Author: Olly

GUYS! I R NOW MILLIONAIRE! Haha… ok maybe not. But this scammer would have me believe I am.

Not had one of these for YEARS!

European /African Union International payment Processing Department (EAU)
From The Desk of Dr.Ernest Addison
President African Union Ghana Annex
12/15 Distress Thorpe Accra Ghana.

 

Attention Beneficiary.

 

This is to inform you about the new development that will bring to the successful transfer of your long overdue funds payment Value Twenty Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ($20.5Million Dollars). We have finalized every arrangement with an Accredited Financial consultant attached to FIRST SUN-SET BANK in the USA. And with her own arrangement with her (FSB),the Bank has accepted the funds and the deposit has been made into the Bank Escrow account pending when the funds transfer will be finalized upon your response.

 

The agreement was all about how the funds will be transferred into your account through ONLINE BANKING to avoid stoppage.So the funds will be transferred into your account as an investment fund that is being originated from the bank.
The said funds have already been backed up by the Bank (FSB) that will allow your own Bank to accept the funds without any hitch, this is the only way the funds can be transferred ONLINE BANKING to you successfully.

 

This arrangement is because if the funds are being transferred as a contract payment, a lot of documents may be required which may cause a lot of issues arising on the legality of the contract.This decision was made by her based on her experience about funds transfer transactions.

 

So on your acceptance and readiness to the procedure arrangements, you are advised to contact the Financial Consultant on her personal email below to provide you with the information of the contact person in-charge of your funds transfer for further directives.

 

Below is the information of the Financial Consultant contact:

Contact person; Miss.Jenifer George
Email contact; enquiryf674@gmail.com

Always get back to me for further instructions to avoid mistakes.

 

Yours in Service,

Dr.Ernest Addison
President African Union (EAU)
International payment Processing Department.

from: GHANA COMMERCIAL BANK LTD (GCB ) <efccoffice573@gmail.com>
reply-to: customerscaredepat@gmail.com

Needless to say, this is a SCAM.

But I replied anyway 😛

More on this one soon….

I have moved my business premises again, and in order to inform customers, friends and colleagues alike – I did a blog post about it on my company website. Additionally, I posted a link to the article on my business social media. I did all this for two reasons;

1. I did it to inform people, and keep my business blog and socials up to date
2. I also did it because that’s also what we did when we moved into an older office of ours, and it was at that point we got targeted by “sales brokers” for commercial energy.

It’s like they scour Twitter and stuff for “moved office” and things like that… Anyway, I posted it all and then got on with my life…

A day or so later, I got this email from my PA service;

Oh deary deary me.

I called them, obviously, and I got the SAME spiel as I did when I first made contact with the broker last time.

• Emergency rates
• Not on the best pricing
• bla bla

I didnt give them ANY meter references, I didnt even confirm my exact location and yet they were able to magically find my meter and told me they were able to save me money. The chap I spoke to (forget his name, but he was a cocky shitbag) could only go over gas and not electricity, but we can only assume where the conversation would have gone if I had continued to feed them fase info.

Now, I am not suggesting they are SCAMMERS as such, but like we have covered before in other (currently deleted) blog posts, its their wording, approach and sales tactics that are scummy. They scour the web for anyone moving a commercial business and jump on them to try and hopefully catch someone off guard and steal the energy contract over to one of their mates energy businesses.

My advice to you if you have been contacted by someone like this is do your OWN homework, look these businesses up, do they look legitimate? Do their websites look legitimate? google their business name and check reviews;

Tip: Often these kind of shady brokers use really generic names, so that when you search for them you dont find anything. EG Commercial Support Services is so generic, and searching for that on its own doesn’t find anything bad – but if you wrap it in speech marks and add SCAM or SPAM to the end of the search query, you find lots;

And as always, be scam wise! Be on guard!

If you havent expected the call, then assume they are up to no good and hang up.

There is no meter registration department, commercial energy works pretty much the same as domestic and when you move house you dont take a contract off the first scam call you get in your new home, do you?

Please comment below if you have got anything like this yourselves.

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