bag is withheld in New Dehli

[Putu94]

A friend of me  ( USA Army ) sends suit case from Austin To Bangkok wit Sealdel

Bag goes from Austin Canada London  and is for the moment in New Dehli 

But here is the problem  customs , withheld the suite case  ( no not any drugs)

they wanted 2190 baht to clear .

strange the bag is in transit 

I have tracking number , and shipment code 

can it be scam ?

[Crossy]

Is the request official from Sealdel? What do they say to do?

 

Any information as to what the fee is for?

 

As you likely know, India, like Thailand and other Far East locations does have a "lubrication" culture, although Sealdel ought to know all about that and factor it into their price.

 

What's in the bag (general description).

 

[Putu94]

yes is request from Sealdel  wanted the payment in 3 days

it is said there was gold in the bag 

they ask to provide "certificate of INC and DHS tag " for the right to have gold shipment.

provide documents or pay fine with in 3 days.

 

most be paid with Western Union not more then 700 $ per slip

asking to pay to Derick Parker Amaliri

354 Lydgate road Southamton UK

the Uk agent in charge for shipment 

 

all sounds me strange , first why they not contact sender,

what has UK to do with it.

and there is a Branch , Sealdel  in Austin 

[Crossy]

If there is actually gold in the bag then you could have problems, was the gold declared when the bag was shipped?

 

If they just want 2k Baht to clear and release I would be tempted to pay and have done with it, but shipping stuff like gold is waaaay outside my comfort zone.

 

Hopefully others will have better knowledge.

 

[RCR]

It sounds like a scam. The TV program "Dr Phil" explored a similar case where a poor feller was befriended online (it's always someone in the US military) who was sending him a suitcase full of gold for safe keeping. He was told he could have a share of the gold for his trouble.

 

The trouble was, the suitcase kept getting bounced around from country to country and held up by various officials ( Customs/shipping agents/lawyers) and they kept asking for money (via Western Union) to release it. Dr Phil's investigators found that all the different officials were emailing from the same  address - in Nigeria.

 

 

Edited July 29, 2018 by RCR
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[evadgib]

Sounds like a 419?

[Putu94]

Thanks a lot

I will not send any money

beside if you have so much gold you ease can pay costs shipping , what ever 

 

What means 419 ?

[Crossy]

23 minutes ago, Putu94 said:

What means 419 ?

It's a form of Advance Fee scam, have a look here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_scam

 

If you go to Sealdel and track your package what is the result https://www.sealdel.com/track-form/

 

I agree with the others, the more information you provide, the more it looks like a scam. Were you asked to receive this package for someone?

 

[ChouDoufu]

is your friend currently in bangkok?

was the suitcase full o'gold his property?

how much gold was in the suitcase?

does he have a rich uncle in austin, nigeria?

did he receive an email from an unknown

sender that began "hello, dear...."

what was the actual return email address

hidden under the fake one displayed?

Edited July 29, 2018 by ChouDoufu

[Putu94]

Crossy

before I got this information , I not ask they just send me for going on holiday was thinking personal goods.

till I ask why withheld , and got Info from Sealdel , to clear case within 3 days

now I use your Url it says no result, ( url looks/ is  same )

contact them a few times.

 

 

DATE	TIME	LOCATION	STATUS	REMARKS
July 28, 2018	5:53 am	Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, Delhi, India	Delayed	Withheld

ChouDoufu

friend still in Austin Texas, only told me a bag to send for holiday , with info Sealdel Value U$ 300,000, contact in Hangouts,

 

 

 

 

 

[Putu94]

sorry Crossy same result come in your Url , my mistake in Typing

[jenny2017]

9 hours ago, RCR said:

It sounds like a scam. The TV program "Dr Phil" explored a similar case where a poor feller was befriended online (it's always someone in the US military) who was sending him a suitcase full of gold for safe keeping. He was told he could have a share of the gold for his trouble.

 

The trouble was, the suitcase kept getting bounced around from country to country and held up by various officials ( Customs/shipping agents/lawyers) and they kept asking for money (via Western Union) to release it. Dr Phil's investigators found that all the different officials were emailing from the same  address - in Nigeria.

 

 

Honestly speaking, my first thought when I've read the part with the gold. Nigeria's finest. 

[ChouDoufu]

54 minutes ago, Putu94 said:

...friend still in Austin Texas, only told me a bag to send for holiday , with info Sealdel Value U$ 300,000, contact in Hangouts,

 

he shipped a suitcase with $300K in gold?

[jenny2017]

10 hours ago, Putu94 said:

yes is request from Sealdel  wanted the payment in 3 days

it is said there was gold in the bag 

they ask to provide "certificate of INC and DHS tag " for the right to have gold shipment.

provide documents or pay fine with in 3 days.

 

most be paid with Western Union not more then 700 $ per slip

asking to pay to Derick Parker Amaliri

354 Lydgate road Southamton UK

the Uk agent in charge for shipment 

 

all sounds me strange , first why they not contact sender,

what has UK to do with it.

and there is a Branch , Sealdel  in Austin 

Is it possible that you've made a little typo?

But here is the problem  customs , withheld the suite case  ( no not any drugs)

they wanted 2190 baht to clear .

 

  And the baht are actually $$$? Almost 8 kg of gold to Bangkok? 

Edited July 29, 2018 by jenny2017

[jenny2017]

9 hours ago, Putu94 said:

Thanks a lot

I will not send any money

beside if you have so much gold you ease can pay costs shipping , what ever 

 

What means 419 ?

An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and one of the most common types of confidence trick. ... The number "419" refers to the section of the Nigerian Criminal Code dealing with fraud, the charges and penalties for offenders.

 

https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/types-of-scams/unexpected-money/nigerian-scams

 

Sorry, didn't see that it was already explained. Army, soldier, gold,, money, yeaah..I've received too many e-mails this kind, but decided to stay poor. 

Edited July 29, 2018 by jenny2017

[ChouDoufu]

haha, check their website!!!!!!!  https://www.sealdel.com/about/

 

they have this loaded into all of the FAQ answers:

 

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale a tale of a fateful trip that started from this tropic port aboard this tiny ship all of them had hair of gold like their mother the youngest one in curls. Space. The final frontier.

 

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale a tale of a fateful trip that started from this tropic port aboard this tiny ship all of them had hair of gold like their mother the youngest one in curls. Space. The final frontier.tortor vel vehicula imperdiet, felis massa ultrices metus, sed consectetur massa ex vitae sem. Integer eu sodales augue leo.

 

check website ownership and history

https://wa-com.com/sealdel.com

[ChouDoufu]

the lovely photos in their gallery also appear on these other similar websites. 

https://www.tineye.com/search/b2d570987de328926b22245dce4ca1ccc3207aee/

 

http://transroyallogistics.com/

http://www.redexinc.com/

http://91.216.107.196/plesk-site-preview/espacetransit.com/

.............and another 270 other sites with the same layout.

[jenny2017]

41 minutes ago, ChouDoufu said:

the lovely photos in their gallery also appear on these other similar websites. 

https://www.tineye.com/search/b2d570987de328926b22245dce4ca1ccc3207aee/

 

http://transroyallogistics.com/

http://www.redexinc.com/

http://91.216.107.196/plesk-site-preview/espacetransit.com/

.............and another 270 other sites with the same layout.

Here's what happens when you click on contact us: Where's the OP? 

Edited July 29, 2018 by jenny2017

[FritsSikkink]

6 hours ago, Putu94 said:

Crossy

before I got this information , I not ask they just send me for going on holiday was thinking personal goods.

till I ask why withheld , and got Info from Sealdel , to clear case within 3 days

now I use your Url it says no result, ( url looks/ is  same )

contact them a few times.

 

 

DATE	TIME	LOCATION	STATUS	REMARKS
July 28, 2018	5:53 am	Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, Delhi, India	Delayed	Withheld

ChouDoufu

friend still in Austin Texas, only told me a bag to send for holiday , with info Sealdel Value U$ 300,000, contact in Hangouts,

 

 

 

 

 

Your friend sends you a bag with 300.000 US for a holiday? What a joke.

[Putu94]

Thanks Jenny

 

Still receive writing in Hang outs

ask for her/him copy ID , ( lol) turns out in very angry writing.

but like you say better stay poor and happy

6 hours ago, ChouDoufu said:

he shipped a suitcase with $300K in gold?

 

yes is what Sealdel write to me . there for the fine to pay $ 2190 to clear. 

I told Sealdel to contact Sender.

Beside I wonder how Sealdel is involved . most be a good company

[Kerryd]

Sounds 100% like  a scam.

If the bag was in transit through India, it wouldn't be held there waiting for a customs fee as that isn't the final destination. Also, if it was in India the fee would be in Rupees, not Baht.

 

And who the **** ships $300,000 in gold in a suitcase ? To a "friend" in another country. For what purpose ? To "share" it ? Sounds like pure BS to me.

 

And pay it by Western Union, to some guy in the UK ? Totally a scam !

 

I had an email once telling me I'd won a Hungarian Lottery prize (my cell phone number had been selected "at random" to win a large prize). The only problem was, I needed to send a certain amount of money to someone in Bangkok, using Western Union, to pay the "taxes and insurance" before the money could be transferred.

 

It was obviously a scam (even though they did use some legitimate names in their emails, it was a verified scam). I tried to play the guy for awhile. I asked why a bank transfer needed "taxes and insurance". I ask him to deduct the amount from my winnings.

I even told him I would drive to their office in Bangkok from my home in Pattaya and he responded by saying "they" would be happy to meet me at the airport and take me to the bank when I arrived !
(I was working in Afghanistan, but I was using my hotmail account for communicating with them.)
I tried again to convince him that I was in Pattaya but he knew I wasn't in Thailand. I got really suspicious at that point.

 

Did some searching on the name and found out the guy was a Nigerian scammer, working out of Bangkok. He was also running US "Green Card" scams as well. (That's where his name popped up.)

I finally got bored and sent him an email informing him that I had known it was a scam since the first email and had been collecting information (like email headers and names/locations) and that I had forwarded the information to the Royal Thai Police, Thai Immigration and the FBI (for the Green Card lottery scam).

 

I ended the email with "I expect they will be arriving at your address very soon. Oh wait, was that a knock I just heard at your door ? Surely they haven't arrived already have they ? Or maybe they have !"
(I was hoping that for the next couple weeks, every time there was a knock at the door he'd jump out the window to "escape".)
Never heard from him again after that.

Hmmm, maybe he did "jump" from a window after all !

 

I think I figured out how they knew I wasn't in Thailand as well. One guy working in our Admin office was Nigerian. I figured he was feeding information to a friend of his in Bangkok and that's how they knew where I was. He up and quit one day (not long after the scammer had sent me the email). The guy in our office had been running around the camp personally collecting assorted fees from company customers (other business on the camp) and giving them receipts but wasn't doing the paperwork at our office to show they'd paid, and was pocketing the cash (10s of thousands of US dollars).

One day he hopped on a plane and left. Some customers complained that they'd paid their bill but their service had been cut off. We investigated it and of course, by the time we realized what had happened it was too late as the guy was already back in Nigeria.

 

[Putu94]

17 hours ago, Crossy said:

It's a form of Advance Fee scam, have a look here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_scam

 

If you go to Sealdel and track your package what is the result https://www.sealdel.com/track-form/

 

the results are different this Url I get the information

when I try other Url , given in this topic, get NO RESULT

 

Edited July 30, 2018 by Crossy
Fixed the quote

[faraday]

Have a look at this gentleman's picture on FB.

I think it might give the op a better understanding of what might be going on here.

 

[Berkshire]

This is a scam. And your"friend" is not in the US Army.

[Kerryd]

7 hours ago, ChouDoufu said:

the lovely photos in their gallery also appear on these other similar websites. 

https://www.tineye.com/search/b2d570987de328926b22245dce4ca1ccc3207aee/

 

http://transroyallogistics.com/

http://www.redexinc.com/

http://91.216.107.196/plesk-site-preview/espacetransit.com/

.............and another 270 other sites with the same layout.

Lol - I picked one photo (this one)

 and searched it and found this one:

 

On the many, many returns for that search, I randomly clicked on one and what was the title ?

"Top 10 online business & business ideas in Nigeria in 2017"

Just one of the 190+ identical pictures of that truck (all without the "SealDel" graphic superimposed on it).

[Crossy]

Indeed, this is looking distinctly fishy. It started as a suitcase stuck in transit in India with a 2000 Baht "clearance" fee (not unbelievable).

 

Now it's $300k worth of gold and a 2000 dollar "fee/fine". Scam, scam, scam!

 

I see that Sealdel.com was registered in April 2018, the registrant, a Jason Gregory, has registered 99 domains, listed here https://domainbigdata.com/nj/HF3wRW4UW1pMWtj7lcK3zQ  mostly now expired.

 

@Putu94 do you actually know (personally and in person) the person who sent you the shipment?

 

[dirtynomad]

https://goo.gl/maps/BAiXW4CjKML2

Edited July 30, 2018 by dirtynomad
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[Belzybob]

I reckon Jason's real photo is more like this:

[evadgib]

1 hour ago, dirtynomad said:

https://goo.gl/maps/BAiXW4CjKML2

(yet staying on topic it would need to be driven by Denzil)

Edited July 30, 2018 by evadgib

[ChouDoufu]

4 hours ago, Putu94 said:

Thanks Jenny

 

Still receive writing in Hang outs

ask for her/him copy ID , ( lol) turns out in very angry writing.

but like you say better stay poor and happy

 

yes is what Sealdel write to me . there for the fine to pay $ 2190 to clear. 

I told Sealdel to contact Sender.

Beside I wonder how Sealdel is involved . most be a good company

dude, have you figgered it out yet?  there is no gold, there is no suitcase, and i assume there is no "friend" in austin.

 

that sealdel website is a fake, only been around for a few months.  it's an almost exact copy of hundreds of others all using the same photos and layout, run by the same scammer.  check the "our team" photos in some....they use the same directors.

 

you, i mean "your friend", got an email from some person directly, or "accidently" misdirected to you, from someone who needed to avoid sanctions (iranians this time? russians?) and had to get their gold out of the usa.  you can be trusted, so if you help them ship it, they'll give you juicy cut, right?

 

but they're stuck somewhere, and you just need to pay the shipping fee.  (along with a couple hundred others who fell for the same email), couple weeks later, you have to pay a customs fee in india.  half drop out.....a few weeks later, there's a fee when the truck was stopped in myanmar.....some more suckers drop out.....then there's the fee to cross the border into thailand.   oooh! it's almost here, better pay right?  he'll keep stringing the suckers along until they all get wise.  the site gets shut down, and another opens.

 

remember all those practically new harleys being sold on ebay for $5K?

 

greed.