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Scam email about Bangkok bank account closure.

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On 11/4/2025 at 1:06 PM, scubascuba3 said:

Apart from the email address it doesn't look like a scam email, maybe a member of staff is emailing using a personal address. It's too accurate to be a scam

 

you are joking right?

 

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  • I don't think the fact that they use their personal email accounts to email customers of the bank is a laughing matter. Their poor training and unprofessional conduct becomes more and more obvious and

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    Apart from the email address it doesn't look like a scam email, maybe a member of staff is emailing using a personal address. It's too accurate to be a scam  

  • It does look like a scam email. 

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On 11/4/2025 at 12:14 PM, LespaulAN said:

I received this scam email today.  Please take note. I have make a transfer using my BBL after reading this email. the account is ok. Screenshot2025-11-04at11_59_40.png.bd7ed94ad8916af3abade6ba13fe3bfe.png

I just tried sending an email to the one you got from.

It was non-deliverable.

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On 11/4/2025 at 2:57 PM, LespaulAN said:

@scubascuba3 @Upnotover You two are correct. I went down to the branch and it was from one of the staff. I did tease her about the 'scammy' English we had a good laugh over it. 

 

If this is in fact real, I'd go straight to head office and report the exchange to the bank's Chief of Security. Why would anyone respond to a bank employee using a private email?

i have never experienced anything this unprofessional in all my years with Bangkok Bank. It is  downright surreal

 

17 minutes ago, w00n s3n said:

 

If this is in fact real, I'd go straight to head office and report the exchange to the bank's Chief of Security. Why would anyone respond to a bank employee using a private email?

i have never experienced anything this unprofessional in all my years with Bangkok Bank. It is  downright surreal

 

Ok so I wouldn't go directly, but I would certainly report it. It is worth some time on the bualuang phone trying to talk to someone in security.

It really is 1990s-level stupidity.   

28 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

I just tried sending an email to the one you got from.

It was non-deliverable.


This is just bloody creepy,  

There is just so much wrong with this entire topic -- the cumulative ignorance is mind-boggling.

47 minutes ago, w00n s3n said:


This is just bloody creepy,  

There is just so much wrong with this entire topic -- the cumulative ignorance is mind-boggling.

Yes there is ignorance for sure, you for example were convinced it was a scam

9 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

Yes there is ignorance for sure, you for example were convinced it was a scam

Did anyone prove that it isn't?

18 minutes ago, Will Iam Not said:

Did anyone prove that it isn't?

Yes, the op visited the branch and talked to the lady who sent the email

49 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

Yes there is ignorance for sure, you for example were convinced it was a scam

 

Receiving gibberish emails from a random personal email (strabablu_lanala no less) regarding your personal banking you would have to be a moron not to be skeptical. 

Even if you knew the individual well. 

it contravenes every internet safety good practice in existence and exposes the bank's horrifically inadequate staff training policies.

not sure why you would even try justify it by mocking my very well-advised caution.

All copies needed to be signed at branch. Email is nonsenses. Email is for notifying the account owner only. 

 

27 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

Yes, the op visited the branch and talked to the lady who sent the email

 

In that case, perhaps the op should petition moderation to take her email address off the web.

at least one ASEANNOW poster has tried to reply.

3 minutes ago, w00n s3n said:

 

Receiving gibberish emails from a random personal email (strabablu_lanala no less) regarding your personal banking you would have to be a moron not to be skeptical. 

Even if you knew the individual well. 

it contravenes every internet safety good practice in existence and exposes the bank's horrifically inadequate staff training policies.

not sure why you would even try justify it by mocking my very well-advised caution.

You were wrong

On 11/9/2025 at 12:30 AM, Caldera said:

 

That's not a fact at all. I'm a foreigner, and they didn't "stop" my account about a month ago (or ever).

It is an absolute fact, hundreds or even more of foreigners, including me, get their accounts blocked. In some cases, it is said that it is only those who have a short time visa that are affected, but that is not true. I have a one-year visa and have had both that and an account on Bangkok Bank for the last 13 years, and I was indeed affected. However, it looks like if you are having a marriage visa, you will not be affected.

 

You can read about it at;

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/destinationthailandvisa/posts/2171900389999572/

 

On 11/4/2025 at 1:06 PM, scubascuba3 said:

Apart from the email address it doesn't look like a scam email, maybe a member of staff is emailing using a personal address. It's too accurate to be a scam

 

The email address shows it is a scam. Jeez, you are gullible.

1 hour ago, FritsSikkink said:

The email address shows it is a scam. Jeez, you are gullible.

Read the whole thread dumbo

10 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

Read the whole thread dumbo

No need, I know a lot about IT security and you don't understand the basics.

People are not allowed to send work information with private email addresses

1 hour ago, FritsSikkink said:

No need, I know a lot about IT security and you don't understand the basics.

People are not allowed to send work information with private email addresses

So gullible, if you'd read the thread you'd see op went to the branch to see the person in the email, back to school for you

8 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

So gullible, if you'd read the thread you'd see op went to the branch to see the person in the email, back to school for you

Bank people never cheat people? Why does the paperwork need to go to a private mail first?

2 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

People are not allowed to send work information with private email addresses

Do you realise how silly that sounds when applied to Thailand..........

 

What about personal Line accounts used to send invoices etc.......Had that from a number of different companies.........

19 hours ago, topt said:

Do you realise how silly that sounds when applied to Thailand..........

 

What about personal Line accounts used to send invoices etc.......Had that from a number of different companies.........

I work with a lot of big Thai companies, not with Tik Tok sellers.

2 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

I work with a lot of big Thai companies, not with Tik Tok sellers.

SCG Ceramics PCL, a main Mitsubishi dealer to name but 2 recent ones.......big enough for you..........

1 minute ago, topt said:

SCG Ceramics PCL, a main Mitsubishi dealer to name but 2 recent ones.......big enough for you..........

They need to hire some security consultant then. 

There are a few things that are not really correct in that email that is supposed to be from a legit bank.

Let's have a look:

1. As said, the email address is the first red flag.

2. Sender has a non-Thai name which hardly inspires confidence.

3. Terrible punctuation all the way through, starts with no comma after "Sir", first sentence is what I would expect from a 15 year-old non-native student, wrong number formatting of 2 (should be "two"), second sentence doesn't really make a whole load of sense, no question mark in the third sentence as asking a question or a colon to introduce a list, the real Bangkok Bank would not write "bangkokbank" as a whole word in a sentence, closing is irregular, missing full stop on last sentence etc., and quite frankly the whole email is a slipshod sloppy effort.

You can always tell from the formatting, punctuation, word choice, and styling of such letters... and this one certainly would set off my spidey sense.

 

The scammers rely on you just being concerned enough to just send the stuff to make the problem go away.

An email is something no bank that I know of would send you for such an issue if it was real.

1 hour ago, Sir Dude said:

There are a few things that are not really correct in that email that is supposed to be from a legit bank.

Let's have a look:

1. As said, the email address is the first red flag.

2. Sender has a non-Thai name which hardly inspires confidence.

3. Terrible punctuation all the way through, starts with no comma after "Sir", first sentence is what I would expect from a 15 year-old non-native student, wrong number formatting of 2 (should be "two"), second sentence doesn't really make a whole load of sense, no question mark in the third sentence as asking a question or a colon to introduce a list, the real Bangkok Bank would not write "bangkokbank" as a whole word in a sentence, closing is irregular, missing full stop on last sentence etc., and quite frankly the whole email is a slipshod sloppy effort.

You can always tell from the formatting, punctuation, word choice, and styling of such letters... and this one certainly would set off my spidey sense.

 

The scammers rely on you just being concerned enough to just send the stuff to make the problem go away.

Long list, have you worked out why it was genuine?

1 minute ago, scubascuba3 said:

Long list, have you worked out why it was genuine?

"Genuine" or not, that would be deleted by anyone who is prudent.

2 minutes ago, Sir Dude said:

"Genuine" or not, that would be deleted by anyone who is prudent.

No, anyone with a brain would go to the branch to check or else their account is likely to get frozen

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