Scammers use all sorts of enticements to get people to reply and give their personal information.

This one is weird in that it’s hard to see who it is aimed at – anyone in investments would recognise it as fake and people not into investments may not understand it.

The email sender’s address is PaulStarr but the message claims to be from Stella June so is an obvious scam.

It’s also sent to Undisclosed Recipients which suggests it has been sent to a large number of people for whom the sender only has email addresses – no names.

The key part of the message is:

I am Stella June from the central computer room of the Euro Screen responsible for all foreign /international transfer passing through Europe.

There has been a standing order pending on a transfer in your name on the Euro screen for months now which happens to be a contract/inheritance funds payment, Please do tell us why you have left your funds half done and unattended to in the euro screen. 

Usually these sorts of messages mention a very large sum of money – in the millions of Pounds, dollars or Euros, but in this case it’s left up to the imagination and perhaps the greed of the email recipient.

There is no attempt to make the email look authentic, no company name or contact details etc.

A simple cheap phishing message. Never reply to such messages.

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