Sorry, had to delete original thread and repost for privacy purposes! (New users can add unlimited photos here on a new post, but then can’t make any edits as the limit is 3??)
A few days ago, I tried to purchase a GPU from Amazon. After Amazon took payment, I received the following email a little whle after. This email came through via Amazon’s official messaging platform and was therefore delivered with a legitimate @amazon.co.uk address with a correct order reference.
Fortunately, I didn’t fall for this, reported it to Amazon and got my money back – no problem.
It later transpired those others I know also got the same after ordering a card.
The bank account is registered with Revolut, a Fintech bank which is no doubt popular with these sorts of scammers. I have reported this to them via their complaints email address. [email protected] (hit this hard!)
After doing some digging into the company 3M IRELAND LIMITED. It seems its registered to a virtual office in Scotland, provided by Blue Square Offices. About us | Blue Square Offices - I believe this is because Action Fraud (the place to report Fraud and Cybercrime in the UK) has no jurisdiction there.
At first I was puzzled as to why they would provide the name of the LTD company, I now believe it’s because recently in the UK banks will warn you if the name doesn’t match the account when you try to send money. (And in some cases, deny payment.)
I would like to think that atleast some form of verification must have been done by Revolut to allow them to create this business account.
The director of this company (Prashant Kumar) also has other LTD companies that are registered to what I assume is his home address, even funnier – he registers them with names very similar to large, well-known corporations (3M, Aramco Chemicals) so its harder to find them.
Personally, I doubt that Aramco (the Saudi, state owned oil giant) would register their chemicals division to a semi-detached house in Leeds
Even better, he seems to have two other LTDs – one that is called SP Certification - https://www.spcertification.co.uk/
And one called
AFIST(UK) LIMITED (11904780)
Both of which seem to be typical scam websites probably used to process payments for whatever other scams the guy is running.
All the LTDs registered to this man can be found here.
If you add the Indian number from the SP Certification website to WhatsApp – you can see that Mr Kumar seems to be doing well for himself.
And seems to be involved in even more dodgy scam businesses that operate out of Delhi.
The Whois information for the afist domain matches the location that Mr Kumar is registered too.
And if you need any certification services he seems to be avaliable on the following numbers.
Enjoy
