outstanding Remittance, London. I’m directed to contact you by the establishment to urgently confirm from you if actually you know one Mr. Paul Franklin who claim to be your business associate/partner here in London, UK.
The said Mr. Paul Franklin is claiming to us that you are dead and he will like to change all the Information that we have on you as the bona fide beneficiary. Below is the new banking information were he wish to have this funds transferred to:
Bank of America
Address: 6901 Northwest Expressway
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73132
Phone: 405-773-1683 Fax: 405-722-6005
ABA: 103000017 (all other)
ABA: 026009593 (International)
ACCT. #:003042656833
ACCT Name: FMS Investments Inc.
Signatory: Floyd M. ShealyThis development is coming now that the institution want to offset all your outstanding payments to all our legal foreign beneficiaries’ around the world in which your payment file was affected.
As you may know, the total amount in your favor is a total sum of $3.5 million U.S Dollars. We need to confirm from you if it’s really true that you are dead and If we did not hear from you it automatically means that you are actually dead and the information passed to us by Mr. Paul Franklin is correct.
At least somebody did some homework: there is indeed a B of A branch at 6901 Northwest Distressway, east of Rockwell, and that’s the correct phone number. And I’m pretty sure that’s the right routing code.
On the other hand, I tend to believe that if I had a business partner, he’d have had me killed by now.
Other than a mailto, there’s no link, questionable or otherwise, in the text; the alleged Dr. Grant wishes to be reached by email or telephone only. As for Floyd M. Shealy, a name I’ve never used — I did, for a while, style myself “Sharon Sheeley,” after the late songwriter, for purposes of online fiction — I’m guessing he’s probably not dead either.
fillyjonk »
17 July 2010 · 7:32 am
Wow, that’s a new one. Usually I get spam claiming that my e-mail account will be dead if I don’t do something (usually send sensitive information to the return address provided.)
In fact, I got one this morning on my campus email, claiming WEBMAIL ACCOUNT WILL BE DELETED IF YOU DO NOT CONTACT US. ONE USER OF WEBMAIL HAS STRONG VIRUS!!!
Even if I hadn’t seen (and deleted) variants of this before, our local computer guys are a bit more familiar with the English language than that. (And they don’t use ALL CAPS)