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Tourist accommodation providers
beware
Similar email scams have also been experienced in
USA...
...as an email from New York to VillagePRESS
explains
ROSEWOOD
INN owner, Suzanne Sanders of
www.rosewoodinn.com wrote:
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Dear Editor,
I am writing to you in response to an article posted on your web site. My
husband and I own a Bed & Breakfast Inn, located in Corning, New York, USA.
After receiving a e-mail request from a London agency for a lengthy reservation,
I wanted to research the legitimacy of the travel agency.
I found your web site and was amazed!
The contents of the correspondence I received is almost exactly the same as the
letters that were posted in your article and the warning by Mr. Russell Conder.
I have attached them below. I guess
it doesn't matter where you are located, the same rule holds true...
If it sounds "too-good-to-be-true", it
usually is! Thank you for making other innkeepers and accommodation providers
aware of these scams. I will do my best to alert those on "this side-of-the
pond"
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A search on Internet
provided Suzanne with two sets of information, both from NZ...
The email Suzanne
first received read...
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Original Message
From: robert wayne <sail2robert@yahoo.co.uk>
Sent: Saturday, November
19, 2005 9:43 PM
Good day Sir/Madam,
I am Robert Wayne of west travel agency, london
(stet)
.I need to book reservation in
your inn for an organisation from London coming for a convention on the 30th
December 2005 to 10th of Jan 2006.Get back to me if the dates mentioned
above are free, so that we can book reservations immediately, with my credit
card.
Thank you and have a nice day.
Thanks for your co-operation
Regards,
Robert Wayne
Westtravel Agency,(a member of ABTA)
Beacon Street,Birkby, Huddersfield,West Yorkshire,HD2 2RS,London.
TeL:+447875848617 Fax:+447884514786
Email:sail2robert@yahoo.co.uk |
A later email shows how the
scam works. Unsuspecting Tourist operators are advised to send moneys to
another theoretical car hire firm.....
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Sent: Monday, December 05,
2005 3:22 PM
Subject: PAYMENT INFORMATION
Hello Sanders, (stet)
Thanks for your reply and assistance so far. I am glad to tell you that we
have concluded payment with the delegates.
However we are going to send you the visa Account Information that will
cover the cost of our accomodation,(stet) and
the necessary arrangment (stet) for the
delegates.
Moreover, we also made an arrangement with a pre paid car hiring firm who
will supply the delegates with cars they will use during their stay, but
because of security reasons and confidentiality, we have decided that only
one person will have to handle the Visa account information. So once you are
in receipt of it, you are required to charge the cost of your services
$2094.4 (50%) and send $2100 via Western union money Transfer, to the car
hiring agent whose information will be forwarded to you once this is
confirmed.
So confirm
this and provide me with your
(1) YOUR FULL NAME
(2) ADDRESS
(3) PHONE NUMBERS for office records.
Please
remember that the integrity of our agency is involved, so this business
requires prompt response. I also hope the stay of the delegates will be made
comfortable.
Kind Regards,
Robert Wayne. |
Of
course, these names will be unrelated to the real people behind the Scam emails.
If you
have a similar experience, do please write and tell us.
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