he said that he could not use his account because it was blocked and he asked me for financial help to pay port fees for shipping materialsThe account it showed was from Alliance
Client name: Oscar Williams
acct. No: 36538654392He asked me to perform the operation for him because he could not do it from Turkey. Then he told me that the account was blocked and then he asked me for financial help. I told him that I couldn't give him that kind of help because I don't have that money. He insisted that I do everything possible to send him money, whatever he gets. As he saw that I was not going to do it, she stopped talking to me and wrote that she was disappointed in me.Similar to other romance scam cases, the potential victim was directed to a fake website, pretending to be Alliance Trust Savings.
It is a common tactic of fraudsters to pretend they have money in a bank account they cannot access, share the login for that bogus bank account with the victim - as a sign of "good faith" - and promise to pay back the money they are asking for.
The real Alliance Trust Savings was founded in 1890 in the UK.
The fake one was registered in May and updated in July. The fake bank website is active from a subdomain at secure.alliancetsplconline.com.
Contact details on the fake website:
Entry in the aa419 Database of fraudulent websites:
https://db.aa419.org/fakebanksview.php?key=146089.
From the domain name registration:
Domain Name: ALLIANCETSPLCONLINE.COM
Updated Date: 2020-07-30
Creation Date: 2020-05-30 Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2021-05-30
Registrar: PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com
Registry Registrant ID: Not Available From Registry
Registrant Name: Domain Admin
Registrant Organization: Privacy Protect, LLC (PrivacyProtect.org)
This is what the fake website looks like: