If you found this website then you have been searching for information
on one of two things:
1. You are suspicious about a foreign group or individual who is
offering to invest in your business.
2. You entered one of the names, telephone numbers, fake company names
or other information listed below.
In any of these cases, I can give you some information that should be
useful, and hopefully help you avoid losing any of your money and
valuable time. At the time I am posting this I am still in contact with
some Nigerian scammers who I have been corresponding with for several
weeks in order to detail their operations and collect information that
will hopefully help to protect other people from this sort of activity.
This site contains details from three, similar scam operations that I
have recently encountered. Due to time constraints, I am putting this
up as quickly as possible, so I apologize in advance that it is so
ugly! At the very end of this site are a some related, summarized links
that may also be helpful. Click
here to see them now
If you are not familiar with these scams and cons, you need to look
into them so you can recognize them in the early stages. Let me put it
to you this way: how many of us will ever get a $40,000,000 contract in
our lives? The answer should be zero, but I’ve gotten FOUR in
the last 3 months! Does that give you an idea of how many cons are out
there? To them, these numbers are nothing, but they count on them being
very important to us from an emotional standpoint. Also, this is
different from lottery scams that you may have heard of, because in
this case the crooks are targeting people who they know are looking for
investment money – not just telling a complete stranger that
they won a lottery that they never actually entered.
On this site I will detail three different scam groups who have
approached me in order to help others determine if they are being
scammed as well. None of them got a penny from me, and I was able to
identify them as being questionable at first contact. However, what has
stuck with me through all of these experiences is that these assholes
are victimizing honest and hard-working people across the world, and
many of those victims lack the scope of business and international
experience that has enabled me to identify them. Even in my limited
interaction with this class of people I have seen the level of
sophistication of the scams increasing, and they would not continue
running them if they weren’t working. For that reason, I have
enjoyed wasting as much of their time as I can, and sincerely hope that
the content on this webpage will be helpful in protecting others.
Also, during the course of recent and on-going communication with these
criminals, I have provided them with a fake US Passport number, a fake
US Driver’s License number, and a fake EU work permit number
as part of the process of uncovering more details about their process
and techniques. If someone has given you any ID number, including those
that I describe above, CHECK IT WITH A THIRD PARTY, AUTHORIZED SOURCE.
Look up the contact number for yourself to verify that the format is
correct, and DO NOT attempt to validate these or any other numbers by
email or via a website. Furthermore, a written number with some type of
a designation is meaningless, so ask for a scanned image of the ID.
This may enable you to quickly compare it with real images posted on
line by issuing authorities and pick out a fake. However, even if it
looks real, the numbers still need to check out with authorities.
General
Information Concerning These Scams
Important:
These crooks put up fake web pages on a regular basis, many of which
appear to be quite legitimate; and some that actually are! In fact,
some of them put up a fake Interpol site that they used as part of
their scam! They use real phone numbers – usually based out
of the UK – which are set to forward to cell phones anywhere
in the world. They can very easily create limitless email accounts
bearing any personal or corporate name that they choose.
In our case, I have found evidence that they have even hijacked the
corporate website of a legitimate company in order to divert email
inquires sent to verify the claims made by the scammers.
These, and other techniques are designed to provide the illusion of
credibility, however, when you start to search, you will find that
there is an even greater problem; it is almost impossible to disprove
the existence of any of these individuals, front companies, banks, bond
and insurance companies, etc. In reality, official companies can be
created on paper in most countries by anyone, and for any reason. This
includes banks and financial processing organizations. Even if they
exist, this does not mean you can prove whether or not they can be
trusted.
This inability to disprove claims is the crux of their con, and any
request from you for verification will come with:
False documents in a variety of forms, with a varying level
of quality, mostly in electronic form and with one common component: no
legally competent terminology of any sort. An attorney will notice this
immediately.
Written and verbal explanations for any and all questions,
mostly with numerous assurances that everything is being handled by
professionals, not to worry, etc.
Implications that you are offending them and the money you
were hoping for will not be given if you do not behave as they wish.
Terms such as “trust,” “good
faith,” “honesty,” etc, are typically
used.
Poor and incomplete English grammar is extremely common, although, you
will see that one of the fake contracts on this page is surprisingly
well written; even though it has no functional or enforceable legal
terminology. Also, as of today, we have been contacted by one scammer
who is either an American or a Canadian.
How exactly the scammers discovered our names, addresses, email
addresses and telephone numbers is not clear, but since that data is
required when entering into legitimate business discussions, one does
expose themselves to this sort of risk when communicating with
investors and investment groups throughout the US as we have done
recently.
Odds are that this personal data was pulled from one of two commercial
investment brokering websites that I have visited recently, both which
I cancelled membership to once I realized that they had no sincere
interest in the security or success of their customers. In fact, I was
able to directly trace two of the three scammers described here to one
specific site, and no one in the management or web support departments
would take any action to terminate the accounts of these parties. In
reality, the scammers had signed themselves up as investment firms
soliciting proposals and the website operators had done no background
checking whatsoever.
Therefore, for those of you who are utilizing those sites, I suggest
limiting your posting to safe levels of information, and then asking
very specific questions before releasing any information that could be
used in an unethical manner. Click Here
For More Detail on This Subject
Key red flags are:
Initial contact is unsolicited or from a source that you
have had virtually no contact with
Phone calls come from “private caller,”
“out of area,” or other anonymous sources
No knowledge of the related industry. This applies to the
lottery scams and others as well
No adherence to established business or legal policies and
processes
Meaningless documents and mocked up legal phrases
They don’t really ask anything about you, your
company, business plan, etc.
Use of multiple email addresses, or a “reply
to” address that is not the one they send from
Little or no discussion of what they will get from
investing with you, contract terms, etc.
Contracts, documents and emails full of typos
Calls from people who are “in the office right
now” come on weekends and late at night
Irregularities in email delivery and receipt. Addresses
sometimes work and then do not
Deadline for receipt of funds, (so you don’t
fixate on that “nominal” fee)
Claim that highly regulated, international monetary
transactions can be completed in no time
Unverifiable organizations, typically with addresses that
do not actually exist
Call and email times do not correspond with business hours
in stated time zones
Lots of titles like Dr., Professor, President, etc.
Miss-spelling of their own names (because they have to keep
changing identities)
Full email headers contain irregularities
Ridiculous names used like Rock Solid Financial or Dr.
Johnson Wright
Your name not spelled correctly, (they must be very
interested in working with you right?)
My favorite, a scammer actually asked me to pay him a $900
“Due of Diligence” fee so he could know for sure
that he could trust me! He asked that it be sent via Western Union!
I’d ask why he thought I was that stupid, but I
don’t think he would have tried unless he has been finding
people on a regular basis who are willing to send the money.
Important: the reason most scammers play the role of foreign investor
or company is to make it difficult to verify any of their claims, and
also to cover for having a poor level of education and business
knowledge. Go through your bank or another internationally regulated
entity to verify all claims, no matter how comfortable you are with
them. DO NOT utilize any phone numbers, email addresses or websites
that you do not obtain yourself from a trusted source. Finally, note
that even if the promised funds were real, there is no way in hell they
would be allowed through an international transfer due to OFAC, Patriot
Act and other regulatory policies. Quite simply, money leaves a trail,
and there are a lot of agencies and banks being required to check it.
NO ONE can circumvent these regulations, and attempting to do so would
expose all parties to immediate prosecution, seizure of assets, etc.
Again, use a large bank network and an attorney.
Overview of the Con
The process of the con is, sadly, very similar to what most of us have
experienced when dealing with telemarketers, junk mail and other forms
of psychologically-based sales and marketing. If you doubt the power of
false hope, think about those prize notifications that used to come in
the mail telling you that you were one of 5 selected winners of $X
million. Did you think about what it would be like to win the money?
Maybe fill out some forms, put on some stickers and invest in a stamp
or two?
Did you ever notice someone you know actually bringing that prize
notification up in conversation as if it was something
“real” and exciting that was happening in their
life? That is exactly what scammers want, because in those cases the
individual is doing all the work for them of coming up with ways to
keep believing.
Another very common and similar experience you may have had is from
winning a free cruise, vacation or having a key mailed to you and being
given the “opportunity” to go somewhere and see if
it will start the new car being given away; for which you happen to be
a finalist. If you have ever spoken with the people on the other end of
the phone number that they force you to call, there is always something
for sale; some mandatory add-on that you must buy in order to get the
free “gift.” And now, they have your phone number
and will keep calling you because they’re not dishonest - it
was you who called them right?
All of these scams play on a combination of hope, honesty and a certain
amount of greed; depending upon what is being offered. The mechanics
are, however, universal, and as I like to say, you are not stupid if
you have been tricked by someone who deliberately sets out to deceive
you and takes advantage of your honest and polite nature. This is
especially problematic when you are a business person, because you have
to follow up leads until you can verify whether or not they are false.
When you look into something like verifying the existence and licensure
of a foreign bank for example, you soon find out how difficult this can
actually be. Not even our US based, large international banks can give
you a definitive yes or no in many cases.
I liken this to the main reason that identity theft works. It is not
because people don’t check ID, it is because they
don’t make any effort to check the validity of the ID that is
given. The reason is that there are no standard processes available for
them to do so, which is why criminals can use a drivers license or
passport number on a fake ID with their photo; no one but passport
control scans passport numbers, and no one but the police call in a
drivers license number to find out if it is valid or even issued to the
person holding it. Case in point, I have used my passport to identify
myself when applying for a drivers license. No one made any effort to
check the validity of the passport before issuing me the new license!
Quite simply, it goes like this:
1. We want to give you something – here’s a
verbatim quote: “I have lots of money, can I
invest?”
2. Present ourselves with websites, terminology and organizations to
create credibility
3. Get the Mark thinking about how great it will be to have the money
or “prize.”
4. Make you wait a while and begin to think you won’t get it.
5. Act angry, offended or suspicious.
6. Perfect, now we have you doing our work for us.
7. Do these exact things. Very specific list, (but somehow still
irregular instructions)
8. We’ll refund all related travel costs – no risk
to you, we want to GIVE YOU MONEY!!!
9. Work with this new character and only him. He’ll call you
soon. (not unlike good cop/bad cop)
10. What? “Why you offend me with such questions?”
“You want to risk deal?”
11. OK, that’s better, now we’re friends and I know
I can trust you.
12. Create official file, assign meaningless numbers, and notify victim.
13. Here are some plausible reasons to explain the irregularities.
14. OK, now let’s hurry up and get this done. (keeps you too
busy to apply common sense analysis).
15. You provide ID and personal data for due diligence, (aka our future
false identities)
16. Remember, no experts but the ones I tell you to use. I
don’t want to risk losing “our” deal.
17. You have to meet us overseas in three days. “You want
money right?”
18. Now we call you more and more with “urgent”
messages.
19. You also have to prepare an impossible amount of documents to prove
trustworthiness.
20. One more thing, start dealing with this new character. Do exactly
what he says.
21. Hello, for me to close this deal between you and Mr. Rich Guy I
need some fees paid.
Hmmm. It’s been an emotional roller coaster ride, which is
exactly part of the plan. I mean, if these guys were scammers, how come
they are so persistent and didn’t ask for anything? Plus,
there is no evidence to prove they are lying.
Now you have a dilemma. Pay that “nominal fee” or
you have to pull out altogether, lose money on that overseas flight and
hotel, (because they made you book it on such short notice that it can
only be non-refundable), and most importantly, you will have to give up
the hope that you have been fostering for weeks now.
Don’t think it works? Then why are they still doing it full
time?
The basics for verification are:
Independently verifiable, third party references
– you find the contact info yourself
Corporate ID registration #’s that can be run
through various bureaus
Run web searches on their phone number to find out who it
is assigned to.
Use the web to zoom in on satellite imagery of their
physical addresses; odds are that you can tell from space if it is a
real company or just a PO Box or residential address being used as a
front. Check maps online to confirm that the street numbers even exist.
Simply ask for specifics around why they are interested in
talking with you. In my experience the scammers have not researched
what you are proposing, and have no actual ability to carry on a
meaningful business oriented conversation. In reality, even if they had
money you wouldn’t want to deal with people that are as
stupid as these scammers seem in email and telephone correspondence!
Some time-saving tips for verification:
Run a web search on the names of companies involved or
mentioned in contracts, correspondence, etc.
Run a search on phone numbers used
Run a search on names and personal titles used
This may give you a hit fairly quickly that will validate your
suspicions and save time.
Commentary: This guy mostly called, and he was quite annoying. He
wouldn’t say anything beyond that he had
“lot’s of money,” and evaded all my
questions by insisting that my partner and I travel to Milan by the end
of the month; at which time “everything will be
explained.” After a few calls and emails I managed to get the
ridiculous contract that you will find below, but my real goal was to
figure out where this alleged money was coming from. I have many
Russian friends, and I recognize his accent as being authentically
Russian.
I pressed him for information and he first told me he was an investment
rep for a large Swiss firm. Eventually he emailed me a name and contact
information, which, being a career software industry guy myself, I
immediately recognized as being a software firm. Being the genius that
he is, “Jacob” made a minor change to the phone
number he provided, but that didn’t matter because I called
the HQ in Switzerland instead to confirm that they were involved in no
investment activity of any sort, and had never heard of this ass-clown.
Name: Jacob Nikowsky
Email: finance-credit@hotmail.com
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July 13
Due to your inquiry after a loan, I send our Conditions to you
concerning
loan for further questions am I to you gladly telephone at the disposal
under the number: 0039/349 411 33 17.
The loan is garanted for 10 (ten) years,the capital must be deposited on
account of the Lender within a maximum of ten years from the day the
loan
was garanted
It is furthermore agreed that when five years have expired it is
possible
the loan early.This diminishes the interest base.
At the special request of the Borrower presented at the most 3 (three)
months before the expiration date the Borrower may be garanted an
extension
for the redemption of the loan of a further 5 (five) years.This will
only
apply where during may be rejected without any reason being given.
An annual fixed rate of 3% until the end of the amortisation is agreed
The
repayments must be made always at the beginning of the calendar
year,i.e. by
January 15 at latest.
In the case of late payment,an interest on arrears of 4% of the existing
capital is agreed.
This clause is a separate presciption.If difiiculties in payment should
arise repeatedly,the Lender has the right to annul and demand the
immediate
repayment of the loan.
I am pleased you with a loan against to come and expect your imminent
establishment of contact.
Yours sincerely
Jacob Nikowsky
July 17
Attached is an updated version of my Contract.
Sincerely,
Jacob Nikowsky
July 20
This is the Name of Company with which i am working,and when i meet
you,i give you more details.
I wait for your answer.
Sincerely,
Jacob Nikowsky
FERNBACH-Software AG
Gräfstraße 99
60487 Frankfurt am Main
Tel.:+49/ 69 / 7 16 73 38-41
Fax: +49/ 69
hereinafter called the Borrower , enter into the following loan
agreement:
§ 01 AMOUNT OF THE LOAN
The Lender grants the Borrower a loan of €
0.000.000,00 (in letters:
…………………….EURO)
§ 02 DURATION AND REDEMPTION
The loan is garanted for 10 (ten) years,the capital must be deposited
on account of the Lender within a maximum of ten years from the day the
loan was garanted
§ 03 EARLY REDEMPTION
It is furthermore agreed that when five years have expired it is
possible the loan early.This diminishes the interest base.
§ 04 EXTENSION
At the special request of the Borrower presented at the most 3 (three)
months before the expiration date the Borrower may be garanted an
extension for the redemption of the loan of a further 5 (five)
years.This will only apply where during may be rejected without any
reason being given.
§ 05 INTEREST AND INTEREST AMORTISATION
An annual fixed rate of 3% until the end of the amortisation is agreed
The repayments must be made always at the beginning of the calendar
year,i.e. by January 15 at latest.
§ 06 DELAY IN THE PAYMENT
In the case of late payment,an interest on arrears of 4% of the
existing capital is agreed.
This clause is a separate presciption.If difiiculties in payment should
arise repeatedly,the Lender has the right to annul and demand the
immediate repayment of the loan.
Page2-Loan applicaton/contract
§ 07 SURETIES
The Lender stands surety with all its assets.Furthermore.The Lender
shall refund the surety in the case of the Borrower’s
insolvency.Only in the case of gross negligence on the part of the
Borrow,shall the surety not be paid.This would lead to criminal action
initiated by the Lender against the Borrower.
Futhermore,the Borrower declares it shall use the sum of the loan
exclusiverly for:
The Lender shall have immediate access to all the documentation
possible including accounting records,construction plans etc.
§ 08 EXPENSES
When the agreement is finalised,the Borrower incurs the following
expenses:
payment of a non-recurring payment of the insured sum equal to 10.0% of
the amount of the agreement
This equals 10.0% of the expenses.The account number must be
communicated to the lawyer within the term foreseen for the
finalisation of the contract.
§ 09 GRANTING OF THE LOAN
Disbursement of the loan shall be made through SWIFT,immediately after
the contract expenses have been deposited and the agreement has been
signed.In all likelihood,disbursement into the account of the Borrower
shall place during a period of 3 (three) days.This is the customary
time period adopted by banks that the Lender is not able to influence.
§ 10 OTHER AGREEMENTS
None
§ 11 DATE ON WHICH THIS AGREEMENT COMES INTO FORCE
This agreement shall come into force the moment it is agreed by the
Lender and the expenses have been deposited whit the Lender.
Page3-Loan application/agreement
§ 12 SUNDRY
If this agreement fails to respect the laws in force it shall not be
declared null and void in its entirety,but the clauses in question
shall be replaced whit others that do respect the law and are faithful
to their economic intent.
This agreement is to be considered an application until it is agreed by
the Lender and it shall be draw up in English in
triplicate,one the original copy for the Lender,one copy for
the Borrower and one copy for the bank.
The Laws in force in the country in which the borrower is resident
shall apply.The competent jurisdiction is the competent cour in the
country of the borrower.
All side agreements and additions to this adreement must be in
writing.Verbal agreements shall not be valid.Faxed communications shall
be recognised as being in writing.
……………………………
……………………………
The
Borrower
The Lender
Passport/Identity card
N°………….
Passport/Identity card
N°……………
Commentary: Some things to note in the email thread is that the real
company – at least as described on the website – is
located in Saudi Arabia, while the scammers claim to be in Oman. Also,
they later refer to some brothers of the CEO, but the website indicates
that there are none.
These people are the most sophisticated I have dealt with, although,
due to some striking similarities, I suspect they may actually be the
same people that are behind Devcom Partners. The fact that they assume
the identity of what I believe is a real person and a real firm is
troubling. I have also shared this information with a gentlemen in
England who closely tracks these activities and has previously
investigated this scam and also came to the same conclusion.
As the email thread will show, I did manage to get one email through to
the company described in the website. What is interesting though, is
that the email links and submission form on the website came back as
undelivered. Even more strange is that when I replied to the message
from Albinali.com that confirmed that the real Mr. Albinali would not
be using a yahoo account, that message was also bounced back.
Here’s where it gets really creepy. Not more than a few hours
later, a message from the imposter Albinali comes through specifically
addressing the email between myself and Albinali.com, and even having
my subject line included!
Some other interesting quirks to observe are that the calls from these
guys come when it is quite late in the countries where they claim to be
“in the office right now.” I’m actually
beginning to suspect that they are in Canada or possibly the US. Some
calls came just minutes after I responded to email messages, indicating
that they will wait for you to reply in order to determine when you are
at your desk or at home.
The guy impersonating Mr. Albinali cannot fake an Arab accent to save
his life. Also, his underlying accent is undeniably African. These guys
really start pouring in the phone calls as the scam comes to a close,
all of them “very urgent,” and to be honest, very
annoying. When the instructions to book a flight to London on short
notice came, there was an escalation of phone call activity.
My partner and I stopped answering the calls, and I sent them a polite
email message pointing out that their contract and business
“modalities” were not compliant with US or British
regulations and would therefore expose us to the risk of being
prosecuted. I then excused us from any further contact and asked for no
phone calls or emails.
I knew this would provoke attempts to contact us, but I want them to
believe that we did not suspect them and simply did not find their
terms to our liking. The reason is so that they will continue to use
this scam and then my warning to others will be more useful. Also,
hopefully they will try and use some of the phony personal data I gave
them and get into some trouble there.
Since breaking contact with them no emails have been received, however,
the phone call activity peaked. Most likely this is because this type
of criminal knows that they can be successful with people who are
susceptible to verbal/emotional manipulation, and their only real skill
is the ability to lie and hustle people in person.
Knowing this, I specifically cut that channel. However, my partner
received a series of phone calls the day that I am writing this, and
decided that it would be amusing to answer them. Here is the absolutely
brilliant strategy that he used:
He took a series of calls, (10-12), where he would answer, claim that
he could not hear or understand them, and then hang up. Of course, the
crooks now knew he was available, and were desperate to try and
fast-talk him. Eventually, they got sloppy, believed their cell service
was failing them, and called from a non-secure number.
When they finally did get my partner on the phone, he said that he was
really glad they called, because he had an employee in London waiting
at a large bank for the meeting they had promised! Note that in an
earlier conversation they had told him that they could transfer the
money into any account that he wanted, so now they were confronted with
several plausible counter arguments for which they were not prepared.
My partner asked a few more questions about which anonymous mobile
phone services they were using, etc, but in the context of being a very
friendly, honest businessman who happened to have access to data that
any reasonable person would use to try and figure who was calling them
and from where.
This knocked the foundation out of the scammer’s strategy,
and he became especially nervous when informed that an employee of ours
was in London, therefore showing that we had acted in good faith and
kept that phony meeting that they were proposing. Now, the obnoxiously
aggressive caller couldn’t wait to get off the phone, because
he had no pre-prepared lies to try and explain away all the
irregularities.
One key point to note is that this caller was either an American or a
Canadian, and their call was routed through a New Jersey number which
you cannot call back without getting an out of service message.
Names used:
Ahmad Albinari
Euro Pacific Bond and Trust
NORTHERN PACIFIC BOUND TRUST, UK
Mr David Hunt President/Manager Oceanic Finance Global
securities
Emili Brunton
Donald Edwards
Names the appeared when running a web search:
pacifictrustcompany@yahoo.co.uk
EURO PACIFIC FINANCE AND TRUST AGENCY
PACIFIC TRUST COMPANY, London, Dr. Johnson Wright
Email addresses used:
albinali_sons01@yahoo.com
albinalisons_company@yahoo.com
benjaminserveco@yahoo.com
Info_europacificbondandtrust@rara.ws
Phone Numbers Used:
732-962-9387
23 480 590 792 00
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September 1
Assalam Mr,
I represent Albinali and son Trading company based in
Muscat,Oman(Middle East) as Chief Executive Officer(CEO).Having come
through your contact information via the globalbx business directory, we
will be willing to invest any said amount but how will you want this
investment to be made. my company awaits to know your decision about
this
offer.
regards.
A.Albinali.
Assalamaleku Mr Matt,
Thanks for your mail but please aloow me
to talk with my personal assistance over our business plans so that he
can advise me on how best to carry on okay.
Expect my reply soon.
Regards,
Mr AHMAD ALBINALI & SONS
September 4
Assalamaleku Mr Matthew,
Sorry I fail to
reply to you earlier, I was very busy with my business and I just came
back from Dublin where I went to meet with my associate and financial
adviser as well over the business I had with an upcoming film industry.
Like I have said I will apreciate it very well if you can agree to go
into a partnership with me before I will make any money available to
you for our intended business but if is not possible for you then there
wont be any problem. Also I will like to know if you can be willing to
meet with my associates and managers for familiarisation and subsequent
mobilisation so as to be able to ensure good working relationship
before this said fund will be handed/transfered to you. And as you know
you will be signing an agreement with my Banking/handling
officer face to face so that we can avoid all these internet hazards
okay, so please I will appreciate it much if we both stick to these
known measures so as to be able to allow everything move so smoothly.
Upon acceptance of this offer, your
flight expences, Hotel reservations and other modalities will be
refunded to you once every business documentations are signed and
enacted down whereby making you an accredited partner of Albinali
& Sons. My company awaits to know your decision about this
offer.
Regards,
Mr AHMAD ALBINALI & SONS
Assalam Mr Matt,
Thanks for your
email, I could not get back to you immediately because I was on a day
business trip to meet with some my associates in Dubai and thats why I
did not reply you. Well I will like to work with you in good faith and
thats more reason why I will like most trusted Associate/Adviser Prof.
Benjamin G.Serveco CEO Euro Pacific Bond and Trust and Mr David Hunt
President/Manager Oceanic Finance to work with you inorder to ensure
good working atmospheric condition for both parties and also they are
all working in london where I have my money insured and so London will
be the place where we are all going to meet so that after signing of
necessary documents thereby authenticating you as the real Nominated
Beneficiary to the 1999 Ahmad Albinali files with Transaction Code
# 77654CDCB765D which has 50 Million Pounds Deposit. You will
then follow them and open up an account for the transfer which you will
be there with them to witness and so please is not somthing we can just
do via internet only okay.
So please I will suggest that for convienence and
safety sake, we are bound to follow this measures to avoid problems.
Also my advisers and banking agents will not agree to just start
sending to you when they have not met with you my most crucial
ducoments via internet for security reasons okay and so I will suggest
that you agree with me that it is better to meet with my associates and
banking/handling agents next week wednesday in London for
familairisation and subsequent modalities that will follow. Upon
acceptance of this suggestion I will persoanlly forward/Fax my letter
of Nominated Beneficiary with you name to prof.Benjamin G.Serveco so
that he wil atleast have some conversation with you on phones
so as to ensure your capability and credibility. And at the same time
he will then go and meet with Mr David Hunt and notify him of your
partnership with me and my authoristion and your authentication as a
Albinali's Nominated beneficiary so that upon your arrival my private
jet may be there to pick you up or him pertsonally will be at the
airport to pick you up to ensure your comfort as Albinali's investment
partner.
Lastly I want you to be self assured that like I
have promise all your expences flight expences and other modalities
will be refunded to you and this must be signed and enacted at the
meeting in London.
Please I expect to see my suggestion be given a very
favourable consideration so as to make everything move
smoothly okay and from here I will notify my associates of your
existence.Also please get back to me if you by anyway find anything
misunderstood.
Regards,
Mr AHMAD ALBINALI & SONS
September 11
Assalamu Mr.Matt
Am not happy with
the way you are handling my affairs and thats why am writting to you
now and I will like to know your position regarding my offer and if
there is anything that you misunderstood about my proceedings please
let me know. I will be travelling to Dublin to meet with Professor
Benjamin G.Serveco who was the principal insurer of my funds with
Global securities in 2001 and his is my most trusted adviser and after
meeting with him I will like to call you for notification because aI
was ask to come for a meeting before your nomination will be
authenticated and gaurranteed and from there he will contact you for
some questioning regarding everything about you and both you will then
exchange contacts for proper business proceedinds okay.
, so please am very serious with this investment opportunity and I
wouldnt want to play with it okay. So get back to me so that I will
know your position from here.
Regards
Mr AHMAD ALBINALI & SONS
September 13
Pls Note that am following instructions thats why am repeating my mails
okay. Just get everything going on well with regards from my mail.
A.Albinali
Mr AHMAD N ALBINALI & SONS
September 13
Assalam Mr.Matthew
I cant wait anymore to forward
your phone contacts to Prof.Benjamin G.Serveco for proceedings, So I
advise you get back to me when you are free okay.
Regards,
Mr AHMAD ALBINALI & SONS
September 14
Assalam Mr.Matthew,
Am glad that you are
truelly an honest man as I was told by Iman that Allah said that I
shall carry on my business with you in good faith that I have nothing
to worry about, that you are an honest man and you will help me achieve
my aim of widesprading my business worldwide and that my business with
you will be a sucessful one. I hope that by now prof.Benjamin G.Serveco
will be working with you in confidence. Thanks for your understanding
and good correspondence and also I will now call him to prepare a
financial timetable for our business so that we can be able to
know when and how to meet with global securities in London
for the release of my fund at their disposal to you for our intended
business which will take place after both parties have signed all
necessary documents concerning this fund release so as to gaurrantee
our credibilty. This I hope will take a day or two for the whole
transfer process to take place and as you know this requires your
presence in
London okay. I suggest that next week will be very okay for
our meeting but if its not okay by you still let me know so that I will
make my own arrangement too but I think next week will be okay.
I expect a favourable
correspondence.
Regards,
Mr AHMAD ALBINALI & SONS
September 15
Assalam Mr.Mtthew,
Thats very good but
I have called him and ask him to devote all his time for this issue and
he has complied so please I wouldnt want to involve anybody that is not
of my own understanding and as you know it is not advisable to start
making contacts to different people because am trying to make this
investment a very discreet one because of some very important reasons,
if it might interest you, I dont really like the way we Arabians are
been treated when it comes to international aims and projects amongst
Arabians and for so many other reasons best known to me I suggest that
we keep everything discreet to ensure the absence of any international
interference on this transaction because I wouldnt want any body who
will come after I might have invested my money to start asking me how
do make so much money for different investments and honestly speaking I
dislike that because is an insult on my name and what Americans dont
know is that not every one from mid east is
corrupt.
As you know am only making use of
advices offered by professor Benjamin G.Serveco because he was the
principal insurere to this said fund 1999 and he is also my most
trusted Advicer whenever it comes to international finances okay and
plaese am pleading that you adhere to him for with confidence because
he will always be there to make you feel good as my anticipated
partner, so please you dont have to worry about anything because I
wouldnt appreciate the services of any other personnel please I beg of
you and I know that you might not understand what am saying but we have
experience this before when I wanted to supponsor a movie and I was
interrogated the way that made feel as if I was not a human being by
unecessary agencies and I tell you thats not good for business. So
please I am not trying to scare you away but am only trying to make
everything look clear to you because not everybody will want you to
achieve your dreams very well okay and I plaed that you only
stick to my most trusted people because they are in the best
position to make what we want sucessful.
Please get back to me if you in anyway
misunderstood me. allah be with you in all you are doing .
Regards,
Mr AHMAD ALBINALI & SONS
Assalam Mr. Matthew,
Sorry I that I failed to
acknowledge you of the fact that for privacy I decided to be making use
of this email address instead of our corporate email add because I
never intend to make everything I do public and as you know my brothers
hate it whenever they hear about investing abroad due to the way we
Arabians are been treated internationally. So please I advise that you
write to me via this email address only because any time you write via
my corporate email address not only my brothers will be notified of my
new investment plan but my secretaries as well and that’s a
bleach of security and I wouldn’t want that because am
no longer a kid when it comes to business and I
wouldn’t want anybody to start advising me whether to invest
with you or not because everybody is not the same, I mean not everybody
hates America like some of my brothers and some Arabians do and so
please I strongly advise that you write to me via this email address
only for personal reasons because I will be the only one who can access
any email that comes to me because is a private email address and I
don’t need to make it corporate because is of no importance.
So please write to me whenever you wish to contact
me via this email address because I really want the fair cooperation of
each other okay and smooth business dealings as well without unecessary
interference from whom so ever.Well how is your family? I
hope they are all fine and I hope you and prof.B.G.serveco are working
together in good faith.
Regards,
A.Albinali
September 16
Attention
Mr. Matthew
*Very Confidential Information*
Instructions From Principal Insurer.
You are to receive this agreement for your perusal and you are to come
with
it on the appointed time in London.
Professor Serveco also States that you should arrive with all documents
that prove your company is not in any form of distress or outstanding
loan/
law suite / restraining court Injunction/ order.
Upon reception of this e-mail you are instructed to Contact Global
Securities and make immediate arrengements with them for the fund take
over.
Contact: (President) Mr. Donald Edwards
Contact: 00 44 (0) 778 716 2596
Please be prompt in all actions.
Working to Serve you Better
Costumer Service
Mrs Emili Brunton
CC: Global Securities Operations Department.
CC: Professor Benjmaine G. Serveco
September 19
Commentary: Sent only to my partner, but forwarding my message to them
for context. Note how he only wants phone contact information, even
though he is supposedly in London, working full time on the
transaction! Also, this message came through 36 hours after their
deadline for meeting with them. I guess they were too busy to notice
until then!
My Contacts are +44 207 0600 513 extention 5 Insurance Department
Please send me the contact number of your agent in London so that he can
contact me immediately.
I understand your fears and i assure you that things will work out
well. I
am in charge and i will make things as simple as possible for you.
Get back to me with the details of your agent including full names and
phone contact.
Regards,
Professor Benjamine G. Serveco
comcast.net> wrote
on 17 Sep 2006,
03:04 PM:
Subject: Re: Euro Pacific Mail. Treat as Urgent and Confidential
Sirs,
After reading this contract and reviewing the steps that you have
outlined in previous email messages, we have concluded that we cannot
enter into any form of business agreement with you. Doing so will
expose us to felony prosecution by both US and British courts under new
Patriot Act and OFAC regulations, which includes imprisonment and
seizure of all assets. Therefore, we respectfully decline to receive
any future correspondence from you our any of your representatives. In
order to minimize attention from investigative parties, we will
immediately cease response to any further emails and phone calls from
your organization.
Best of luck in your future endeavors.
Sincerely,
Matt
September 21
Commentary: Note the return to acting insulted and suspiscious. This is
a basic psychological tactic used by many marketing and sales
organizations in the US as well. Most importantly, note that no
identifying information whatsoever is given, yet they still continue to
try and explain away all of the areas of concern with vague
statemtents. All of this is based on an attempt to leverage hope into
action.
Thank you for your e-mail. I want to let you know that you are in no
position of authority to speak to me in a manner that I disapprove of.
What do you mean by "suspect" I do not want to meet with anybody but
the nominated beneficiary. Do you realize that it is in my authority to
disqualify the already nominated beneficiary and cancel his
nomination.\?
I am not happy at all but i was amused at what Mr. Matt wrote in
explaining that his assets will be confiscated. I believe that we have
a misunderstanding that should be resolved immediately.
In time i will meet with you and get to know you. Like i said on the
phone i have no use for any third party. It expressly violates the
non-disclosure agreements and other agreements that i am bound
to. I know all about the patriot act and i assure you that it
will not interfere with our business. Besides i advice you that you
should apply caution because i have already noticed that too many
people are becoming aware of this Fund .
You don’t have to act inexperienced with matters of finance
because the repercussions are usually costly.
I run a security company not a bar.! I will not tolerate you giving me
such instructions. I do not know you or your agent. I might as well
suspect that you are adversaries of my Arab Client.
I will be in America to meet with the Nominated Beneficiary myself.
Note that I will instruct my legal department to commence activates to
conclude the Transportation of the Funds via diplomatic courier to
America.
Also Note that I have my rights to reservations. Because I
don’t know you. I will only hand over Financial documents and
consignment to the beneficiary upon sighting of his valid
identification.
I suggest that you make you self more open to understand the needed
procedure that must be followed. I am in charge of this Transaction.
In my original plan, I had only wanted to meet with the Nominated
beneficiary face to face on a personal level first before all things
official begin.
Well I am preparing to come to America and I will come with all
necessary documents for your perusal when we meet. This is very serious
matter.
Yours
Professor Benjamine G. Serveco
19 Sep 2006, 01:34 PM:
Subject: Re: Euro Pacific Mail. Treat as Urgent and Confidential
Sir
Your contact info is suspect, Please send immediately Your Complete
Name, Address, Company Name and Address, as well as verifiable phone
numbers. My agent in London will walk to your offices to talk with you.
Unless you comply with standard precautionary standards we will
disregard any further communication. Will you do this or not?
Sincerely
Contract Submitted:
Non-Disclosure Non-Circumvention Joint Venture Working Agreement
Between
Mr. Matthew
Mr Ahmad N. Albinali
And
Professor Benjamine G. Serveco
Where as, each signatory Party possesses certain information, not known
by any other Party and where as, the parties are initially desirous or
conducting various business transactions in contact with any third
Party introduced by other Party to this agreement, except for the
mutual benefit of all Parties, the undersigned Parties agree, in the
consideration of the foregoing promises to abide by the following terms
and conditions:
1. Non-Circumvention: Each Party agrees not to directly or indirectly
contact, deal with, transact, or otherwise be involved with any
corporation, partnership, proprietorships, trust, individuals, or other
entities introduced by either Party without the specific written
permission of the introducing Party.
2. Each Party agrees not to directly or indirectly circumvent, avoid or
bypass each other regarding any, renewals, corporation, partnerships,
proprietorships, trusts, or other entities introduced by either Party.
3. Non- Disclosure: Each Party agrees not to disclose or otherwise
reveal to any third Party the identities, addresses, telephone numbers,
facsimile numbers, E-mail addresses, telex numbers, bank codes, account
numbers, financial reference, or any other entities introduced by
either Party to the other without the specific written permission of
the introducing Party.
ANY PARTY TO THIS NON-DISCLOSURE, NON-CIRCUMVENTION JOINT VENTURE
WORKING AGREEMENT, WHO DISCLOSES DETAILS OF THIS TRANSACTION TO ANY
FAMILY MEMBER, ASSOCIATES, BANK OFFICER, CHURCH MEMBER ETC IS LIABLE TO
PAY A PENALTY FEE OF USD$1 MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS
4. Terms: This Agreement is valid for the following term: Five (5)
years from the date of signing of this agreement.
5. Parties bound: This Agreement shall be binding upon all
undersigned Parties and their heirs, successors, associates, affiliates
and assigns. Each Party shall take reasonable steps to ensure that
their Employees, Agents Representatives, Officers, Independent
Contractors, Shareholders, Principals and other third Parties abide by
the provisions of this Agreement.
6. Notice: All notices, demands, consists, or requests given by the
Parties shall be in writing transmitted by telecopy or other means of
facsimile transmission with return confirmation requested, postage
prepaid, to the other Party at the last facsimile number or address the
Party has designated by notice here in. Notice shall be considered to
have been given.
7. Language: The language in all the Agreement shall be in all cases
constructed simply according to its fair meaning and not strictly for
or against any of the Parties and it is agreed that the English
language is used.
8. Severability: Should any portion of this Agreement be declared
invalid or unenforceable, then such portion shall be deemed to be
severable from this Agreement and shall not affect the remainder hereof.
9. Integration: This Agreement constitutes the entire Non Circumvention
Agreement between the Parties and supersedes all prior discussion,
negotiations and Agreements, whether oral or written. The parties
further intend that this Agreement constitutes the complete and
exclusive statement of its terms and that no extrinsic evidence
whatsoever may be introduced in any judicial or arbitration proceeding
involving this Agreement
10. Amendments: Any change or amendment to this Agreement, including
oral modification supported by new consideration, must be reduced to
writing and signed by all Parties before it will be effective.
11. Waiver: No waiver or default of any of this agreement by any party
shall be implied from any omission of such party to take action against
the defaulting party. One or more waivers of any covenant, terms or
condition of this agreement by any party shall not be considered to be
waiver of renders unnecessary consent or approval of said party of any
subsequent or similar acts or omission.
12. Arbitration: Any controversy or claim arising out of this agreement
which is not settled between the parties themselves, shall be settled
by arbitration in accordance with the international chamber of commerce
(ICC) rules and arbitration is the nearest regional or ICC
non-circumvention and non-disclosure laws and binding for all
undersigned parties and their associates, affiliated, employees, agents
holders, principals, heirs, successors, assigns and other third parties.
13. Attorney's Fees: If any party files any action or brings any
proceeding against other arising from this agreement, or is made a
party to any action or proceeding arising from this agreement, the
prevailing party shall be entitled to recover as an element of their
cost to suit and not as damages reasonable attorney's fees to be fixed
by the court, arbitrator or adjudicative authority. The prevailing
party shall be the party entitled to recover their cost to suit or
arbitration, whether or not entitled to recover costs.
14. It is duly agreed between the parties signatory to this joint
venture working agreement that the sharing pattern shall be as follows:
A. NORTHERN PACIFIC BOUND TRUST, UK shall receive 10% of USD$50 Million
B. EXPENSES INCURRED during the transfer process 10% of USD$50 million
shall be used for it.
C. Matthew will receive 10% of USD$50million personal share
for his effort.
D. INVESTMENT FUNDS UNDER THE CARE OF Matthew will be 80% of
USD$50 million.
Relationship: The Parties here shall not be deemed to be Partners or
Joint Ventures and no Party shall be liable for any other Party's
commitments or liabilities resulting from execution of this Agreement.
Force and defect of Document: The Parties here to agree that a signed
telefax or other facsimile copy of this Agreement shall have the same
force and effect and as the original of this document.
15. Force and Effect of Documents: The Parties hereto agree that a
signed telefax or other facsimile copy of this Agreement shall have
force and effect as the original of this document.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereto execute this Agreement by their
authorized signatories.
Professor Benjamine G. Serveco
SIGNATURE:
…………………………………………………
PASSPORT NUMBER;
COUNTRY OF ISSUE; LONDON
COMPANY NAME; EURO PACIFIC BOUND AND TRUST UK
ADDRESS; LONDON UNITED KINGDOM
TEL
Email; info_europacificbondandtrust@arar.ws
MR. MATTHEW
SIGNATURE:
…………………………………………
PASSPORT NUMBER
COUNTRY OF ISSUE
COMPANY NAME.
ADDRESS
Email:
Commentary: I recognized a very amateurish scam from the first email,
and immediately decided to waste as much of this assholes time as
possible. His website was hilarious, since it was painfully obvious
that all the “Client Testimonials” were written by
the same half-literate dumb-ass that had put the rest of the webite
together in broken English. Seriously, use spell check. My favorite
though, had to be the non-existent Australian who specifically said
that he was at first worried about the up-front fees, but now he was
the happiest person in the universe, or something along those
lines…and of course he could not write in English either!
Names: Ray/Raymond Clarkson, AKA Ray Clark and many others
I’m sure
Email: clarksonventures_inc@yahoo.co.uk
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June 29
I have taken time to
go through your business summary and am pleased to inform you that
after due deliberations your request has been considered.
Am very pleased with your vast level of experience and i am confident
that with our cash infusion and your vast level of experience as well
as your determination this venture would standout in the crowd for
mutual benefit.
We are willing to provide you with the entire 40Mill USD for the entire
imaging centres.We have considered your returns suitable but we would
first provide 20 Mill USD and then we would send our delegate to see
the level of development 5 months after the first 20Mill have been
received.thereafter we would would provide the remaining 20Mill but
then this would be subject to your ability to judiciously utilise the
fund provided you then we shall have every reason to increase
our cash infusion or consider other alternative opportunities which you
might have.
We have opened a file for you with Ref:903/AGH-05 in other to commence
proceedings.
Regards,
Ray Clarkson
President/CEO
clarksonventures_inc@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.clarksoninvestments.ltd.pl
June 30
Thanks for your prompt response. I have taken time to ensure that
prompt attention is accorded your project.
Meanwhile am please with your vast level of experience and that of your
partner.I am very pleased that your partner have experience as to
international transfer.
In regards to the term of compensation.We have accepted the term of
compensation as set forth in your proposal.
The Good news is that We have today placed your project in our mandate
file after due deliberations which means that we would provide you with
the funding .We have accepted to provide you with the requested sum as
your project has won our interest based on the information you have
provided us.However in other to proceed further at this time ,as part
of our ethical structure toward the release of our investment
sum we would require you to pass through the due of diligence process.
In regards to the time scale if you could accord prompt action to
backup your commitment within 48hours from now we should have the fund
transferred.
As I write now am set to give authorisation for fund release and
documentation process. Please forward your name in Full and address,
which should be used in the documentation of the fund release
paper.
The entire board have accepted your venture for investment after due
review.
I anticipate the within the next 48-72 hours if prompt response and
action are accorded the proceedings we would have the fund transferred .
We are set to commence documentation although this is basically
possible once we have completed the due of diligence process as a way
of check mating unserious entrepreneurs .We are a result oriented
venture and have over time suffered from unserious entrepreneurs
amongst other situation thus the need to avoid any future occurrence .
As per your request be informed that sample of, or the key points that
a final contract would be provided you once we have confirmed payment
for the due of diligence.
The step-by-step process is
•
Review of your funding request/Business Plan
•
Acceptance to provide funding
•
Due of Diligence (Refundable $900 Minimum requirement Upfront
fees )
•
Fund Transfer documentation proceedings.
•
Fund is transferred.
•
Two Months after our Delegate Visit of your venture /Meeting
with you to sign official papers in regards to the investment
•
Take photographs together with our delegate for our office
record and testimonial (Optional).
I await your response shortly. You may visit our website for more
information in regards to the aforementioned at
http://www.clarksoninvestments.ltd.pl
Regards,
Ray
July 6
I have been away and just returned .Please do let me know if we can
still proceed with our funding process.
I have been very busy reviewing proposals and request since
i returned from France.We have already open a file for you and are set
to move with the release of the investment sum to you but as you are
aware the ethical structure for the release of our investments sum
would require you to go through our due of diligence and this currently
have a refundable fees of $900 associated with if and we are yet to
receive this payment from you.
Besides ,we have already completed our mandate file which we would be
submitting to our finance dept for the disbursement of the fund to you
and we are currently short with timing our stipulated time to submit
the mandate so if we must proceed with you then prompt response and
action would be required .You would have to make the $900 available to
us to enable us complete the due of diligence process else your file
would close and we would not provide you with the funding.
Its our anticipation that if prompt response if accorded the
development and the $900 is received then within the next 48hours
the fund would have been transferred to you and receipted.
I trust that you vast level of understanding would accord you prompt
insight to the situation .
Regards,
Ray
July 7
Please provide your contact address at once to further facilitate the
documentation process as time is of utmost importance at this time .
In regards to how to send the payment for the due of diligence ,we are
not sure yet as to what prompt payment modality would be favourable to
meet the timing need but we would deliberate and get back to you
shortly in regards to prompt payment modality that would be suitable
for the timing essence.
Regards,
Ray
July 7
Please to read from you.We are running behind time thus the
need from prompt attention to the proceedings .After due deliberations
,Mr.Ken Gonzo of the Director Interim of developments was selected to
attest on your behalf for the release of the investment sum. Time is of
the essence and we have sorted for prompt payment modalities in other
that we can promptly complete the fund transfer as such the board have
agreed unanimously accepted that the payment be made through western
union money transfer to the director of developments Mr.Ken Gonzo with
the information below.
Receivers name: Ken Gonzo
Address: 26, Zwirki i Wigury Street, 00-906
City : Warsaw
Country : Poland
Please provide the your name used in sending the payment as well as
your address and the MTCN number for the payment as well as your phone
number , so that we can receipt your payment and alert you with
developments.
I wait to read from you shortly .Let me know when you have made the
payment and provide the information's requested above.
I trust your vast experience would lead us to achieve this common goal
and mutual benefit.
See attached the letter of authorisation.We must receive the
$900 soonest so we can meet the time frame in regards to the order
filed for us to submit the mandate file for the disbursement of the
investment sum to you.
I have had some very solid, professional and qualified relationships
come from the websites that I have used, so I am not implying that they
are all bad. However, you should also watch out for what I call
“legal scammers,” who are actual companies or
individuals that will approach you with offers to connect you with the
investors that you are looking for.
The legitimate ones will provide you with a quality, comprehensive,
commission-only contract that will check out with your attorney. The
guys you want to watch out for are the ones who want an up-front fee
for services and then sometimes also a commission fee. Regardless of
what they tell you, ultimately you can expect that they will spend
their time hustling other fee sources rather than referring you to
those investors that they mentioned.
The risk here is that many of these firms are legitimate organizations,
and some are even members of the Better Business Bureau. None of these
facts protect you from signing a contract that ultimately does not hold
them accountable for delivering you investment funds; regardless of
what you have paid them in the process. Due to the structure of most
contracts, you can’t win a court battle with these clowns, so
never agree to a pay-for-investor access agreement until you can
independently verify what other clients the firm has successfully
funded.
Case in point, I have dealt with a Canadian investment firm that has a
lengthy list of funding projects that they have completed on their
website. The numbers are phenomenal; $5, 10, even $80 million dollar
projects. The catch is that they list ZERO actual references for any of
these claims. Since they refer to trust on every page of their website,
I asked for a list of US references, and even offered to research the
SEC filings myself in order to minimize effort on their part.
When push came to shove, the CEO refused to talk with us, and sent an
email that their group didn’t “do it”
that way…which happens to be the only way that you can do
it. I then realized the scam. They don’t make any specific
claims so the government won’t investigate them. As long as
they keep it vague the Better Business Bureau and other regulatory
groups won’t have the time or resources to just randomly
investigate vague statements. Furthermore, having open complaints
against you is not necessarily a reason for the government to step in.
In Canada I suspect that a ruling must be handed out for this to occur,
and a little refund might just pacify the few people who would push a
complaint to that point.
There are some firms out there who are worth the up front fee, and they
have no problem providing solid references to prove their value and
reliability – but don’t forget, that guarantees you
nothing. In any event, let common sense rule, because if they
can’t carry on an in-depth and intelligent conversation with
you showing that they understand the potential of your business, then
you know damn well they won’t do a good job pitching to an
investor!
The basics for verification are:
Independently verifiable, third party references
– you find the contact info yourself
Corporate ID registration #’s that can be run
through various bureaus
Run web searches on their phone number to find out if it is
unassigned.
Use the web to zoom in on satellite imagery of their
physical addresses; odds are that you can tell from space if it is a
real company or just a PO Box or residential address being used as a
front.
Simply ask for specifics around why they are interested in
talking with you. In my experience the scammers have not researched
what you are proposing, and have no actual ability to carry on a
meaningful business oriented conversation.
Some time-saving tips for verification:
Run a web search on the names of companies involved or
mentioned in contracts, correspondence, etc.
Run a search on phone numbers used
Run a search on names and personal titles used
This may give you a hit fairly quickly that will validate your
suspicions and save time.
Related Links
http://www.data-wales.co.uk/nigerian.htm
I direct you John’s website, because he updates it regularly,
and it is full of both detailed descriptions of various frauds, and
also lists of fake names, companies and other data being used by the
perpetrators. Run a word search on some of his sub-pages and
I’ll bet you will be surprised by what you find. Here is a
summary:
Internet fraud advisory. They will say you were a lottery winner, offer
you a share of millions of dollars, or ask you to ship goods to Nigeria
/ Ghana. If you are selling a car on the Web you will be a target, the
criminals will ask that the car be shipped abroad. They are "selling"
cars and festival tickets on e-Bay and sending fake e-Bay mail to
reassure victims. They will set up deals requiring you to send money
via Western Union. They haunt dating sites, pretending to be women in
distress in Africa. They send fake job offers, offering a percentage if
you accept fraudulent payments from foreign customers. Off
topic, but the threat is growing daily.
OFAC site for Americans – why these
“deals” would never be legal anyway:
http://treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/
OFAC SDN List – contains list of names, aliases, front
companies, etc, that you can check:
http://treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/sdn/index.shtml
Do your own web search for related links. There are volumes of data
available on these scams. Here are a few:
Contact me:
Don’t expect a lot. I have included everything that I know
about this subject on this webpage so that no one will get stuck
waiting for me. I cannot help in anyway beyond what is presented here,
and I have no further recommendations beyond what I have posted.
