Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
The fake "World Company Register 2023/2024" email below, which the sender claims the recipients can insert their companies in the World Company Register for 2023/2024 by completing and submitting the attached form, is fraudulent and you should not respond to it with your personal information or follow the instructions in it. The email message is a fake created by scammers to trick their potential victims into stealing their money, personal and financial information.
Remember, never send your personal information to anyone in an email message or send money to someone who contacted you via email message.
World Company Register 2023/2024To whom it might concern,For the insertion of your company in the World Company Register for 2023/2024, please complete the attached pdf and send it in a reply.All formats are accepted.World Company Register3502 GB UTRECHTTHE NETHERLANDSYou can also attach the completed pdf in a reply to this email.
World Company Register 2023/2024
To whom it might concern,
For the insertion of your company in the World Company Register for 2023/2024, please complete the attached pdf and send it in a reply.
All formats are accepted.
World Company Register
3502 GB UTRECHT
THE NETHERLANDS
You can also attach the completed pdf in a reply to this email.
The email contains the following attached form(WCR-form.pdf) that the cyber-criminals will ask their potential victims to complete and send to them:
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I have also received this email & am currently receiving emails and letters demanding payment the last letter saying they are now transferring to debt management collection company called Waldburg & Hirsch Global Collections Ltd. I am convinced this is a scam & even called the number at the bottom of the letter which does not exist anymore! Can someone please let me know how to get these emails & letters stopped
A new scam:"Hello,To insert your company in the World Company Register for 2024/2025, please complete the attached pdf and send it in a reply.All formats are accepted.WORLD COMPANY REGISTER3502 GB UTRECHTTHE NETHERLANDSTel/Fax: 31303100126You can also attach the completed document in a reply to this email.Updating is free of charge!"
Tell me please, what if I've signed an sent it by mistake?
Just do not send them any money.
I have signed, but have not sent them any money. Now I am getting bills with increasing amounts. yesterday 03-07-2024 I received the last notification informing me that my debt has been transferred to the collection company.
Received this scam:"Hello,To have your company inserted in the World Company Register for 2023/2024, please submit the completed pdf to us.Any file format is accepted.WORLD COMPANY REGISTER3502 GB UTRECHTTHE NETHERLANDSTel/Fax: 31 30 310 0126You can also attach the completed pdf in a reply to this email.Updating is free of charge!"
World Company Register 2023/2024From: WCR Company Register To whom it might concern,In order to have your company inserted in the World Company Register for 2023/2024, please complete the attached document and send it in a reply to this email.All formats are accepted.WORLD COMPANY REGISTER3502 GB UTRECHTTHE NETHERLANDSYou can also attach the completed document in a reply to this email.
it's a scam, I received also
Received this scam:"World Company Register 2023/20246/27/23 11:19 PMFrom: WCR Reg To whom it might concern,To have your company inserted in the World Company Register for 2023/2024, please print, complete and submit the attached pdf in a reply to this email.Any file format is accepted.World Company Register3502 GB UTRECHTTHE NETHERLANDSYou can also attach the completed document in a reply to this email."
Checking on the details of recent examples of this spam to see where it's coming from - and currently the provider "smarthost.net" appears aiding/inducing their spamming. Reports sent to them, but there's a good chance that (like many commercial hosting providers), they'll just bend over backwards to find any excuse to doge & weasel out of enforcing their terms of service.
Received this:World Company Register 2023/20245/30/23 6:21 AMFrom: WCR-Records To whom it might concern,In order to have your company inserted in the World Company Register for 2023/2024, please submit the completed document in a reply to this email.All formats are accepted.World Company Register3502 GB UTRECHTTHE NETHERLANDSYou can also attach the completed document in a reply to this email.