Is this a scam?

Dear Responsible,

I contact you to verify if the following offer from CLYDACH CONSTRUCTION LTD is a scam or not.
This mail was sent to me:-


UK Border Agency, PO Box 3468, Sheffield, S3 8WA





The UK Border Agency is responsible for securing the United Kingdom borders and controlling migration in the United Kingdom. We manage border control for the United Kingdom, enforcing immigration and customs regulations. We also consider applications for permission to enter or stay in the United Kingdom, citizenship and asylum.

Disclaimer:

The UK Home Office wishes to authoritatively inform applicants seeking for immigration status into the United Kingdom not to make any payments for processing of Work Permit, Visa and/or Expatriate Quota Approval. Approval for entry (Visa) into the United Kingdom is executed by the Nearest British Embassy or Consulate within the applicants country of residence or location after regulation and certification of the applicant by the UK Home Office as at the time of application.

The UK Home Office will exercise its full powers to perform its responsibility to regulate entry into the
UK, by:

Ensuring that the Sponsor/Employer is financially capable to support the applicant entering the United Kingdom for Business or Pleasure throughout the duration of the validity of the Entry Visa.
Ensuring that the applicant, has the minimum stipulated financial requirement to earn the needed points for Visa Approval, going by the new point-based system for immigration in 2010
Ensuring that the applicant is eligible to Live, Work and carry out business activities in the United Kingdom legally.
The new points-based system (PBS) is the biggest shake up of the immigration system for 45 years. Under the new system, migrants will need to pass a points-based assessment before they receive
Certificate of Eligibility and permission to enter or remain in the United Kingdom. It will help British businesses recruit the skills it needs from abroad and assure the British public that only the skilled migrants will need to come to the United Kingdom. The role of employees/migrants with qualifying financial base is crucial to its success.

We would like to acknowledge receipt of application for Certificate of Eligibility (COE- UKIMG2010) CLYDACH CONSTRUCTION LTD is your Sponsor for your Flight Ticket, Visa and Work Permit and Temporary Immigration status.

Certificate of Eligibility would be issued to you as this is proof that you have passed the point-based assessment. We shall also provide you with a reference number and interview date with instructions to enable you receive Visa at the Nearest British Consulate or Embassy in your Country.

Apart from sponsorship from UK Based Employers, employees coming to live and work in the UK for at least 2 years are mandated to have at least a minimum of 1000GBP, which is the stipulated financial requirement/applicant travel allowance that must be in possession of the applicant/employee into the UK.

You must be able to demonstrate that you have funds to support yourself and any dependents. For the main applicant this is £1000 and you will need a further £533 for each dependent accompanying you.

If you are using your own funds the money must be held in your personal bank account for a minimum period of 3 months for which you must show bank statements/other evidence immediately preceding and dated not more than 1 month prior to the date you submit your application. The balance should not fall below the required minimum at any time during the 3 month period.

Before the issuance of Form (COE-UKIMG2010) to your employer for issuance of Visa by Local British Consulate, you are required to show proof that the stipulated financial requirement/applicant travel allowance as indicated above is available. The UK Home Office would ensure via this means that only eligible applicants who are financially capable are allowed entry into the United Kingdom. This process is solely for proof that you have the stipulated financial requirement as per an applicant seeking to migrate into the United Kingdom despite sponsorship from your Employer and would take 24hrs for confirmation hence follow the detailed instructions for confirmation of available stipulated financial requirement below.

CONFIRMATION/PROOF OF SUFFICIENT FUNDS

This requirement must be fulfilled by anyone that can stand in as your next of kin

To meet the above requirement applicants are required to make a deposit of the stipulated financial requirement of £1000 via MONEY GRAM TRANSFER using the following format:

Senders Name: Should be your Wife or brother or sister or friend or (Anyone at your discretion that can stand in as your next of kin)

Receivers Name: Must be you the primary applicant (Mohammed Ali Ahmed Ali
El-Saey)

Payout Country: United Kingdom

Payout Location: (Sheffield for it is where our office is located)

Note: You must ensure that the senders name is the above as instructed and the receiver is you for security reasons and as the primary sponsor of your immigration into the United Kingdom.

Visit the nearest Post Office, MONEY GRAM TRANSFER agent or Shop close to you and Follow the transfer instructions above carefully. After transfer has been effected, you shall send us the receipt of the deposit as an evidence that the transfer has been made and to enable our office call MONEY GRAM solely for Verification of the deposit. This is usually carried out within 24hrs after which you shall be instructed to go and take back your money.

The following documents should be sent:

International Passport
Receipt of Deposit for financial requirement
Completed Application

Note: Ensure that the receiver is you so that only you can withdraw the deposit after the verification of deposit has been carried out, as the Home Office would not be liable for loss. This is not a payment but a deposit for verification which is why it is in your name as the receiver. If you wish, you can withdraw the funds from your current location after the verification process is complete in 24hrs or when you arrive here in the United Kingdom.

The instruction above would earn you the needed points under the point-based system for the release of your (COE-UKIMG2010) to your employer with instructions on how to receive entry status/notary from the nearest British Consulate.

Please confirm with us a date that will be convenient for you to travel and your location to enable us effect booking as has been instructed us by your employer.



UK Border Agency,
PO Box 3468, Sheffield, S3 8WA



Sincerely,
Mohammed Ali

It is a scam.

The scammer has copied some real information about the UK border agency, and he has made some up himself. He is in no way connected to the real agency. The real UK border agency does not use Western Union or Moneygram to establish you have money (or for any other reason.)

With the information you provide, the scammer will be able to pick up the money himself, which is what he intends to do.

Never send money by Western Union or Moneygram, or transfer to a personal bank account, for any passport or visa.

Welcome to Scamwarners ibnislamy. Dotti beat me to it

You will never ever make any payment to a UK government department using Western Union. I know that you are told to make the payment payable to yourself but the scammer wants you to divulge the details to him which will enable him to pick up the money without having to provide identification.

The scammers are learning how to make their scams seem more realistic but you will never have to pay a fee before having an interview with the UK Embassy or Visa Representative Office in your home country. No face to face interview - then no fee is payable. You don't pay in advance. The scammer wants you to use Western Union because it gives him a chance to grab the money if you tell him the details.

Getting a UK visa isn't easy but you'll never get one from a scammer who just wants your money.

Be careful as there are a lot of scammers wanting to make money out of people looking for visas and work abroad.

Thanks a lot about your advice
And I tried to contact this company but mails does not work
[email protected],[email protected],[email protected]

The company website is suspended because it is fake. It was created a few weeks ago by the scammers to make their scam look more convincing.

This website :
http://www.chevrolet-motorsuk.co.cc/

and
Phone: +447024091844, +447024013676

E-mail: [email protected]

Can it be suspended if it is fake?

As you've spotted ibnislamy, it's another fake website and you only have to see the phone number beginning 4470 to see that it's using a number that looks as if it connects to the UK, but it's actually a redirect service and could go anywhere. UK companies don't use phone services like that but scammers do.

It has many other obvious faults but there's no need to look deeper than the phone number.

Michael will put it on his list of websites to have terminated I'm sure.

clydachconstruction-uk.com is already offline, I will add the co.cc. Can you give me the headers of an email coming from the co.cc email adress please? If you don't know what headers are, just let us know which provider you are using and we'll guide you through the process