An Email with the Subject "FUNDS" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Sun, 19 Jul 2015 23:24:42 -0700 and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email. The sender shows as <rbi22@rbl396.onmicrosoft.com>.
The email address was probably spoofed. Do not reply to or contact any persons or organizations referenced in this email, or follow any URLs as you may expose yourself to scammers and, at the very least, you will be added to their email address lists for spam purposes.
THE RESERVE BANK OF INDIA, 6, SANSAD MARG,JANPATH, NEW DELHI,H.O.
110001,NEW DELHI.
IMMEDIATE PAYMENT NOTIFICATION IN CONNECTION WITH FOREIGN
EXCHANGE COMMISSION
On Behalf of the RESERVE BANK OF INDIA Governor (Dr. Raghuram Rajan) and the Government of India in
Conjunction with the United Nations and the World Bank, we the Foreign Remittance Department of the
Reserve Bank of India wish to notify you as a beneficiary of 1,000,000.00 GBP (One Million Great
British Pounds Sterlings) in compensation of scam victims. This is to bring to your notice that we
are delegated from the RESERVE BANK OF INDIA and the Government of India to pay 150 victims of
internet and various scams 1,000,000.00 GBP Each. This also includes every contractors that may
have not received their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or
international businesses that failed due to Government problems and financial problem, and people
who have been scam/cheated on the internet in the past. Your E-mail ID were listed and approved for
this payment as one of the beneficiary of this compensation amount.
According to the last meeting held here in the RESERVE BANK OF INDIA Foreign Department, it was
brought to our notice of the various types of scam that is going on in our world today and in
India, and this scammer's are even using the name of the RESERVE BANK OF INDIA (RBI) and other
reputable Esteem Bank around the world to scam people. Today many people have lost their
properties, money and many have gone in bankruptcy because of these INTERNET CRIMINALS. This scam
as investigated are in form of Fake online lottery, fake online loan, fake emails talking about
huge amount of funds transfer such as next of kin, proposal, proposal for bank transfer and other
form of fake internet scamming activities.
You have to take this your opportunity seriously whether you fall under any of the above mentioned
category or not because this is your money and benefit.
In order for us to proceed with the remittance of your compensation funds to you, you are to fill
and send the below information:
[1] Full Names: ___________________ [2] Contact address: ______________
[3] Country: _____________________ [4] Direct Mobile No: ____________
[5] Occupation: _________________ [6] Sex/Age: ____________________
[7] Marital Status: ________________ [8] Other Email Address: _____________
[9] Scan copy of your Identification Proof______________
[10] Your Bank Account Details: _____________
You are to send your information immediately for the processing and transfer of your compensation
funds into your bank account. Do be in form that this compensation is 100% true and genuine so you
have to take it seriously without any doubt. And if you have not received any scam email or have
not been scammed before, do get us inform so that we stop the allocation of this compensation funds
to you immediately as we do not want to allocate this compensation funds into wrong hands. Also you
are not to duplicate or communicate with any one about this because we are still in trace of those
internet hoodlums and criminals.
YOUR'S SINCERELY,
DR. STEVEN GRAY
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT / FOREIGN EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Banking Unit
(RBI)