Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Suspicious
The brand new, poorly designed and incomplete website "www.ertnac.com" is very suspicious and we currently do not recommend that it be trusted. The website claims it is "The European Register of Trade Names and Companies" and wants users to register and pay a fee for their services. For the last few days, we have sent emails using the website's contact information, but have not gotten any response.
The website is only registered for one year. Legitimate websites will always register their domain name for at least 4 years.
Domain Name: ertnac.comCreation Date: 2014-11-21Updated Date: 2014-11-22Expiration Date: 2015-11-21
Scammers usually register their fake website domain names for one year, which is the minimum registration period; because they know that sooner or later their fake websites will be discovered.
We will continue to update this page with information about the website www.ertnac.com. For now, stay clear of it until we can verify its authenticity.
If you have any information about the website, please post it below in the comment section.
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Registered my Limited Company on 02/01/15 and on 05/01/15 received an 'invoice' for £390 payable by 09/01/15 from ERTNaC.Realised it was a scam and noted it was a Polish bank account.interestingly it was posted in the UK using a Royal Mail 2nd class franking machine.Don't know who to report it to...
Received request for payment of $390 after being inc'ed on 31/12/14.Payment due on 7th of Jan. But the letter didnt arrive until the 7th. Obvious scam. Ignored.
I also registered a company on 18/12/14 and have received a letter requesting a payment of £390. Letter has been shredded.
I was sent one this morning
We incorporated a company on 30 December 2014 and had an invoice from ERTNAC for £390.00 today 5 January 2015 asking for payment by bank transfer on 6 January 2015. it appears a number of companies incorporated in December 2014 have been receiving invoices of between £280.00 and £590.00 from the company, based in Poland, for putting details of the company on a European database. Do warn your clients of this scam for one of our client nearly paid it. Is there anything to which these scammers will not go!
