SCAMPATROL

[Former Member]

As you will see below, it has come to our attention that a gang of scammers are using the name of Scam Patrol to perpetrate a "money recovery scam".

If you receive an email similar to the one below from anyone claiming to be from Scam Patrol or other scam fighting agencies, and asking you to pay a fee to recover money you may have lost to scammers, please DO NOT send them any money, they are scammers and are nothing to do with Scam Patrol. The say they give a 100% guarantee that they can recover your money, that is a LIE, if you have lost money to scammers it CANNOT be recovered.

WE WILL NEVER ASK YOU FOR ANY MONEY FOR OUR SERVICES!

We have recently been informed of an email being circulated on the internet purporting to be from an organisation called InternetScamPatrol

It is unknown at this time whether this organisation is a valid one, but we would like to point out to visitors that InternetScamPatrol does not have any affiliation or link with our own ScamPatrol based here at ScamPatrol.org

The letter in question gives the impression that the United Nations are assisting InternetScamPatrol; This statement is simply untrue.

Another impression from this letter is read in the final paragraph where it states

[Fraud Chaser]

Can't help it. Gotta' grin big time. Man, the lingo is so-o standard! I haven't seen these letters yet, but sure as shootin' they'll land in my mailboxes somewhere along the line.

Today I provided an answer to someone who was disappointed about funds recovery. This happens a lot. So I explained a few facts that go well in this string:

1. Financial asset recovery is very, very expensive for the Asset Rrecovery Specialist. Expenses involve hiring attorneys in each country the money passed through. These attorneys are hired for the purpose of organizing the correct legal documents that will allow the presiding court to order the bank to cough up the account info. And that doesn't mean the bank will cooperate, or that the attorney will be successful!

More expenses: Research, discovery, Internet forensics, travel to where the scammer and/or cohorts may be currently located for a Come to Jesus talk. Travel to speak with bankers, which often ends up being necessary if a court order doesn't work. Hiring local of PI's is frequently necessary. Travel expenses to and from the victim's offices. Writing letters, spending hours on end on the phone using every single ounce of expertise and artistry to finesse information out of everyone from some two-bit fall guy to government officials. And on and on and on. All without any guarantee of success whatsoever.

That's why a legitimate Financial Asset Recovery Specialists usually has an asset loss threshhold starting around $500,000 to $1,000,000, unless the case is so totally local that it's a quickie only requiring maybe a couple of phone calls and a nice personal chat with the bad guys.

If any funds are recovered at all, it's important to understand that they are NOT the specific funds of the victim in question. They are the funds of subsequent victims.

AND each case is totally separate. Don't fall for any of this "pooling" mumbo jumbo, especially with Nigerian-style or Romanian scams. One victim's laundered money route has nothing to do with another's, nor is it likely that the funds were even stolen by or went to the same fraud cell. Different cases, different investigations, different costs. The only way victims can be pooled is if they were all, each and every one, definitively swindled by the same guy or group. As in "investment group."

As for the Feds, you gotta' figure around $200,000 in taxpayer money just for a simple criminal investigation case, never mind a complex one, and that doesn't include any kind of recovery whatsoever. If you were personally writing the checks, would you fork over $200,000 to $300,000 to find somebody's $2,000 crook?

Annie
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Annie McGuire
Fraud-Aid
www.fraudaid.com