Information on romance scams and scammers.
#201549 by Keiko Tsushima Wed May 14, 2014 7:50 pm
I'm a victim of 419 scam. The scam started through LinkedIn and thieved started to steel money September till December, 2013. Total loss was US$279,000.00. (5 times wire transfer to China, Taipei Hong Kong and Shanghai) Scammer gruop pretend from U.K. use name of Harry George (PhD, Legal), Dave Gilleland (Bank of Julian Hodge U.K.) and Mr. James Anderson (Diplomatic Courier) and deceived me that they want charity to Tsunami victim and need help etc. I was given ank information as well as invoice by scammers through e-mails.
So I only have scammer's accoplice's dummy conpamy name and ben's address.
Taipei: TAIPEI FUBON COMMERCIAL BANK CO LTD Ben's assdess was 3RD FLOOR No 30 PAO CHIN STREET, SONG SHAN Dummy company name was MASTER GOLD INVESTMENT LIMITED
Hong Kong: CHINA TRUST COMMERCIAL BANK LTD en's address was 18/F Cheung Kong 2 Queen's Road, Central, Central Dummy company name was MASTER GOLD INVESTMENT LINITED
Shanghai: BANK OF COMMUNICATION OFFSHORE BANKING CENTER, ben's address was 456 Ningqiao Rd, Pudong Shanghai. Dummy conpamy name was LEADMEGA LIMITED.
They are all Nigerian and use Nijeria mail account. I found out from Full Headers.
Master Gold and LEADMEGA are dummy company created specifically to collect the money to deceice vulnerable people all around the world! I7m asking you to consider and take proper action for this to avoid future victim from International fraud. I'm in very critical situetion because I used not only my money but also I used others wihout asking.
I would like to at least try to see the scammer including MASTER GOLD INVESTMENT LIMITED and LEADMEGA LIMITED pay for their illegal acts.
If some one know how to deal with China or have idea what ca do, please help me.
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#201551 by HillBilly Wed May 14, 2014 8:53 pm
This article has some information in it. My understanding is that if the scam happened in China, then you need to physically go to the police in China to report it.
http://419advancefeefraud.blogspot.com/ ... sands.html

Maybe others here have some different information.

#201603 by mariko Thu May 15, 2014 10:14 am
Most likely China or Taiwan are all money mules or gangs supporting Nigerian scammers by fake company bank accounts. The header analysis and the fake law firm whois result indicated Nigeria. Is it meaningful to find out these fake companies (owners of the bank acct)??

She is talking about this one.
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=84788&p=200592&hilit=James+Anderson&sid=8f09c88f8fc1cb4d46d586e788df3405#p200592
#201610 by Terminator5 Thu May 15, 2014 11:52 am
Looks like "LEAD MEGA LIMITED" was also used in a romance scam reported here:

http://www.male-scammers.com/scam-emails.asp?id=857

Scam Email(s) from Mark West to Kim (USA)

Letter 1

Good morning my love,

Here is the information as required, please make sure Patty doesn't make any mistake when initiating this transfer...

BANK NAME - BANK OF COMMUNICATIONS OFFSHORE BANKING CENTER SHANGHAI PRC

BANK ADDRESS - NO 188 YINCHENG MID ROAD, SHANGHAI CHINA..

ACCOUNT NUMBER - OSA90000032418100

SWIFT CODE - COMMCN3XOBU

ACCOUNT NAME- LEAD MEGA LIMITED

BENEFICIARY ADDRESS - 1ST FLOOR, NO. 188 YINCHEN ROAD, SHANGHAI, CHINA

I love you sweetheart..I can't wait for Thursday, I am super excited and not just excited...can't wait to be with you...

Mark

The names used are part of a " Next of Kin" scam that has been running for over a year .

http://www.419scam.org/emails/2013-05/31/00410839.2.htm

http://www.scamsurvivors.com/forum/view ... =6&t=10577


There is a good slideshow here of this scam from start to finish . Posted by a Security Engineer from Japan.

http://www.slideshare.net/norimitsushid ... m-linkedin

Daniel 8 :25
#201655 by mariko Thu May 15, 2014 9:12 pm
This victim done lots of investigations already, and fake law firm is now down. Disconnected these scammers. Reported to police locally and to several authorities globally. Now she is understanding how this scam (next of kin / advance fee scam by fake lawyers and banker) works.

She must have been dissapointed by less or no reactions by authorities and government organizations and banks she has escalated to.

Anyone knows how these escalations she done will be more effective? The amount she lost is not small.

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