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I do not know of any scam being played by them. I engaged their service after scammed and i got my money although it took a while which made me worried. I never paid until i got my money because i was scared having being scammed before. Before i engaged them, i did a time search and discovered that the website was only created in 2019 November but i was made to realized that they changed their domain from ".com to .org" . I cannot confirm about the copyright infringement since it is within my name; and hence you may ask them directly. Do your due diligence. But i think that they are not bad.

I hope that you find the above helpful.

horizon-security.com - I've checked quite a few archived screenshots - all show either 404 or for sale. There's zero sign of any actual business there in 2016-2018.

And, despite your claim to have been helped by previously, you did absolutely nothing until deciding to come to the FPA for no other purpose but to promote them.

Why do I have the feeling that you really work for the scammers behind Horizon-Security.org?
 
I searched for the text of the testimonial of one of their clients. On Alpha Finance Recovery, "Martha Taylor" says " After I finished my college degree I thought giving online trading a try. I ended up being scammed . . ."

The exact same testimonial is from "Mike Dalini" on InvestmentRefund.com as well as in a number of spammed messages asking people to get in touch with various people who can recover funds. Maybe a lot of people finished their degrees, thought about online trading, got scammed, got the money recovered by different services, and all wrote the exact same words or, far more likely, a bunch of scammers aren't creative enough to write original text.

The AlphaFinanceRecovery.com website was created on 2020-03-14. It claims to have recovered millions of dollars for 791 happy clients since then.

Take your money and flee.

If you are looking at a recovery company, then you probably have already been scammed. Open a thread in the Scam Alerts folder and you can get some advice.
 
I searched for the text of the testimonial of one of their clients. On Alpha Finance Recovery, "Martha Taylor" says " After I finished my college degree I thought giving online trading a try. I ended up being scammed . . ."

The exact same testimonial is from "Mike Dalini" on InvestmentRefund.com as well as in a number of spammed messages asking people to get in touch with various people who can recover funds. Maybe a lot of people finished their degrees, thought about online trading, got scammed, got the money recovered by different services, and all wrote the exact same words or, far more likely, a bunch of scammers aren't creative enough to write original text.

The AlphaFinanceRecovery.com website was created on 2020-03-14. It claims to have recovered millions of dollars for 791 happy clients since then.

Take your money and flee.

If you are looking at a recovery company, then you probably have already been scammed. Open a thread in the Scam Alerts folder and you can get some advice.

There are many recovery services was looking for no win no fee bases. got scammed on 72option.com few years back...haven't heard anyone got there funds back. was looking for alternative cheaper route.

You are right alphafinancerecovery.com looks fishy to me as well. new domain. the person very reluctant to give any sites that he recovered. i contacted them and mentioned let me see the policy/contract before proceeding forward and its been 3 days i haven't received it yet. doesn't look very promising.
 
Agree. If you didn’t lose a lot of money, I suggest don’t even bother looking for these sites because 90% you won’t get it back if you know that’s a scam. Just do more thorough research and don’t act quickly. Keep your emotions calm first, knowing that you been robbed and lied might have a lot of anger and frustration and a lot of people will prey on your vulnerability. Learned from it and move on.
 
Hello has anyone heard of recovery service called tandhconsult.com ?

Never heard of it, but let's do some digging.

The tandhconsult.com domain was first registered in March 2019. That's not super recent, but also doesn't show a long history.

The site offers credit card chargeback assistance. Assisted chargebacks are possible, but many such sites are really just there to collect upfront fees.

Oddly, the site also offers a number of education classes. Not enough details are give, especially the prices. I also find it odd that their lowest level stock class covers IPOs. Yes, those can be profitable, but that's not the sort of thing a new stock trader should leap into.

The London address appears to be virtual, available for as little as 2.08 GPB per week:

https://www.britishmonomarks.co.uk/

There are over 12,000 Google hits for the Hungarian address if you leave 5th Floor out of it. That must be a BIG building to have so many things in it, unless it's another virtual address.

Virtual addresses are suspicious, but aren't a 100% guarantee of a problem. Time to dig a little deeper.

Let's see what the fee structure is.

"Basic" service wants 499 GPB plus 20%. So, if you deposited 1000 GPB via credit card, used these people to help you get it back, and got the full 1000, you would pay them 499 plus their success fee. You might have a lesser chance with a DIY chargeback, but you would get to keep the full amount if it worked. For all we know, they're "help" might be nothing more than a simple standard script of what to say to your bank.

They also have "Optimal" service - Starting at 1199 GBP plus 17% of the amount recovered, if any.

Premium - Starting at 2499 GBP, plus 17% of the amount recovered, if any.

Diamond - 9999 GBP, plus 10% of the amount recovered, if any. If you've already lost enough to consider paying a 10k fee, maybe you should get lawyer instead of a chargeback service.


It can help to get the assistance of a chargeback company, but the vast bulk of the fee should be based on success. These upfront fees all strike me as quite extreme.


But, let's keep digging.

Look at the 3 images tied to the testimonials. Do you think those are real clients? They aren't. Check these links to see those same faces elsewhere:

tandhconsult.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/team6-e1520482713380.jpg is shown here:

xanderbyte.com/about-us/
cloudio.com.au/our-team/
slydeways.com/demo/gallery-small-thumbnails/ and a number of other sites. Oh, but maybe other sites copied this picture. Let's check the other two.

tandhconsult.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/aman-2-%E2%80%94-%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%8F.png is cropped from the image of Marlowe O. Erickson, Ph.D. you can find here:

shareinprint.com/shareinprint

tandhconsult.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/man-%E2%80%94-%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%8F.png is cropped from the stock image here:

stock.adobe.com/tw/images/smiling-attractive-mature-man-wearing-glasses/190535196

Don't delay checking the images. It would only take them a few minutes to change them when they see this post.

So, are you ready to give more of your hard earned cash to a company that uses fake images of clients and charges high fees for its claimed services?
 
Never heard of it, but let's do some digging.

The tandhconsult.com domain was first registered in March 2019. That's not super recent, but also doesn't show a long history.

The site offers credit card chargeback assistance. Assisted chargebacks are possible, but many such sites are really just there to collect upfront fees.

Oddly, the site also offers a number of education classes. Not enough details are give, especially the prices. I also find it odd that their lowest level stock class covers IPOs. Yes, those can be profitable, but that's not the sort of thing a new stock trader should leap into.

The London address appears to be virtual, available for as little as 2.08 GPB per week:

https://www.britishmonomarks.co.uk/

There are over 12,000 Google hits for the Hungarian address if you leave 5th Floor out of it. That must be a BIG building to have so many things in it, unless it's another virtual address.

Virtual addresses are suspicious, but aren't a 100% guarantee of a problem. Time to dig a little deeper.

Let's see what the fee structure is.

"Basic" service wants 499 GPB plus 20%. So, if you deposited 1000 GPB via credit card, used these people to help you get it back, and got the full 1000, you would pay them 499 plus their success fee. You might have a lesser chance with a DIY chargeback, but you would get to keep the full amount if it worked. For all we know, they're "help" might be nothing more than a simple standard script of what to say to your bank.

They also have "Optimal" service - Starting at 1199 GBP plus 17% of the amount recovered, if any.

Premium - Starting at 2499 GBP, plus 17% of the amount recovered, if any.

Diamond - 9999 GBP, plus 10% of the amount recovered, if any. If you've already lost enough to consider paying a 10k fee, maybe you should get lawyer instead of a chargeback service.


It can help to get the assistance of a chargeback company, but the vast bulk of the fee should be based on success. These upfront fees all strike me as quite extreme.


But, let's keep digging.

Look at the 3 images tied to the testimonials. Do you think those are real clients? They aren't. Check these links to see those same faces elsewhere:

tandhconsult.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/team6-e1520482713380.jpg is shown here:

xanderbyte.com/about-us/
cloudio.com.au/our-team/
slydeways.com/demo/gallery-small-thumbnails/ and a number of other sites. Oh, but maybe other sites copied this picture. Let's check the other two.

tandhconsult.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/aman-2-%E2%80%94-%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%8F.png is cropped from the image of Marlowe O. Erickson, Ph.D. you can find here:

shareinprint.com/shareinprint

tandhconsult.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/man-%E2%80%94-%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%8F.png is cropped from the stock image here:

stock.adobe.com/tw/images/smiling-attractive-mature-man-wearing-glasses/190535196

Don't delay checking the images. It would only take them a few minutes to change them when they see this post.

So, are you ready to give more of your hard earned cash to a company that uses fake images of clients and charges high fees for its claimed services?

i can understand if there sharing a template but copying people's profile photo from another website is completely wrong ! wow thanks for sharing that and the virtual address. you should provide a course for people such as me how to avoid these kind of occurrence to happen again in the future =)
 
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