For last few months, people are getting email messages from so called Product Promotion Teams etc. informing them that they have won a prize, donation lottery or an award of huge foreign currency and require them to contact so and so person for formalities. The formalities include nothing but filling up of a form for submitting the particulars of the so called winner. After he fills up the form and submits it via email, he is then approached by a courier company or a foreign bank notifying him that they are in possession of a parcel in his favor containing the winning cheque and the related certificates and documents which they have been entrusted to deliver to the winner. But before delivering they demand courier charges, tax levies or any other charge like premium account opening charges in the bank which has received the winning funds on behalf of the winner.
Lured by the huge sum of winnings in foreign currency, the winner readily accepts the offer and sends money to them. Though the options given to the winner for fund transfer are varied but it boils down to a cash deposit in a specified account in ICICI Bank. After the deposit is made by the winner, he never gets a parcel but messages that his parcel has been stopped by some tax enforcement agency and he is now required to pay so many pounds or dollars to get the parcel released and in this way the parcel never comes to the winner but he is cheated of the money he has deposited in the specified ICICI Bank account.
Some remarkable features of these email messages are that these are crafted in such a fashion that one never gets an impression that these are a part of Phishing activity till the so called winner has deposited the money in their account with ICICI Bank. Secondly if you desire ring them up on the given telephone Nos., they do respond and talk to you. Thirdly, all the accounts which have come to light are that of ICICI Bank. If only one email id can receive particulars of as many as four such fraudulent accounts in ICICI BANK how many of such accounts will there be in whole of the ICICI BANK. It is clear that the bank in a race to grab more and more deposits visavis other banks has abused the KYC norms formulated by Reserve Bank of India where under a banker is required to know his customer by asking for so many details that there is no scope for the bank thereafter to plead that they did not know the customer.
It is high time when the ICICI BANK, THE RBI, THE FINANCE MINISTRY and the police should act hand in glove to nab the perpetrators of this scamming and phishing activity going on around the world to prevent the innocent people from being defrauded.
Some important names, links, telephone Nos. are as under:
Tom Ivan tele; 44 703 195 6105 email id tomivan_awardclaims@yahoo.co.uk
Wallis Mavin (GM) European Courier Service email id: ecourier_safedeliver@yahoo.dk tele 44 704 571 8073
Inland Tax Revenue Board; email id; Uk_inland_enforcement@yahoo.co.uk
Khan Nargis Amjad ICICI BANK A/c No. 026301505367
Kalpana Enterprises, ICICI BANK, J R Road, MUMBAI Branch A/c No. 037705000746
Reshma Rafique Sheikh ICICI BANK A/c No. 026301508885
Lizzie N Shetty, ICICI BANK A/c No. 002801019662
Scott Phillips, 2-Bevan Avenue, Conwy LL285AF, United Kingdom
Mr. Robert Carlson tele; 44 70457 34759 email id; barclaysbankonlinetransferunit@dorsetgroup_plc.com
Van Freek email id: mrvanfreek_01@yahoo.de
David Adams Lottery Manager, PEUGEOT AUTOMOBILES LOTTERY
Paul Wilson P A Headquarters email id: claims_agent230@yahoo.com.hk
Dean Christopher, Dispatch Officer, Transglobal Express Tele 447045710577
Giss Peterson email id: fiduciary_agentmrgisspeterson@yahoo.com.hk
Michael Peters email id: irishaward0007@yahoo.com Tele: 44 7045706497
Hayford Weigel fiduciary agent email id: agent_hayford6000@yahoo.co.uk
Tele: 44 704 570 9391/ 44 704 570 8111
Camillo Antonelli email id:camilloantonelli01@pisem.net tele: 44 702 408 0231
Paul Cody The Finance Operations Manager Post Bank PLC UK tele : 44 703 194 5221 email id: fundstransfer@postbonline.net
