Is subject a legal company? It's website, Fortune Trust and Financial
Services, advertises services such as banking, haulage, brokerage,
etc.

Dear foresight469,

"Fortune Trust Finance & Securities" is, to say the least, extremely
dubious. According to their website (
http://www.fortunetrust.com/ContactUs.htm ), their European office has
the address Hoogoorddreef 43, 1051 JL, Amsterdam, Netherlands; the
alleged telephone number is +31-205241653.

This address alone is more than suspicious: While there is a street
named Hoogoorddreef in the city of Amsterdam, there is no No. 43. The
street is located in Amsterdam-Zuidoost; but the zip code 1051 JL
belongs to a completely different part of town,
Amsterdam-Staatsliedenbuurt.
The phone number, finally, belongs to a real bank - but not Fortune
Trust. It is one of the phone numbers owned by De Nederlandse Bank.

Furthermore, the fake Hoogoorddreef 43 address has quite often shown
up in connection with Internet frauds, with different names of
"companies".

I strongly recommend keeping away from Fortune Trust Finance &
Securities - a company that gives a mock address can under no
circumstances be trusted. Especially, when they also have such a
cheap-looking website.


Sources:

Supergonzo, "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

Webwereld: Bende lokt Texaan tevergeefs naar Amsterdam (in Dutch!)
http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/17300.phtml

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

Gouden Gids: Official Dutch Yellow Pages
http://www.goudengids.nl/

Search terms used:
"Fortune Trust"
://www.google.de/search?hl=de&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1&q=%22Fortune+Trust%22&meta=
"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=
"205 241 653"
://www.google.de/search?hl=de&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1&q=%22205+241+653%22&btnG=Google+Suche&meta=


Hope this helps!
Regards,
Scriptor

Would you know the address and telephone number of the Interpol or any
international agency that oversees banking operation in the Amsterdam
or the Netherlands?

Also look at section titled 'Various Names Used for Bogus Operations'
http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/Nigerian/security_companies.htm

Article on 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/31679.html

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