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Wow, $12.3 Billion lost to the 419 scam in 2013 and growing if the ultrascan report is accurate. Edit: interesting report on the scam (warning large pdf): htt

• acqq 12y ago
  The company producing the report you link appears to be the scam too: http://www.ultrascan-agi.com/public_html/html/about.html http://www.ultrascan-agi.com/public_html/html/about.html "Ultrascan AGI is a subsidiary of Ultrascan Research Services, an international research organization with over 3200 experts in 69 countries." But in the report you link, made in 2014, they have their statistics of "Yugoslavia" from 2008 and 2009, whereas the country with that name doesn't exist in the world since 2003 (that is, more than a decade) easily verifiable online. I wouldn't be surprised that behind the "organization with 3200 experts" is only one or two persons. Edit: and here they are, possibly using the fake names, doing scams too: http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/texas-c466991.html http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/texas-c466991.html "People, please be aware, globalinvestor.com IS a scam. It's just a website with nothing legitimate behind it. The person behind it allegedly is a 'Max Becker' who writes on his Linkedin profile that he is the CEO. He also writes to be the CTO of a company called Ultrascan Advanced Global Investigations. The person behind Ultrascan is Frank Engelsman. He is Dutch and does exist. Ultrascan claims to help victims of 419 (Nigerian advanced fee fraud) but that appears also to be a scam." http://www.scambook.com/report/view/115492/Economic-Frauds-economicfraudscom-Complaint-115492-for-$650.00 http://www.scambook.com/report/view/115492/Economic-Frauds-e... "I was scam by Global Investor Alerts for $37,000. Exact same modus operendi as Economic Frauds. I do some research and I find other company with same modus operendi Ultrascan IGA website http://www.ultrascan-agi.com/ http://www.ultrascan-agi.com/ Take a look. It look like it is abandoned since 2010. The owner of Ultrascan company is Frank Engelsman from Holland. Then came Global Investor Alerts alias name now Max Becker now it is Economic Frauds. Max Becker tell me the same thing. How he can get my money back from garbage stock I buy, called ALLI, and he already help a lot of people. So then I send in my documents. Then he say it is class action with many others and ALLi do a fraud. Always a story to send money again and again. Then I am suspicious. I try to get address to go see Max Becker and no more answer. Ultrascan, Gobal Investor Alerts, Economic Frauds all have no address. Only telephone to take your money."