Finance & Securities Fraud?

Dear Sir,

Can i get confirmation for this Finance & Securities from Switzerland it fraud or not?

Mr. Nelson Mark
The Account Officer,
Utility Trust Finance & Securities,
Ch. du pleoin-air 1,roll ch-1160
Payment Liaison Office.
Switzerland

Hope get good respon soon.

[Frazzle]

Sounds like a scam to me, but without the actual emails it is a bit hit-and-miss.

Posting name and company details doesn't really help much, because scammers invent new "companies" regularly.

A Google search for "Nelson Mark" scam finds many hits.

What confims it is that the address looked fake to me, so I searched for "ch-1160 switzerland" and came up with this link http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=206342

Dear Sir,

I HAD GO CHECK THE FORUM WHERE YOU MENTION.
IT SEEM SAME THE SECURITY CODE AND RELATED ETAILS OF THE DEPOSIT EXCEPT NAME DEPOSITOR...LATE BENSON ETETE (LATE W.SHEIKH).

THANK YOU FOR YOUR INFO..

SAMPLE EMAIL FROM UTILITY TRUST..

From : Mark Nelson <utilitytrustfinseccompany11@yahoo.com>
Sent : Wednesday, November 15, 2006 4:19 PM
To : mohd noor ahmad
Subject : No Cause For Alarm



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From the Desk of Mr.Nelson Mark
The Account Officer,
Utility Trust Finance & Securities,
Ch. du pleoin-air 1,roll ch-1160
Payment Liaison Office.
Switzerland.


Payment Notifications

Attn: Mr.Ahmad,

I understand your fear but we the security company instruct you to pay to your attorney,we have every detail concerning your attorney Barrister Michael Holonis with us, so be assured you are in safe hands with us, all you have to do is do as we instruct you to, once you send the money to him write us immediately don't forget to also mail us the informations so we can be sure you really made the payment, after that we will deliver to you your consignment without any delay. and if he delay in sending the money to us, you wouldn't be held responsible.
You can send the money to us directly because the rules and regulations of this company has to be followed for security reason, so i ask for your understanding, Any inconveniences is truly regretted.

Thanks
Yours faithfully
MR. NELSON MARK
For (UTSFC)

AND FROM LAWYER...

From : michael Holonis <barr.holonis@yahoo.com>
Sent : Wednesday, November 1, 2006 11:03 PM
To : mohd noor ahmad
Subject : From Augusta's Attorney



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Attn: MR. AHMAD,

I am Barrister Michael G. Holonis, an attorney to Mrs. Augusta Madu I have been athourised by my client Mrs. Augusta Madu to inform her security company to transfer the consignment/donation of $10 million to you immediately all documents are presented to them (security company) as a gift to develop your local churches and take care of less privileged, which I have immediately written to the security company's head office in Switzerland, given them your name and address for the immediate changes to be effected.

Note: that this fund is deposited as a family treasure; the fund is in one box/consignment, deposited by Sheik W., from Afghanistan, with the kg of 48.9 kgs. Below are the details of the deposited consignment in the security vault are as blow:

Vault registered no: vko-23-67-00-0kk 99
Access number: 14r12nn2004
Vault pin: 45-78-66-004-akk-076
Consignment no. Ww20klog3453
Date of Deposit: 01-11-1998.
Depositor: late W.Sheik.

On my today's arrangements with the Security Company, I concluded plans with the Security Company to deliver this fund in Donation/Consignment to you at your country, address 15 JALAN NIRWANA 68000 SELANGOR, MALAYSIA. this arrangement is to cut down all the unnecessary protocols so that this donation will be with you on time according to my client wishes. So going with the arranged plans, the Security Company will contact you for their modalities and conditions of the delivering of this Donation to you. With this arrangement you are expected to pay the total sum of $120,000 to the Utility Trust Finance Security Company Diplomats who will deliver this Consignment to you in your country , because this fund/Donation has attracted the Utility Trust Finance Security Company demurrage charge of $120,000 due to long stay in their Treasury. But I want you to know that an agreement was also signed today that you will be allowed to pay this expected $120,000 when this consignment/donation is delivered to you and that you can even pay this Demurrage fees of $120,000 from the money in the delivered Consignment, that means that the Utility Trust Finance Security Company Diplomats will allow you to inspect the contents in the delivered consignment and then pay them this $120,000 from the delivered Consignment.

Please note that your urgent response to issues at this point will be highly appreciated as I wish to conclude this transaction next week before leaving for Jordan.

Call me immediately as an oral discussion is very important at this point. +234-803-4142090
Await your response.

Your faithfully

Barrister Michael Gill Holonis

[Frazzle]

Well, that confirms it as a scam.

All anonymous, free email addresses (Yahoo.com).
The address is fake... A bit of work with Google found the address he was claiming to be at: Chemin De Plein Air, Rolle, CH-1180 (and who doesn't know how to spell their own address?).
Nigerian cellphone number: +234-803-4142090

The person you're dealing with probably has never been out of Nigeria, let alone living in Switzerland. In fact, the only thing you have that identifies the person is that he owns a Nigerian cellphone, and wants to steal your money.