A Royal Bank of Scotland twenty pounds sterling note. The UK is possibly quite unique in that there are at least five (perhaps six) banks that retain the legal right to issue currency notes within the UK (Bank of England, Bank of Scotland, Royal Bank of Scotland, Clydesdale Bank and Bank of Ulster).
A Monifieth man is warning Courier readers of a scam offering a half share of $10 million supposedly sitting in a Chinese bank.
Ian Maclean (69) was astonished to get a letter purportedly from a staff member at the Shanghai Pudong Development Bank.
“It said that an Alfred Maclean had done business with the bank but had died in an accident and because my name was the same, the banker wanted to do a deal,” Mr Maclean said.
The letter asked him to reply if he was interested in inheriting the money but he did some internet investigating and found the scam has cropped up many times across the country.
Once a target has agreed to the scheme, he is asked for money or bank details to allow the funds which do not exist to be released.
“If you’re not internet-savvy, who knows what could happen?” said Mr Maclean.
