? Wire Fraud
Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 7:30 pm
Please help. I have a small charity and I sent 50,000 Euros to an account in the US after being promised funds for a project. Our funds were to be invested. These funds were then transferred on without my knowledge to another company under the same name registered in Spain.
Do I have any chance of getting the funds back from the original company in US. Whenever I phone and ask for my money back I get told sorry they are merely the conduit for the funds and that my contract is with Spain. Surely as the receiving party they have financial responsibility to these funds? I live in the UK.
What advice can anyone give me, I am frantic and the second company has for several months just said they are awaiting wire confirmation every three days or so. I fear I have been scammed but am hoping that I have some leverage through the concept that this may have been wire fraud.
Thanks
Do I have any chance of getting the funds back from the original company in US. Whenever I phone and ask for my money back I get told sorry they are merely the conduit for the funds and that my contract is with Spain. Surely as the receiving party they have financial responsibility to these funds? I live in the UK.
What advice can anyone give me, I am frantic and the second company has for several months just said they are awaiting wire confirmation every three days or so. I fear I have been scammed but am hoping that I have some leverage through the concept that this may have been wire fraud.
Thanks