Scamming Bastards

[Willow]

...I have been approached by a wealthy, highly respected (govt. appointed) buisiness man in Bahrain, who has made an offer to buy the rights to my trike.... Well, someone who I believe is posing as this man, Lets call him BOB.

after an e-mail conversation, I spoke to BOB on SKYPE (he said his device did not have video - suspect thing no.1, as BOBs photo and profile is all over the net). After a verbal agreement was made on the price of the offer, he referred me to this website www.gtidc.org (Gulf Trading and Industrial Development Council) - to obtain a Gulf trading license in order for our transaction to take place.

The application for a Trading License form was a single page - with a miniumum of information required to complete. The fee to process this form is nearly $8,000 US, and was to be paid to a financial intermediary. When I did some investigation on the GTIDC - I found that their website has only been operational since March this year, and the bank account name for the transaction to be paid into is "Global Glamour Limited", based in Hong Kong. So pretty sure BOB is not who he claims to be.

so, for a total of 5 e-mails, a dodgy website, and a Skype chat - they almost made $8,000. At this point in time they think they still have me sucked in. Got to turn it around - so jokes on them. Have a meeting with the Police this afternoon.

Pricks.

 

[Dauntless]

http://www.companies-hongkong.com/global-glamour-limited-12blk/

Someone could even be borrowing the name to run a scam.

Rust never sleeps. Do you know one of the things the old manager of the Backstreet Boys and InSync went to prison for was much like what you describe? http://books.google.com/books?id=XeAG6IjswjgC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

[dogman dan]

Sounds like you have a Nigerian on the hook. I'm surprised he didn't sweeten the deal, saying you had to pay the 8 thou, but he'd send you a check for 10 thou to cash, then send back 8. Maybe that was coming next?

 

[Willow]

Can and Admin please identify the IP address of that last post by findd3gold.... and PM me.

Thanks.

 

[dogman dan]

I don't know how to do that. I cleaned up his other spam, and will hold off banning him till others can see this.

 

[Willow]

...not a problem DOGMAN. Think I jumped the gun anyways - didn't see the rest of the spamm'n at the time.

After reading the post I freaked and immediately contacted the spammer, and told him "Game over". hope it is. Have reported it to as many authorities as I can, cancelled my passport and put a hold on any bank transactions.

...then got back to building my next bike.

 

[lbz5mc12]

I had a friend a ways back who fell for one of those Nigerian type scams back before they were as big a problem as they are now. I told him it sounded like a scam so what he did was to open a bank account with just enough money for the minimum balance requirement. Sure enough the scammers pulled the money out real quickly and he got nothing in return. He of course then went to the authorities and I don't know what happened after that.

 

[Kepler]

Well there you go.

I got the same offer for my drive. Exactly the same story and sequence of events. Was offered to fully fund with an obscene amount but first we needed to set up a Joint Venture as with Willow. I went straight to Austrade for advice and they let me know that they had 5 other inquiries for Bahrain Joint Ventures just that day. Needless to say I went no further.

This is an elaborate scheme. No doubt we will hear more about this. I just hope no one gets done out of their hard earned.

 

[Willow]

Very interesting... such targeted attacks. Glad you came out unscathed.... hope they have not reaped any rewards from this - but I guess they are gonna get someone. I reported it to Scamwatch, and the fraud squad have spoken to me on the phone. Don't know how you can stop them - unless you somehow map out their location, and go and sort them out in person.

Anyone up for a trip to Nigeria?

 

[iamsofunny]

The only way to stop them is not to send them money
If you confront a Nigerian scammer in person, they will cut you up in pieces with machetes. Search on the Internet for people who have confronted Nigerian scammers.
The best thing to do is make a mental note "ok I totally screwed up" and don't do it again.