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Bank frauds

Friday, February 11th, 2011

Interesting article on bank fraud
http://www.bankdirector.com/issues/articles.pl?article_id=12028&V=1

The higher incidence of employee misuse of information at banks could be due to the fact that bank employees simply have access to more sensitive and valuable information. While financial firms are fortified by better security than most other types of companies, these systems are designed for the express purpose of keeping bad guys out, not necessarily watching for the threat from within.

If  the bank employee has a tie up with  unsavory characters, it can be a problem.

HANG SENG BANK LTD

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

HANG SENG BANK LTD
83, Des Voeux Road,
Central HK,
Hong Kong.

Dear Sir/Madam,

My name is Patrick K W Chan, I work with HANG SENG BANK, HONG KONG.I have a
Business Transaction of ($24,400,000.00) for you to handle with me from my
bank. I will need you to assist me in executing this Business from Hong Kong
to your country. I need to know if you will be able to handle this
with me before I explain to you in full details ? Should you be interested
please send me your full names,private phone/fax and current residential
address and finally after that I shall provide you with more details of this
Business Transaction.

Best Regards,
Patrick K W Chan.

Bank of India phishing

Monday, March 15th, 2010

From: Bank Of India [mailito:service@bankofindia.com]
Subject:Your Bank Of India e-mail adress was successfuly updated

Dear Bank Of India member,

You have added rabahbussines@yahoo.co.in as a new email address for your Bank Of India account.

If you did not authorize this change, check with family members and others who may have
access to your account first. If you still feel that an unauthorized person has changed
your email, submit the form attached to your email in order to keep your original email
and restore your Bank Of India account.

If you are using Internet Explorer please allow ActiveX for scripts to perform all data transfers securely .

Thank you for using Bank Of India !
The Bank Of India Team

Please do not reply to this email.
This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response.

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Indusind Customer Alert

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Dear Valued Customer,

With great pleasure, we wish to express our sincere gratitude for your patronage through the years

As a token to offer you an even more secure banking, we hereby introduce you to our new more improved security measure called CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROTOCOL. We acknowledge the constant advancement in the world technology and consequently strive to provide you with a safer, more flexible and more secure banking backed up by the most recent technology. Cryptographic Protocol is a technological measure/protocol which encrypts every data packet shared between your computer and IndusInd Bank server making it 99% impossible for third party to intercept your data packets shared with our server.

We understand the importance of security and flexibility in banking, thus we strive to provide you with the most secure banking ever. Your satisfaction is our primary concern.

You are adviced to enroll your account to the new security measure by loggin in via the reference below:
https://indusnet.indusind.com/indusnet/en/loginBrowser/loginNoCert_frm.htm? RequestId=6331301&Prot=crypto&cmd=enroll#

Thank you for using IndusInd Bank

NOTE: IndusInd Bank will not take responsibility should your account be compromised as a result of your refusal to enroll to the new security measure.

Iraq fraud

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

FROM: MR. ABDEL RAHMAN FARID
BAGHDAD-IRAQ.

Dear Sir,

Assalamu alaikum warahmotullahi wabarakatuh.

I am Mr. Abdel Rahman Farid, I working in Economic Development and Foreign Contract payment Operations Department, in the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI).

My aim of writing you is to seek for your kindness assistance to allow me quickly transfer the sum of US$15.million dollars, into your account. It will interest you to know how this huge sum amount of funds came about.

About two days before the United State and British, bombing began, the late president Saddam Hussein, ordered his youngest son, Late Qusay, to remove the sum of US$1.billion (640 million BRITISH POUNDS) from the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) The cash which was loaded into three lorries.

That memorable day Late Qusay and a senior aide to the late president Saddam Hussein delivered the instruction in person to the bank’s governor of the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI). And the money was removed without proper official documentations. The money was not debited. It was just remove from the foreign reserve vault. This illegal withdrawer created opportunity for our staffs working in the foreign payments department. We hastingly remove from the vault the sum of US$75.million, which we shared among ourselves working in the department, five in number. My share is US$15.million Dollars, the deal which was absolutely successfully, I am now seeking your help to allow me transferred the funds into your bank account for investment in your country.

I have agreed to offer you 25% of the funds for your assistance, 75% will be kept for your bank account for me till my arrival to your country for investment with you as my partner. This transaction is risk free since it is assumed; the late president Saddam Hussein was responsible for removing the funds.

I have formalized every necessary arrangement to transaction this fund into your bank account. What I needed now is your “TRUST” HONESTY and TRANSPARENCY”. Please I need conviction and assurance of TRUST from you. I hope you can see the reasons for this deal, it involves a huge sum of money and I have not deal with you in anyway before. If I am convinced with your declaration of interest in this deal, then I will tell you the procedures to follow with other vital information.

For the security of this transaction, I do hereby implore you to treat and maintain it with the absolute confidentiality and secrecy it requires to avoid exposing our intentions, there by jeopardizing this project. Thanks and remain blessed.

Looking forward to your urgent response.

BEST REGARD.
Mr. Abdel Rahman Farid.

China investment

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

FROM: Liu Yan
Bank of China Ltd.
13/F. Bank of China Tower
1 Garden Road
Hong Kong,
29/09/2009

I sincerely ask for forgiveness for I know this may seem like a complete intrusion
to your privacy but right about now this is my best option of communication.
This mail might come to you as a surprise and the temptation to ignore it as
frivolous could come into your mind; but please consider it a divine wish and accept
it with a deep sense of humility. This letter must surprise you because we have
never meet before neither in person nor by correspondence,but I believe that it
takes just one day to meet or know someone either physically or through correspondence.

I got your contact through my personal search, you were revealed as being quite
astute in private entrepreneurship,and one has no doubt in your ability to handle a
financial business transaction. I am Liu Yan a transfer supervisor operations in
investment section in Bank of China Ltd. Secretariat of the BOCHK Charitable
Foundation 13/F. Bank of China Tower, 1 Garden Road,Hong Kong I have an obscured
business suggestion for you.Before the U.S and Iraqi war our client General Mohammed
Jassim Ali who work with the Iraqi forces and also business man made a numbered fixed
deposit for 18 calendar months, with a value of (I will disclose amount upon your reply)
in my branch.

Upon maturity several notices was sent to him, even early in the war,again
after the war another notification was sent and still no response came from him,We later
find out that General Mohammed Jassim Ali and his family had been killed during the war
in a bomb blast that hit their home.

After further investigation it was also discovered that General Mohammed
Jassim Ali did not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper
work of his bank deposit. And he also confided in me the last time he was at my office
that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank. So, (I will disclose amount upon your reply)
is still lying in my bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me most is
that, according to the laws of my country at the expiration 3 years the funds will revert to
the ownership of the Hong Kong Government if nobody applies to claim the funds.

Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I will like you as a foreigner to
stand as the next of kin to General Mohammed Jassim Ali so that you will be able to
receive his funds.I want you to know that I have had everything planned out so that we
shall come out successful.

I have contacted an attorney who will prepare the legal documents that will back you up
as the next of kin to General Mohammed Jassim Ali, all what is required from you at this
stage is for you to provide me with your Full Names, private phone number and Address so
that the attorney can commence his job. After you have been made the next of kin, the
attorney will also fill in for claims on your behalf and secure the necessary approval
and letter of probate in your favor for the transfer of the funds to an account that will
be provided by you with my guidance.There is no risk involved at all in the matter as we
are going adopt a legalized method and the attorney will prepare all the necessary documents.

Please endeavor to observe utmost discretion in all matters concerning this issue.
Once the funds have been transferred to your nominated bank account we shall discuss the
percentage issue on your reply.

If you are interested please send me your full names and current residential address, and I
will prefer you to reach me on my private and secure email address below and finally after
that I shall provide you with more details of this operation.

Best Regards,
Liu Yan.
Please reply to this email: liuyanbankofchina@gmx.com

ICICI bank phishing

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

From: ICICI BANK [mailto:i-banking@icici.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 11:00 PM
Subject: New ICICI Bank Alert For Coperate And Personal Users

Dear Customer,

ICICI Bank is constantly striving to provide you with more convenience, control and security to assist
in managing your finances.

As part of our ongoing efforts to make it easier and more secure for you to use our online services,
we have upgraded the ICICI E-Sign Consent and Online Access that you reviewed and accepted
when you began to use ICICI Online® Banking service(s).

To upgrade your Information, please visit our secure server webform by clicking the link below…
Upgrade My Account Security.

This alert relates to your Online Banking Profile only.

Thank you for your cooperation.

ICICI Internet Banking Security Team.
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