Manta FARA

[Rose_Gantuangco]

The Public Relation Department of Financial Assets Recovery Agency (FARA) in Affiliation with National Unclaimed Property Associates with work address of EC4M 7XQ, London, United Kingdom, Great Britain contacted me thru email and said: that a sum of money in a dormat account is under my name and they will be asking for a Customer Due Diligence Fee of $1,020 for them to release the funds.

Receiver's name is a FRED BUSH of Cairnway Drive, Houston, Texas, 77084, USA.

Why would anyone having a European work address and sending money in Texas?
Have anyone encountered such situation from the same agency?

[Bubbles]

It is a scam. I searched the FARA name and came up with this information:

Financial Assets Recovery Agency
5 Clerkenwell Ward,
London, England EC4M 7XQ , United Kingdom map

+44702-404-7381

[email protected]

They claim this:

About Financial Assets Recovery Agency

The Agency works to recover assets which are, or represent, property obtained through unlawful conduct in England, Wales and Northern Ireland & US.

And they claim this:

Additional Information

The Agency's remit is to reduce crime by: supporting the Police, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) and other agencies in financial investigations.

The phone number is a 4470 redirect number and they ask you for fees up front. You posted this in the correct forum. The payment will be due via Western Union, Money Gram or some other form of money transfer service.

This is a SCAM

Also, you know you don't have a dormant account with a large sum of money in it. The email they sent does not fit with the (fake) purposes stated above.

You are asking the right questions. It is a scam!

What email address did this come from?

[Bubbles]

Looking a little deeper, there is a "Public Relations" firm that certified the FARA. It too is part of the scam:

Fischer Hilton Member since 06/18/2011
5 Clerkenwell Ward,
London,
Public Relation Add as business contact
Financial Assets Recovery Agency

The scammer is going to a lot of work to appear legitimate.

Notice the "cross pollination". The contact for the FARA is "Fisher Hilton" and "Fisher Hilton" is the PR firm that is certifying the FARA:

Fischer Hilton, Public Relation, updated this company profile on 06/23/2011

This is a Scam.

Thanks for posting it.

[bikan]

Hi guys... I have the same case with "Rose_Gantuangco"... they claimed they are from Q-flexsecurities.com,They sent many emails to my inbox, asking me to complete next step. I asked them to stop sending the emails. but they keep going, may be waiting for my weak time... the sender was [email protected] they said that I have unclaimed fund of sum of $9,865,140.00 and they are now waiting for CCD fee the sum of $995.00 from me... they claim this:

To pay for the CDD charge of $995, please send funds by MONEYGRAM Or Western Union to us with the following details:

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Receiver's Name: FRED BUSH

Receiver's Address: Cairnway Drive, Houston, Texas, 77084.
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Do send the following to us when you have completed the payment with the method above:
Sender's Name:
Amount Sent:
Sender's Address:
Reference Number (8 digits Moneygram ref number - WU 10 digits):

Money can be sent from any of MoneyGram's or Wester Union's Agents and Offices in your Location. Please, be advised that, you are also required to scan the receipt given to you after payment and send to us by email. As soon as the CDD charge is received, we would proceed immediately to commence the CDD process. Thank you!


Best Wishes,

I.V.F (Mr.)
Public Relations
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We are not affiliated with any other organization or government agency. All marks are the property of their respective owners.

they also ask me to contact this phone number +1 (678) 922 9428.. the same number founded on http://q-flexsecurities.com/ So guys clarify this for me whether it's a scam or not... best wish..

[Katharina]

Welcome bikan!
You did well to mistrust these emails, of course they are the first part of a scam.
As long as you are replying they will continue to mail you, just delete the mails and add the sender's email address to your spam filter.
And now the scammer knows that he has found someone who will actually read his emails, so he might get back with different types of scam mails. Please be careful and post here if you get more suspicious emails, we will be glad to help.