by kajaco
This very clever and authentic-looking website is used for Nigeria letters of incredible legacys.
I got a letter from a Lewis Turner from a hotmailaddress. I was suspicious and tried to look it up, and came upon this website. There was also a mailaddress to this mr Lewis Turner , [email protected], so I replied to this address, not the originally sent hotmailaddress. I wrote back to warn him of this fraud, and he replied that it was not a fraud.Telephonenumbers also looked genuine, Tel: +44-203-8704200 and
Fax: +44-770-0046624
I was still very suspicious but played along.
"mr Lewis Turner" came up with a genuinelooking death certificate of this deseased relative of mine and a copy of Certificate of call to Bar.
Then I got documents from HSBC bank director of Foreign Operations mr Ewen Stevenson, who I presume has nothing to do with this fraud ( his signature on two of the documents were absolutely congruent, so it was definitely copied from one document to next. The scammer has access to the official papers with the header of the bank.
I was told to send proof of address, copy of ID and other documents. At four times in this process I declared that under no circumstances would I send any money.
Finally came the request that I must send 5.890£ for the bank to open the locked fund.
I told "mr Lewis Turner" that if he wanted any fee, he had to pay the money. To that, he claimed he had just renovated his house, so he could only come up with 3350£ and I must send the rest of the money. No way, was my reply.
At that point he began to sound upset, and both grammar and spelling deteriorated, and I really had to understand that he could absolutely not come up with more money, so I asked him why he had to take the money out of his own pocket, and not let his company pay this - for a prosperous business - rather modest sum.
After that I have not heard of "mr Lewis Turner" since yesterday thursday 29 of march 2019.
In short, the website looks authentic, so do telephonenumbers emailaddress and fax.
Nowhere on the internet could I find a warning of this company, so I put the warning here.
Stay alert!
I got a letter from a Lewis Turner from a hotmailaddress. I was suspicious and tried to look it up, and came upon this website. There was also a mailaddress to this mr Lewis Turner , [email protected], so I replied to this address, not the originally sent hotmailaddress. I wrote back to warn him of this fraud, and he replied that it was not a fraud.Telephonenumbers also looked genuine, Tel: +44-203-8704200 and
Fax: +44-770-0046624
I was still very suspicious but played along.
"mr Lewis Turner" came up with a genuinelooking death certificate of this deseased relative of mine and a copy of Certificate of call to Bar.
Then I got documents from HSBC bank director of Foreign Operations mr Ewen Stevenson, who I presume has nothing to do with this fraud ( his signature on two of the documents were absolutely congruent, so it was definitely copied from one document to next. The scammer has access to the official papers with the header of the bank.
I was told to send proof of address, copy of ID and other documents. At four times in this process I declared that under no circumstances would I send any money.
Finally came the request that I must send 5.890£ for the bank to open the locked fund.
I told "mr Lewis Turner" that if he wanted any fee, he had to pay the money. To that, he claimed he had just renovated his house, so he could only come up with 3350£ and I must send the rest of the money. No way, was my reply.
At that point he began to sound upset, and both grammar and spelling deteriorated, and I really had to understand that he could absolutely not come up with more money, so I asked him why he had to take the money out of his own pocket, and not let his company pay this - for a prosperous business - rather modest sum.
After that I have not heard of "mr Lewis Turner" since yesterday thursday 29 of march 2019.
In short, the website looks authentic, so do telephonenumbers emailaddress and fax.
Nowhere on the internet could I find a warning of this company, so I put the warning here.
Stay alert!
