fr8direct.com - Freight Direct Ltd Freight Group Ltd

http://www.fr8direct.com/index.html

Website impersonating a genuine UK company that isn't associated with it.

The website offers escrow service to support fraudulent transactions.

fr8direct.com reduces the potential risk of fraud by acting as a trusted third party that collects, holds and disburses funds according to Buyer and Seller instructions.

Freight Group LTD tracks the merchandise and verifies it was delivered.

The seller isn't paid until the buyer accepts the merchandise, or the inspection period expires.

The buyer inspects the merchandise before the payment is released to the seller.

The buyer is assured that he/she will receive exactly what they ordered

The website quotes the name and address of the genuine company

FREIGHT DIRECT LIMITED
KUMARA
SEA VIEW ROAD, ST. MARGARETS BAY
DOVER
KENT
CT15 6EE

with no telephone contact details.

The website evidences some uncertainty as to the name of this fraudulent company.

There is no such company as Freight Group Ltd registered at Companies House and under UK law you cannot make up registered company names and use them without being registered at Companies House. On this page the confusion mounts

http://www.fr8direct.com/company.html

Freightgroup, the trading name of FR8 Group Limited, registered in England with company no. 03724589

The company by the name of FR8 Group Ltd was dissolved in 2011 according to Companies House records and the company registration number quoted belongs to the company being impersonated - Freight Direct Ltd who are not associated with this fraudulent website.

The Terms and Conditions, which I love to read, refers to Freight Group Ltd - a company that doesn't exist.

In fact the company undergoes various changes throughout the T & C's suggesting that the writer isn't comfortable with the English language - other variations include "Transaction Freight Group LTD" and "General Freight Group LTD".

In this paragraph the writer loses touch with reality

You may contact fr8direct.com by filling out the customer support form or by regular mail to fr8direct.com, 16251 Laguna Canyon Road, Suite 150, Irvine, CA 92618 or such other address as fr8direct.com posts as its address for notice on the Site in the most recent version of the Terms of Use

A dead giveaway that the incompetent site builder has copied T & C's from a US website, which no proper UK company would do

… SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ….

This appears to be an example of a website set up by a lazy scammer who changes the name of the company being impersonated without bothering to change all the details.

The website also uses American spellings. The site isn't built by an American but European scammers aren't unaware of such subtleties.

Domain Name: FR8DIRECT.COM
Registry Domain ID: 1833365048_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.enom.com
Registrar URL: http://www.enom.com
Updated Date: 2013-10-30 12:56:12Z
Creation Date: 2013-10-30 19:56:09Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2014-10-30 19:56:09Z
Registrar: ENOM, INC.
Registrar IANA ID: 48
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: Email Masking [email protected]
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.4252744500
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: WHOIS AGENT
Registrant Organization: WHOIS PRIVACY PROTECTION SERVICE, INC.
Registrant Street: PO BOX 639
Registrant Street: C/O FR8DIRECT.COM
Registrant City: KIRKLAND
Registrant State/Province: WA
Registrant Postal Code: 98083
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.4252740657
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