In summary the suspect will call a hotel switchboard and state they are calling from head office as part of a quality call back scheme.
They will ask to get put through to a room that has received room service. Once through they tell the guests that they are from room service and their recent order failed to be processed for payment. In order to process the order they will require the credit card details again. The suspect will then record all the credit card details and use these fraudulently for financial gain.
Stated that he worked for a Magazine called "The National Police
Awareness" and was looking for support for the Crime Awareness
Campaign, for which he required £195. Excluding VAT.
Prevention of Fraud in Travel is carrying out a study into the 10 most common frauds that occur in the travel and leisure industry; the study will look at fraud affecting business operating in the industry as well as fraud
that affect our customers.
Initially we have come up with the top 10 for each category, if you have any comments to make on the two lists or would like to add to the lists we will be happy to accept your thoughts,
Fraud affecting businesses
The phone call begins with a caller saying that one of his clients
stayed at our hotel last week and left a mobile phone in the room .
We are receiving a lot of queries about fake job offers that operate in a similar way to 419 scams, in that you need to send off money for a visa processing fee.
The emails are quite easy to spot, they mostly use the following formats
hotel received an order from Kellis Wood -
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
- initiating an interest to order 24
bottles of 2002 Vintage Louis Reoderer Crystal Champagne, for an event
on 8th. May. Promising us that if we get this order to him as quickly
as possible, as well as letting him know what the total cost is, that
he would ensure that credit card payment was effected as quickly as
possible.
SIEMENS OIL AND GAS
Faraday House, Sir William Siemens Square, Frimley, Camberley, GU16 8QD, UK
Tel: +44-7011127353, +447011198270
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Website: www.siemensoilandgas.eu.pn rerouted numbers
Dear C V
Visa scam letter
This letter is a seriously badly written attempt at fraud.
If you receive one, pass it to the police and the Trading standards and anyone else you can think of.
From: Igor Alekseev [mailto:
Sent: 19 October 2009 21:57
To:
Subject: AW: Reservation
Hello,
If you search for tourists from Russia, you may be interested in our new
Database of all Travel Agents and Tour Operators from all regions of Russia,
translated into English, German and French language.
Am pleased to notify you today dated 20th September 2009 that after a
serious reviewing of your CV by our reviewing department, your name
was among the short listed name
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