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Yatra IBFC Bank NY - nyibfc.com Agoda travel agency . agoda.com/?cid=-218 Robert C Wright Attorney at Law Bar #626228 robertcwrightatlaw.com Richard B Smith Attorney at law awofficeofsmith.com SAT (Servicio de Administracion Tributaria) Antonio Suarez Renteria Solicit to purchase vacation membership Internet
I own vacation membership (similar to a time share) in the Caribbean, many locations in Mexico. I was contacted by a travel agency Yatra (Jonathan Fuentes), who stated they had a location in Mexico and they wanted to purchase my membership. They emailed me a proposal for 48K, I accepted. They then put me in contact with a law firm in the US(Robert C Wright attorney at law bar #626228 Boca Raton FL) they had a legitimate looking website and everything, to facilitate this transaction, I was then contacted by my vacation club (or so I thought, I realize now it was a spam email account and not directly from my vacation club) and was told i needed to wire to them the 10% transfer free for the selling of the membership.
That fee was 5568.00 USD. I went to my bank to wire the funds, and sent proof of sending funds. I then was contacted by an Andrew from IFBC bank in NY, who stated there were funds at his bank for me. He was going to send the funds to the bank account I identified, he went to verify some information and then advised that he would release the funds to my bank. I checked my bank, no funds, he called me the next day and questioned why there was an additional deposit for 13K.
I stated i didn't know and I called the lawyer's office. They stated they would call me back, when they called me back they stated they contacted the buyer and the buyer was depositing the taxes I had to pay. They were essentially reimbursing me for the taxes. Then I was contacted by the mexican agency SAT notifying me that I needed to pay the capital gains tax for the selling the time share like property, totalling 13K.
At that point I got suspicious, I contacted the SAT agency from the number on the website and they couldn't verify the person I had been contacting and also the email address from the SAT agency is a .com and not a .mx the email demanded pay and provide the wire info. The real SAT (mexican version of IRS) stated when they contact people they give them 3 ways to pay in 3 days, but my letter demanded 1 way to pay in 72 hours or I would face tax evasion and a warrant out for my arrest. I also called the IFBC bank and asked for proof of the money in their account for me.
They sent me a beautiful statement with a bar code and FDIC logo, and their own logo from their website. When I contacted the lawyer's office to explain my concern about fraud I was reassured that things were legit and they were going to take a look at things. I received a call back and was told that they contacted IFBC and got their FDIC number, they contacted SAT and verified the information I was given, and then the attorney, who is very familiar with the buyer is confident this is legit, so confident that he prepared a promissory note for me, stating that he would reimburse me the 13k.
I called the FDIC myself and they couldn't find the financial institution (IFBC) so I called the law office back and asked for the FDIC number they provided me, I was told they they didn't write it down and that they would have to call me back. Today the fake SAT agency called me demanding the payment and attempted to make me fearful about going to jail.