They have a UK phone number and there is a map with an arrow on it pointing to a road in Central London, and I think that speaks volumes - in a bad way.
Though it gives itself a 'Limited' company title variation it is not registered at Companies House which is a UK legal requirement. I could check at the FSA, where it would also have to be authorised, but if it isn't registered as a company, there's no need. In spite of claiming to be the world's leading e currency business its website is only a few months old and it's identity is hidden by a domain privacy service. Even more bizarrely the site has links to other e-currency providers, and would therefore appear to be promoting them, which is ridiculous.
The only address provided is in Czechoslovakia but the specific address mentioned doesn't appear to have any such company located there. In many respects the website is quite amateur and there are some terrible gaffes. One of the most telling ones is
Payment methods accepted are Western Union/MoneyGram..........
A company cannot receive money by Western Union or MoneyGram. It's legally impossible. Western Union and MoneyGram only deal with people.
Game over - walk away.
This portion is utter farce but does mention some alarming practices.
How do I make an Anonymously Bank Transfer?
To use this method, you need to log into your bank account and make a transfer to our employees Bank account.
You need to ensure you transfer the last two digits of your e-gold account number as cents, for example: If your e-gold account number is 1234567, and you plan to buy USD 3000 worth of e-gold, then we will ask you to transfer USD 3000.67.
You are then required to send us a screenshot of the transfer confirmation page.
Poor English, poor punctuation and staff putting clients' money through their own accounts ? 'Anonymously Bank Transfers'
are frowned upon in the modern banking world, and no sane organisation would send hidden messages by means of the amount sent.
Better still
All IBAN transfers and cash deposits into our employees Bank accounts have a additional deposit charge of US$5.00.
Quite unusual for employees to have clients's money put through their accounts, but not in this business. Employees will launder the cash received and face police prosecution, after they've passed on the cash to them by Western Union - clearly their preferred transfer method, as it leaves them untraceable.
......or by using fast Internet bank transfers or using the nearest Western Union Agent location in over 195 countries and territories worldwide.
The job offer is effectively to launder stolen money and, as your bank account is very traceable, to face the police when victims complain.
The Det Norske Veritas certificate ? - if you look at the address of the page it includes the workd 'ixtent' and I've found another Den Norske Veritas certificate for a company of that name with the same serial number here
http://www.ixtent.com/en/iso_9001_2008_ixtent_cr_eng.jpg........which is the same as finding two bank notes with the same serial number.
The scammer has photo-shopped it, and you can spot it more clearly from the mis-matched fonts when you compare it with the original. The certificate isn't related to the financial service industry.
The one on the website shows it is also expired - DOHHHHH.
These are 419 scammers operating way outside their comfort zone.
...and finally, you'll note from above that they offer people the opportunity to purchase e-gold, but then they state this
4. All buy orders regardless of deposit currency are exchanged into US$ at the rate set by the bank in which the deposit was made.
Quite clearly this scammer hasn't a clue what he's talking about. and doesn't understand his own scam properly or the workings of this type of financial entity. It isn't very well thought out, even as a scam but it does demonstrate how much work a scammer will put in to the most stupid idea to steal people's money.
This forum is the only place this so-called 'company' is mentioned on the web.
