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extract from sec email received in response to SouthernCross mergers and Aquisitions offer to buy remington Ventures shares at inflated price
This is a scam, beware Remington Ventures shareholders!
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Review of pertinent databases indicates that no such entity as Southern Cross Mergers and Acquisitions is registered with the SEC. Please note that any time you undertake to give money to a "purported investment firm," you should make a determination about its regulatory status. Brokerage firms have to be registered with the securities regulatory authorities to do business in the United States. This is the same requirement for most other countries if the firm wishes to do business in that particular country.
Despite the alleged Columbia, South Carolina address (among others) for Southern Cross Mergers and Acquisitions and the alleged Atlanta, Georgia address for the so-called International Registry Commission (IRC), it is unlikely these entities are located in the USA. Given modern telecommunications technology, telephone call forwarding to offshore listings poses no obstacle to fraudsters. In this connection, please see our online publication, "Fake Seals and Phony Numbers: How Fraudsters Try to Look Legit" [
http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/fakeseals.htm].
No such entity as the so-called International Registry Commission (IRC) exists, except as the vaporous and virtual imagining of some fraudsters' offshore boiler-room scheme. What is more, no US government agency has a website or e-mail address, so far as I am aware, that ends in anything other than '.gov'. The phony website created by the so-called IRC (
http://www.ircom.us/) purports to be related to the U.S. Government, although it nowhere appears to say so explicitly. In the online publication I noted just above, we state: "Another trick involves the misuse of a regulator's seal. The fraudsters copy the official seal or logo from the regulator's website - or create a bogus seal for a fictitious entity - and then use that seal on documents or web pages to make the deal look legitimate. You should be aware that the SEC - like other state and federal regulators in the U.S. and around the world - does not allow private entities to use its seal. Moreover, the SEC does not 'approve' or 'endorse' any particular securities, issuers, products, services, professional credentials, firms, or individuals." Indeed, I can tell you categorically that neither the USSEC nor the IRS nor any US Government agency, for that matter, has anything whatsoever to do with individual investors' securities transactions.
Southern Cross Mergers and Acquisitions and the so-called International Registry Commission (IRC) are but flip sides of the same counterfeit coin.
What the solicitation you received may be leading up to is a classic type of reload scam/fraud, against which we especially warn investors to be on guard (see our online publication, "Worthless Stock: How to Avoid Doubling Your Losses" [
http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/worthless.htm]). The types of transactions described by you are not part of normal sales practices in the stockbrokerage business. Rather, they are most likely variations upon an advance fee fraud (see:
http://www.sec.gov/answers/foreignalert.htm). As always, check with securities regulators about any investment offering made to you to see if it is legitimate.
It may very well be that the same or connected fraudsters have exchanged your name and investment information and in fact are attempting to make a new run at you. It is possible that the new entity soliciting you (Southern Cross Mergers and Acquisitions) somehow is also connected to, or a successor entity to, your original brokers for your previous purchases (PerpetualSuisse?).
