UKCP Registrants & Member Organisations: Please be alert!

30th May 2007

We ask that you are alert to an email request entitled "therapist needed". This appears to be a bona-fide request for therapy from a visitor to the UK , requesting help for him and his partner when they visit.

When therapists have responded to this e-mail, explaining that they do not do home visits, and offering their terms and conditions and prices, the sender is delighted and then asks the therapist to send their bank details so that he can transfer money into a bankers draft for advance payment.

Our concern is that this is a scam and the purpose is to gain access to your
personal banking details. To date, this person has contacted many BASRT therapists across the UK and the correspondence is exactly the same in each case, with specific details around where he or she is staying altered to each individual that is contacted.

The internet fraud team have been contacted to pick up this case tomorrow morning. Other Psychotherapy associations have been alerted.