Author: comptroller

December 10, 2018

FBI Threats Scam

There are lots of scammers sending out messages that claim to be from the FBI and with some long winded story about a very large sum of money due to be paid to you.

You just need to confirm your identity to get the money, but on filling in those details you find out there is a “small” payment needed to release the funds and that’s the scam.

There is no large sum of money just a greedy scammer trying to make something from your greed.

This latest message is from idrf.ca @idrf.ca so this scammer doesn’t know how to make his email address actually look like the FBI.

It claims to be from David Lance Bowdich, the Deputy Director of the FBI who is making personal contact with you over two intercepted consignment boxes at JFK Airport, New York.

“The boxes were scanned and they contained large sums of money ($4.1 million), also some backup documents that bear your name as the Beneficiary / Receiver. An investigation was carried out on the diplomat that accompanied the boxes into the United States and he stated that he was to deliver the funds to your residence as an overdue payment owed to you by a foreign country.

After cross-checking all legal documents in the boxes, we found out that your consignment was lacking an important document and we can’t release the boxes to the diplomat until the document is found, we have no other option than to confiscate your consignment.

The email continues with blather about ownership and regulations, trying to look official.

Then comes the kicker.

You are required to reply within 72 hours or you will be prosecuted in a court of law for money laundering, you are instructed to desist from further contact with any bank(s) or person(s) in any part of the world regarding your payment because your consignment has been confiscated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation here in the United States.

It’s just a scam of course – you cannot be prosecuted for money laundering that you haven’t committed and of course there is no consignment of money, just a greedy scammer.

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December 9, 2018

Stupidest Scam or Spam of the Week – Cryptocurrency

Nanni Facciola kindly wants me to participate in a “make money from nothing” scheme.

Apparently, I will make at least £7,724 per month from an automatic investment. I simply hand over my money and they will pay me up to £400 every day as their automated cryptocurrency investment system makes lots of money for everyone.

And it uses artificial intelligence, so that makes it guaranteed.

She says she wants me to fulfil my dreams and follow my passion.

But my passion is stopping evil scammers like her and my dream is of putting her in jail.

All of these schemes that promise money for nothing are basic scams – no matter how they are dressed up with phrases such as cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence.

Money for nothing can only ever be fraud.

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December 8, 2018

Those Dreaded Time-Wasters

Message tells me that my shipment could not be delivered due to an incorrect shipping address so I need to open the attached file for details on how to correct this and the message claims to be from FedEx. But the email address is jfontanacash1.biz which is not FedEx and I’m not expecting a delivery from FedEx anyway and my virus checker warns that the attachment is full of virus.

Homer Agtarap is interested in a position at my company and attaches his c.v. Nope – just the usual stupid message trying to get me to open a virus laden file.

An email containing an invoice for goods which have been dispatched. No – I haven’t ordered anything from brucegrady.com and the fact that the scammer sent numerous copies of the email with different names on each makes it blatantly obvious that it’s a scam.

“Goat killed with mental energy”. “Black Project” reveals terrifying secret about human brain. Nope – the only secret is how anybody could reply to such rubbish.

“Grow Closeout and Work Less” is a strange title for an email. It’s just a Marketing company looking for leads to sell to spammers. Do not reply to such odd emails.

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December 7, 2018

Unexplained Wealth Orders

New powers under the Criminal Finances Act 2017 came into force on 31 January 2018 relating to unexplained wealth orders (UWOs).

The purpose of such an order is to require the designated person to account for the origin of their assets.

This new power has been designed to target suspected corrupt foreign officials who have potentially laundered stolen money through the UK.

Investigators from the National Crime Agency believe there are billions of pounds of dirty money invested in British property – but it is almost impossible to charge the owners with a crime or seize the assets because of a lack of evidence.

Only the High Court can issue an Unexplained Wealth Order when it is satisfied that there is reasonable cause to believe that the respondent is a “politically exposed person” who has been involved in serious crime or that a person connected with the respondent is, or has been, involved in serious crime.

A “politically exposed person” means an individual whose prominent position in public life may make them vulnerable to corruption. This category includes heads of state, heads of government, members of parliament and members of the boards of central banks.

The enforcement agencies with the power to apply for these orders are the Financial Conduct Authority, Serious Fraud Office, the National Crime Agency , HM Revenue and Customs, and the Crown Prosecution Service.

The First Unexplained Wealth Order

Originally from Azerbaijan, she is the wife of an ex-state banker, Zamira Hajiyeva is the first person named on an Unexplained Wealth Order.

She risks losing her £15m home near the London store and a Berkshire golf course if she fails to explain the source of her wealth to the High Court. Mrs Hajiyeva must now provide the National Crime Agency with a clear account of how she and her husband, Jahangir Hajiyev, could afford to buy their large home in the exclusive London neighbourhood of Knightsbridge.

Jahangir Hajiyev is the former chairman of the International Bank of Azerbaijan and his wife Zamira wil have to explain amongst other expenditure spending £16 million in Harrods using 35 credit cards issued by her husband’s bank.

Oh Dear!

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December 6, 2018

Noel Edmonds and Lloyds Bank Fraud

The website at http://noel.world/ Is Noel Edmonds website covering his battles with Lloyds Bank.

http://banklloyds.claims/ is about media coverage of Noel’s fight with Lloyds.

Noel Edmonds is well known as a radio presenter from the 70s and latterly as a TV presenter and game show host. He was also a businessman who built several businesses but then lost almost everything due to the actions of his bank HBOS.

Lloyds bought HBOS bank in 2009 to rescue it from bankruptcy and with it came a Pandora’s Box of issues including corruption and deliberate damage to many of Britain’s small businesses.

What Happened

The Reading branch of HBOS carried out practices that deliberately and systematically ruined small businesses and the team led by Mark Dobson made a great deal of money from this. Mark Dobson was jailed for dishonest conspiracy in February 2017.

Tthe bank had referred small businesses to a corrupt turnaround consultancy, Quayside Corporate Services, where they were then loaded with debt and looted.

Unique, a holding company for several of Noel Edmonds’ business interests, had taken a loan that was secured against its assets, including shares in UBC, another company owned by Noel Edmonds.

When Unique needed to repay its loan, it could have sold shares to get the money but under the contract with HBOS this could only happen with agreement by HBOS. Dobson and crew refused that permission – preferring the company to go bankrupt.

It gets very complicated after that, but the courts found serious criminal behaviour had occurred and you would think that would be sufficient for Lloyds to investigate the truth and compensate those damaged by the criminality.

The circumstances of the company’s failure are now the source of a bitter dispute between Lloyds and Mr Edmonds. Noel Edmonds is seeking £300m in compensation over claims that HBOS and its disgraced former employee in Reading, Mark Dobson, deliberately destroyed Unique a decade ago.

Lloyds has faced severe criticism for its treatment of the scores of small businesses that were victims of the fraud, which may have cost the bank more than £1bn. Lloyds denied that any wrongdoing had taken place for more than a decade and refused to compensate those who were affected.

Events finally forced Lloyds to say it regretted and apologised “for the effect the criminality relating to HBOS Impaired Assets Office in Reading has had on customers and we continue to make good progress in the customer review in settling compensation, with 60 per cent of customers now having received offers”.

The bank said it was progressing with mediation in Mr Edmonds’ case “where all these points will be addressed, through the proper legal process”.

However, they have not paid up.

Bankers have only themselves to blame for the mistrust many feel towards them.

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