Cergas Oil Debt Collection Scam

[robertspitz]

What can you tell me about:
Cergas Oil & Engineering Ltd.
No. 2435 1st Floor, Pan Boulevard
Boulevard Centre
98000 Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia

Dr. Phil Letterman, VP
085-41 6060

[The Enchantress]

The company address checks out as a legitimate company.

http://www.msiasearch.com/srch_company_ ... ?did=37911

Could you post more information, perhaps e-mail, and one of our advisers will reply ASAP.

[Ralph]

Hi Robert,

Welcome to Scamwarners

As The Enchantress suggests, I cant find any evidence of the company being fraudulent, even so, it is very common for scammers to use the information and websites of legitimate companies to make their scams look more realists.

Perhaps the best known example of this would be "The Microsoft Loettery" of course there is no such thing and most popel will recognise an email from Microsoft as a scam immediately, for tha treason, scanners wil ltry to piggy back otehr sites.

If you could please post up the emails or any otehr details from this scammer, we may be able to provide more information for you.

[Jillian]

Hi Robert and welcome.

Cergas Oil is being used in a debt collection scam. In response to your other post, The Enchantress posted a link to the thread here at ScamWarners. It is here: http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=7051

There is a fraudulent Cergas Oil site set up for this fake company. Site killers have reported it to its hoster for fraud but we have not yet been able to get it shut down.

The fraudulent site is http://www.cergasoil.com/ It has an entry in the Artists Against 419 (aa419.org) Database of fraudulent sites here: http://db.aa419.org/fakebanksview.php?key=33357

There may be a legitimate Cergas Oil out there somewhere, but the email about debt collection you have received, and any reference to the above website, is attempted fraud.

Here is a copy of a scam email another attorney shared with me regarding this fraud:

CERGAS OIL & ENGINEERING LTD.
No. 2435, 1st Floor, ,Psn Boulevard,
Boulevard Centre
Phone: 085-41 6060
98000 Miri, Sarawak
Malaysia
http://www.cergasoil.com
[email protected]

September 29, 2008
Sir/Madam:
We wish to retain your services to facilitate in the retrieval of delinquent accounts and holdings from
our customers in the United States. These accounts have been delinquent for a while, due to the
current economic crisis in the United States, and we have been lenient enough to give a credit period
of 3 months, which started in the month of August, before requesting payments. We would like for
the accounts to be mediated and closed before the end of the incoming quarter. We believe that all
owed funds to our company will be made payable contingent upon acquiring the assistance of your
offices. Also, the companies that have disarray with have been legitimate to our company for years so
we believe and hope that the need for litigation will not arise. We would like to receive your retainer
agreement, rates and all other essential material regarding your firm’s compensation policies. These,
and all other material, can be communicated via the company’s presidents email address,
[email protected] and also copying [email protected] for secretarial references.
We look forward to your reply
Sincerely,
Cisero Ong
President
Cergas Oil & Engineering Co. Ltd

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