Is she being Scammed?

waamo

Opening a bank account for a foreign national you hardly know? What could possibly go wrong?

Senseicads

Thought my instincts on this were right...I might just point her at this thread to read you know.


thanks everyone!

jonesMUFCforever

OP just try opening a bank account for a foreign national without a UK address to see how far you get.

EachPenny

Senseicads wrote: »

Thought my instincts on this were right...I might just point her at this thread to read you know.

Be aware that he may have already prepared her - that friends or family might be "anti" him because he is from the US and not local etc etc.

If you tell her he might be a scammer be prepared for her to say something like "Why are you so against me having a boyfriend.... are you jealous?" etc. All part of the tricks to separate the victim from friends/family to remove their support network and to make the victim think the scammer is their only 'true' friend.

You might get a negative response from the friend for raising the issue on the forum - even if there is no way we could identify who she is from your post. All you can do is to urge her to read what strangers on the internet are saying and perhaps most importantly this:-

If you manage to stop her implicating herself in a crime then you will have been the best friend to her that it is possible to have. She may be angry with you today, but in time she will realise how close she came to making a very serious mistake.

sheramber

jonesMUFCforever wrote: »

OP just try opening a bank account for a foreign national without a UK address to see how far you get.

The account would be in the friend's name and with her address. No connection to a foreign national

waamo

sheramber wrote: »

The account would be in the friend's name and with her address. No connection to a foreign national

Does she like the taste of prison food? When it all gets messy she will be the one left carrying the can.

Armorica

it feels dodgy.

Point him towards a multi currency service like Citi or Revolut

mgdavid

your friend sounds really nice and wonderfully gullible - could you introduce me to her...?

Paul_DNAP

YES. It's a massive scam. She should block him and run for the hills.
See if you can do a reverse image search on one or two of "his" photos, see which sportswear catalogue he's taken them from.

anna42hmr

Hi, these seems to me as its either a romance scam in the making or talking her into opening a mule account, you may want to point her in the direction of the action fraud site,
https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/fraud-az-money-muling https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/fraud_protection/dating_fraud

as for the photos, try doing a google picture reverse as may be able to see if been pulled from another site. https://reverse.photos

https://www.financialfraudaction.org.uk/consumer/advice/money-mule-scams/

https://www.getsafeonline.org/protecting-yourself/money-muling1/