bluesafrica
2nd Mar 2004, 17:46
Please, be aware of following:
Attention: Aircraft Sales
Public Service Announcement:
Be aware that there is at work right now an individual or a group of individuals attempting to prey on those within our industry. We suspect they are using information about aircraft for sale, presumably obtained from aircraft for sale web sites, to try and lure people in the trade into what has the making of a potential scam.
The indvidual(s) calls from overseas on a blocked number and passes himself off as a member of a Moscow based business and states they are looking to buy an aircraft and like your aircraft best. Or this individual calls you for help in buying an aircraft that they freely identify saying they need your help in the acquisition or prebuy. You may even recognize the aircraft mentioned as the one he wants to buy, which lends credibility to the call.
At this time the person claims to be from Moscow and if it is the same individual that several brokers suspect it is, a year ago he was from another Eastern European country and the year before that he was Norwegian. All the deals though somehow lead to Greece. The deal is made very enticing because they may offer to pay all your expenses or make all your travel arrangements. However, somewhere along the way they ask that you bring cash to either open an account in Greece, so the deal can be completed quickly, or for reasons that are not made quite clear. Bottom line is if the deal sounds too easy or too good to be true, it probably is.
The "buyer" generally provides a fax number which you are asked to send specs, which goes to a machine in one of several Eastern European countries, to which he asks you to send specs. He will only identify their company name, but will provide no other contact details when pressed. He is very persistent and can become aggressive or stutters badly when challenged.
While some legitimate prospective Buyers wish to remain anonymous, an inquiry from someone who is not willing to provide a principle place of doing business, phone, fax and e-mail address, particularly when the call originates from overseas, should be treated cautiously.
If you have what you think is a Scam, I have located the FBI tips web site https://tips.fbi.gov/ please visit and complete.
We all want to make a sale in today's environment, but it only takes one mistake and we are taken for a lot of money not to mention the possibility of our lives. Be Careful out there
Attention: Aircraft Sales
Public Service Announcement:
Be aware that there is at work right now an individual or a group of individuals attempting to prey on those within our industry. We suspect they are using information about aircraft for sale, presumably obtained from aircraft for sale web sites, to try and lure people in the trade into what has the making of a potential scam.
The indvidual(s) calls from overseas on a blocked number and passes himself off as a member of a Moscow based business and states they are looking to buy an aircraft and like your aircraft best. Or this individual calls you for help in buying an aircraft that they freely identify saying they need your help in the acquisition or prebuy. You may even recognize the aircraft mentioned as the one he wants to buy, which lends credibility to the call.
At this time the person claims to be from Moscow and if it is the same individual that several brokers suspect it is, a year ago he was from another Eastern European country and the year before that he was Norwegian. All the deals though somehow lead to Greece. The deal is made very enticing because they may offer to pay all your expenses or make all your travel arrangements. However, somewhere along the way they ask that you bring cash to either open an account in Greece, so the deal can be completed quickly, or for reasons that are not made quite clear. Bottom line is if the deal sounds too easy or too good to be true, it probably is.
The "buyer" generally provides a fax number which you are asked to send specs, which goes to a machine in one of several Eastern European countries, to which he asks you to send specs. He will only identify their company name, but will provide no other contact details when pressed. He is very persistent and can become aggressive or stutters badly when challenged.
While some legitimate prospective Buyers wish to remain anonymous, an inquiry from someone who is not willing to provide a principle place of doing business, phone, fax and e-mail address, particularly when the call originates from overseas, should be treated cautiously.
If you have what you think is a Scam, I have located the FBI tips web site https://tips.fbi.gov/ please visit and complete.
We all want to make a sale in today's environment, but it only takes one mistake and we are taken for a lot of money not to mention the possibility of our lives. Be Careful out there