The Grumpy Old Blog

A message from customer Service sbc.settlement@gmail.com. Standard Chartered Bank Third Floor. PO Box 788, Accra High Street Building Accra Tel/Fax:233 540969397 Dear value Customer, I am Mrs. Felicia Peace (Head of Customer Service) Standard Chartered Bank. We received instruction from our financial authorities and IMF office to remit the compensation sum of $2.9m to you. While we are processing your payment file, it was discovered that your fund beneficiary name has been changed and replaced. The bank's remittance director has ordered that we stop the payment until we get a mandate from you authenticating this change. If you are aware of this development, please kindly give the name but if not please furnish us with the following information to enable verify and update our data here before subsequent processing and transfer of your fund. 1 Your full name: 2 Your present contact address: 3 Your telephone & Fax numbers: 4 Your Occu...

ORIGINAL LETTER FROM THE FRAUDSTER (my reply is below) From: mgrondman@optusnet.com.au (hitting “reply” reveals -   mrsem.68brw@live.com, a strangely different email address ) Subject: Best regards Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:32:36 -0700 Dear Friend I am Mrs. Emelia Brown, I am 68 years old born in U.S.A, and I am suffering from a long time cancer of the Lungs which also had affected my entire well being, from all indication my conditions is really deteriorating. According to my doctors they have advised me that I may not live for the next two months, this is because the cancer stage has gotten to a very bad level. I was brought up from an orphanage home, was married to my late husband for twenty years and we lived in London until my husband died in a fatal motor accident in London. Since his death I decided not to re-marry, I sold all my inherited belongings and deposited all the money with a bank in London. Presently, this money is still with the bank and I have n...