Email from the fake "UK Border Agency"
[email protected].
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Dear Applicant,
We wish to acknowledge the receipt of your mail.
Check the attached files and follow our instructions. Submit the three requirements.
1. Filled application form for Visa/certificate of eligibility.
2. Scan copy of international passport
3. Receipt of deposit of 880GBP from Money Gram, Using details below.
Senders name: Your mother's name with maiden name Or Friend (Will stand in as your Next of Kin)
Receiver: [Victims Name]
Payout location: UK
We would work to serve you better.
Yours Sincerely
Home Office , UK Border Agency,
PO Box 3468 ,
Sheffield , S3 8WA
United Kingdom.
Attached to the email was a legitimate UK Border Agency form and a requirements PDF with the following content:
Dear Applicant,
We have noted the content of your request, your employer Mrs Carol Owen contacted
our office and asked that we should treat your application with priority.
Find below the necessary steps you will take to enable you obtain your Work Permit
and Certificate of Eligibility.
(1)You are to fill properly the UK Visa Application Form and leave your sponsor's section
blank for us to complete.
(2)A scanned copy of your passport.
(Our Office will let you know when to visit the UK Embassy there in your country)
The UK Border Agency is responsible for securing the United Kingdom borders and
controlling immigration 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 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 2012
• 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.
Before the issuance of Certificate of Eligibility to you 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.
CONFIRMATION/PROOF OF SUFFICIENT FUNDS
This step must be completed by any one you wish to stand in as your next of Kin. As per
UK Immigration policies, an individual must be aware of your travel to the United
Kingdom. This can be your Mother or Father or Brother or Sister or Close Relative or
friend and is at your discretion.
To meet the above requirement your selected next of kin is required to make a deposit of
the stipulated financial requirement of £880GBP via any Money Gram agent using the
following format :
Senders Name: Should be the selected individual you wish to stand in as your next of
kin , Friend or any of your relative)
Receivers Name: Must be you the primary sponsor:
(XXX)
Payout Location: Your intended residential address in the UK(eg;Your employers
address in the contract letter or any address you have here in UK)
Payout Country: United Kingdom
As soon as you come down here you can visit any Money Gram agent and receive back
your deposit, using the details.
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.
Payout Location: Your intended residential address in the United Kingdom. It is not
compulsory that you must use the residential address of your Employer which is also
your residential address. If you have an alternative residential address here in United
Kingdom, you can also use that. However it is advisable if this is your first time to travel
to United Kingdom, to use your employers residential address which is also your
address.
Payout Country: United Kingdom
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 and to also fulfill that you have funds to support yourself when you arrive
here till you receive your first salary from your Employer.
Application Checklist: You are to send the following application requirements:
* Courier Address for Shipment of Hard Copies of your Certificate of Eligibility and
other documents.
* Scan the receipt of the deposit of your financial requirement including the Money
Transfer Control or Verification Number to enable our office perform Verification of the
deposit.
* Scan Completed Application Form.
(Our Office will let you know when to visit the UK Embassy there in your country)
Confirmation of Basic Travel Allowance satisfies the requirement for release of
Expatriate Relocation Package (ERP). Expatriate Relocation Package protects the right of
expatriates and ensures full compliance to terms and conditions of contract engagement
by United Kingdom Employers.
The instructions above would earn you the needed points under the point-based system
for the release of your Certificate of Eligibility to you with instructions on how to receive
entry status/notary from the nearest British Consulate
Yours Sincerely
Home Office , UK Border Agency,
PO Box 3468 ,Sheffield , S3 8WA
United Kingdom
This may look safe - but even with the receiver's name set up as the would be au pair's, the scmmer will be able to collect the money from Moneygram.
