londonnewyearsflat.com

[mclolo]

I found a beautiful vacation flat in London on craigs list that had unbelievable rent. I sent an enquiry and was told I had to pay 40 percent deposit and 200 pound security fee. The website is londonnewyearsflat.com and this is the correspondence I received. I believe this to be a scam. Any one have any knowledge of this:


Total deposit required is £314.

To proceed with the booking of the apartment.

Please complete the apartment booking arrival form attach with this message

Below is the information to make the deposit of £314:

BANK NAME: NATWEST BANK
ACCOUNT NAME: MR IKRAMKHAN A PATHAN

SORT CODE: 60-10-12
A/NO: 86081144
BIC: NWBK GB 2L
IBAN: GB39 NWBK 6010 1286 0811 44
Bank Address: 48 High Street Nth, East Ham, LONDON, E6 2HJ
Contact Address: 3 Espin Walk,Newton Aycliffe,County Durham,DL5 4JT

We will need the copy of the transfer confirmation from your bank, the scanned copy,very important.

We will send the booking confirmation and how to receive the keys once we have received your deposit and confirm your booking.

Regards,

[Michael]

hi mclolo and welcome to scamwarners.

You beat me to it - I found it earlier this day and was just about to start writing a report to get the site offline. There is no doubt that it is a scam. I am very interested in that bank account you posted, could you please provide me the headers of that email? If you are unsure about what headers are, just tell us which email provider you use and we'll help you locate them . If you can provide those headers to me, I can report the bank account to get it closed. Thanks for reporting!

Belonging to the same group, also recently found:

homeinterlets.com
luxurycityapaerment.com
homeawaysuite.com
thepeacehomecity.com
short-stay-london.co.uk

I'm writing the reports to get them offline as we speak

[mclolo]

I don't know what headers are but would be happy to let you know if you tell me how to find it. I am with yahoo mail. I also received another email from cityflathousing that seemed to practically be written by the same person.

[Michael]

^ [email protected], which had as website cityflathousing.page.tl? That one is already suspended If they operate from a different site, please let me know.

To see headers in yahoo, open your inbox. Right click on the mail you want the headers of (don't open the mail), then click 'view full header'. A new window will open with the headers If you decide to post them here in the open be sure to remove your own email adress from the headers, it may be shown a few times.

If that method for headers doesn't work, there is another way but this one is the easiest.

[GomerPyle]

Very useful information mclolo.

I'm monitoring and recording all bank accounts used by scammers.

[mclolo]

I also googled the phone number on the web site +44 702 4088211 and it is the same contact number for
www.worldapartmentrentals.net

[Michael]

Site is less than a week old, also definately my scammer group. Sending report later today. Excellent find!

[MArmstrong01]

I found the same scam, and was only prevented from giving them money by the inability to add their account online, after which I googled the address and ended up on this site. Looks like they're back at it--here is the information:

Your Booking Reference: SummerHF2320170

Total deposit required is £320.

To proceed with the booking of the apartment.

Please complete the apartment booking arrival form attach with this message

Below is the information to make the deposit of £320:

ACCOUNT NO: 41820601
SORT CODE: 30-00-83
NAME : K.DEVAND
BANK NAME ;ISLAMIC BANK OF BRITAIN
IBAN:GB52LOYD 3096 3401 0241 92
BICSIWFT: IBOBGB22
Bank Address: 85 Lewisham High Street, Lewisham, London, SE13 6BE
Contact Address: 3 Espin Walk,Newton Aycliffe,County Durham,DL5 4JT
We will need the copy of the transfer confirmation from your bank, the scanned copy,very important.

We will send the booking confirmation and how to receive the keys once we have received your deposit and confirm your booking.

Regards,

http://www.summerholidayflats.com

Hopefully this bank account can be closed as well!

[Gateway]

It seems that there is no bank at the address given !
The swift code points to Birmingham !

[GomerPyle]

In their attempts to obscure the information they're adding misleading addresses, which ignores the fact that the account number and sorting code identifies the person involved perfectly and specifically, and they have to get that detail correct, or they don't get the money - DOHHHHHH

I suspect that've already lost some payments through outsmarting themselves, but every account mentioned, and I have quite a few, will be reported to the police and to the fraud departments of the banks involved and, if necessary, to the FSA.

In the unlikely event that this produces no action, I'll put my stomping boots on and make sure it's dealt with by other means.

Using bank accounts is the one definite way those involved can be identified without any doubt whatsoever and, as organised large scale fraud, it isn't handled by regular police. Using the same bank accounts all the time is risky. Using different ones, is riskier.

Those bank account details provided have been most helpful.