A few years ago I created the Scam-O-Matic (www.scamomatic.com), a website that every month has helped thousands of people worldwide by automatically diagnosing online fraud emails that people have submitted to it. Scamomatic.com recognizes fake lotteries, “dead customer” scams, “dying widow” scams and many other common formats from scammers from Nigeria that you may have seen in your inbox before. Even when it can’t pinpoint the exact type of scam, it often recognizes it as a generic scam format, largely thanks to the presence in the email of UK phone numbers that start with +44 70. These numbers are everywhere in Nigerian online scams, regardless of the precise scam format. The +44 70 prefix might as well be called the country code of Nigerian scammers.
If you receive any email that mentions any +4470 phone number, do not reply to it! You can submit the body of any suspicious email message to www.scamomatic.com for instant feedback about what kind of scam it might be.
These +4470 numbers are a gift to online scammers by British phone regulators. They are primarily owned by obscure British phone companies offering an anonymous call forwarding service. The economic model of these services is simple: The caller dials a rather expensive UK number and the UK service provider forwards the incoming call to a somewhat less expensive to call international number (for example a Nigerian mobile phone, which remains hidden from the caller), pocketing the difference between the call rates. For example, the caller might pay 50 cents per minute to call a +44 70 number and the call will then be forwarded to a Nigerian mobile phone that costs 25 cents per minute, leaving 25 cents per minute as a net margin for the service operator. The more successful the scammers are, the more money the phone company makes. Who ever said crime doesn’t pay?
These UK phone numbers are very attractive to scammers: When people can be made to believe that they are dealing with a bank, lawyer or government official in London, UK when they’re actually talking to a scammer on his cell phone in an Internet cafe in Lagos, Nigeria then they are much more easily defrauded by criminals.
As far as I can tell these numbers aren’t really being used for any other purpose than to enable international online crimes to be committed. In some nine years of tracking Nigerian scam emails, I have yet to come across a single legitimate user of a +44 70 number. I really don’t understand why the British government has allowed those services to continue to operate.
Now, of course the service operators can claim that they don’t know that their services are being used for criminal purposes unless someone tells them about it. On the other hand, they are not exactly making it easy to report abuse and the high prices of these services means that it’s unlikely that they’ll get much legitimate use, if any.
There are several ways to curb abuse, other than suspending +44 70 numbers altogether and I would encourage the UK government to seriously consider them:
- The UK regulators could make it a requirement that calls via this service either originate in the UK or terminate in the UK, i.e. to prevent unrestricted global relaying, with say calls from India or the US being forwarded to Nigeria or Côte d’Ivoire.
- The UK regulators could require service providers to announce the country name of the phone number to which the call is being forwarded if the destination number is not a UK number.
- The UK regulators could require service providers to block forwarding to mobile phone numbers in certain countries, e.g. Nigeria
Below is a sample list of +44 70 numbers that appeared in Nigerian scams reported to Scam-O-Matic over the course of the last seven days. These roughly 60 phone numbers per day are only the tip of the iceberg:
+447005801505
+447005802020
+447005810692
+447005934945
+447005942459
+447005963237
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Not ten minutes ago I received an email announcing that my email address had won a large amount of money and a2009 BMW. I copied the phone number and submitted it to Google, which brought me straight to your website. Thank you for being there!
Mary Foster
I’m glad the blog posting was helpful.
Here are more:
+44870 and +44871 numbers are also abused, but unlike +4470 appear to some have legitimates uses too. Here are such numbers from submissions:
Spanish mobiles:
Dutch mobiles:
Belgian mobiles:
Nigerian mobiles:
Benin mobiles:
Togo mobiles:
Côte d’Ivoire mobiles:
Senegal mobiles:
i also received an email that i have won a bmw x6 car and 7500000 great britain dollor what i want to do
i received a message yesterday that my email account has won a large amount of money who ever sent me this message is a dog,cheater,bitch,kuta,dalla,sucker but thank you for being here and one time again he is a ………. ……… and panchode
I just ercieved a 75oooo win from a belgim website +32489909169 i just googled the number and it brought me straight to your websitethanks!!!
Goodmorning,
i received a message on my facebook profile !!
i can’t understand if it’s a scam!
so, in the mail, was wrote that an unlucky man was died in a car accident.
So this is a part of the mail:
Here in after shall be referred to as my client. On the 24th of June 2006, my client, his wife and his only daughter died in a motor accident along Kpalime express Road.Since then I have made several enquiries here to locate any of my clients extended relatives,
this has also proved unsuccessful.After these several unsuccessful attempts,I decided to searcht-through with his name which motivated me to contact you, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.
in the end this barrister was wrote:
Mr. John Emile(ESQ)
+228 9210 514
———————
can you help me???
ps. im sorry for my bad english!
@Alessandro:
It’s a “next of kin” scam, also known as a “dead customer” scam:
http://www.419scam.org/419-barrister-lome-togo.htm
If you copy the message you posted into http://www.scamomatic.com it will also tell you that is the type of scam.
It’s an advance fee fraud where the fake “lawyer” wants to trick you into sending cash to him by Western Union or MoneyGram. For example, he will claim that there is inheritance tax to be paid or that some documents need to be notarized, which costs money.
People who try to “inherit” such non-existent money left by the dead person (who never existed) will lose thousands of euros / dollars / pounds.
Never reply to such emails. If you have already replied, break off all contact now.
@Joe Wein
thanks a lot for your help!
here’s another one
Hello Sir/Madam,
I hope this finds you well as this will be our fourth and final notification to you. We write to inform you that we have already sent you $5000.00 USD through Western Union as we have been given the mandate to transfer your full compensation payment of Ј800,000.00 British Pounds via WESTERN UNION by the Nigerian Government as compensation to you for being defrauded by some Citizens of Nigeria.
I have sent you three emails containing the information’s for pick up, in the space of two weeks and no response from you.
This email contains the Senders name and also the MTCN. Please get this information and locate any Western Union Office nearby to you for immediate pick up, so as to enable us expedite action in sending another $5000.00 USD as you are aware that we will be sending you $5,000.00 USD until the entire amount is completed.
Here below is the information for the first $5000.00 USD;
Senders Name: JANE ADAMS
MTCN: 067 178 0089
Question: WHY
Answer: COMPENSATION
Amount: $5000.00 USD
As soon as you pick-up the payment, quickly confirm to us by contacting our OFFICE at Telephone: +2348071448744 Email: wumt-financialserv@att.net . We shall appreciate it if you Call or E-mail us once you pick up the 5000.00 USD. Please endeavor to send us your Mobile Number or Home Number so we can also reach you through phone.
Thank you for your time and concern.
Sincerely.
Sonia Fisher
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL; CONTACT OUR OFFICE ONCE YOU PICK UP THE PAYMENT.
thank you for this post
I will also submit this to the District Attorney’s office in NYC
I have contacts there
I have recieved mail that won 500,000.00 USD. Is this scam? They didn’t ask me any money or bank account yet. But the letter was written in Russian.and I transleted it. I’m confused. Please answer me.
Dear Lucky Winner,
This is to inform you that our office as the regional Coordinator of Australian lottery zoned under London United Kingdom Branch has been duly notifid of your winning.
I am Mr. Belson Milton the fiduciary aggent assigned to your case.I wish to congratulate you on your victory; you are a lucky person to have won thisFive Hundred Thousand US dollars (500,000.00)
Your email address was amongst those chosen during promo program from our new Java-based software that randomly selects email addreses from the web from which winners are selected.
You maybe surprised that you recieved the Notification without applying for our lottery promo.Know that this lottery is sponsored by the MICROSOFT COMPANY AND THE BMW MOTTO COMPANY as promotion and also their social welfare to the masses.
The lottery was conducted electronicaly by selecting over 10000000 email addresses and website and your email address won you this money.
You are required to forward the following details to help process your winning Certificate which will facilitate the release of your $500,000.00 to you.
Mke sure all information is correct and to the best of your knowledge to avoid lossing your prize.
Name…………………………….
Address……………………..
Country……………………
Date of birth………..
sex…………………………….
Occupation…………..
Cell phone number
Home phone number..
Fax number…………..
************************************************** ******
Return immediately so that we can process Your file And Have your money transferred to you.
Once again,Congratulations.
(Fiduciary clayms agent)
Mr. Milton Belton.
+447035901259
@madina:
Yes, it’s a scam. *Any* lottery winning notification by email is a scam because real lotteries do not notify winners by email!
Also, real lotteries do not use +4470 call forwarding services or mobile numbers. If you see a +4470 number in an email to you, assume the email is from a Nigerian scammer.
The scammers often use Google Translate to make non-English versions of scam formats, except in the case of French language scams originating from Cote d’Ivoire and Benin.
If you copy & paste the English version of the scam into http://www.scamomatic.com it will correctly recognize it as a fake lottery scam.
I recently recieved this e-mail.
Their is also another i would like you to look at once i get another contact.
This one has been going on for about 6 months.
Is their someone i can contact to report them?
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
20 FISKERTON ROAD LINCOLN,LN3 4LA
LONDON-UNITED KINGDOM
TEL: +447031847703
GOOD DAY
THIS IS TO NOTIFY YOU THAT YOUR OVER DUE INHERITANCE/CONTRACT FUNDS VALUE $12.5MILLION HAS BEEN GAZETTE TO BE RELEASED AT NEW YORK WITH BANK OF AMERICA.
I SAW YOUR NAME (IN THE CENTRAL COMPUTER AMONG THE LIST OF UNPAID BENEFICIARIES, CONTRACTORS, LOTTERY WINNERS,INHERITANCE NEXT OF KIN, THAT WAS ORIGINATED FROM UNITED KINGDOM AMONG THE LIST OF INDIVIDUALS AND COMPANIES THAT YOUR UNPAID FUND HAS BEEN LOCATED US.
YOUR NAME APPEARED AMONG THE BENEFICIARIES WHO WILL RECEIVE A PART-PAYMENT OF $12.5MILLION HAS BEEN APPROVED ALREADY FOR YOU.MEANWHILE, A MAN CAME TO OUR OFFICE FEW DAYS AGO WITH A LETTER AUTHORITY, CLAIMING TO BE YOUR TRUE REPRESENTATIVE.
HERE ARE HIS INFORMATION’S FOR YOU TO CONFIRM TO THIS OFFICE IF THIS MAN IS TRULY FROM YOU OR NOT SO THAT WE WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR PAYING INTO THE WRONG ACCOUNT NAME:
NAME: MR.BROWN JOHNSON
BANK NAME: CITI BANK
BANK ADDRESS: ARIZONA, USA.
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 6503809428.
PLEASE, DO RECONFIRM TO THIS OFFICE, AS A MATTER OF URGENCY IF THIS MAN IS FROM YOU.
I APOLOGIZE TO YOU ON BEHALF OF IMF (INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND) http://WWW.IMF.ORG/EXTERNAL/NP/EXR/CHRON/MDS.ASP FUTURE TO PAY YOUR FUNDS IN TIME, WHICH ACCORDING TO RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM HAD BEEN LONG OVERDUE.
PLEASE GET BACK TO ME IMMEDIATELY TO ENABLE US FORWARD YOUR INFORMATION OF OUR PAYING BANK IN NEW YORK SO THAT YOUR FUNDS CAN BE TRANSFERED TO YOU WITHIN 48 HOURS.
YOURS SINCERELY,
MR.DOMINIQUE STRAUSS-KAHN
MANAGING DIRECTOR IMF
More redirection numbers and mobile phones used in scams:
#Gordon Shaw:
> This one has been going on for about 6 months.
> Is there someone i can contact to report them?
The police will not normally take action in international online scams unless you’ve lost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
See the 419 FAQ for information:
* I want these guys arrested. What must I do?
* How can I report scams to you?
Beyond Scam-O-Matic you can also report the scams to the abuse departments of the webmail providers that they use for communication.
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I, from the other hand, was less lucky than you all. Unfortunately, I gave them 430 euros today via Western Union. The thing is, I am not so interested in getting my money back – of course if that was possible I would be more than happy – but, I gave them my home address and, to tell you the truth, I am afraid that I should have an unpleasant encounter some day. Please tell me if I have a chance of getting my money back and, more important, if I should be worried that I should see them in my doorstep one day. Thank you
@Chris:
Scammers love to use Western Union because it’s untraceable. Essentially they remain anonymous. There is virtually no risk for them.
WU is a one way street for money: once it’s been picked up, there’s no way to get it back. You can only cancel the payment until pickup, as long as you’re prepared to give up the wire transfer fees you paid. That’s why WU should *NEVER* be used with people who you do not know personally in real life. Do not use it to pay anyone who you only know by email address or phone.
As for your home address, most of these scammers live in Nigeria or other parts of West Africa and would have a hard time getting a visa to come to the US or UK or many other Western countries. Generally there is little risk of personal encounters unless you travel there to meet them. There have been kidnappings and murders of 419-victims who travelled to South Africa or West Africa as part of an Advance Fee Fraud, but I am not aware of any documented cases of such violence in the US or in Europe.
And yet more numbers listed in scam reports:
If you receive any email that mentions a +4470 phone number, do not reply to it! You can submit the body of any suspicious email message to http://www.scamomatic.com for instant feedback about what kind of scam it might be.
A few minutes I received an e-mail the Ambassador of Nigeria, saying that I had received a job opportunity …. logo doubted …. so I went behind in the number of such Rt Hon Gordon Brown gave me and found this site!
Helped me a lot!!
Thank you!
Hi,
i received an sms saying you have won 550000 dollars in 2009 microsoft mobile draw. I just called up the number they have provided me.
447010028685
They said to send the contact details to email id they have provided. it is ms.aw999@gmail.com.
I doubted about this because, if it was geninue microsoft then, they would have provide with microsoft id or hotmail. not gmail.
I have called the guy sir johnson scott as in the sms. Now i see this is a fraud. i haven’t sent any mails, but i made a call to above number. Would this lead to any fraud from my end in future.
Just received the SMS from +22996353807
“Congrat’s Your mobile number has won $165,000.00 GBP in the Nokia Promo. Call Terry Stephen +447011184113 or email: uknokiaclaimsdpt@live.co.uk for claims.
Hello,
in the www I serched for a car and found a very good one on “Autoscout24.de”. I´m from Germany. And the seller wrote me in english. I´m sure, that it is a scam and http://www.scamomatic.com say yes too (remember: If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is!). The person don´t know, that i know. Is there any chance what I can do? I mean, these people have to get punished. The E-mail-Adress is: ardin.losfert.3j8@freenet.de, the Phone-Number is: +44 703 182 1315
Yes, these criminals should be punished, but in practice that rarely ever happens.
Car sites such as “Autoscout24.de” are full of scammers,especially fake escrow scammers and forged check scammers. Basically any business transaction or job offer or any other email that mentions a +4470 phone number must be assumed to be a scam.
Unfortunately there is little chance of getting these people arrested. The police will not get involved in online scams unless you have already lost money (they have too many cases of completed crimes to spend time on attempted ones), and even if you *have* lost money, they usually close the case forlack of evidence, because such transactions are too anonymous.
This person could be in any country worldwide, from Russia to Romania to Nigeria, where the German police could not touch them. Any name they give or passport image or address is fake. Usually there is no more to go by than an email address and a mobile phone number.
Because international online fraud is rarely ever investigated and prosecuted, education about scams is so important. By the time someone has lost money it is already too late to do something about it.
In the case of the +44 70 numbers the best thing that could happen is for the UK government to suspend these widely abused phone forwarding services.
More scam phone numbers from the last twelve months:
Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec 2009.
Thanking to you for this information becuse I recieve a fifa world cup hotmail ID reward of $500,000 dollars and now I release that it is a farud.
Qaisar.
i m very musc worried plz help me its a fraud but personal
.i am having a case of the ph.no starting from +4470
Dear Sir,
I have received a job offer from Harrington Hotel, London from Mr.Barry White, Vacancy
Department Manager. And i have contacted Mr.Barry White in the number +447024092775/+447024065596. Mr.Barry Whites that i have to pay 100 GB Pounds for
immigration/visa and has asked to send me email to uk-visas@london.com, Iam now realised that its a scam email, thanks for the website
sir, muje apki skim samaj me nahi ai please message mo.no. 9784261587
@banti soni,
I’m sorry, I do not speak your language (Hindi?). Please repost your message in English.
If you received a message that mentions a +44 70 phone number then it’s almost certainly a scam.
Thanks a lot for all the info provided. Got saved from sending any money after reading all the reports on this page.
Had received emails from mobilerewards@bclc49.com; prizeclaims@bclc49.com;
info@bclc49.com
Address mentioned:
Express Claims
Compensation Claims (Office & Administration)
serving Manchester area
441 Cheetham Hill Road,
Manchester, Lancashire, M8 0PF
Phone nos: 44-871-2455964 –Dr. Wilson Roland
44-871-2455879–Dr. Johnson Brown
Unfortunately I emailed the claim form giving my personal details & scanned copy of my passport . Is there a way by which I can prevent identity theft?
I have got a mail specifying that i have won $1m..can
i give my personal details.please help me
@sathissh,
do not give criminals your personal details.
Real lotteries do not notify winners by email. Also, real lotteries do not operate internationally. Therefore, any “winning notification” by email is by definition fake. Also, presumably (since you posted in this thread) it contained a +44 70 phone number and such numbers by themselves virtually guarantee that the sender is a fraudster, as these numbers are used almost exclusively by criminals. I have yet to come across a single legitimate UK company that uses a +44 70 number.
If you have any suspect email that you want to report or have checked, you can copy and paste the entire message text of that email into the “Scam-O-Matic” webform to get instant advice about it:
http://www.scamomatic.com
Sir send me details of shell international mobile draw @ my mail id
It’s a Nigerian scam. There is no such draw. Shell does not run any kind of lottery.
This is a scam run by criminals, probably from Nigeria, who want to trick people into sending them money for various “fees” and “taxes” they tell people need paying before the prize money can be paid out. There is no prize money because there is no lottery. The only money that changes hands is from the scam victims (fake “winners”) to the criminals (fake “lottery”).
Any email that you receive that mentions a +44 70 phone number, whether it is a lottery notification or a job offer, is a SCAM, it’s not real!
I recieve and email from williams17@sify.com on dec 2009 that mentioning that i’m the winner of mobil promo and win USD600.000.00,until know the person incharge and bank still call me to effect the tranfer cost,should i proceed the requested?.bank name was cater allen bank plc uk,email bank cater allen bank@rocketmail.com,customer@live com,mobils1@yahoo.com.And i already paid rm1000.00 for 1st cot requested,if it’s scam how could i claim my money back
@ecam:
I am very sorry to hear you’ve sent them money. Unfortunately it’s very unlikely you can get any of it back. These criminals are hardly ever caught, because they hide behind free webmail addresses, mobile phone numbers and Internet cafes.
Rocketmail = Yahoo and Hotmail as well as Gmail and many other free webmail services are anonymous because they are free. No real bank or major company would use free webmail addresses for business.
The police in most countries usually does not take any action against online scammers who are based abroad.
Every lottery winning notification by email or SMS is a scam. If an email mentions a +44 70 number, assume it to be a scam.
If you get any other suspect emails, copy and paste the email text into htpp://www.scamomatic.com
Please Draw Chq Send . I am Waiting.
I got some emails from a man in the uk saying a man died in 02 with his family. He said i was the next of kin and thus could accept his estate worth the equivlent of arround 9.8 million pounds. Aperntly he was the mans lawyer. I comtacted him after finding out from family i had a lost uncle by the same name, but it is a comon name. The man sent paper work for me to fill out for the bank. I searched for the bank online and found it with the same director he mentioned. The only info he has asked for was to confirm my name, vauge location, and phone number. He spicificly said he would perfer to be in contact by email because of scams like listed here. I googled the phone number he gave me and got nothing. I could not find a death record online, but it is a comon name, and i got a lot of hits on google. So i decided to get a second opionion from someone and you are very well recomended in these maters. The only remaning reason i am weary is because you can tipe anything anywhere and make it look true. Do you think this is a scam or for real?
Jeff, if this guy used a +44 70 number the answer is straightforward: Yes, it’s a scam.
These numbers basically have no legitimate users. They are only used by scammers in Nigeria, South Africa, Senegal, etc. to make people believe that they’re based in the UK when they are not.
A real lawyer in London would normally have a +44 207 or +44 208 or +44 203 number.
An inheritance like that almost certainly would not be handled by email. Banks and lawyers like their communications to be verifiable, such as phone calls that can be recorded, or faxes that can be traced to landlines.
Banks and most lawyers do not use free webmail addresses.
I would recommend copying and pasting all the emails you have received into the http://www.scamomatic.com webform for verification. It can point out most of the common scam markers.
I got email who told me can help solve bank fraud for my case so I send over first US$1,200 and on the second time he asked for $4,000 my sister alarmed so I check thru internet found you blog. I don’t believed the money will return to me, but I hope you can find them don’t give them more chance to cheat:
The person’s fake name(I guess): Charles Stanley
esq717.charlestanley@live.com
He introduced himself work for IMF, British as Lawyer and Senior Auditor
NAME: Mrs. Jane Maxwell
ADDRESS: Oxford House 76 Oxford Street London WID IBS UK
+447031996952.
The whole email coming back with him are pretty real, until this phone number come then I realized I got cheated. They asked money thru Western Union and I guess no way to return since they already pick up. If you can stop them and I will appreciated you let me know.
Here’s a new angle. I received this email after responding to an investor profile. He identified himself as Harry Smith hscapitalinvestmentinc@gmail.com
(Read Below)
I am in receipt of your e mail and i have reviewed your business plan. (I didn’t send a business plan) I would like to tell you that we are interested in funding this deal and we would like
to do business with you.We are a financial investment company located in london,UK and we are hoping to venture into the investment market which is the highest growing and paying in the world in spite of the financial crunch the world over. I would like to know if you can call me so we speak more on this. I would like to discuss more with you on this.Please get back to me and let me know when you will be calling me and call me on
+447024098802 , +447024022840
Also get back to me and let me know if you will need these funds as an equity secured against the business or if you will want it as a loan with calculated interest on it.We are open to Joint Venture partnership and co-investment with long term business relationship that will last over the years even if it means with us doing the financing.
Please get back to me now with a reply on this so that we can proceed. I really hope to do business with you.Wait to hear from you now.
I have already submitted an information regarding my passport number, resume with complete details before I discovered that the “Day Star Limited, London is a scam.
What will I do to legally inform the public or even the UK government that I am a victim of an “Identity Theft”?
Pls help me before somebody illegally use my name and even information about me.
Thanks in advance.
Joseph
hi! i have received this email when i applied a job online..and this is the reply..
CAn you help me with this! Thank you!
YOU ARE WELCOME TO MY HOME……….. YOUR RESUME IS OK
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Williams Cole
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Hello,
How are you?
You are welcome to my home here in the UK, but what i really need is someone who can take care of kids. Actually I need two nannies. Truly, I need a foreign Nanny either male or female .I know that there are a lot of Nannies in UK here but is just that i need a Nanny from outside that is caring, loving, motherly care and well determined that can take good care of my kids for me .Hopefully you will be my kid’s Nanny and do according to your words.
I don’t play with my kids at all because they are the apples of my eyes I work because of them and i can pay so much on them. My advice to you is that you should be involved in the expenses to reach here in United Kingdom and i shall be responsible for refund for every expenses made by you immediately you get here. Why I said so is that i have paid for 2 Nannies in the past months which they did not come to my home but went to somewhere else and that is why I vowed that any Nannies that i will employ, will be involved in the expenses, just for me to be sure that you will not do like the past Nannies and that you are ready to work with my family here in UK because I don’t want someone who don’t care about kids because i cherish my kids a lot.I will give you assistance in the expenses.
The total cost of securing papers(UK VISA,WORK PERMIT,UK IDENTIFICATION NUMBER) is 2650 Pounds Sterling. So I will shoulder 2450 Pounds while you will shoulder 200 Pounds Sterling. Hope you are ok with this. I will be responsible for your air ticket.
The reasons why I wanted you shouldering that amount is:
:Due to the signed agreement I have with the British consulate office due to what the other nannies did.I shouldered every expenses for them but they went to another direction…I thought the travel agency had deals with them.
so I charged the matter to the British consulate office here in London but later discovered that the travel agency never had deals with them. At this point I was made to sign an agreement that any nanny I will employ as a foreigner will be involved in the expenses but will be refunded back his or her money immediately he or she arrives UK here in London.
Hope you are ok with this.
The British consulate office told me they will compensate me by approving visa and papers to any application of nanny in respect of my file to their office.
So you have 100 % assurance of coming over to work for me in London.
Don’t worry about the United Kingdom, it’s a nice place to stay and which I hope you will enjoy staying here with my family and you will have the access to internet In fact I have a personal PC at home for myself but my kids usually play games on their own PC, i will get you a computer to start using for your own use. All expenses made by you will be refunded immediately you get here.
The travel agency will get visa for you and will be directly responsible for all the documentations, including Visa, Working permit, and the verifications of your identity in collaboration with the Home office. Because of the current terrorism in the United Kingdom, your documents will be properly verified by the home office.
They will apply for visa on your behalf in the UK Home Office here in United Kingdom and when the visa is ready the UK Embassy in your country, will call on you, so that they can endorse the visa on your original passport. Just follow any instructions i give you because that will make things a reality.
The duties I’m looking for are as follows:
1-Supervise breakfast with the children in the morning and get them off to school
(Collect my 2 KIDS of ages 4yrs(daughter/Tracy) and 6yrs(son/Mikel) old from school at 3.40pm.)
2-Some Housework/washing/ironing as required on a daily basis
3-Supervise homework, music practice and fun activities or take children to after school activities.
4-Prepare and cook an evening meal for everyone at about 6.30-6.45 Up to two evenings child minding per week.
5-Weekends and Bank holidays would be free that there will not be much duties to carry out.
6-Occasional weekend work would be offered by prior negotiation.
I normally leave for work at 7.00am and get back at around 6.30pm although some flexibility is useful.
I am offering a live in position with full board (we eat well in this house!)
1-Separate Toilet and Bathroom.
2-TV,different type of video machines.
3-Personal computer already Internet on.
e.t.c for you and i will make sure everything goes on well with you and with my kids.
If you don’t mind I can arrange for you any language school and school if you wish.
My offer for you for a week is 800 sterling pounds and i will provide your accommodation e.t.c.
Best Regards,
Williams Cole
+447045716285 ,
The Geological Society,Burlington House
Piccadilly
London W1J 0BG
N.B,
I am a Geologist
Your employer is a widower.
The contract is 4 years renewable type.
You can travel for vacation to your home town during the kids holidays.
Your vacations air tickets will be handled and taking care of by me.
Also during your vacation your salary still read.
Resumption date is 10th July 2010
An urgent reply is needed as soon as possible.
@Marge,
It’s a scam.
In fact *every* UK job offer that mentions a +44 70 phone number is a scam. Any mention of such numbers shows that the person contacting you is not actually based in the UK at all.
I have received this e-mail and when I typed the mentioned number on google.com I reached your website.
My name is David Baxter . Family attorney to Late Engr Saman. Mrs. Saman informed me on your good intention to save the $22 million . As the family attorney i assure you the best of my service for the success of the $22 million in your account as dominated by Mrs. Saman.
In the attachment are my identifications. I am married with 3 children . Please i don’t know if you can come to London on or before 3 days to present your self before the British court probate registry for the change of ownership of the $22 million in your name.
If you cannot come to London you will have to scan any of your valid identification and email it to me. I will use it to prove your existence before the British court probate registry to secure the documents for the transfer of the $22 million in your name.
You decide on the 2, because we have no time for delay. If you cannot make it to London then you have to scan your identification and email it to me immediately together with your full address contact and phone number.
I will like to know from you if you country will demand for tax when the $22 million is transferred to your account.
I expect to hear from you immediately . Mr. Saman is in the hospital and she have an operation by next week. I hope your family will put her in prayer .My family has been praying for her.
Please print out the agreement form which is the last attachment. Fill in your complete name , your house and office complete address , sign your signature . Rescan the agreement form and send it back to me.
Thanks very much for being there for Mrs. Saman.
Thanks
Barr. David Baxter
Tel:+447045728181
Fax:+447005-930-712
@anam,
any email from a UK “lawyer”, “bank”, prospective employer, etc. using a +4470 number is a scam, as is the one you posted.
ojo, esta gente son muchos los descarados, quisiera saber con quien los puedo denunciar ya que tengo sus correos y numero.
+447024023716
Megamillion Lottery2010 (kitwillsmarvin@yahoo.com)
drhowardjohn@yahoo.com
i want to know whether this number is scam or genuine
+44 703 598 1008
@vijay,
if there are any legitimate users of +4470 numbers, then I haven’t come across any in more than 5 years of tracking these numbers.
Why would a legitimate company *in the UK* use a call forwarding phone number whose entire purpose is to be able to receive calls while *outside* the UK?
If you have received an email that contains a +4470 number, submit the complete email message to http://www.scamomatic.com (using copy and paste) and you’ll get an instant reply.