Dear edystone,
"Ocean Trust Fincance" is, to say the least, extremely dubious.
According to their website ( http://www.oceantrustplc.com/contact.htm
), their haulage office has the address Hoogoorddreef 43, 1051 JL,
Amsterdam, Netherlands.
This address alone is more than suspicious: While there is a street
named Hoogoorddreef in the city of Amsterdam, there is no No. 43 at
all. The street is located in Amsterdam-Zuidoost; but the zip code
1051 JL belongs to a completely different part of town,
Amsterdam-Staatsliedenbuurt.
Furthermore, the fake Hoogoorddreef 43 address quite often shows up in
connection with Internet frauds, with different names of "companies".
For that reason alone, I would already strongly recommend keeping away
from Ocean Trust Finance - a company that gives a (clumsily faked)
mock address can under no circumstances be trusted.
But that is not all - that "company" took even more steps to cloak
their real location and identity. I have checked their domain name,
"oceantrustplc.com", for the owner's data. But instead of a real
address, phone number, or other identification any trustworthy company
would display, the alleged owner of the domain is "Whois Privacy
Protection Service, Inc.". For your information: This identitiy
cloaking service is offered by eNom (http://www.enom.com/). Spammers,
fraudsters and fake companies use this method to hide their
identities.
So since the "company" is very obviously nothing but a fake, designed
for the purpose of conducting fraud and similar illegal activities,
they don't deserve any trust.
Sources:
Allwhois Domain Name Lookup
http://www.allwhois.com/cgi-bin/allwhois.cgi
Gouden Gids: Dutch Yellow Pages
http://www.goudengids.nl/
Webwereld: Bende lokt Texaan tevergeefs naar Amsterdam (in Dutch!)
http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/17300.phtml
upergonzo, "Re: 419 oplichting" Online posting (2003-06-27).
<nl.internet.misbruik> via Google Groups (in Dutch!)
http://groups.google.de/groups?q=Hoogoorddreef+1051&hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1&selm=917pfvo855fq80a9s1ksfrvcr4jvkkrfel%404ax.com&rnum=2
War On Spam: Cases - Ahmad Balogun
http://www.waronspam.com/cases/419/Ahmad%20Balogun/index.shtml
419 Letters Scam: "Dutch", "Belgian", "British", and "Swiss" Lottery Scam
http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/~wm/wm-lotto.html
Google Answers: Banking at Fortune Trust and Financial Services
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=292875
Donotreply.com: Security warning Spam Virus - Thanks Interland!
http://www.donotreply.com/archives/000006.html
Beloved Leader: "[email] [Enom] [whoisprivacyprotect.com] Get Your
EASTER Smilies!". Online posting (2004-03-27).
<news.admin.net-abuse.sightings> via Google Groups
http://groups.google.de/groups?q=%22Whois+Privacy+Protection+Service,%22&hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&newwindow=1&selm=26a0f230.0403270753.247cde65%40posting.google.com&rnum=3
Beloved Leader: "Enom and whoisprivacyprotect.com". Online posting
(2004-03-27). <news.admin.net-abuse.sightings> via Google Groups
http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&newwindow=1&selm=26a0f230.0403270724.664c6e75%40posting.google.com
Wm James: "Re:Enom and whoisprivacyprotect.com". Online posting
(2004-03-27). <news.admin.net-abuse.sightings> via Google Groups
http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&newwindow=1&selm=cgdc60hi00rovkc40un28sae9llgk8koa7%404ax.com
Search terms used:
"Hoogoorddreef 43"
://www.google.de/search?q=%22Hoogoorddreef+43%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=de&btnG=Google+Suche&meta=
Hoogoorddreef 1051
http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=de&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1&q=Hoogoorddreef+1051&sa=N&tab=wg&meta=
whoisprivacyprotect
://www.google.de/search?hl=de&ie=UTF-8&newwindow=1&q=whoisprivacyprotect&btnG=Suche
whoisprivacyprotect
http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&newwindow=1&q=whoisprivacyprotect&btnG=Suche
Hope this helps!
Regards,
Scriptor |
