WARNING! tour operators, scam email going around
 

I got this email yesterday and while reading it there was something dubious about it all.
My name is Dr. Karl Busche and lives in the united kingdom,
I want to book for an helicopter tour for my family because,during our stays in your city, we will be going on tours around the town. These are information for our Booking, Preferred Date of Tour: 16th,17th,18th,19th and 20th March 2009 (5days) Time: 1hr in a day (12.00 pm to 1.00 pm) Passengers: 3

1.Dr. Karl Busche-------weigh 130pounds
2.MRS Anneliese Busche {My Wife} weigh 120pounds
3.BURROWS Busche son 16 yrs} weigh 95pounds


Mode of Payment: Credit Card(Visa Card). I want you to give me the total expensis for the 4days tour at 1hr per day.


Thanks,
Dr. Karl Busche


So I "googled" this Karl Busche (who seems to be almost dwarf at 130lbs) and found this
Beware Helo Operators - NEW SCAM

So guy's do not reply to this because then you will most likely get a lot more of similar scam emails

BURROWS Busche :D

Thanks for letting us know

Also covered in PPRuNe here :ok:

I'm gonna make a some fake hotmail address, reply to them and start messing with their heads.... just for fun:E:E:E

Just need a good name for it.... how is ub******[email protected] or [email protected]
probably better to pick name of some desert rock in the mid atlantic ocean like [email protected]

Im gonna send them email and post it here with their response... see what happens

Good man rookie, bout time someone started playing back with these wasters.

Can't wait to hear the reply you get:E

He could have at least gave an accurate weight for himself lol!

Dave

I played along and quoted him a price. This is the reply this scammer sent me.

Hi,

Greetings and thanks for your kind response, i would like to inform you that i have made some unconfirmed arrangement with a hotel/logistic agent that will book hotel and also handle our traveling arrangement including some other service that will be requested by my family during our stay in the state.

In that case, i will send you my credit card to make a total charge of $14,700.00 for your service and that of the Agent, because i don't want to share the details with a third party,beside the agent runs a private Logistic Agency which does not allow him to have a credit card facilities to runs his full payment.

So once you are in receipt of credit card,you will charge the amount of ($14,700.00) then you deduct your service deposit $6,200.00 (for four days) and send the balance of ($8,500.00) to the Agent whose information will be forwarded to you once charges are been made and found available in your account.

Am also aware there will be a charge for the extra $8,500.00 to be charged so will want you to deduct the figure from the total amount that will be charged from my credit card.

I want you to confirm this and get back to me with your Name, Mobile number and Address for my personal documentation.


PLEASE CONFIRM IF THIS ARRANGEMENT IS OK AND REPLY PROMPTLY TO ENABLE US PROCEED.

Thanks,
Dr Karl and Family
+4470359 43483

A quick google on the phone number shows another site to do with weddings warning of a scam along the same lines.

http://weddingsabroad-destinationwed...er-please.html

Our ops got this one,and an identical one in a different name. The UK police didn't want to know so we contacted the US credit card company concerned and they contacted the card holder. We then forwarded the two scam e-mails to the two scammers with advice to be slightly more creative next time.

One of them (Busch) had the balls to be indignant and sent a snotty e-mail threatening legal action for defamation!

VH

This scam is on the rounds again, we were contacted just before Christmas, same thing 1 hour per day for 5 days, he would pay 10k up front then we would pay his "agent" 6k, we walked away as there are no phone nembers or email except for hotmail, and he noe proports to be German, however sounds very african to me!

Have just sent email to '[email protected]' with the latest reply we have received:

"Hello Again, Thanks for your response, i would like to inform you that i have concluded arrangement with hotel/logistic agent that will book hotel and take care of other service that will be requested from my family during the stay in the state. I will send you credit card to deduct the total charges of your service and my logistic agent, because i don't want to share the details with a third party,beside the agent runs a private and does not have a credit card facilities to runs his full payment. So once you are in receipt of credit card,you will charge the amount of ( US$9,578) then you deduct the cost of your service ( US$1,078 ) and send the balance of US$8,500.00 to my logistic agent whose information will be forwarded to you once you charge the credit card. I am also aware that there will extra charges for the credit card, i want you to mention the figure so that i will include it on the total amount that will be charged from my credit card. I want you to confirm this and get back to me with
Your Full Name
Mobile Number
Address for my personal documentation.
Regards,
Dr Ford Anderson
Flat 2-1, 35,Polwarth Street,
Glasgow,G129UE,
Scotland.
United Kingdom.
+447035924236"

We will see what happens!!

We've asked "Dr. Anderson" for an initial admin fee of some 160 quid, payable up front by wire transfer or wankers draft. See how long he wants to play ;)

TT

Same ****, diffrent name

I'm Dr. David Roy from London, I'm writing to get more details and inquiry for a helicopter tour for my family, We'll be having a vacation in your region and will want to go on tour around with good beach/ land scrape views.



Please find below booking information for my family of 3,



Preferred Date of Tour: 11th, 12th and 13th March 2009 (3days)

Time: 1 hour in a day (2.00 pm to 3.00pm)

Passengers:

1.Mr. David Roy

2.Mrs. Loyce Roy (My Wife)

3.Charles Roy (My son 14 yrs)



Please be informed that my preferred payment mode is via my Credit Card (Visa Card). I'll appreciate it if you can send me a quote the above information I have provided.



I anticipate your prompt response.



Best regards,

Dr. David Roy.

From London? David Roy sounds a pretty typical English/British name, BUT who calls a holiday a Vacation in this country.....

You would of thought they would do simple things like this and kinda change the story around a bit and come in from a new angle.....

Muppets :ugh:

Tell him to send a deposit in cheque, cash it and tell him to do one.

That scam has arrived in Germany, too.... :ugh:

"I'm Dr. David Roy from London, I'm writing to get more details and inquiry for a helicopter tour for my family, We'll be having a vacation in your region and will want to go on tour around with good beach/ land scrape views."

land scrape?:eek: What an odd request for a vacation flight. Glad I'm not the pilot one this one.:}

We get exactly the same scam in the yacht broking world. Charter a yacht and pay by credit card!

Dr. Karl Busche
 

We just got the same email from "Dr. Busche" asking for helicopter tours, even though we're a floatplane company in Victoria, BC, Canada.:hmm:

...and I just got the latest mail from IBM saying don't open a mail called "Join The Crew" etc etc

C'mon folks; the scam is pretty inept and easy to see through - do we really need to chain-post in Rotorheads about its progress?
TT

For creative ways of scrambling the brains of these scammers, look at 419 eater.com....There, such gentlemen as Shiver Metimbers lead these scammers a wonderful dance......i've wasted many a happy hour reading these long drawn-out sagas and am astounded at the sheer persistence of these greedy crooks and the lengths they'll go to....the funniest is the "reverse scam" by a "religious charity" which demands they get tattooed in order to be elegible for a share in the annual dispensation of huge cash grants.

great free entertainment! :E