# Does anyone fall for these email bank scams?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-fall-for-these-email-bank-scams/685717>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 9, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-fall-for-these-email-bank-scams/685717 "2014-04-09T14:23:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-fall-for-these-email-bank-scams/685717/21 "2020-09-23T15:00:27Z")

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I’d send money to Keiko San Products Alimenticious, but only if the CEO was a Christian.

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**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-fall-for-these-email-bank-scams/685717/22 "2020-09-23T15:25:13Z")

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> [@Skywatcher](#):
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> Bumping because a Cameroonian national pled guilty to bank fraud yesterday.

I don’t really see what the connection is to the email scams described in this thread.

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-fall-for-these-email-bank-scams/685717/23 "2020-09-23T15:28:30Z")

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Oh, sorry, that’s in this one from last year:

> **[Cameroon Man Charged with Bank Fraud and Wire Fraud](https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdil/pr/cameroon-man-charged-bank-fraud-and-wire-fraud)**

> Namatinga devised a scheme to defraud Municipal Trust and Savings Bank (“MTSB”), a financial institution located in Kankakee County, Illinois, in which MTSB was fraudulently induced by electronic mails to mail four checks in large dollar amounts made payable to Keiko San Products (“Keiko”). The messages in the electronic mails falsely represented that the secretary of one of MTSB’s customers requested that the checks be mailed to Keiko, when in reality, the loan customer did not make this request.

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**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-fall-for-these-email-bank-scams/685717/24 "2020-09-23T16:38:32Z")

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**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-fall-for-these-email-bank-scams/685717/25 "2020-09-23T16:39:08Z")

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I see no reason to revive this old zombie.

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