I have sent £22,000 to purchase a car via Catalan Shipping Gateway -
www.catalanshippingworld.com - Address: Alcala de Henares, P.so de
Pastrana 32 28803 Madrid Spain.Tel: 0034692270676.Fax: 0034911414304.
I was advised by the so called owner of the car to use them as a third
party intermediary, the owner of the car is a Mr Al Ransom telephone
number 0034699817633 living at Calle Guzman el Bueno, Madrid 28024
Spain.  I obtained a car check on the vehicle and everything seems
to be fine, The car is a Porsche Cayenne Turbo - reg WMO3 CVW.
After I paid the money I received an email from Catalan with the
tracking number and shipping certificate.

Everything was fine and the car was supposed to be delivered on
16/4/06, The car never arrived and now I cannot get in contact with
them or the owner.

After  researching on the internet, I found 3 websites very similar -
World Cargo Express Inc(www.wcexpress.net):GlobalRunner - Online
Shipping Partener(www.edockxter.net) and Catalan Shipping
(www.catalanshippingsa.com).

Is there any way of me obtaining my money back? - It was a bank
transfer from two accounts one from my BBVA account in Spain and the
other First Direct (HSBC) in London to a thereSpanish bank - La Caixa
in Madrid.  The account numbers they gave me is
ES2621001926270200048406   account name: Gateway Import - Export S.L

Can you please help - I have kept all the correspondense from them?
   
Also I would like my details passed to others in a similar situation
so we can liase.

Alan Dingomal
alan.dingomal@ntlworld.com
07956 826490 mobile.

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Request for Question Clarification by scriptor-ga on 23 Apr 2006 11:34 PDT

Dear alanbebe,

This is not an answer, only a comment.

What I have to say is unpleasant to you, but I will be upfront with
it: You have been scammed by criminals, and there is little to no
chance that you will ever get back your money or track the fraudsters.

I have examined the address of this "company", Paseo de Pastrana 32 in
28803 Alcalá de Henares, Spain. It is the address of a hotel, the
Hotel Green Cisneros. There is no office building and no company
headquarter, just the hotel.

Of course, an actual, reputable company would not provide a fake
address. Online scammers, on the other hand, very often do that. They
simply take some address that looks good and put it on their
short-lived website of their fraudulent "company". In reality, the
company does not exist at all.

Also, the postal code 28024 does not belong to the area of Madrid
where the Calle Guzman el Bueno is located. Mr "Al Ransom"'s
residential address is as fake as the shipping company, and I have no
reason to believe that Mr. Ransom is an actual person at all.

The telephone numbers are Spanish, as the country code shows. Maybe
the subscribers of these numbers can be tracked, if the fraudsters
have been a bit careless. Also, it might be possible to find out who
ownes/owned the Spanish bank account. This is something that needs the
support of Spanish authorities. Therefore, I recommend that you
contact the police and that you consult a lawyer who can arrange the
necessary things.

By the way, have you already asked your bank whether it is possible to
call back the money? This should be possible for 6 weeks after the
transfer was done, as far as I know.

Scriptor