potential phising scam

[greengate]

Recently received - an email from Lisa Vaughn (email address mmadebtorsfaan@gmail.com)

The email states that this is a final invoice for a house purchase and a copy will be forwarded by courier. There is also a PDF file attached relating to a 'house purchase' which requires you to log on with your adobe account details to view it.

I believe this to be a scam email, and suggest that it be deleted from your email without opening it.

[EssexOB]

Yes. I got this email today. Did not open PDF file, just deleted whole thing.

[cjtill]

Yes I got that one and another one from David Maddie. Both deleted

[Hammerhead]

to much now of this kind of thing,we were buying a bungalow in ozankoy and hackers got into the solicitors account and stole all our money from us by intercepting all the solicitors mail to us and ours to her,we are now £150000 out of pocket and have to find a large rental property all due to the solicitor in kyrenia not having adequate protection she used yahoo,so our plans have changed dramatically,has anyone else used mine konat solicitors and had problems

[£eagle]

If your solicitor held the money and it was stolen from her "clients account" then she is responsible for your loss. If it was intercepted en route then that is a different situation.
Eagle

[Groucho]

to much now of this kind of thing,we were buying a bungalow in ozankoy and hackers got into the solicitors account and stole all our money from us by intercepting all the solicitors mail to us and ours to her,we are now £150000 out of pocket and have to find a large rental property all due to the solicitor in kyrenia not having adequate protection she used yahoo,so our plans have changed dramatically,has anyone else used mine konat solicitors and had problems

Have you been to the police? This all sounds like someone in the lawyer's office dipping into your money... I don't believe for one minute that you should lose a bean out of this....

[Hammerhead]

yes been to police in uk and fraud squad are on it but i thing it has gone now from hellenic bank nicosia to hong kong so bye bye all our money

[Groucho]

yes been to police in uk and fraud squad are on it but i thing it has gone now from hellenic bank nicosia to hong kong so bye bye all our money

money fraudulently taken via bank transfer can be recalled.... even from Hong Kong

[Hammerhead]

yes they have put a recall to hong kong but has probably been moved on from their

[Dalartokat]

We're just being drip fed here... but why was Mine Konat holding a "client's account" in Hellenic Bank which is a Greek Bank. Have I got that right?

[£eagle]

If your money was, in fact, held by your lawyer then she may be covered by public liability or professional indemnity insurance. Many lawyers have become millionaires from property buyers so they can afford to compensate their clients (assuming they are at fault) even if uninsured.
Eagle

[Hammerhead]

no the monies was intercepted by hacking her email
,and she was only using yahoo if all else fails we have to try to sue Hellenic bank who are being investigated and they have a very bad track record apparently

[Maisiemoo]

We used Mine Konat, admittedly a few years back now. From memory we paid our final balance due to her bank account in London from where it then went to her account in NC. I am confused where the Hellenic Bank comes in?

[Groucho]

yes been to police in uk and fraud squad are on it but i thing it has gone now from hellenic bank nicosia to hong kong so bye bye all our money

Money does not get transferred attached to emails... so a bank transfer must have taken place. Why would Mine Konat's office create a bank transfer of your money to Hong Kong without a signature?

[Hammerhead]

NO!!!!! her email was hacked so when she sent us the iban for her account the hacker intercepted her emails and ours to her and replied to each of us as if it was all normal,they changed her iban number for the iban number of the scumbags account,so now we have lost £152000 and me and my wife have got try and find a 3 bed house to rent because our goods are all coming in 9 days time.

[Traveller0392]

I received an email this morning from an online source about Lancashire Constabulary telling people not to open 'their' emails as the system had been hacked. Here is the link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/22 ... rsonation/

And another here today - this is a bit more malicious: http://www.theguardian.com/business/201 ... som-demand

Sorry to here about this story for the people involved, although I think there may be some details missing to give a 'fuller story'.