Fraud Prevention Tips: Bank Guarantees and Discounted Bank Instruments - 1
| Date Added: September 17, 2008 10:16:34 AM |
| Author: Alex Shein |
| Category: Society and Issues |
| In today's electronic world, there are several new instances of sophisticated financial fraud. Some cases are easier to detect, however, in an increasingly uncertain economic environment, mostly because of the unease of the US Dollar and the increasing strength and influence of the Euro. This has resulted in “banking instrument” fraud becoming increasingly common. I decided to write this article because as an international tax lawyer my offices have been receiving more than a dozen requests per month from honest clients looking to make money with a “sophisticated project” simply to discover that the “project” was on par with letters from Nigeria that promise unclaimed fortunes to appear on your doorstep because a dying uncle mentioned you in his will. I also compiled the list below with help from other credible sources I found on the internet.
In general, if you are approached to make a high yield income investment or to become involved in the prime bank investment fraud, then you should carefully look at the documentation that you are asked to sign and always use the advise of an experienced professional such as an accountant or a lawyer. Such documents are normally filled with meaningless legal gibberish that are relatively easy to spot if you are dealing with fraudsters.
Some of the typical phrases you should look for are set out below. Some of them are meaningless and have no legal definition, but they were inserted into the documents or proposal in order to impress unsuspecting investors:
Ready Willing and Able
Prime Bank Guarantees (PBGs)
Prime Bank Notes (PBNs)
Guaranteed by Top 100 World Prime Bank
Unconditional S.W.I.F.T. Wire Transfer
Freely negotiable, irrevocable, clear SWIFT wire transfers
Callable Conditional Sight Drafts
Closing Bank
Issuing Bank
Fiduciary Bank
Bank Menu
International Banking Days
ICC (International Chamber of Commerce) 400
UCC (Uniform Commercial Code) Form references
Banking co-ordinates
Fresh cut paper
Seasoned paper
Collateral Houses, Collateral Source, Collateral Supplier
Collateral First Transaction
Grand Master Collateral Commitment
Validation of the MCC (Master Collateral Commitment)
Collateral Purchase Orders
Collateral Provider
Instruments delivered free of all liens and/or encumbrances
Non-circumvention and Non-disclosure agreements
Irrevocable Pay Order
Irrevocable, irretraceable commitment of funds to purchase instruments
Lending Bank, Funding Bank, Closing Bank
Good clean cleared funds of non-criminal origin
With full corporate and legal responsibility
Interest at seven and one half percent, payable annually in arrears
5, 10, 20 years etc. plus one week or one day
Fully binding commercial letter contract
Client Company Principals
Transaction Trenches
Millions or Billions of US dollars with rolls and extensions
Emissions, remission, commissions and fallout
Transaction parameters
There is to be no communication with our bank other than through the normal bank channels, no phone call allowed.
If you see two or three of the above all in one document, then you ought to seriously consider whether or not fraud is involved and take reputable independent legal advice.
In the next part we will describe more about the most common fraudulent transactions: “Bank Guarantees” and “Discounted Bank Instruments”.
Ioannis John Neocleous, NCI Law Group
info@ncilawgroup.com
T: +357-22-680670
Author: Ioannis John Neocleous
John A. Neocleous is the founder and Managing Partner of NCI Law Group , Neocleous & Neocleous law firm and NCI Finance Group. John has over 14 years of professional experience in the areas of international tax, corporate and criminal law, both as an academic and also as a practitioner in over 50 countries worldwide. |
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