Government issues warning against bogus email

It was allegedly from the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China.

According to a report, the Monetary Authority issued an alert on an email purporting to be sent from the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (Asia).

It asks recipients to give remittance confirmation, and may contain files with unknown content attached.

The bank has clarified that the email was neither issued nor authorised by it, and it has not asked customers or any other person to give the remittance confirmation.

The case has been reported to Police.

Anyone who has received any suspected fraudulent email purporting to be related to ICBC(Asia) should call the bank on 2189 5588.