Transferring $12.5 million into your account …

Transferring $12.5 million into your account …

While ransomware has been hitting the headlines, the plain old spear phishing attack is still one of the most popular methods in tricking users. So today I received an email which said I just had to transfer $12.5 million into my account and I would gain half of it:

So I had to investigate further:

Here is the full text:

Dear  Buchanan, Bill

Thanks for your quick response to my email and I am here to assure you
that this transaction will execute under legitimate without any RISK
until the fund release to you. With every good intention for our own
mutual benefit, I give more details and information about the legal
transaction all I need from you is trust and cooperation.

General Fund inheritance of $ 12, 500,000.00, and if you can stand in
as the next of kin to provide bank account for the transfer of the
inheritance fund I will offer you 50% of the total while I also will
be set 50% and 10% set aside for children's home less  in your country
and my country.

Yes, you may or may not be related to my late client of blessed
memory. So at this juncture has become very necessary to educate a
little about the complaint procedure background / next of kin's claim,
since it is possible in politics and global banking in general.

As you know, Next of kin is not limited to the relationship of the
deceased, nor was entrusted to the circuit of the relationship of
parents, but that is by choice of the benefactor as regards to which
he / she wants to do his will to (beneficiary), whether formal writing
by the beneficiary, or informally by the disclosure secret to him or
his business partner, relationship, relatives, friends and supporters
while the deceased did not mention anyone as to the families in this
case.

So, whoever comes with specific information on its establishment has
files / records are supposed to automatically relatives because they
have no knowledge of such secret information of the deceased, if not
their family or close to it, either the relationship or friendship and
in the private disclosure.

Therefore, by virtue of the foregoing, it can be said that the
relatives of my late client without stress, with my full participation
as counsel and the decedent's personal lawyer in question, taking in
my possession all the necessary information, documentaries that might
be required for claims submitted by the transfer institution.

With hope I have explained this subject to their own satisfaction.
Therefore, we only need your sincere cooperation and assistance to
realize the dream. I aliasing you about what to do and how we make
this business a success.

The operation will last about 12 days to materialize, according to
their capacity to give due attention. The money will be split amicably
between us in the agreed terms as soon as the fund comes to your bank
account. It pleases me if this agreement estimated business of your
attention as the money could be transferred only to claim for a
foreigner with or without the same surname, but one thing good that
both have the same surname as easy to make a claim funds.

Please, unless I forget, you must understand that this is a financial
agreement and such should be highly sensitive. I hope that it will
adhere strictly to this and be under oath taken solely between you and
me until this matter has been completed and the transfer of funds in
the bank account designated for that purpose later.

Please response, I have the following information that I use to write
a complaint letter requesting for approval and subsequent submission
to the bank where the fund is deposited, and also for documentation of
the processes of legalization if you decide to cooperate with me, to
our mutual benefit.

Also note that the tender of this claim application to the Bank
marking the formal start of the claim properly. Be confident that this
transaction is 100% RISK FREE and must be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you and me from any violation of law now
or in the future. So fill out the information below it.

The details are as follows:
1.Your full names ......................... ..
2.Your date of birth ........................
3.Your full contact address .......... (Home & Office)
4.Your private telephone numbers .......................
5.Your fax numbers ................
6.Marital situation .......................
7.Occupation .................. .......
8. Country .........................
9. Your Email........................

Looking forward to hearing from you ASAP. I feel very free to contact me for
clarification if needed.

And here is the follow-up:

And then:

And then the crime is revealed: