Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) would like to caution financial institutions, corporations, government agencies and members of public in relation to a spam email entitled “Notification of Money Laundering Involvement” purportedly sent by Bank Negara Malaysia.

BNM would like to state that it did not send such email to any individuals or institutions.

This is a spam email sent from an unknown sender who attempted to pose as a staff of BNM using an identity from BNM's email domain.

Financial institutions, corporations and members of public who received this spam email are advised NOT to open the attachment in the spam email or reply or forward it to anyone.

Anyone who received the email is advised to DELETE it immediately and to take precautionary steps to remove or block the unknown sender from their corporate email system or mailboxes.
The precautionary steps are as follows:

1. Activate email security (spam) filtering controls to block such emails from unidentified individuals or spoofed email accounts; and

2. Institutions and corporations to alert the relevant email recipients in their organisations of this spam email purportedly sent by fraudsters impersonating as BNM officers.

Should you have further queries, please contact Bank Negara Malaysia at:

Telephone : 1-300-88-5465 (1-300-88-LINK)
Fax : 03-2174 1515
SMS to 15888 : BNM TANYA [your report / query]
Email : [email protected]