Pretty sure it's a scam, English is very good though

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Not quite a Newb Joined: 14 Sep 2006 Posts: 24

AA Ashley Consultants Ltd ([email protected])
Sent: 27 January 2010 08:15:16 PM
To:
Hello,
My name is Patricia Cowell; I work with AA Ashley Consultants Ltd in England.
We are conducting a standard process investigation involving a client who shares the same name with you and also the circumstances surrounding investments made by this client at Lloyds TSB.

The Lloyds TSB Private Banking client died intestate and nominated no next of kin to inherit the title over the investments made with Lloyds TSB. The essence of this communication with you is to request that you provide us information on three issues:

1-Are you aware of any relative/relation having the same surname, whose last known contact address was Brussels Belgium?
2-Are you aware of any investment of considerable value made by such a person at Lloyds TSB Private Banking Ltd?
3-Can you establish beyond reasonable doubt your eligibility to assume status of next of kin to the deceased?

It is pertinent that you inform us ASAP whether or not you are familiar with this personality that we may put an end to this communication with you and our inquiries surrounding this personality.

You must appreciate that we are constrained from providing you with more detailed information at this point. Please respond as soon as possible to afford us the opportunity to close this investigation.

Thank you for accommodating our enquiry.

Yours sincerely,
Ms. Patricia Cowell
AA Ashley Consultants Ltd.
For: Lloyds TSB Private Banking Ltd Clients.

I know you'll be looking for headers, not sure how to get them from Hotmail.

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 26 Sep 2008 Posts: 689

Yes it's a scam.

Yes the headers will help in giving a location of this well educated lad.

I can't find a website for A A Ashley Consultants Ltd

a quick search of the forums ....
To make MSN Hotmail display all header lines:

1. Select Options from the top MSN Hotmail navigation bar.

2. Make sure the Mail category is selected.

3. Choose Mail Display Settings.

4. Set Message Headers to Full.

5. Click OK.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 14 Sep 2006 Posts: 24

Hmm - that process doesn't seem to work for Windows Live - I had to righ click the mail and click on "View Message Source".

Anyway - here are the headers:
X-Message-Delivery: Vj0xLjE7dXM9MDtsPTA7YT0xO0Q9MTtTQ0w9MQ==
X-Message-Status: n:0
X-SID-PRA: AA Ashley Consultants Ltd <[email protected]>
X-AUTH-Result: NONE
X-Message-Info: JGTYoYF78jEqyHz+2LZzaBR35AbMEYk7qRWIvAZnlXDqc9SILaqcbbhTGgdRK2hZSlZ2KNugNw+o4bFJ/mtR8UO4KCCyeqWB
Received: from smtp110.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.53.9]) by bay0-mc1-f47.Bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959);
Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:15:15 -0800
Received: (qmail 80558 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2010 18:15:12 -0000
Received: from 94-76-212-230.static.as29550.net ([email protected] with login)
by smtp110.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Jan 2010 10:15:11 -0800 PST
X-Yahoo-SMTP: yJbr0DCswBCa8wKIGBmBr665m5eZcAnsRDsT
X-YMail-OSG:
X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: "AA Ashley Consultants Ltd" <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: XXXXXXXXXXXX

Subject: Kindly Clarify
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_001_2EDD_667B3FD2.27A57752"
X-Mailer: SendBlaster.1.6.0
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:14:55 +0200
Message-ID: <5616069609424276316656@swizz-PC>
Return-Path: [email protected]
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Jan 2010 18:15:15.0588 (UTC) FILETIME=[ACB67440:01CA9F7C]

419Eater is my life Joined: 11 Dec 2009 Posts: 316

Quote:

Received: from 94-76-212-230.static.as29550.net ([email protected] with login)

== Additional Information From whois://whois.ripe.net:43 ==

inetnum: 94.76.212.230 - 94.76.212.230
netname: EUKHost-LTD-3507
descr: EUKHost customer server
remarks: ##############################################################
remarks: Please report abuse incidents to .
remarks: Messages sent to other contact addresses may not be acted upon.
remarks: ##############################################################
country: GB
admin-c: RK3390-RIPE
tech-c: RK3390-RIPE
status: ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by: as29550-mnt
source: RIPE # Filtered

person: Robert King
address: EUKHOST LTD, Clarence Street, Bowburn, Durham, Dh6 5BB
mnt-by: blueconnex-mnt
abuse-mailbox:
phone: +44.7753341080
nic-hdl: RK3390-RIPE
source: RIPE # Filtered

route: 94.76.192.0/18
descr: Blueconnex Networks Ltd
origin: AS29550
remarks: ***********************************
remarks: * *
remarks: * Abuse: *
remarks: * *
remarks: * Peering: *
remarks: * *
remarks: ***********************************
mnt-by: blueconnex-mnt
source: RIPE # Filtered

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:00 am

Sent via Yahoo from a server hosted by eukhost.com. Definitely not legit. The Reply-To address [email protected] is hosted by mail.com.

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:34 am

Hi

as29550.net is a UK hosting company (Blueconnex)
The sender appears to be connecting from the static address of a customer of Blueconnex, based in Durham, UK
It's likely that the message is being sent from a compromised computer (it could be the actual customer/user, but this is less likely, IMHO).

AA Ashley Consulting is a genuine company based in Luton, UK, but it appears to be moribund and doesn't have any internet presence (web or email addresses) that I can find. No telephone numbers are easily available. This is probably why this company has been chosen as an initial front, with AA Ashley being blissfully unaware.

Ignoring all the smokescreen of aaashleyconsultants, the actual reply-to email address is [email protected], which is a free email address, usable by anyone and which is often used for scamming. If you were to send a tickler to the consultant.com address, they may reply from their actual location, and with a more revealing ip address.

regards

nosetweaker

419Eater is my life Joined: 11 Dec 2009 Posts: 316

I have seen a record on UKDATA.com ...

Company name - AA ASHLEY CONSULTANTS LIMITED
Company incorporation date - 09/07/2009
Registered Number: 06956877 - Registered at Companies House on 09/07/2009
Type of business: Unknown
Address:
LUTON

looks like freshly registered to me ... ?

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:32 am

Ah - just googled 46-48 Rothesay Road Luton
It is a chartered accountants, Foxley Kingham, so there are lots of limited companies that have this address as their registered office.

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:48 am

94.76.212.230 is a suspected proxy. Try here:

http://whatismyipaddress.com/staticpages/index.php/lookup-ip

The good English of the mail means that somebody with good English originally wrote that script. The Lad sending it, however, may not be the one who wrote it. Once the Lad comes 'off-script' and composes his own mails, you will see how good or bad his English is!

Quote:

We are conducting a standard process investigation involving a client who shares the same name with you

Note that:

(a) Nowhere in this letter is it stated what that 'same name' might be. That is because the Lad doesn't know your name. And because he has sent this email to hundreds of people.

(b) This is not the way a 'next-of-kin' is established: emailing strangers who share the same (unmentioned) surname!

If you said you had the most common surname in the world, the Lad would still decide that you were next-of-kin and the rightful inheritor .... after you have paid his fees.

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 11:26 am

Is there a potential mass scambait here?

Somebody gets the lad on the hook, and then inadvertently mentions it to somebody else in their family. Other family members get to hear on the grapevine and start coming out of the woodwork, wanting a piece of the action, lawyers get involved haggling over the split, historians crawling over the genealogy, family double crossing each other, insider deals and 'trips' to Africa to see the lad and cut the others out to secure the inheritance, etc?

[Although, as a complete newb, I wouldn't be qualified to orchestrate such a thing Embarassed

]

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 11:35 am

^^Nosetweaker, ask Feegle nicely and you might be allowed to have a ride on his scammer - you can play all the roles yourself if you do. Remember to think like a victim, not like a baiter!

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 11:46 am

I really don't have the experience for something that sophisticated just yet. I am taking baby steps with single characters until the dampness evaporates from behind my ears (and I might have to call in a mentor at any moment!).

419Eater is my life Joined: 11 Dec 2009 Posts: 316

@nosetweaker

I like your idea of a massbait with people having the same surname, of one huge family, all of them keen to get hands on the monnies, and convincing the lad to be the only right NoK, and he should forget any others of the family, if they write to him.
A Soap-Opaera ?

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edit:

I have answered this nice Lady, and also openend a new thread in SCAMBAITING HELP, HINTS & TIPS, because there the details can not be found by google.

Baiting Guru Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 3193

A few minutes of amusement can be had by replying using an email account that doesn't give your name, and being careful not to give it in your emails either.

It is possible that he does know what your name is, if for instance he compiled a list of emails of everyone having the same surname. A common name would be good here, because the list would be longer. It isn't likely though, if he did that then he'd give the name. It is far more likely that he's sent it off at random and he expects to find your surname from your mails.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 14 Sep 2006 Posts: 24

I sincerely doubt he knows my name as the email address it was sent to was set up with my online nick only, no surname attached Razz

Oh - and anyone who wants to have a go, feel free - I have a 3 month old boy that's taking up all my time right now Smile

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 6:26 pm

Diabolical punctuation. School marm would have it!

419Eater is my life Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Posts: 441

Replied "I'm interested, tell me more", and SURPRISE! The deceased person has my character's last name!

Definetely a scam, and a bad one. Let's see how this continues.

Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:37 pm

I ran a next of kin bait with a charactor called t1ger b@rkinson the deceased was apparantly called franklin t1ger b@rkinson. real creative on that one.unfortunatly i got dumped when i mentioned i knew franklin although i hadnt seen him in 2 years. guess the lad thought it was to hard to convice me when i could just call family to find out.

Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:51 pm

English was poor, puncuation and idiom not British English.

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