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Welcome to Scamwarners, and thanks for posting that. I'm sorry you were scammed. That's certainly a fake site. Have you got an email that refers to it?

Domain Name: TALABAYMO.COM

Registrant:
None
femi badmus ()
22 muri adeshola street
okokomaiko
lagos,23401
NG
Tel. +234.07026652682
Creation Date: 29-Jul-2010
Expiration Date: 29-Jul-2011

Did you pay by Western Union or direct to a bank account?

[email protected] is the email address I've been corresponding with. We paid via bank wire.

Can you please post the email here (with headers, your email address removed) or just send it directly to one of our support staff? Often the emails from the fake sites are key evidence required to get them closed down.

I recently got scammed by this Sam Fraser fellow. He is Nigirian and I should have done more research. He is also working under several different names...Peter Fraser, Sam Fraser, Sam Michael, and Frank Basters was the name on the account where I transferred the money. HE had a website but of course after my transfer the account was suspended. The website was holproperties.com.

The bank where I transferred the money was Abbey bank. If you see Abbey Bank in any type of vacation rental ...just run for the hills! Abbey bank is apparently where many of these Nigerian scammers are setting up their accounts. So much that I know now that I wish I knew then.

Right now I am possibly going to do business with The Brompton House. Still trying to figure out if they are legit. The phone number is a land line and things look good but they want me to transfer money and I am uneasy about that as one can imagine.

Can anyone tell me if they have worked with The Brompton House?

Website is www.bromptonhouse.org

Thanks so much!

Karina

I'm uneasy too. If it's a scam it's more elaborate than most.
The company name has been registered with Companies House, but too recently to have had to files returns and accounts yet.
I can't find them in the phone directory, and I'm still researching this, According to their website, they take credit cards, but you mention money transfer. What sort of money transfer?

Hi,

I got scammed by Samuel Fraser too. He was emailing from [email protected], there is a website too.
The wire transfer details were:

BANKS NAME: NATIONWIDE BANK
ADDRESS: 4 STATION PARADE.
BARKING ESSEX. IG11 8DP.

ACCOUNT NUMBER: 73173217
SORT CODE: 070030
IBAN NUMBER: GB44 NAIA 0700 3073 173217
BIC: NAIAGB21
SWIFT: MIDLGB22

NAME: SAMUEL FRASER
ADDRESS: 35 Kings Exchange,
Tileyard Rd,London N7 9AH

Thank you for posting telemele

If you have an e-mail from [email protected] would you please post it here - the full/expanded headers would be helpful.

These are the site details - one of our fake site inspectors will be along a little later.

WHOIS - londonproperties-uk.com


Registrar: ENOM, INC.
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Dates: Created 15-jul-2010 Updated 15-jul-2010 Expires 15-jul-2011
DNS Servers: NS1.SITECUBE12.COM NS2.SITECUBE12.COM


Registration Service Provided By: SiteCube.com
Contact: [email protected]

Domain name: londonproperties-uk.com

Registrant Contact:
HOLICORP
sharona schulder ()

Fax:
3777 independence ave
apt 3h
Bronx, New York 10463
US

Administrative Contact:
HOLICORP
sharona schulder ([email protected])
+1.9733887459
Fax: +1.9739472259
3777 independence ave
apt 3h
Bronx, New York 10463
US

Technical Contact:
HOLICORP
sharona schulder ([email protected])
+1.9733887459
Fax: +1.9739472259
3777 independence ave
apt 3h
Bronx, New York 10463
US

Status: Locked

Name Servers:
ns1.sitecube12.com
ns2.sitecube12.com

Creation date: 16 Jul 2010 02:43:00
Expiration date: 15 Jul 2011 21:43:00

Hi,

I got scammed by Samuel Fraser too. He was emailing from [email protected], there is a website too.
The wire transfer details were:

BANKS NAME: NATIONWIDE BANK
ADDRESS: 4 STATION PARADE.
BARKING ESSEX. IG11 8DP.

ACCOUNT NUMBER: 73173217
SORT CODE: 070030
IBAN NUMBER: GB44 NAIA 0700 3073 173217
BIC: NAIAGB21
SWIFT: MIDLGB22

NAME: SAMUEL FRASER
ADDRESS: 35 Kings Exchange,
Tileyard Rd,London N7 9AH

Hi, It looks like I got scammed too from this same guy, from the same website... is there really nothing we can do to get him? he gave to me the following bank details:

NAME: SAMUEL FRASER
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 73173217
SORT CODE: 070030
IBAN NUMBER: GB44 NAIA 0700 3073 173217
BIC: NAIAGB21
SWIFT: MIDLGB22
NATIONWIDE BANK
4 STATION PARADE.
BARKING ESSEX. IG11 8DP.

Exactly the same as you...

Does anyone know what can we do now knowing that I am Spanish and that if I go to the police office here in Barcelona probably they won't do anything at all...? Is there any better action that I can start?

Thanks to all of you!!

Regards
Oscar

I got scammed by them and am trying to retract the transaction.

They've a couple of listings on craigslist, under vacation rentals. This is their email signature:

Tel: 07719 228819
Fax: 07053 668542
London Properties & Rentals.
Concourse Level Cabot Place,
Canary Wharf,London, E14 4QS

www.londonproperties-uk.com

---
BANK NAME: BARCLAYS BANK
BANK ADDRESS: 403 HOLLOWAY ROAD, HOLLOWAY LONDON N7 6HL
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 10583952
SORT CODE: 20-46-60
IBAN: GB89 BARC 204660 10583952
SWIFT BIC: BARCGB22

ACCOUNT NAME: O.BENSON
CONTACT ADDRESS: 36 EBURNE RD, HOLLOWAY, LONDON N7 6AU
---
PAYPAL EMAIL is [email protected]
NAME: DIPO BARRIE
---
they were emailing from [email protected] and I was liasing with a Vatuk Prasad.

The email header is
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
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X-Originating-IP: [67.192.128.22]
Authentication-Results: mta1001.mail.re4.yahoo.com from=londonproperties-uk.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig); from=londonproperties-uk.com; dkim=neutral (no sig)
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Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 04:20:41 -0500
Disposition-Notification-To: [email protected]
From:
LONDON PROPERTIES & RENTALS <[email protected]>

It is an elaborate scam, they've a flash site and have paypal and bank accounts in UK. Terms & conditions of the transactions look legit. They are quick to change email addresses, websites, listings & physical addresses too. Please be warned.

Incidentally, i found another new thread on TripAdvisor of someone who was scammed by them too.
http://www.tripadvisor.ca/ShowTopic-g18 ... l#29058965

Hi,

I got scammed by Samuel Fraser too. He was emailing from [email protected], there is a website too.
The wire transfer details were:

BANKS NAME: NATIONWIDE BANK
ADDRESS: 4 STATION PARADE.
BARKING ESSEX. IG11 8DP.

ACCOUNT NUMBER: 73173217
SORT CODE: 070030
IBAN NUMBER: GB44 NAIA 0700 3073 173217
BIC: NAIAGB21
SWIFT: MIDLGB22

NAME: SAMUEL FRASER
ADDRESS: 35 Kings Exchange,
Tileyard Rd,London N7 9AH

Hi, It looks like I got scammed too from this same guy, from the same website... is there really nothing we can do to get him? he gave to me the following bank details:

NAME: SAMUEL FRASER
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 73173217
SORT CODE: 070030
IBAN NUMBER: GB44 NAIA 0700 3073 173217
BIC: NAIAGB21
SWIFT: MIDLGB22
NATIONWIDE BANK
4 STATION PARADE.
BARKING ESSEX. IG11 8DP.

Exactly the same as you...

Does anyone know what can we do now knowing that I am Spanish and that if I go to the police office here in Barcelona probably they won't do anything at all...? Is there any better action that I can start?

Thanks to all of you!!

Regards
Oscar

Just FYI, I contacted the metropolitan police at london and they told me that the procedure is the following: i must go to the local police in Spain and then they'll pass the issue to the interpol... and that's what I did, but the spanish police told me already that nothing will be done for such an small amount... so basically if you get scammed from abroad there is NOTHING you can do but to kick up a fuss...

so disappoining, no??

Welcome here oscar bcn

Yes, they won't do much about such scams, only if you would be scammed for hundreds of thousands euro's. And even then it will be difficult to get the scammer. The police only looks at just your case, and say the amount lost is too small, and the case is not interesting. But they forget that your scammer could have scammed hundreds of people, and did get hundreds of thousands of euro's. The scammer could be living in a west African country where the police isn't very co-operative, so that doesn't help much either.

The best we can do is to post scammers here on the forum so that others can be warned.

Yes, this http://www.londonproperties-uk.com is most definitely a scam. They advertise apartments in London on craigslist, and use this email: [email protected]

The scammer will email back and forth with you, asking for a wire transfer or bank transfer. If you wire them money, they never respond again and you have lost your money. This is wire fraud.
The fake web site looks OK with animations http://www.londonproperties-uk.com, but it is a fake. They are imitating other sites http://www.londonproperties.co.uk and http://www.londonpropertyuk.com
Do not send them money.

One of their “agents” is Vatuk Prasad.

This is the fraudulent signature:

Tel: 07719 228819
Fax: 07053 668542
London Properties & Rentals.
Concourse Level Cabot Place,
Canary Wharf,London, E14 4QS
http://www.londonproperties-uk.com


And this is what they promise,

Payments are made by bank transfer or money transfer.

This will include a complimentary breakfast \'welcome pack\' that will
contain the following items: Croissants - Coffee - Tea - Milk - Sugar
- Bread - Butter - Cheese - Breakfast Cereals - Orange Juice.

The rent is quoted in Pounds Sterling (there is no tax on privately
owned homes)

We also give away 10% Discount on every full payment deposit during
reservation.

To proceed with the booking of the apartment, request for our
apartment booking form and bank details.

In most cases, check in is after 1.00 pm and check out is before 11.00 am.

Regards,

Vatuk Prasad.



This is a scam, and a fraud. Do not send these guys any money.

Thank you for creating this post! I found an apartment ad via craigslist for an apartment in London for a short-term rental. I Googled the signature and address to see if it was legit. Low and behold, this blog proves the ad to be a scam.

Here's the response I received:
Thank you for your interest in our apartment.

To proceed with the booking of the apartment, request for our apartment

booking form and payment instructions.

If you have any questions or require additional information, please let

us know.

With kind regards

Vatuk Prasad.

Tel: 07719 228819
Fax: 08721 105571
London Properties & Rentals.
Concourse Level Cabot Place,
Canary Wharf,London, E14 4QS



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Thank you for signing up and adding your experience. Well done for having the initiative to check up on this offer.

Thank you Scam Warners, you just saved me £680!

My daughter was offered an apartment in london by D.Kali Muthu from www.centrallondonapartment.org and asked me to do some research before she sent the money off.

With the help of the great people in this forum, I was able to detect the 0702 408 3917 telephone number as being suspicious. The address that they use belongs to a legitimate rental service at 75 Wilton Road London. The email below is written in poor english and parts of it exist all over the web in posts related to people being scammed.

I hope that these details stop someone else from being scammed by these criminals.

Regards
Ric

From: Central London Apartment <[email protected]>
<[email protected]> wrote:
Thank you for the enquire it was very nice of you to show an interest in our
apartments today we are taking a lot of booking for 2010 and 2011 already,
but I am pleased to say that the dates are still available in our Erasmus Street,
Westminster, SW1P(One bedroom) Apartment at present, and the rates is £300
per week which include all the bills and we would love you to spend your
stay in our Flat.

Please have a look at our web site we have quite lots of informations for
you. (http://www.centrallondonapartment.org) .It has a lot more information
on the area and the house. We have put a lot of thought and work into making our
holiday home as comfortable as Possible and we hope you would enjoy your
stay.If you decide to proceed ?We would email you a booking form to fill in for our
records, then you keep a copy and fax or scan and email the other filled
form back to us, at this point you will need to send us 40% deposit of the cost
of the booking and £200 security deposit, which is refundable on your last
day.

You can pay the deposit into our bank account or through money transfer
anyone you prefer, when we receive the 40% deposit we will mark the date's
of the availability calendar and confirm the booking. We are already taking a lot
of booking for next year 2010 and 2011. Please don't miss the best dates!!
We would also like to ask if you do not want to book the flat, that you could
drop us a quick note to say so as we will wait for your response. It would
be great to hear from you again.

You requested for 1 month which is: £1200

40% deposit of the cost is: £480

Refundable security deposit: £200

Total deposit requested is : £680

http://www.centrallondonapartment.org

bank name : secure trust bank plc
IBAN:GB21BARC20078233479536
BIC: BARCGB22
Account NUMBER : 01101935
Sort CODE; 23-54-51
ACCOUNT NAME: D.KALI MUTHU
Address:50 HIGH STREET, EGHAM, SURREY, TW20 9EU.
Bank Address:46-48 High Street Nth, East Ham, LONDON, E6 2HJ

Please do send us a scanned copy of your transaction receipt for
verification.we will send the booking confirmation number slip to your
email, including the directions and terms and conditions, we will like
to have you in our place.

Domain Name:CENTRALLONDONAPARTMENT.ORG
Created On:20-Oct-2010 08:43:16 UTC
Last Updated On:18-Nov-2010 13:50:14 UTC
Expiration Date:20-Oct-2011 08:43:16 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Register.com Inc. (R71-LROR)
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:93008583fdb39766
Registrant Name:Domain Discreet
Registrant Organization:ATTN: centrallondonapartment.org
Registrant Street1:Rua Dr. Brito Camara, n 20, 1
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Funchal
Registrant State/Province:Madeira
Registrant Postal Code:9000-039
Registrant Country:PT

Also related to this one...

Domain Name: shortstayholidayhome.com
Created on..............: 2010-10-18
Expires on..............: 2011-10-18

Administrative Contact:
Domain Discreet
ATTN: shortstayholidayhome.com
Rua Dr. Brito Camara, n 20, 1
Funchal, Madeira 9000-039
PT