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Shares in escrow account

cheval14 · 2019-07-28 19:17:16

I have been contacted by an American company about shares I apparently own in an Escrow Account. They are restricted, and I need to pay £5,000 to a compny working from London to allow the restriction to be lifted. However, after checking with the FCA, I understand that this is a scam and on no account should be followed…

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DrSyn Posts: 904 Forumite

6 September 2019 at 2:31PM

If you book mark :-

https://www.scamdoc.com/

Then run the company name through. If it turns up red as yours did, it might make the scammed person accept they have been scammed.

Also the it seems to me the scamdoc website gives the red warning ahead of the FCA in the UK. I haven't checked it against the SEC in the USA.

Thanks for mentioning:-
https://www.iosco.org/

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