iphone 4 and other mobile scam

hello
I have been through a forum in an website searching to get an iphone and i found a post .
CLAUDE'S LIMITED WHICH SELLS MOBILES
I contacted him through email and he asked me to send the money through western union and live in INDIA so i can't send money ,I asked him for other ways of money transfer and he gave his bank details .The details are as follows:

ACCOUNT NAME: MONEYTALKS INCORP LTD

BANK NAME: BARCLAYS BANK.

ACCOUNT NO:63702529

ADDRESS: 47 WATFORD WAY HENDON.NW4 3JU,UNITED KINGDOM

mobile:2348055279333

email :[email protected]

so what should i do.....is it a fraud?

Yes, this is a fraud / scam. If you have to prepay using a wire transfer or service like Western Union or MoneyGram, it is a scam.

The problem is you will have no way to get your money back when you don't get the phone. You will NOT get a phone from this person.

Please post the email address you received this message from. Also if there is a website, please let us know the address for that website.

Welcome to ScamWarners and be careful of deals which sound too good to be true.

thank you for your guidance...
and what about the barclays account ? I got his email id from google search and thios has been posted in many

http://blog.desishock.net/2010/05/08/un ... -4g-350-2/
http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&source ... Ff7DFn8Dnw
http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&source ... mwBsL-Hnwg
http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&source ... wlkM48Jimg

Our staff will make sure the bank account is reported to the appropriate banking officials. While there is no guarantee that action will be immediately taken, alerting the authorities to the misuse of the account may enable them to take action against some of the people involved in the scam, or if the account is owned by a victim who is unaware of the scam (sometimes scammers use innocent victims who believe they work for legitimate companies), they can address that situation too.

It will help the report if you post the full email you received containing the bank account details, including the headers (just remove your own email address).

It is typical for a scammer such as this one to continuously post ads for fake "companies" on forums throughout the internet, and to send spam emails to large numbers of addresses. This type of scammer often changes "company" names frequently but uses the same scam and sometimes the same email and phone numbers. Unfortunately there are many forums out there that do not moderate such things, so little can be done to prevent that at this time.

Hello!
I'm glad you found the site before the scanner was able to steal the money. As Dotti said it would be very helpful to get the email headers along with the entire email where he gave you the bank account. If your unsure how to get the headers you can go here http://www.ip-adress.com/faq/view_email_header/

Let us know if you need any other help. I'll get this account reported to the proper people once you get the headers posted.

Thanks
Justin

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SS: 47 WATFORD WAY HENDON.NW4 3JU=2CUNITED KINGDOMAmount :$300Reply back so=
on with the payment receipt
YOU ARE 100% SECURE


From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Payment details is needed
Date: Thu=2C 28 Jul 2011 05:15:10 -0700








here is our Bank details in which you will have to send the payment to..
ACCOUNT NAME: MONEYTALKS INCORP LTD BANK NAME: BARCLAYS BANK.ACCOUNT NO:637=
02529SORT CODE:20-79-25SWIFT CODE: BARCGB22IBAN NO:GB64BARC20792563702529AD=
DRESS: 47 WATFORD WAY HENDON.NW4 3JU=2CUNITED KINGDOM
Amount :$300
Reply back soon with the payment receipt
YOU ARE 100% SECURE

Great thanks! I will get this reported right away.

Justin

thanks for the whole scamwarners team.........you people are doing great job.....

hey.just registered here to get sure i would not be another scam trapped customer.
so let me say:
i found some websites where this company supposed called:Utility technologies fze is advertising

http://aquinegocio.co/cs5788-utility-te ... phone.html
http://www.expatads.com/95-Romania/post ... ptop-.html
i actually contacted them on skype (utilityllc) and (utilitytechnologiesfze) and talked to them.well they sent to me the licence of their company,and sent to me some emails where a customer from ukarine cheated on them,since they made the transfer of the item,so the customer got the product and they lost money.
thats what seems to be,ive actually found a clone website of them http://www.dubai-mobiles.net/
and asked them,and they said they will check out about this and warn authorities,afterwards they said they have many companies under them.
also when asking about so low prices,they said they sell at wholesale prices thats why those are so low.
what they mentioned on skype differs from what is on their website,they said the site is not updated but soon will be.their offer was to sell a nokia n8 to 335$ but there is no nokia n8 on the website.
i know it looks like scam,but just want to hear ur opinion,did someone ever bought from them?

The only one that might be real is the dubai-mobiles.net site. The first two links you posted are fake, beyond a doubt.

That said, I would never buy electronics online if it isn't on the site of a shop I can visit in person or the site of the manufacturer itself. There are thousands and thousands of fake electronic websites out there, and perhaps only a few real ones. Low prices are a sign of a scam, period. If you want the gadgets, you'll have to pay. My opinion: walk to the store. You might be able to haggle a bit there . It's the only way to know for sure you aren't throwing your money away.

Just a quick plug for AA419 where Alan is the person who can get fake and scam accounts quickly shut down. You could do this yourself but some of the folks here can probably do this efficiently and the account will be gone in a few days. Hopefully