discussion More dodgy emails

[stona]

My wife had some ..... she doesn't have an account with either.

At least that's a bit of a give away


Cheers


Steve

 

[Gern]

When you open a bank account, aren't you supposed to supply information about who you are and where you live - or a business name and address. When folks fall for this sort of scam, their money must end up in a bank account somewhere. With all the resources available, why is it impossible to find the account holders and recover the money?

 

[dave]

One problem is that the scammers often incorporate a second scam.  They persuade some poor sod to take a job working for their company in the U.K. to handle "payments" with a uk bank account and transfer the money to their accounts in foreign parts.


they do this with all sorts of scams, when the police do investigate the chap in the U.K. is left holding the basket and guilty of criminal offences and the money has vanished.