Hello, I have this person sending me false story which wants my bank
account number and personal information. Can I get a reward for giving
out information that leads to catching him? Are there any sites that
pay you for reporting people who request bank accounts?

I doubt they offer a reward, but I do know that you can forward it to
different groups.

The FBI has links to report suck crime on their website www.fbi.gov,
some page used to submit any tips,

Page full of links to report various scams including
banking:http://banspam.javawoman.com/report3.html#scam3

And I always forward a copy to the bank in question.

The reward comes in knowing that one day with any luck and enough
evidence these people will spend a nice vacation in a prison somewhere
with limited access to the rest of the world.

Please report this to your local police department so that other
people can be protected by this scammer.  Thank you for your
conscientiousness.

4KEITH (I'm NOT a GOOGLE Researcher)

Seeking bank account information by misleading emails is called
phishing.  If I, or anyone who has had an email account for more than
a month, could collect a reward for turning in a "phisher", then we
would all be rich. This is quite common, and noone is going to pay you
for your information.  It will help the government agencies mentioned
above, by adding it to their log, but you will be one of many people
who receive the same emails.

Actually, this e-mail is special, Ill give you the content:

Dear L o L,

           How are you hope very fine with you and your family, i will
like you to understand one thing about this transaction which is that,
you should not feel  or entertain any fear and i am ready to tell you
all about the whole transaction, and now i will be sending you the
text of application you will have to send to my bank. and after you
have to contact me so as to know what the bank wants from you  again
and i will be sending you the other informations you will need to back
up your clains which you will later send to the bank, so  send this
text of application to the bank and reply me immediately you receive
this mail.

 

     The said bank is the Citizen Trust Bank of African (CTBA)  . The
account number is CTBA/BF/94/0. 024578356 and the amount is(US$10.5m 
Ten million five hundred thousand US dollars). I will send a long with
this mail the text of application to the bank you will have to send to
the bank.

 

This is the Email address of our bank: 

 

Email addresses : ctbabf@consultant.com

 

                          ctba_bf@consultant.com 

 

...........................................................................................................................................

                 THIS IS THE TEXT OF APPLICATION 

 

THE 

DIRECTOR GENERAL 

CITIZEN TRUST BANK OF AFRICAN (CTBA) 

B.P 474 R. U. 12.186 Avenue Kwame N'kruma 

Ouagadougou ? Burkina Faso 

 

 

APPLICATION FOR THE CLAIMS OF MY DECEASED RELATION.WHO HELD A
DOMICILIARY ACCOUNT N° CTBA/BF/94/0. 024578356

 

Sir, 

 

I here by wish to bring to the notice of the board and management of
your bank, concerning the domiciliary account of my business partner 
Mr Hennieh Marker who died in a motor accident with his entire family
September 2001. I the next of kin to the deceased wish to forward this
application for the claim to his funds with your bank.I now want this
funds transferred to my account

number 

.............................................. 

In................................................................. 

 

My other particulars are as follows. 

(A) telephone number .......................................... 

(B) fax number..................................................... 

(C) Bank address , telephone number and fax number................. 

(D) name of the beneficiary..........................L o L

 

I anticipate an urgent compliance to this my application. And well
oblige you all necessary cooperation to this effect.

 

Thanks 
L o L. 

 

    Please note: that you have to re-type this application and fill in
 the gaps and your particulars to the bank for easy communication and
smooth procedure for transfer to your account.Send it to bank.

 

Thanks 

Yours Sincerely 

Barrister Musa.



The funniest thing is that he claims the information that u fill out
will go to the bank but it will actually go to some free e-mail
account.

As was earlier stated, there arent any rewards.  If you feel it was
directed towards JUST you, you can call the police and file a police
report but they will not be able to do much seeing as how they are out
of teh country.  You could also try fileing with Interpol who would
have jurisdiction but no reward.