Norway Consulting Group

[Popster-Lou]

Has anyone worked for this Company or have any information?

[InfiniteArc]

Hi Popster-Lou, It sounds like you recieved an Email, like I did, I think it sounds like a Scam. It sounds to good to be true, and you know what they say, it probably is.

[Popster-Lou]

Hi there, thanks for responding. I have done a little more research and yes it is a money laundering scam!

[CCrimeUnit]

The originators of this e-mail are scammers.
They are the "Money Laundering" Arm of the "Phishing Scams" that fleeces your bank account.

How it works.
(1) the Phishing scam
You get an e-mail that purports to be from your bank / building society that you have "Internet Banking" with.
They get you to follow a link to a website that looks like your bank and ask you to "log on".

With the details you supply they then log on to the real bank with your credentials and CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD.
In this way if you get suspicious you are locked out and have to rely on the telephone to contact your bank, by which time your account has been plundered, the details having been passed to the next person in the chain, the "Mule".

(2) "Money Laundering"
Under Internet banking rules - you cannot send money abroad, so the scammers rely on a "Mule" to pass the money on to - who will in turn draw the cash from their bank and use the services of a international money forwarder. Usually these firms will give the money to anyone who provides the correct password at the designated office - most often in an east European country.

The net result is that when the bank / police investigate the robbery, the trail ends at the "Mule" who has to convince them that they were not party to the con and that they didn't send the money to an accomplice.

In this particular instance Norway Consulting are sending e-mails from different ISP's many times a day.

Computer Crime Unit.