Friday, January 08, 2010

New kind of phishing. very personalised...



I got this email from unknown source ...
initially seems to be some genuine email. It was smart phishing email. they have used my last name (as a company name) and first name for personalisation.

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fromLeonard McKay
toashishfa@cse.iitb.ac.in


subjectAre you in any way related to Engineer Ramesh Almeida?
signed-bygmail.com



Dear Ashish ,

Happy new year! My Name is Dr. Leonard McKay; I was a personal physician and an
appointed sole administrator/executor to Late Ramesh
Almeida´s estate. Ramesh was a contractor in my country and
was the owner of Almeida Construction Company. He died of brain tumor
just six months ago. He has a daughter Jaheel who left with her mother
after they divorced in 2004. She was just 3
then.

I have been searching seriously for any of his relatives, especially
Jaheel, to be presented as his next of kin to receive the balance of the
contract payment now ready for approval and payment. I got your email
contact while searching for his family in the web.

I have been called upon, by virtue of my appointment as the executor
and administrator of his estate, to present his Next of Kin within a
short period of time to claim and receive the balance of his completed
contract payment.

If the payment in question is not claimed within the specified time as
ordered by the Contract Payment Office, the payment will be cancelled
and labeled UNCLAIMED CONTRACT PAYMENT, It will be lost for ever. This
I want to avoid by all means.

Please, let me know urgently if you are in anyway related to the late
Ramesh so that I will stop my search or if you know Jaheel's
whereabouts.

Sincerely,
Dr. Leonard McKay
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