Barclays FIVE MILLION US Dollar Transfer

According to the e-mail I received today [3rd of December 2007] from Barclays Bank PLC I have over 5 Million US Dollars waiting to be transferred into my bank account. Here's a screenshot of the e-mail, so that you can see it for yourself:



Wow!!! Five Million, Two Hundred Thousand Dollars are all mine!

All I need to do is to obtain and complete a 'Non-Residential Clearance Form' and then contact 'Mrs.Nancy Webster' who heads-up the 'International Banking Division' at 'Barclays Bank PLC in London' and she will send me the release forms to fill in and Bingo, I will get the money, right?

Anyone smell a rat yet? Any alarm bells going off in your head? Do you actually believe a word written in the e-mail shown above?

Since when did Barclays outsource their e-mail servers to 'Google'?

If you do believe it, then if you followed up with 'Nancy' at 'Barclays', using her business e-mail account at 'Googlemail', then you would be entering into a relationship where you wouldn't end up with more money, you would actually lose money [at the very least], as this is nothing more than a 419 scam [also known as an Advance Fee Fraud].

I've written about these extensively over the years, and if you are interested in reading more on the subject then take a a look at my published papers and articles, which can be found here.

Just because it is coming up to the season of goodwill, don't lower your guard, as that is only playing straight into the hands of these fraudsters...

I have a number of things to share this week, so check back each day.