We’re all, no doubt, used to getting 419 scams in email. I get several a day, but they’re not often as brazen as this.
PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE
TREASURY AND MINISTER FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE,
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.Our ref: ATM/13470/IDR
Your ref:…Date: 14/09/2010IMMEDIATE PAYMENT NOTIFICATION
I am The Rt Hon David Cameron MP,Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service British Government. This letter is to officially inform you that (ATM Card Number 7302 7168 0041 0640) has been accredited with your favor. Your Personal Identification Number is 1090.The VISA Card Value is £2,000,000.00(Two Million, Great British Pounds Sterling).
This office will send to you an Visa/ATM CARD that you will use to withdraw your funds in any ATM MACHINE CENTER or Visa card outlet in the world with a maximum of £5000 GBP daily.Further more,You will be required to re-confirm the following information to enable;The Rt Hon William Hague MP First Secretary of State for British Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. begin in processing of your VISA CARD.
(1)Full names: (2)Address: (3)Country: (4)Nationality: (5)Phone #: (6)Age: (7)Occupation: (8) Post Codes
Rt Hon William Hague MP.
First Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Email; bfcaffairs@info.al
Tel: +447405235350TAKE NOTICE: That you are warned to stop further communications with any other person(s) or office(s) different from the staff of the State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to avoid hitches in receiving your payment.
Regards,
Rt Hon David Cameron MP
Prime Minister
I’ve left the contact details in there as I feel sure that William Hague doesn’t really use an Albanian email address:-)
The email pretends to come from an address at the directgov.uk domain (note, not direct.gov.uk) and the reply-to address goes to Thailand.
That is _awesome_. I wonder if I will start getting emails from Barack Obama saying that the Federal Reserve has found an error in their accounts in my favour.
I hadn’t realised that you’d become a Conservative Peer.
I got the same email