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Basketball Scam Alert Over the past month there has been a basketball job opportunity scam that entered into the Basketball Connect website. There was a woman posted by the name of "Anita Smith" and she posted about an opportunity to play in a league in Sweden. I know of two players who contacted this person for further information and one of which was burned from the scam. Losing over $800.00 for simply giving a bank account number. If you had corresponding emails like this: ---------- Mr/Mrs..Your Name Congratulations Your Name, You have been selected by the team to come and Mr Lebedsky is out of office until Monday and will have contract emailed to I want you to save the team's email address (fensnabaskly_basketball@umpire.com). Anita smith ---------- Our finanacial firm have a company account with Bank of america and will be Lebedsky FESNABASKLY BASKETBALL TEAM INC. Let's discuss it more in the forum. Visit the forum to view more emails to Be safe, Sylita Thomas |
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Mr/Ms
Congratulations Paul, You have been selected by the team to come and play the league.The team officer, Mr Robert Lebedsky requested you provide a phone number so that we can reach you immediately.
Mr Lebedsky is out of office until Monday and will have contract emailed to you,when he returns back at the office on monday. When you receieve contract on monday,i expect that you review the contract and see their terms and conditions governing it.You are to fill the forms and return contract back with your signature endorse on it...
I want you to save the team's email address (fensnabaskly_basketball@umpire.com). Congratulations once more..
Anita smith
Mr/Ms
Good afternoon to you.I want to inform you that we have made arrangements with our financial firm in the United kingdom to send you the funds so that you can make payment to Kelkoo airline agent for your flight itineries.
Our finanacial firm have a company account with Bank of america and will be sending you, the funds to your bank account. They requested you provide your account informations,so that they will send the funds into your account for you to get back to the airline with payment for flight itineries.I will be expecting to hear from you soon.
Lebedsky
FESNABASKLY BASKETBALL TEAM INC.
Mr/Ms
Good morning to you. Our financial firm requested you
open an online bank account with Bank of america. Mr
Osborne,Our financial manager told me,it's very cheap
to open an account with bank of america, so i want you
to do this immediately today and get back to me with
your account informations so that i will foward it to
our financial firm to send you the funds as soon as
possible.I will be waiting to hear back from you.
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Here is another email from player whose identity does not want to be revealed:
"Hello,
I'm emailing you because I Believe I have been Scamed and it may have cost
me a issue with my Credit and possiably $950.00
I was a member with Basketball connect before it crashed and I Replied
to a Post about Overseas team looking for Point guards…..I Replied
and the contact called and emailed me. I sent a profile and all my contact
info. She said a team rep would contact me once they looked over my stuff
and if they were intrested. I'm a Rookie so I didn't know any better.
They callled offering me a contract, I reviewed it an signed days after!!!
Evrything was smooth the called me and email me daily. The team manager emailed
me saying he would wire me money to my bank account an it was money for my
airfare. They told me to western union it to the travle agent, that I did!
The wired me $950.00 and then I withdrew it and took it to western union and
wired it to Benin Republic to the travle agency. They claimed it had to be
done soon becuase they wanted me to fly out in a few days. Still I'm not thinking
anything because it seemd official and also this is my first time with this
all. I didn't do Research till afterwards and found out Benin is in West Africa!!!!!!
They called and emailed me both the travle agent and Team Manager Saying they'd
call me because I leave monday. That was wednesday the day Before ThanksGiving
and I still haven't heard from them. Its funny today the day I'm Supose to
leave for Denmark!!!!!! This Morning I Received a Call from my bacnk stating
that my account is under investigation because of a Wire Transfer done for
$950.00!!!!
I may have to pay the money back and still have nowhere to play. I had a Great
JUCO career and my stats are legit and good an I'm just looking for a oppertunity
to play abroad. Money is not the issue to much I need the experience. And trying
to do things right and start my career, I get robed as well as Scamed by people
I have no real idea about!!!
Thanks. "
i was also subject to this scam, but i would rather not be identified. but they changed some of the names around and told me the country was norway. i have some questions aabout the bank issues. the money they wired, where does the money come from? is it taken from the bank? and 2nd, why would the player from the denmark scam have to pay the money back to the bank? if he was the victim? if both the player and sylita could respond, that would be great. thanx
cheez258,
I'd say the money that was wired from them would've been from the bank, hence why the bank would ask for the money back. It's a terrible scam that really does need to be stopped.
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i was recently contacted by a Mr. Collins Powell
[email: a-zbasketballconnector@usa.com] telling me about a team in the Nigerian Premier League (Yelwa Hawks) that was having a try-out and would have 7 americans try-ing out of which 5 players would be selected. he said the round trip ticket to try-out would be paid for but accomadations would have to be covered by me. and players who signed would receive $5000 usd per month plus feeding, housing, and a personal car along with $250 usd per week spending money. the contract was suppose to be for 8 months. he asked for some common information such as name, height, weight, etc. and said it would take 2 days to process paper work. then he asked for $250 usd to be sent via Western Union to (C O S M A S C H A N K A
LAGOS,NIGERIA) and then the package containing my ticket, documents, and club jacket would be sent by DHL courier to my door step. he also went as far as to call me at home and try to talk to me. he tries to make the deal seem very attractive and pretends to be impressed with your stat lines from your former schools/teams and gets this information from sites like this where players post for job openings in overseas-basketball. he had a fake email that he used to contact me at first that was Andy Agams (miss_andyagams@yahoo.com) and pretended to be a representative of the website and refering me to mr. powell. DO NOT SEND MONEY to this person. there have very, very similar scams like this involving other teams in the Premier League such as union banks, etc. and be sure to report it so that email can be labeled as fraudulent!!!!!