ORIENTEXPRESS MALAYSIA DATING SCAM TARGETS ASIAN WOMEN
Are you a woman, probably Asian, who has been approached on a dating or networking site by what seems to be a nice European man, perhaps in the United Kingdom? He says some nice things about you, seems very polite and professional... he sends you charming pictures of himself and his purported family. If you want to see him on a cam, sorry... he doesn't have one. After a short time of getting to know you over a couple of weeks, he tells you he is on a business trip and he has sent a package with a gift to you. He wants to show you how much he cares. He sends you the tracking number to make sure you receive it. You go to the web site and look up the tracking number... and you can see a package is en route to you, including valuable contents.
But lo and behold, the package is held up in Malaysia! You are called by the Malaysian branch of this express mail company that says that they require customs to be paid before the package can continue to you. Your male friend calls you and tells you he is on a business trip. He apologizes for not having access to money while he's in the Bahamas (or elsewhere) and that hopefully you can pay for it. As you can see, there is a diamond necklace or some other valuable item(s) for which customs will be pricey! The company will call you about the package they can't hold for you! It may have contact information that looks like this:
With reference to the delivery of your package, I wish to bring to your notice
(Receiver) that your package has been placed on hold by the Malaysian
customs for some reasons which happened to violate the shipping policies.
As the goods were brought on transit point in Kuala Lumpur before furthering
to it's final destination to Singapore, the KLIA custom
detected that currency were included in your parcel at the
transit check point. For this reason, certain
commissions must be paid as customs charges via us which is for the
immediate clearance of your package . For the main time refer on the
status of your package during tracking, this is in accordance to the
mode of operations in the Courier sector for financial delivery . We have
already taken order number for this package from the custom.
Outstanding Charges:
Administrative ...........................RM A,AAA.00
Commission............................... RM B,BBB.00
TOTAL = X,XXX ( Y,YYY US Dollars )
A total of RM Z,ZZZ.00 (AMOUNT ENTERED HERE Malaysia
Ringgit only) has been charge.
PAYMENT DETAILS.
You can make the payment through WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER
or MONEY GRAM TRANSFER
ORIENT EXPRESS COURIER SERVICES
MIDDLES TOWN, SW436,
London, United Kingdom
Tel: +447031742633
No... don't send the money. This is a scam, probably originating in Malaysia and using a VOIP number in the United Kingdom. Once such scam is this company:
http://orientexpress.ueuo.com
Obviously this "Orient Express" is a fraud but look how many women are being scammed by simply using different URLs to pull them up:
http://orientexpress.ueuo.com/AE9000275382137E.html
http://orientexpress.ueuo.com/AE9000275382138E.html
http://orientexpress.ueuo.com/AE9000275382139E.html
Note the contact number:+44-703-174-263
What is a Malaysian branch of a shipping company using a British / UK phone number?
The man who may have called you says he is from the UK - but the phone number probably uses this prefix:
+44-703
+44-70
Apparently these phone numbers are VOIP - voice over Internet Protocol. This means that the person may not actually live in the UK but the calls to this number is a "follow me" number - it will forward to a phone anywhere in the world you want it to. So if I live in Malaysia, I set up an account in the UK to get a 44 (70) number and set it to forward directly to me in Malaysia. For those who don't know about these follow me VOIP services, you would never suspect that your con man lives outside of the UK.
Here is a rather amusing and interesting note - the company domain address is a subdomain, not a full domain. If you send inquiries, they will go to the domain name, which is a racing company: http://orientexpress.com/
General Rules to avoid Romance, Love, Dating Scams:
(1) no legitimate company would use a subdomain - look at the full domain.
http://orientexpress.ueuo.com/ - subdomain with a bad web site
http://www.ueuo.com/ - it's a free hosting web site!
(2) If you are ever told to send cash, e.g. MoneyGram, Western Union... DO NOT DO SO - these are almost always a scam. Once your money is sent... it's gone.
(3) Anyone who sends you gifts early in a relationship is suspect, doubly so if they send a parcel that requires you to send money to get your parcel!
(4) Always ask personal questions that require answers that can be verified. If they are employed by a good company (as they say) what is the name of the company? Ask yourself this question - why is this person in another country so interested in YOU? While I can understand how great you are,
how are the two of you supposed to see each other? What's the plan? Get details!!!
Good luck and safe dating!!!!
Are you a woman, probably Asian, who has been approached on a dating or networking site by what seems to be a nice European man, perhaps in the United Kingdom? He says some nice things about you, seems very polite and professional... he sends you charming pictures of himself and his purported family. If you want to see him on a cam, sorry... he doesn't have one. After a short time of getting to know you over a couple of weeks, he tells you he is on a business trip and he has sent a package with a gift to you. He wants to show you how much he cares. He sends you the tracking number to make sure you receive it. You go to the web site and look up the tracking number... and you can see a package is en route to you, including valuable contents.
But lo and behold, the package is held up in Malaysia! You are called by the Malaysian branch of this express mail company that says that they require customs to be paid before the package can continue to you. Your male friend calls you and tells you he is on a business trip. He apologizes for not having access to money while he's in the Bahamas (or elsewhere) and that hopefully you can pay for it. As you can see, there is a diamond necklace or some other valuable item(s) for which customs will be pricey! The company will call you about the package they can't hold for you! It may have contact information that looks like this:
With reference to the delivery of your package, I wish to bring to your notice
(Receiver) that your package has been placed on hold by the Malaysian
customs for some reasons which happened to violate the shipping policies.
As the goods were brought on transit point in Kuala Lumpur before furthering
to it's final destination to Singapore, the KLIA custom
detected that currency were included in your parcel at the
transit check point. For this reason, certain
commissions must be paid as customs charges via us which is for the
immediate clearance of your package . For the main time refer on the
status of your package during tracking, this is in accordance to the
mode of operations in the Courier sector for financial delivery . We have
already taken order number for this package from the custom.
Outstanding Charges:
Administrative ...........................RM A,AAA.00
Commission............................... RM B,BBB.00
TOTAL = X,XXX ( Y,YYY US Dollars )
A total of RM Z,ZZZ.00 (AMOUNT ENTERED HERE Malaysia
Ringgit only) has been charge.
PAYMENT DETAILS.
You can make the payment through WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER
or MONEY GRAM TRANSFER
ORIENT EXPRESS COURIER SERVICES
MIDDLES TOWN, SW436,
London, United Kingdom
Tel: +447031742633
No... don't send the money. This is a scam, probably originating in Malaysia and using a VOIP number in the United Kingdom. Once such scam is this company:
http://orientexpress.ueuo.com
Obviously this "Orient Express" is a fraud but look how many women are being scammed by simply using different URLs to pull them up:
http://orientexpress.ueuo.com/AE9000275382137E.html
http://orientexpress.ueuo.com/AE9000275382138E.html
http://orientexpress.ueuo.com/AE9000275382139E.html
Note the contact number:+44-703-174-263
What is a Malaysian branch of a shipping company using a British / UK phone number?
The man who may have called you says he is from the UK - but the phone number probably uses this prefix:
+44-703
+44-70
Apparently these phone numbers are VOIP - voice over Internet Protocol. This means that the person may not actually live in the UK but the calls to this number is a "follow me" number - it will forward to a phone anywhere in the world you want it to. So if I live in Malaysia, I set up an account in the UK to get a 44 (70) number and set it to forward directly to me in Malaysia. For those who don't know about these follow me VOIP services, you would never suspect that your con man lives outside of the UK.
Here is a rather amusing and interesting note - the company domain address is a subdomain, not a full domain. If you send inquiries, they will go to the domain name, which is a racing company: http://orientexpress.com/
General Rules to avoid Romance, Love, Dating Scams:
(1) no legitimate company would use a subdomain - look at the full domain.
http://orientexpress.ueuo.com/ - subdomain with a bad web site
http://www.ueuo.com/ - it's a free hosting web site!
(2) If you are ever told to send cash, e.g. MoneyGram, Western Union... DO NOT DO SO - these are almost always a scam. Once your money is sent... it's gone.
(3) Anyone who sends you gifts early in a relationship is suspect, doubly so if they send a parcel that requires you to send money to get your parcel!
(4) Always ask personal questions that require answers that can be verified. If they are employed by a good company (as they say) what is the name of the company? Ask yourself this question - why is this person in another country so interested in YOU? While I can understand how great you are,
how are the two of you supposed to see each other? What's the plan? Get details!!!Good luck and safe dating!!!!
