Banking scamming- La caixa Investment Banking

[Charlie77]

Hi,

I just got this message from one of the bank that was "supposedly the bank" of one of my matches from be2.com dating site.
I am sure that this was a scam. I have searched the bank itself through Google and it has a different email address.
As soon I noticed that I should pay through western union - it immediately alerted my suspicion.


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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:57:36 +0000

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Attention: xxxxxxxx xxxxxxx,


This is to inform you that we have received a payment advice for the sum of Six Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars.(US$6.5million USD) from the Office of Mr. Michael Junge who is presently in United Kingdom to be credited to your account. Since you do not have an operational account with this bank, your funds have been lodged in a suspense account pending your activation of an account with us. You are therefore advised to make the payment of initial deposit of €1,300.00 (One Thousand Three Euros) to activate/Non residential account. Via Western Union Money Transfer to our Initial deposit cash receiving officer with the information below


fIrst Name:Yolanda

Last Name: Torrez

Address:Paseo de la Castellana

City:Valdeolmos

State:Madrid

Country:Spain

Postal Code:28130

Should you have any difficulties do not hesistate to contact us via telephone,Fax and Email

Regards

Mrs Yolanda Torrez

La caixa Investment Banking

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[Arnold]

It's a genuine bank, but scammers often misuse the names of genuine businesses. Europe.com is a free mail.com address who offer official seeming addresses. I don't know who they are aimed at, but spammers find them useful.
It's definitely a scam of course, sent out in bulk in the hope of finding people who are already being scammed.

[began steele]

OF course send no money. There is nothing in any account and it is called phishing