RPK Trust Bank Scam Website
RPK Trust Bank does not exist. Despite the long history claimed for the institution it has never existed or done business and the website set up at www.rpktrust.com is fake, it is not a real bank website and has been set up to support a number of 419 scams. Mr Johannes Vasco (Fake Inheritance Scam) is supposedly an employee of this bank
These are some screenshots from the fake website
RPK Trust Bank domain name rpktrust.com only registered on 20th Oct 2024
Red Flags: Relatively recently registered domain name. Generic photographs and vague text, nothing to encourage me that it is a genuine established bank going back to 1816. Whilst the website has a telephone number, contact form and email address but no physical geographic addresses and that for a bank that claims...
"R P K Trust is a private bank operating International. It is a subsidiary of TURKEY, USA, Asia & Europe. Tracing its history back to a bank founded in United Kingdom in 1816, it was independent for 180 years, before being purchased in 1997". This text is very poor English.
The Bank has many pages which we have not bothered to screenshot, they cover all branches of banking... Personal Banking (5 pages), Business (6 pages), Private (6 pages), Loans and Credit (5 pages). Each of these pages is filled with meaningless generic text all in a bright orange colour!
We will however look at the About page and the Login page(s):
About
Plenty of generic text, real banks don't write like this, it just looks dodgy.
And clicking on the "Log In" Link:
And entering the numbers leads to the login page
The scammers at the approriate time in the scam will give you login details. You can choose to register for an account by clicking on the approriate button, providing a plethora of personal information which will enable the scammers to steal your identity.
The age of the bank
The website gives the following information... "R P K Trust is a private bank operating International. It is a subsidiary of TURKEY, USA, Asia & Europe. Tracing its history back to a bank founded in United Kingdom in 1816, it was independent for 180 years, before being purchased in 1997".
Being curious I thought I would reseach online banks established in 1816. I would expect there to be a few but not too many. In terms of history this was one year after the Battle of Waterloo".
Performing a Google search "private banks established in 1816 uk" quickly brought up under the AI assistant Cater Allen Bank as being established in the same year.
Checking wikipedia showed very similar text to that which appears on the RPK Trust Bank website substituting names for the actual historical background of Cater Allen Bank
Cater Allen Wikipedia link
This gives more confirmation to RPK Trust being a fake bank.
Further Reading:
Scamminder report - RPK Trust Bank
Michael Fowler
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