Job Scam – Hyde Park Hotel
I’ve stayed in the Hyde Park Hotel and very good it was too. But it is now called the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park Hotel, so when I got the e-mail below I thought something was not correct. It now turns out there is now a new hotel called The Hyde Park Hotel, so I suspect that the scam is based on the fact that the hotel has just opened and it has a very good name to use to fool people.
Good day, I am applying through online and Hyde Park Hotel send me an application form and other documents regarding my application. I’ve done in the documents for for signing with that documents and email them back for the documents. Then day past they e-mail me back again they advice me to Print the Employment form out and fill it up then forward the filled Employment form to UK Home Immigration Office for your work visa process, through their e-mail contact address, ukhomeimmigrationbureau@yahoo.co.uk
Then after that the UK Home Immigration email me back they are requiring me to pass some of the necessary documents in order to process my visa. I have pass all the documents except one of their requirements and that is the LABOUR AUTHORIZATION CERTIFICATE from the UK Labour Department Office with their contact e-mail address, uklabourdepartmentoffice@googlemail.com
They require me to contact that e-mail address so I have send an e-mail that I am inquiring on their office about the Labour Authorization Certificate. Then day past I have receive an e-mail from UK Labour Department Office. The E-mail contains Labour Research Department, Department for Work and Pensions, Richmond House 79 Whitehall , London SW1A 2NS, UNITED KINGDOM , TEL +44703 180 4830.
Their message contains below :-
We’re here by sub-let you be aware, that you are obliged to send to our office, these below documents, for the further procession & approval of your labour Authorization certificate, as well as the regime dispensation fee: (176 Pounds per each applicant), to facilitate our office approval coverage & sending of your skilled workers labour Authorization certificate, which we have customary & promise to process now. When writing back to us, you’re urging to send together with yours:
1. Full Photo Picture of yours; one copy.
2. Your Contract Agreements Letter; from Hyde Park Hotel Management.
3. Your labour processing Authorization certificate fee; total amount = (176 GBP. per each applicant)Memorandum:
Ours office received your visa file references number, from the Immigration Visa subdivision and bear in mind that after 6 working days without your accomplishment & forwarding of these required documents to our office back, for further procession of your labour Authorization certificate, we will lapse your visa ref file number including all the documents, which you sent to us.
You’re instructed to use this information when transferring your processing fee to our office.
Payment must be made through western union money transfer order, to our office.. You have to use the name of our office financial department Accountant to make your payment, and then forward it together with your affirmations to us.
Here are the essentials details that you have to use for the payment processing fee at any western Union Agent/ Bank there in your country.
RECEIVER’S NAME : SEVERINA ALVES
AMOUNT 176 POUNDS
DESTINATION : ENGLAND – UNITED KINGDOM
ADDRESS : 79 Whitehall, London SW1A 2NS, UK .
Also you have to attach the payment transfer slip from the bank, for our office verification too.
Ones more you’re welcome to our beautiful country United Kingdom , with due respect we did appreciate your efforts towards the preparation of your work approval code & permit procession with ours office. Ours administration has staffs that, speaks five different Eastern-European languages in total, which enables them to screen candidates more effectively and promptly, then deal with day-to-day issues with temporary entering visitors.
This Labour sector is meant for overseas workforce programme section, for skilled workers registering and maintaining of their personal work details in strict compliance with Home Office requirements on prevention of illegal migrants & illegal work force’s in UK Cities..
Here our director general must stamp and sign your { UK Skilled Workers
Labour Authorization Certificate} and then file it in our labour statistics as to be use during the pension service also must be approved before the Immigration office can granted you visa pin code.This subdivision has close relationship with HM Immigration Office London, where your visa approval code will be issue to you, after we have approved you’re: (L.A.C) which must be done immediately we received the above requested documents and the Labour government processing fee, from you to enable us proceed further also in aspect of registering your information’s for pensions and pension schemes.
We look forward to helping you come to the United Kingdom !
Best Regards,
Mr Wilson Larry
Minister of State (Work)
Department for Work and Pensions
It contains all of the clues; e-mail addresses from Yahoo and Googleman, expensive +4470 phone numbers, bad and US spellings etc.
Note that Wilson Larry or Larry Wilson does not seem to exist and I can’t find any other posting of this scam on the Internet, so it may be a very new scam.
Don’t ever send these crooks any money.
Sir Chris Newson
Whoever wrote this obviously got a Z in English language.
Dear
With Due-respect I seek your consent to have a discussion with you. Do you suggest through your email or Phone Conversation??? .
You’re Name and Contact is needed.
Thanks
Sir Chris Newson
Chief Executive Officer ( CEO)
Stanbic IBTC Bank
E-Mial:newsonchris3@naseej.com
Tel: 234-80- 7999-8449
Note the spelling of e-mail and the Nigerian phone number.
The idiot needs certifying. It would be funny, if no-one believed him. But then there is one born every minute.
Jim Bennett
I get a lot of spam. This is an interesting one.
My name is Jim .E. Bennett, I am a citizen of United State of America and the Executive Director of SPD Corporation, a multi-national oil corporation operating from London-England, UK. I am seeking your assistance to retrieve the sum of ( fifteen Million Dollars Only), consisting of two Consignments boxes.
This money was acquired from over invoice and it was accompanied by a diplomat to the U.S.A, my reason for this is because I have been cheated out of my entitlements by the company for too long simply because I am not a British Citizen.The details of the diplomat will be given to you if you indicate your interest to help me.
The two boxes content is $15M and for your help I am ready to release 30% to you, for security reasons the consignments was registered to be ( CONFIDENTIAL DIPLOMATIC DOCUMENTS), and I can explain why it was declared so. Bear in mind that the diplomat is not aware of the content of the two Consignments boxes , it has been there for the past 1 month as I’m looking for a reliable partner.
I will be leaving the country immediately the consignments is delivered to you for my private investment and I have vowed never to step back into London, England. Please, I need your urgent response before my plans to leave the company is discovered.
Please if you are not willing and interested in helping me kindly delete this e-mail from your computer and pretend you never got it.
I’m pretending I haven’t got this e-mail, so if you read this, then please pass it on, so that no-one gets conned by this crook.
One point is that he says he will be leaving London immediately the consignments are delivered. Funny, that but the e-mail came from China.
HMRC Fraud
There has been talk on the radio this morning and in the papers about various phishing attacks purporting to be tax refunds from HRMC.
Note that HMRC do not do refunds by e-mail, so any e-mails you get from them about refunds are fake and are designed to empty your bank account, after you have given them your bank details.
Here’s one I got earlier.
HMRC Spam E-Mail
These points should be noted.
- It is obviously spam, not least because my ISP has actually marked it as possible spam in the header.
- Bear in mind the fact too, that my accountant does my tax return and I think that HMRC don’t know my e-mail address.
- It is a good idea to learn how to read the Message Headers using your e-mail program. I use Outlook and this page in About.com tells you how to do it. In the headers for this e-mail, you can see there are lots of .br’s, which mean that at some point the e-mail has visited Brazil. Not the quickest route to Suffolk from the HMRC.
- They do show that the e-mail came to my standard e-mail address. Which means it wasn’t a genuine e-mail, as I use a special e-mail address for all financial transactions. Always use a different e-mail address for normal communications and financial transactions.
- The To: address in the e-mail is securemail@hmrc.gov.uk. Nearly all companies send important e-mails to the e-mail address you have given them.
- The value of the refund is shown as 988.50 GBP. I’m always suspicious of this, as the £ sign needed to show the value properly is not available on non-UK keyboards. About half of my genuine on line purchases use the £ sign and others use GBP. But phishing attacks nearly always use GBP.
- Click Here to submit you tax refund request. Note you instead of your. I know the HMRC can be stupid at times, but they don’t make spelling mistakes like this, as if they did, they would be a laughing stock in the tabloids.
- There are other grammatical errors and I don’t think the HMRC would use Best Regards.
You should always read these spam e-mails. That way, you will understand more and more what they look like and you won’t get caught out.
Reporting instructions for these sort of e-mails are on the HMRC web site.
Homeopathy Protests Outside Boots
It would appear that today there are to be protests outside Boots because of their stocking of homeopathic remedies. I like the fact that the protest is being organised by the Merseyside Skeptics Society.
The protest will take the form of a mass overdose on homeopathic remedies. As they contain nothing but sugar and water, the only result might be a small amount of weight gain.
Clare Balding on Radio 5 then talked about arnica to a jockey. Now arnica is not a homeopathic remedy but a natural one. I have given it to horses in the past and it helps stop bruising during castration. But it is only diluted to the same sort of levels as a cough syrup, not to the parts per billion billions that you get with homeopathy. As I said in an e-mail to Clare.
Arnica, of which the active ingredient is helenalin, is a natural remedy, which is partially understood scientifically. Aspirin and many other drugs, have similar natural roots. These have absolutely nothing to do with homeopathy. Natural remedies are valid treatments and work, the others are beloved of snake-oil salesmen and are just to relieve fools of their money.
One has to question Boots decision to sell these quack cures, especially as they admitted to the House of Commons that there is no evidence that they work.
But anybody who has investigated them properly knows that too. But think how many snake-oil salesmen would be put out of business, if this was the general belief.
Is Gordon Brown Buying Votes?
I received two of these e-mails yesterday.
OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER
TREASURY AND MINISTER FOR CIVIL SERVICE, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.Our ref: ATM/13470/IDR
Your ref:…Date: 26/11/2009IMMEDIATE PAYMENT NOTIFICATION
I am The Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP,Prime Minister British Government. This letter is to officially inform you that (ATM Card Number 048000101775550) has been accredited with your favor. Your Personal Identification Number is 477.The VISA Card Value is £2,000,000.00(Two Million, Great British Pounds Sterling).
This office will send to you an Visa/ATM CARD that you will use to withdraw your funds in any ATM MACHINE CENTER or Visa card outlet in the world with a maximum of £5000 GBP daily.Further more,You will be required to re-confirm the following information to enable;The Rt Hon David Miliband MP Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Office. begin in processing of your VISA CARD.
(1)Full names: (2)Address: (3)Country: (4)Nationality: (5)Phone #: (6)Age:
(7)Occupation: (8) Post CodesForward Reply To: hondavidmiliband@8.am
TAKE NOTICE: That you are warned to stop further communications with any other person(s) or office(s) different from the staff of the State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to avoid hitches in receiving your payment.
Regards,
The Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP
Prime Minister
He must be getting desperate if he is resorting to these methdos to get votes. Even Prudence isn’t that desperate and I suspect if you fall for this scam you get everything you deserve!
Reporting Internet Abuse
There has been a lot of reporting lately about cyberbullying and abuse on social networking sites. In fact the BBC breakfast phone-in was about this subject.
I have no experience of reporting problems on social networking sites, but for years I have been fighting a campaign against on-line fraudsters using the Internet and mobile phones. I have reported endless people for abuse to e-mail organisations and so have many others I know who work in this field.
No service provider have ever informed me that they have taken serious action. As these scams are still occurring, it would appear that nothing has been done. I have found that the same e-mail addresses keep coming up in different scams.
Why?
These companies want the traffic to continue and as they run tight ships, they can’t afford the methods that everyone knows would stop all of these practices.
It is exactly the same with social networking sites. Put a button to report abuse on a site and the abusers will go elsewhere, so a site that does it, will lose traffic and advertising revenue, which is of course geared to traffic.
I also have a granddaughter and she was showing me an innocent site aimed at her age, with educational games, quizzes and puzzles. There was nothing wrong with the site, but some of the advertising on it, was promoting all the foods and snack products that you shouldn’t give to children of her age.
All of these problems are driven by commercial interests, most of which are headquartered outside of the jurisdiction of the UK and the EU. So in truth we are just whistling in the dark and the sites will never change.
All these indignant phone-ins are just free publicity for these social networking sites. They would have had to pay millions to get the same effect. I’d love to see how many new members have joined them in the last few days.
The BBC does Lotteries
These scams keep coming and you do wonder why anybody is stupid enough to fall for them.
BBC.CO.UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
PROGRAMED CLAIM HOME UK
HEADQUARTER, UNITED KINGDOM
===========================
The National lottery winners Results
These Are The Email’s Lucky’s Winning Numbers
*(04)*(06)*(12)*(31)*(38)*(48)*BONUS*(29)
ON Wednesday November 11th
Check On Your Winning Number
Draw Times – Find details
on this site below
website. http://www.bbc.co.uk/lotteryYour Email Winning Number=(38)
Dear Lucky Winner,
We are pleased to announce your email address as one of the 300 lucky stars winners in the Bbc.co.uk national lottery promo draw held on the 11th NOVEMBER 2009.
All 300 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 200,000,000{TWO HUNDRED MILLION} international emails addresses.Your email have been approved to claim the sum of £1,000,000.00GBP(ONE MILLION POUNDS),We are proud to say that over £25 Million GBP Pounds are won annually in more than 130 countries world-wide.The Bbc.co.uk national lottery promotion draw is held once in every three years interval.And is also organized to encourage the use of internet and computers.
For security reasons,you are advised to keep your winning information confidential until you claim your prize money.However you will have to fill and submit this form to the events manager for verification & direction on how you can claim your winning fund.you are required to provide us with the information below for verification.
you must be 16 over to claim the prize
Fill the Details Below
1.FULL NAMES:
2.DATE OF BIRTH:
3.GENDER:
4.OCCUPATION:
5.POSITION
6.WORK ADDRESS
7.RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:
8.COUNTRY:
9.MOBILE NUMBER AND NETWORK NAME:
10.ALTERNATE MOBILE/PHONE NUMBER:
11.AMOUNT WON:
12.EMAIL ADDRESS(S):
13.Your Winning Number:CHOOSE METHOD OF CLAIM WINNINGS ( COURIER DELIVERY OR DIRECT BANK TRANSFER)…..
Sincerely,
Mr.Brian Adams
Promotion Manager.Reply this email with the information for claim
E-mail:bbccouk_nationallotteryclaim@yahoo.com.hk
website. _http://www.bbc.co.uk/lottery
Name:Ethan Sawyer (Mr.)
Phone:+44 7024 079 993
National Coordinator
Congratulations once again.Copyright (c) 2009 Bbc.co.uk national lottery Online Promotion Inc.
Some points to note, which apply to nearly all of these scams.
- I got four of these e-mails all to undisclosed-recipients. Did I win four times? No! I didn’t even win once!
- There are numerous spelling and grammatical mistakes. Look at the heading for a start, which contains Headquarter and programed.
- Capitalisation is bad too.
- The e-mail address is in Hong Kong.
- The phone number may well be one that costs quite a lot for each minute.
- The copyright notice has Inc. in it. The UK does not use this American form.
Remember no-one has ever won a lottery they didn’t enter.
One thing that should be done is that the UK should tighten up how 07 numbers are allocated. Many seem to be used for frauds. It might be difficult to check everybody before they get a number, but after any hint of fraud, the numbers should be cancelled immediately.
I’ve Been Very Lucky
I’ve just won not one but three prizes in this lottery, that I didn’t even enter. That must be some sort of record.
EURO-PW LOTTERY v7.0,
http://www.europw.com
POSTBUS 636-5930 AM
TERNEUZEN, HOLLAND.RE:OFFICIAL PRIZE AWARD NOTICE.
DEAR WINNER,
THIS IS TO INFORM YOU THAT YOU HAVE WON A PRIZE MONEY OF ONE MILLION EURO (1,000,000)FOR THIS MONTH (NOVEMBER 2009)EURO-PW LOTTERY ONLINE PROMOTION.
ALL PARTICIPANTS FOR THIS ONLINE VERSION WERE SELECTED RANDOMLY FROM THE WORLD WIDE WEB, THROUGH AN ELECTRONIC BALLOTING SYSTEM (E.B.S.)AND EXTRACTED FROM OVER 100M SECURED WEBSITES WORLDWIDE.
ONLY FIVE WINNERS EMERGE EVERY MONTH THROUGH ELECTRONIC BALLOTING SYSTEM (E.B.S.),AND YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WAS SELECTED AND ATTACHED TO THE WINNING NUMBER BELOW WE CONGRATULATE YOU FOR BEING ONE OF THE EURO-PW v7.0 WINNER.
PLEASE CONTACT OUR APPROVED AGENT FOR YOUR REGION WITH YOUR WINNING NUMBER AND YOUR FILLED CLAIMS VERIFICATION FORM BELOW.
WINNING NUMBER: EPWL/11/17/18/25/08
EURO-PW LOTTERY v7.0.
CLAIMS VERIFICATION FORM.
FULL NAMES .
ADDRESS .
NATIONALITY .
COUNTRY .
TEL/FAX .
AGE/SEX .
MARITAL STATUS .
OCCUPATION .PAYMENT OPTION
1. COURIER DELIVERY OF CERTIFIED WINNING CHEQUE (…..) 2. TRANSFER OF PRIZE MONEY VIA ONLINE BANK TRANSFER (…..)TICK AN OPTION WHICH SUITS YOU BEST FOR THE REMITTANCE OF YOUR PRIZE MONEY TO YOU.
CONGRATULATIONS FROM ALL MEMBERS OF STAFF OF EURO-PW LOTTERY.
NINA T. FRIJTERS (Mrs.)
DIRECTOR; CLAIMS DEPARTMENT.
TEL/FAX: +31 (0) 84 740 8620
E-MAIL: europwdesk2@hotmail.comFROM: Venancio Massingue (Mrs.)
NOTE: ALL CORRESPONDENCES SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO europwdesk2@hotmail.com
In fact my luck is so astounding as I have won three out of the five prizes on offer. How many millions to one is that?
Sadly, it’s fraud. If you reply the obnly winner with be that crook, Venancio Massingue.
House of Parliament?
This short and sweet spam came twice.
Hello this is Dr Roger Berry from the British house of parliament, how are you doing today? this email is to remind you of your CONTRACT PAYMENT SUM/ INHERITANCE FUNDS of $5.2 million US dollars, your money is now available for payment. Your attention is needed urgently get back to me immediately.
Dr Roger Berry
Note that it came from the British House of Parliament. Did he mean Commons or Lords, as there is no House of Parliament, but Houses of Parliament? Dr. Roger ought to learn to type and punctuate as well.
I needed a good laugh and this crook made me chuckle.
The Anonymous Widower 