I have not transferred money to UK account, I transferred funds to the bank in Hong Kong. Strictly speaking, nothing links my case to UK except British accent of fraudsters.
Unfortunately, I cannot submit my report to Action Fraud as they do not take reports from people living outside of UK in case fraud was also committed outside of UK (as in my case). However, I am ready to join the any other action.
In my case I can only say that my mobile phone number and work e-mail are not listed on LinkedIn, I do not not have any social media accounts and I cannot think about any publicly avaiable database where they could get my mobile phone number from. They got this info from some private data...
Don;t know where you are - I am in Geneva, working for big multi-national company. There is significant number of financial advisory firms here who work with expats. In my experience, they are predominantly British. So it is quite likely that someone could have shared or sold client data to...
I think that interesting question is how had they found us.
In my case - they contacted me early January. They knew my full name, work e-mail and mobile phone number. This is not something that is easy to find.
That was clear sign that they are preparign to run, as according to their policy they only promised to return money in 180 days after account is closed...
Anybody here with some legal background? How could we join our efforts most efficiently?
I was dealing with John Langdon - you can read my detailed story in this thread on page 2. I think doing group thing makes a lot of sense, though probably only small fraction of Noerus victims is reading this forum...
Just wrote an e-mail to Complaints at Cyprus Financial Ombudsman, providing details of bank account in Hong Kong to which money have been transferred and contact details of Noerus Capital. Let's see what happens next.
There is this thread in Scam Alerts part of the Forum:
Been scammed by a Cyprus Broker? New instructions from Cysec
However, based on the discussions there, not much chances to get anything back...
Hello,
Thank you very much for advise! I am living in Switzerland and bank to which I've sent my money is in Hong Kong, not sure if you have any other information relevant to these 2 countries.
May I ask you one more question, as my experience with filing fraud complaints is non-existent? What...
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