Re: No wonder there's a financial crisis in the UK...

[Gardener]

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE

FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS,

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.

Our ref: ATM/1347/IDR

Your ref:...

Date: 26-06-2011

IMMEDIATE PAYMENT NOTIFICATION.

I am The Rt Hon William Hague MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, United Kingdom.

This letter is to officially inform you that (ATM Card Number 4900101775551222) has been accredited in your favor. Your Personal Identification Number is 413. The VISA Card Value is Ј3,000,000.00 GBP (Three Million Great British Pounds Sterling).

This office will send to you a Visa/ATM CARD that you will use to withdraw your funds in any ATM MACHINE Terminal or Visa card outlet in the world with a maximum daily withdrawal of Ј10,000 GBP.

Further more,You will be required to re-confirm the following information to begin the processing of your VISA CARD.

(1)Full names:

(2)Address:

(3)Country:

(4)Nationality:

(5)Phone #:

(6)Age:

(7)Occupation:

Forward your Reply To : FCO-GOV@INFO.AL

TAKE NOTICE: That you are warned to stop further communications with any other person(s) or office(s) different from the staff of the State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to avoid hitches in receiving your payment.

Regards,

The Rt Hon William Hague MP

SECRETARY OF STATE

[Jay]

Quite an old scam, I findit incredible that some people can be taken in by it.

http://www.419scam.org/emails/2010-02/19/01012842.1.htm

[Mr Coeur de Lion]

And those people that are taken in by it have the right to vote too. Scary.

[Gardener]

I have started to have a spate of these recently, but this is the first one purporting to be from an MP. But then again you never know with these Tories ;)

[fisherman]

Unfortunately some people are especially older folk who grew up in perhaps was a more trusting time. I know of a friend of ma-in-law (80+) who received a phone call purporting to be from the police. They said that they were tracking fake notes or some such thing and asked her to draw £900 from an ATM machine and take it to a place in town. She did – nobody turned up, I guess it was a tester to see if she was being followed. Anyway she was then plagued with telephone calls asking for money. Thankfully the (real) police are now involved so she should be OK.