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Scammer Eugene Armand Essombe in Dubai

Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:28 am
by Secret Agent Man
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This scammer is connected to a series of UAW fake job scams as indicated below. He lives in Dubai, UAE having emigrated from Cameroon.

He came to our attention because money stolen from a victim of a UAE fake job scam was deposited to a bank account in his name at Emirates NBD branch located at Emirates NBD Building, Al Barsha 2, Dubai BD. The scam started with the fake job scam website - http://www.addelloil.com As is typical with these UAE job scams, the victim is directed to a fake travel agency website, in this case, http://seabrizz.com, which is supposed to arrange for a visa, work permit, etc. The victim is sent a UAE job offer email after they fill out an “interview” which they received via email. Once the victim submits answers to the “interview questions” he or she is offered the fake job. Sometimes the scammers just send out a job offer which is supposedly based on the victim’s CV or resume which scammers typically find on job portals where job seekers post their resumes. Other times there will be a telephone "interview."

United Arab Emigrants’ law requires the employer to cover all work permit/labor/immigration costs for workers. To get around this, the scammers claim that they have paid costs for prior employees who have decided not to take the job and they were out the money. So they demand that the victim pay all the work permit/labor/immigration costs and they will be reimbursed. As a further incentive, the scammers claim that they will advance one or two months salary in order to cover the costs of work permit/immigration and related costs. If you make the mistake of paying for the fake work permit and visa, they will ask that you pay other “travel costs”. At this point, in this case, two more fake companies appear. A fake bank which will supposedly handle the advance of the salary and a fake UAE immigration agency which will supposedly issue the fake work permit, immigration papers and any other fake document the scammers conjure up. In this case, the fake bank is www.qadirbae.com and the fake immigration agency domain is Employmentassociation-uae.com. Both of these fake domain/websites are controlled by the scammer and/or his accomplices.

You can see the first in a series of scam emails below:
On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 5:54 PM Hussain Abbas <hr@addelloil.com>

DEAR <Victim>

We received notification from Employment Association of UAE in respect of your UAE entry electronic employment & family visa application approval. And according to their requirements to issue the validation of your employment and family entry permit, you are required to fill the attached reimbursement form and return it via e-mail and also send copies to Qadir Bank for the reimbursement of your one month advance salary and UAE Immigration documents processing expenses you have made so far as stipulated in your Offer Letter.

Below is the contact information of Qadir Bank UAE:

QADIR BANK UAE
CONTACT PERSON: MR. TINTO ABUZA
EMAIL: TINTOABUZA@QADIRBAE.COM
ADDRESS: SHAKHBOUT BIN SULTAN STREET - ABU DHABI P.O. BOX 1562,
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.
WEBSITE: WWW.QADIRBAE.COM

Also send copy of the filled reimbursement form to Employment Association of UAE for endorsement and issuance of your UAE Labor Card to enable the UAE Immigration Authority to release your UAE Immigration documents to processing Agency (SEA BREESE TRAVEL AGENCY).

Below is the contact information of Employment Association UAE:

EMPLOYMENT ASSOCIATION UAE
MR. KENTUS NOBLE
EMAIL: SERVICE@EMPLOYMENTASSOCIATION-UAE.COM
PHONE : +971 52629 5484
ADDRESS: P.O BOX 2652, JUMEIRAH, DUBAI,UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Note: your one month advance salary is AED44,500.00 and total expenses made from USD to AED is AED60,519.13 and total
amount to be reimbursed to you is AED105,019.13. You can indicate the total amount in the reimbursement form.

NOTE: ALWAYS COPY UPDATE US ON YOUR CORRESPONDENCE WITH QADIR BANK UAE AND EMPLOYMENT ASSOCIATION UAE FOR GUIDANCE AND DOCUMENTATION.

Kindly acknowledge this mail upon receive.

REGARDS

MR. HUSSAIN ABBAS
CHIEF HR MANAGER
ADDELL OIL & GAS IND
NO. 131 DUBAI INDUSTRIAL CITY
PO BOX 27364 DUBAI,
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
EMAIL: HR@ADDELLOIL.COM
TEL: +971-5-5982 3172
FAX: +971-4-4699956
WWW.ADDELLOIL.COM
Now that the victim has been introduced to all these fake companies and believes they exist, the scammer Eugene Armand Essombe, begins demanding and receiving money for various fake immigration and labor card fees. Note that if the “Employment Association UAE” were real, its domain “Employmentassociation-uae.com” would have ended in .ae not .com. All real government websites in the UAE end in .ae. Moreover, no real government agency would have requested money be paid to a bank account, never mind a bank account which is in the name of an individual!
On 2020-01-14 03:26, EMPLOYMENT ASSOCIATION UAE wrote:

Dear <Victim>

Welcome to Employment Association UAE, we have received your sent filed reimbursement form.

To endorse and process of your UAE Labor Card to enable the UAE Immigration Authority to release your UAE entry work permit family visas.

We need the following form your side:

Security deposit of USD10,000
Service charge of USD2850.
Total USD12,850
Scan Passport Copy
Passport Photo

Kindly transfer to below bank account and return transfer slip via email.

Bank: Emirates NBD
Account Name: EUGENE ARMAND ESSOMBE.
Account number: 0959007760701.
SwiftCode: EBILAEAD. IBAN:AE900260000959007760701.
Address: Emirates NBD Building, Al Barsha 2, Dubai BD.

Mr. Kentus Noble
Email: service@employmentassociation-uae.com
Phone : +971 52629 5484
Address: P.O BOX 2652 ,JUMEIRAH, DUBAI,UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Employment Association UAE

On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 1:15 PM EMPLOYMENT ASSOCIATION UAE
<service@employmentassociation-uae.com> wrote:

Dear <Victim>

Welcome to Employment Association UAE, attach document is your approved labor card as one of the requirement to grant your work permit visas (family status), kindly acknowledge it as I was informed by the Labor office that tax clearance certificate will be required also as one of the required documents and which is processing fees and security deposit is as same USD12 000 and service charges is USD850.Total USD12,850

Kindly transfer to below bank account and return transfer slip via email.

Bank: Emirates NBD
Account Name: EUGENE ARMAND ESSOMBE.
Account number: 0959007760701.
Swift Code: EBILAEAD. IBAN:AE900260000959007760701.
Address: Emirates NBD Building, Al Barsha 2, Dubai BD.

Mr. Kentus Noble
Email: service@employmentassociation-uae.com
Phone : +971 52629 5484
Address: P.O BOX 2652 ,JUMEIRAH, DUBAI,UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Employment Association UAE
From: EMPLOYMENT ASSOCIATION UAE <service@employmentassociation-uae.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 13:04
Subject: URGENT
To: <Victim>

Dear <Victim>

This is to inform you that E-Channel Registration is compulsory for African nationals migrating to work in UAE, E-Channel Registration in the UAE by commitbizadmin 04, Jan 2020. E-Channel is a new smart service system which will help in naturalizations and residency services. The Interior Ministry of the UAE launched this smart service system to improve the speed and precision of issuing visa and residence permits.

This process requires security deposit of USD 25,000 which is refundable and service charge of USD3,500 nonrefundable. Total USD28,500.

You are required to remit the amount to below bank account as soon as possible to avoid further delays.

Bank: Emirates NBD
Account Name: EUGENE ARMAND ESSOMBE.
Account number: 0959007760701.
Swift Code: EBILAEAD. IBAN:AE900260000959007760701.
Address: Emirates NBD Building, Al Barsha 2, Dubai BD.

Yours
Mr. Kentus Noble
Email: service@employmentassociation-uae.com
Phone : +971 52629 5484
Address: P.O BOX 2652, JUMEIRAH, DUBAI,UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Employment Association UAE
Through this series of emails the scammer has managed to convince the victim to pay $54,200 into his bank account. Of course the victim will not receive any advance salary or be reimbursed from his “expenses” as Addel Oil does not exist. If the victim had stated he didn’t have the money, the scammer would have volunteered to pay some of the expense or urged the victim to take out a loan. Once the victim pays one phony fee, there will be another one, and they will continue until the victim has no more money or has gotten wise to the scam.

The irony is the cost for a work permit and visa rarely cost more than $2000 which UAE law states the employer is to pay. See https://government.ae/en/information-an ... ncy-permit

The scammer Eugene Armand Essombe is connected to the four websites mentioned above. You can see them below with links to the posts where they are profiled and the telephone numbers the scammer used for each fake company.

viewtopic.php?f=70&t=9731
www.qadirbae.com
Contact Us: +971586709617
Contact Us +971 5 565 57179

viewtopic.php?t=9412
www.seabrizz.com
+971-5-26735763
...........
www.addelloil.com
Tel: +971-5-5982 3172
Fax: +971-4-4699956

viewtopic.php?t=9838
Email: service@employmentassociation-uae.com
Phone : +971526295484
Registrant Name: Alex Williams UKO
Registrant Phone: +971.551584492

If we Google the telephone number used in the scam domain employmentassociation-uae.com +971 52629 5484) we see the scammer set up two other scam travel agency websites. http://www.highlifetravels-ae.com seen here viewtopic.php?t=9740 and http://www.topuptravels.com seen here viewtopic.php?t=9739

If we Google the number used in the fake bank website www.qadirbank.com which is +971 5 565 57179 we see two more fake bank websites http://qadirbankae.com profiled here viewtopic.php?t=9744 and http://qadirbank.com profiled here viewtopic.php?t=9743

If we Google the telephone number uses to register the scam domain employmentassociation-uae.com which is +971.551584492 we see another fake job scam website www.kalmonhospital.com which is profiled here viewtopic.php?t=7896

Below are a list of the new scam websites linked to the original four.

viewtopic.php?f=17&t=9743
qadirbank.com
Contact Us: +971586709617
Contact Us +971 5 565 57179

viewtopic.php?f=17&t=9744
qadirbankae.com
Contact Us: +971586709617
Contact Us +971 5 565 57179

viewtopic.php?f=17&t=9739
topuptravels.com
(+971) 52629 5484
(+971) 52881 5664

viewtopic.php?f=17&t=9740
highlifetravels-ae.com
(+971) 52629 5484
(+971) 52881 5664

viewtopic.php?t=7896
kalmonhospital.com
T: +971 55 158 4492
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The scammer uses all these numbers

971586709617
971556557179
971526295484
971528815664
971526735763
971559823172
971551584492

The scammer uses all these aliases

Alex Williams UKO
Kentus Noble
Hussain Abbas
Liza Baker

The scammer uses all these fake email addresses

info@seabrizz.com
visa@seabrizz.com
customerservice@qadirbank.com
tintoabuza@qadirbae.com
customerservice@qadirbankae.com
customerservice@qadirbae.com
hr@addelloil.com
contact@highlifetravels-ae.com
carrerlilah.manarr@gmail.com
inquiry@topuptravels.com
kalmonhospital@gmail.com
info@kalmonhospital.com