BDO Email Scam Alert
Posted Friday, February 15th, 2008 5:47 am by Abe Olandres
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Banco de Oro sent out a security bulletin to all its customer about a recent internet scam being circulated in emails that is part of a bigger modus operandi.
The scam being circulated through email attempts to lure recipients into giving details of their account and other information so that this may be used as a receiving account to commit the fraud.
This is the content of the email:
MISS. MARY ELLAINE VILLANUEVA
HEAD OFFICE BANCO DE ORO UNIVERSAL BANK
12 ADB AVENUE, ORTIGAS CENTER, MANDALUYONG CITY
PHILIPPINES.Good Day,
Let me start by introducing myself, I am Miss. Mary Ellaine Manguerra Villanueva, an ACCOUNTS CLARK with the BANCO DE ORO UNIVERSAL BANK. I am writing you this letter based on the latest development at my bank which I will like to bring to your personal edification. I am writing you this letter with so much joy and excitement even though my heart goes out to the very powerful and distinguished gentleman who I was fortunate to have worked for and extremely privileged to have known for numerous years. I am an official in charge of client accounts in BANCO DE ORO UNIVERSAL BANK inside the Philippines.
This is a legitimate transaction, and you will be paid 20% for your “Assistance”.If you are interested, please write back by mail and provide me with your confidential telephone number, fax number and email address and I will provide further details and instructions. Please keep this confidential;finally, please note that this must be concluded within two weeks.
I will assume all responsibilities for this endeavor so you don’t have to worry about any legal ramifications, just what you will do with all that money. Your urgent response is highly anticipated so please email me back for more details on this transaction as soon as possible. This should be kept very secret and confidential. I believe you know.
Kind Regards,
Miss. Mary Ellaine Villanueva.
The Modus Operandi
The Fraudster contacts the prospective victim with money-earning opportunities either via spam mails, through the Internet chat rooms, or job search websites whereby the fraudster will convince the victim to supply contact information. Once the victim responds, the fraudster tries to get additional information from the victim in the hope of getting an account related to a target bank.
The victim will receive funds into his account. These funds are stolen by the fraudster from another account or accounts that have been previously compromised.
The victim is then asked to take these funds out of their account and to transfer the amount overseas, typically using wire transfer, leaving a certain percentage to the victim as commission. Cooperating in such an activity is illegal. When caught, victims often have their bank accounts suspended, including their own money.
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6 Responses to “BDO Email Scam Alert”
Any BDO Specialist or VP out there.
I am a BDO client.I am employed by a Multinational company in PH on where I receive my salary through foreign remittance. Few months ago I tried to use eBanking for my own convenience, in paying my Bills,tranfering money to my kids account etc. At first I though BDO is Okey,later on I got pissed off due to a very long delay on the enrollment of two account to my eBanking account.They said it will take 5 days,,,unfortunately its been 20 days already and nothing happen. Imageine on the inconvenience you guys introduce to the eBanking when its a payments to billing you dont need a lot of documentation and proccesses, ( My filipino friends “this is becuase BDO earn a lot as a collector for other institutions they are being paid for this effort) but when its comes to trnasfering money to a SAMEEEEE BDO account they will give you alot of HEADACHE,,,as fo today its been 20 days now,they havent fixed my problem,they dont give attention to this request maybe becuase they “WON’T EARN additional money on this services”….This is my BANK…If I wher eyou guys who are trying to use this bank as your personnal Bank,,,pleaaasee think twice…THEY OFFER SERVICES WITH Equivalent revenue on their side,,for SERVICES that will entail them COST<<>>lets try other banks,,who provides better customer service…
Thanks BDO for the service you provided for the past years,,,If you cannot cope up on large sclae of customer then better go bakc to the old BDO…pang maliiitan lang pala kayo,,pag malaki na customer base…wala na kayong kwenta…Bangkong Di Organizado..
Sorry guys you may treat this as constructive cxriticism or destructive…but your customer has the option to choose on which Bank can provide better service.
Nigerian scam pinoy style.
yo no caigo en estas mariqueras, de verdad que es una completa ladilla, por mi pocision mi correo electronico circula en toda la red, no se como carajo hacen para conseguir la direccion pero a diario me llega un pingazo de correo con esta misma guebonada, a veces les sigo la corriente para joder un rato, a veces hasta en mis datos personales les envio la direccion, el fax y el telefono de la policia local.
en fin nada es gratis en esta vida DINERO, MEJOR POCISION ECONOMICA Y HASTA EL AMOR SOLO SE CONSIGUE T-R-A-B-A-J-A-N-D-O VERGA OLVIDENSE DEL INERO FACIL SOLO TRABAJANDO PARTIENDONOS EL CULO Y ECHANDOLE BOLAS ES QUE CUBRIMOS NUESTRAS NECESIDADES!
Salamat sa Nagpublished na c MISS. MARY ELLAINE VILLANUEVA ay SCAM muntik n ko.Ang Masama nabigay kana ung detail ko. Pro at least hindi ako nadali. Ngresearch me about sa kanya before i continue further para kc hindi sya fil. yung mga sagot nya kakaiba at ung edad masyado pang bata. Kawawa naman sya kc npublished n sya s scam. Well Sana Hndi mangyari s akin kc ngbigay n me ng detail. Pati ung bank draft cheque mali mali….
I am also a BDO Client and I have jokingly called them as Banco De Offline. The bank just loves to place several ATMs in a mall but most machines are offline all the time.
Hassle when you know that an ATM is located in a particular area of the mall but when you go there, it’s offline. Then you have to run to the other building just to find out, it is still offline.
I had the same letter but not the sam name but address was the same scam idea mentioned above.
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