Alert - Bank of Scotland Scam

Alert - Bank of Scotland eMail Scam

You may have received the email below. If so you unfortunately are not about to recieve a portion of $25 Million USD, rather you are the target of a scam often refered to as a Nigerian scam. Scams like this often lead to financial and identity theft. Learn more about Nigerian Scams here and learn more about identity theft here.

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Following is the text of the scam email:
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From: greg melth [mailto:greg_meltht30@live.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 6:57 PM
Subject: Greetings,

Bank Of Scotland
PO Box No.5 The Mound
Edinburgh EH1 1YZ,

Greetings,

private and urgent
I am Mr.Greg Melth of the above mentioned bank in Scotland.I'm a chartered accountant by training and the personal account officer of late Mr.Andrean schranner,Bank Of Scotland,there is an account opened in this bank in 1985 and the owner of the said account was late Mr.Andrean schranner, a German,who died in July 2000 in a plane crash with his entire family,without relatives nor next of kin to stand as a claim/beneficiary to this man's fund,and the amount involve is (USD$ 25.000. 000.00)Twenty five million US dollars. For more information about the crash visit this site http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm)

No other person/persons know about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that his company does not know anything about this account . I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a local account here, but can only be approved to any foreign account because the money is in US dollars (foreign currency) and the original owner of the account, Mr.Andrean schranner,was a foreigner.

I am contacting you because of the need to involve a foreign beneficiary,I want you to stand as the beneficiary of this fund,I will use my position and influence to effect legal approvals and onward transfer of this money into your account with appropriate clearance forms of the ministries and foreign exchange departments.I will tell you the next step to follow as soon as I hear from you.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr.Greg Melth
+447031910685

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Any contact with the sender of this email could result in financial and identity loses. If you received an email like this, just delete it. If you have made contact with this person you may be at risk. You should immediately contact your local law enforcement agency and or financial institution for assistance if you provided ANY personal or financial information.

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