Things you should know about Internet fraud ...
InterFraud
The&Internet Fraud Advisory
A not for profit group&based in
& Internet
fraud. Education is the best defence,&please warn your
Well done, you were
right to be suspicious!! Most users of the Internet are nice
people but, as in any large population, detestable creeps
sometimes emerge from the shadows. Some notes on current fraud
techniques follow but check the linked pages for more detail on
the false names, company titles and methods used by the
criminals:
The government seems too frightened to take the few simple steps
required to slash the fraud figures and protect vulnerable
people around the world.&&&&
All 419 fraud victims should read this.
&& Pictures of typical Internet fraud criminals based
in the UK appear below. Britain can no longer offer refuge to so
many foreign criminals and any political party which feels
itself unable to take account of public feeling on this matter
will be doomed. NB Britain's gaols are having trouble finding
room for Nigerian criminals. Apparently they cannot be sent home
to serve their sentences because the Nigerian prisons are not
deemed to be up to European standards. Therefore, according to
news reports, British politicians have decided to spend
taxpayers' money on a new deluxe prison in Nigeria!&&
... and WANTED - Bayo Lawrence
Anoworin, 41, from Lagos in Nigeria. Anoworin
(aka) John Bay, Roland Martins, Wemio Adeyemi
and Adeyemi Awonorin was part of a gang that
stole millions of pounds from NHS Trusts in the
UK and Guernsey. He was given bail (!) and is
now on the run.
12/09/2016 BBC's Crimewatch announced that
Adjarho Akpomedaye from Nigeria was wanted for
questioning &in connection to over 100 bank
accounts which are believed to have received
more than 9 hundred thousand pounds from cyber
related fraud&.
representive scam ().
Do not accept an invitation to receive funds, keep 8-10% and then send the
remainder to a foreign address via Western Union. American and British users
of job seeker websites most at risk. U.S. victims have been arrested after
banking (in good faith) the forged checks they received. &
Despite the false European sounding names and fake
addresses in London, Holland and Spain, most of the criminally inspired junk mail
you receive will have been sent by Nigerian criminals. Nigeria, in West
Africa, is the world's 8th largest petroleum exporter, the world capital of
child trafficking (UN report, 2004) and the centre of a huge criminal web. A
July '05 report in the Christian Science Monitor noted that &According to the
World Bank, corruption has meant that 80 percent of Nigeria's oil and gas
revenues goes to 1 percent of the population, while 70 percent of the
country's 133 million people still live on less than $1 a day&. Ironically,
Nigerians are the greatest victims of Nigerian fraud crime. An audit published
in 2006 reveals that over a five year period there were huge discrepancies
between the oil revenues declared by the Nigerian government and the amounts
actually remitted by the international oil companies. Apparently, for at least
part of the five year period, a previous president of Nigeria was the oil
minister!& Reporting a 2007 fraud attempt to us, a European firm wrote
&For our company the African continent is dead. We have taken the decision not
do do business in Africa any more&.
The && is still
their favourite approach (now closely followed by the
) but they will also target small Web businesses, placing
orders with stolen credit cards. Traders soon find that they are charged
back by the card company, but only after they have sent goods to Victoria
Island, Lagos, Nigeria, for example.
(If you have recently
reported such a fraud to the Nigerian authorities, the writer would like to
hear from you. The criminals will sometimes ask for payment to bank
accounts. I am especially interested to know details of these and will pass
along relevant& information to the appropriate agencies.)&Note:
it would be wrong to tar all Nigerians with the same brush. As far as the
writer can tell, the Muslims of the north are innocent of Internet fraud.
The offenders are mainly from the south of the country and their base
is Lagos. (Opinions vary as to whether members of the Yoruba or the
Igbo tribes are the worst offenders.) Population numbers are unknown but
Lagos vies with Mexico City for th
Trends & News
October 2017. If you offer accommodation rental on the Web you will
attract the scammers. Look out for schemes like this:
From: Sebastian Cortes &&
As for the payment arrangement the Company I work for will be
responsible for financing all the expenses as it is an annual
and the payment will be made with a Cheque.
This Cheque will include all the traveling expenses of our trip such
as the ticket fare and travel allowance. I believe if you are
to give me your accommodation then I can trust you to send the
to my traveling agent as soon as the check is cleared.
All you have to do when you receive the Cheque is to take it to the
bank and deposit it there for clearance, which usually takes between
3 to 5 working days.
Then you will deduct the rental fee and I will give you the details
the traveling agent to send our traveling expenses too......
Outlay Games, Bachmann Group , Marlin Reynolds , TPG bet ,
head2headbet, Grainger Trust, QBetting - please see the alert at
EAST TEXAS SCAMMER ALERT- Larry Gene Powell says he
has worked as a private detective but his real work experience has
been in perpetrating scams and frauds. He even seems to have a
conviction for murder for hire. Please do not give him access to
your personal information.
May, 2016.
- a warning. The website offers Bobcat and
Ferris equipment but we have a report that indicates this is a front
for fraud.
tmtradinginc, Jl. Talasalapang 2 No 9, Komplek P&K Blok J1/9, Makassar
90221, Indonesia.
Google - yes, the shareholders will be happy to hear of the huge
profits but they should know that Gmail is the biggest supplier of
mail accounts to Internet fraudsters. We believe that one day Google
will have to pay a huge price for not acting on reports to
Feb. 2016 - re lottery scam - First Commercial Bank LTD 29 Wilson St,
London EC2M 2SJ, firstcommercialukltd.co.uk.
US Craigslist users beware! Military families at risk. Nigerian
scammers are stealing and modifying property rental details before
publishing them on Craigslist. Often they will ask for contact only
by text because they do not want to be betrayed by their African
accents. They are stealing deposits from military families who often
have to arrange for accommodation at a distance.
Vehicle decal scam. Many of us will have received junk mail offering
payment for the display of advertising material on our vehicles. The
scammers may send out payment by means of a forged check and
immediately pretend that an overpayment has been made. They will
demand repayment before the victim's bank identifies the forgery.
Forgery is so rife that an American investigator says &Never accept
anything on paper&.
Godwin Nwaofor, a Nigerian &lottery& scammer jailed for 7 years at the
Central Criminal Court, London. Another example of a foreign
criminal exploiting Britain's lax immigration controls. See the full
story at the
Martin Lenaris . May 2015 - News that a person
using that name is a busy fraud criminal who targets women and
offers fake loans.
Britain's National Health Service defrauded by foreign doctors (again).
An article in the
exposes the latest scam: &Dr Sukhendu Chattopadhyay prescribed drugs
for his mother-in-law in Calcutta. He claimed he thought she was
entitled to them. Dr Mustapha Tahir fraudulently obtained ADHD drugs
worth