ASECNA payment scam

[el sol]

How many of these have you had ?

"Dear Sirs,

Your company is debted to us Asecna in the area of overflight nav debts charges of 32,455.16 EU.

We advice your company to update us now to enable send your company Asecna new banking Details for your payment.

Failure to hear from your company today will make us take action with your company and your flts will not be allow to operate into Africa and over Asecna Air Space.

Update us now to aviod us having conflict with your company.

Best Regards,

Brigeete Sabi



Asecna Head Of Accounts. "



Today's must take our total to about 20, anyone any idea what sort of action we can take against them ?


Anybody paid one ??

[merlinxx]

As follows:

Trace any and all originating addresses you can, be they Email, AFTN, SITA et al.

01/ Forward all comms to your CAA both local (your Emirate) & cpy the rest of the Emirates.

02/ FWD all comms to ASECNA HQ

This is an ongoing scam going back to the mid 70s, it gets reborn every few years. Most folks just ignore & bin the comms, but you MUST report & follow up via your CAA, & ASECNA, if no joy throw it ICAOs way & IATA for air carrier action.

Keep us all advsd SVP


PS: Post this on the other forums here & on as many other sites you can.

[acmi48]

quote from african pilot

NAC discovers yet another aviation scam
NAC applied for clearance through West Africa when suddenly a letter arrived to say we could not get clearances as we were "so called" in arrears with ASECNA. We most certainly were not in arrears so upon a query it was noticed that this letter was not even on an ASECNA letterhead nor was the bank account one belonging to ASECNA. The letter also indicates that we should pay in advance. From this letter one can clearly see that this is a scam and probably originated from some government organization dealing with clearances and not from ASECNA.

reminder as merlin points out also check the originating address

asecna is a .org not a .com

[diesel862]

These are well known fakes.

During my time at an African Freighter Airline, the Nigerian chap even had the balls to phone up demanding payment, and threatened to ground us.

As well as being fairly sensible on this, we had a very sharp accounts manager who was in contact with the correct authorities and accounts and in the end we just deleted the emails as spam.

Cheers

Vince

[ShinjukuHustler]

It's true about the dot org, any communications received from dot com can all be assumed to fake.

We got this last year and the retards who run the scam never even bothered to check that our area of operation is nowhere near ASECNA areas, didn't stop them asking for almost 12'000USD though.

BUT... be careful of the other more sinister one which sends Eurocontrol letter headed paper and envelopes to airlines threatening to ban you from the airspace unless you pay up. This one as you'd expect leads back to Nigeria..don't they all.

If you get this one then go to their site eurocontrol.be and contact someone from there let them know, they take it seriously.

Hustle On...

[Captain Awesome]

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