Fraud check...www.marfanicorp.com/

Does anyone have any information about this company?

The company is called Marfani Metals or Marfani Corporation (Corp).
I have an offer from them and needs to know whether they are scammers or real sellers.

I have checked on (removed - dotti) and they say the site is ok.
How can I check it?

Thanks in advance.

Domain was registered 6 months ago, and for the minimum period of a year. Appears to be email only, still says "website under construction." The registrant is hidden by privacy protection, something you would not expect from a company in that line of business.

Domain Name.......... marfanicorp.com
Creation Date........ 2012-09-21
Registration Date.... 2012-09-21
Expiry Date.......... 2013-09-21
Admin Name........... Admin PrivateRegContact
Admin Email.......... [email protected]
Admin Phone.......... +1.5105952002

Those are some very big red flags. I can't say for certain whether the domain is fraudulent, but I would require a LOT more information before doing business with them.

Note that I have removed the link in your post to the site you said you used to check marfanicorp.com. There are very mixed reports about the site, and we do not know what methods are used to assign a safety rating.

To put it bluntly this is a scam.

They are claiming to be an international scrap/metals exporter.

Two BIG red flags

Mobile telephone for main contact and fax

The listed address that I found is for a single family home in a residential area.

They claim to exist since 2009 and have a turnover over 12 million usd.
They say to have some scrap that I am interested in and they told that they did not have a working website.
I want to kow whether the company is real or just a scam, maybe the site does not explain so much.
How can I check whether the company is real or not?

A legitmate company of that size would be registered. Where is the company located?

Verify the address and the registration.

Please post the the email you recieved here along with the email header informtion and we will be able to give a better answer.

The following link explains how to find hte email header informaiton.

http://www.abika.com/Reports/Samples/em ... rguide.htm

See below.

I deleted my email and name, it is said: NAME & MYEMAIL, where my email and name is.
I dont want to declare the company as a scammer, but wants to check it out.
I have no further information about the company.

The company is:

Marfani Corp
18518 knob hill lake ln
Humble TX 77346

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To put it bluntly this is a scam.

We are very cautious by nature and there is very good reason for us to warn you baskan123 against losing money to these people, but if you won't listen we can't stop you.

There is no evidence or sight of a company at their residential address, and a company address would normally locate where the business is, and scrap metal would be quite easy to see.

The evidence so far is overwhelming, and there is more that I would prefer not to disclose.

It is my first day on scamwarners.com and must admit that I very positively surprised over how motivated you are and all the know how you have - so wants to thank in advance. You are doing a great job

I could make a great deal if he is not a scammer and untill now he sounded very sincere - so I really hope that he is for real. But if you guys tell he is a scammer, well there is nothing I can do

But woudl appreciate a final evidence since I hope it could be work out

No one with any news?

A search of Texas business registrations shows only one business with Marfani in the name:

https://ourcpa.cpa.state.tx.us/coa/servlet/cpa.app.coa.CoaGetTp?Pg=tpid&Search_Nm=Marfani%20&Button=search&Search_ID=17605748411

Entity Information: MARFANI ENTERPRISES L L C
2914 PECAN WOOD DR
MISSOURI CITY, TX 77459-2967
Status: NOT IN GOOD STANDING
Registered Agent: MOHAMMAD A MARFANI
2706 WOODCREEK DR
PEARLAND, TX 77581
Registered Agent Resignation Date:
State of Formation: TX
File Number: 0703776322
SOS Registration Date: June 4, 1998
Taxpayer Number: 17605748411

The business address is a single family home:

18518 Knob Hill Lake Lane
Humble, TX 77346
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Owner: AHMED MARFANI & MUNAZZA MARFANI
Previous owners:
AHMED MARFANI (06/22/2006 - 06/22/2006)
Land value: $16,516
Building value: $111,536
Total value for property: $128,052
Assessments for tax year: 2009
Prior land value: $16,515
Prior building value: $120,190
Prior total value for property: $136,705
Building area: 2,452 square feet
Land size: 7,523 square feet
State classification: Real, Residential, Single-Family
Neighborhood: Claytons
Condition / Desirability / Utility: Average
Exterior wall: Brick / Veneer
Exterior wall: Frame / Concrete block
Foundation type: Slab
Grade adjustment: C
Heating / AC: Central Heat/AC
Physical condition: Average

If you look at the birds eye and street view here, you can see that the property is certainly not set up to hold millions of dollars worth of scrap. http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/18518-Knob-Hill-Lake-Ln-Humble-TX-77346/80521830_zpid/

On several trade sites, the address is listed as 33 kings ave. Per google maps, that address does not exist.

So we have:
-no business registration
-no physical location (One address that is a home, and one that doesn't exist.)
-a domain that was only registered 6 months ago, for the minimum period
-a business that supposedly does millions in business and claims to have existed for 5 years--but there is absolutely no internet presence except on sites he would have listed himself on (how did he pick up that much international business without a website?)
-A business phone number for a supposedly multi-million dollar business that is a cellphone.