RUSD Investment bank Marie RossaSheik Yaquby Scam Malaysia

I received a message on social media site linked in from a Marie Rossa, claiming to be a secretary for a Sheik Yaquby, a banker from RUSD investment bank in Malaysia, asking me to email him regarding a business proposal, out of interest I emailed him to receive the following:

Thanks for the response to my email,please ignore my poor English usage as i am aged. I want you to know that my reason for contacting you is very important and very legitimate so I want you to take this seriously. All i want is an honest business transaction with you. I will start by introducing myself. My name is Sheikh Yaquby, I am a financial executive with the RUSD Investment Bank Inc Malaysia. I have been working with the RUSD Investment Bank Inc. of Malaysia for 27 years, I am 54 years of age and have a good record with my bank.

 I am the personal Accountant/Investment Manager to Late Engineer Adams Clements,A contractor who deposited an investment account totaling $3,472,000 (Three million, Four hundred and seventy two Thousand Us dollars) after being paid for his first concluded contract with Exxon Mobil Corporation (Esso Malaysia Berhad). He used to work with the Exxon Mobil Corporation here in Malaysia as a foreign Expatriate. Unfortunately, on the 11 October 2005, my client/customer, and his mother who was his only surviving family from his record were involved in a car accident along Princess Hwy at Weerite and lost their lives.

Since his death i have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate any of his extended families or relatives but this has also proved unsuccessful. So i am tracing his last name over the Internet to locate any member of his family that was how i found your contact in linkedin.com,and am contacting you for us to work together in filing a claim of the funds.

My bank has issued me several notices to provide the Next of Kin being his personal Investment/Account Manager before his death or the account will be confiscated within the next 14 official working days. The last notice for claim came to my desk three days ago. I am contacting you to assist in repatriating the funds and property left behind before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank.I am seeking your consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased since you bear the same last name so that the proceeds of this account valued at $3,472,000 US Dollars can be paid to you, If we can be of one accord, we should act swiftly on this. Please get back to me immediately for us to proceed with the claims. I propose that upon successful completion of this deal, we will split the proceeds according to a ratio to be agreed in subsequent communication between us. I am after the success of this transaction with your full cooperation.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee you that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you and i from any breach of the law. Please know that am arabic and will not lie because of my religion and I would expect the same from you. I will attach my staff ID on my next email if you are interested in the proposal and will send you more information directing you on further procedure on how we can claim the funds.

Thanks for your anticipated cooperation,

Regards,

Sheikh Yaquby

I have tried to research the supposed next of kin, you would expect something about an executive earning millions of dollars worth of salary dying in a car crash to appear somewhere in the media online, there is absolutely nothing about it. I have replied advising I believe this to be a scam and I would require firm proof of it to take it any further, it does strike me that the people behind this have gone to some length to try and make it look genuine, all of marie rossa's connections on linkedin do appear to be in the Asian banking sector and there is a geniune Sheikn Yaquby on RUSD's website.

Please be aware if you receive a similar message, I will update if I hear anything further