We have recently experienced some frauds on
this portal,
that - if compared with the
nigerian scams - these last ones look
like a
joke for children...
A NEW SCAM STRATEGY
The method consists in
attracting foreign brokers and buyers with
competive prices: the sugar is now one of their most favourite
commodities
because the high request on the
market, but they also can offer other
products
too (e.g.: cement, oils and urea).
HOW THEY WORK
The sad
truth is that they are unable to deliver an only pound of sugar,
but they only care to get your buyers LC to
place it on some financial circuits:
for any
stolen LC even if not-operative they get a lot of commissions!
WHERE THEY ARE FROM
These guys act in more countries worlwide
(mostly France, Spain and UK),
but they can
have more fake companies as for we know.
Their
victims appears to be instead from other countries, Africa expecially,
because in this way they feel free to act
without risks about, because still
missing an
international policy for fighting this kind of scams.
WHAT TO DO
The only way to protect you and your buyers
please always ask for the POP before
the LC
via MT799.
So always ask for the POP before the
LC: if they refuse it's only because they
haven't the product!
TOO LATE?
If you have been already ripped off
please contact us at E-mail:sugarscams@gmail.com
and subscribe our mailling list: currently we
are collecting tons of infos
on these
criminals to support the investigators.
To stop the fraudsters if you have been ripped
off always report the scammers
to IC3 as well
to their respective local authorities/law enforcements.
USEFULL LINKS
Also visit:
www.ic3.gov">href=www.ic3.gov>www.ic3.gov - The Internet Crime Complaint
Center (IC3)*
* The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is
a partnership between the
Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI), the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C),
and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA).
IC3 provides a central
referral mechanism for complaints involving Internet related crimes.
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