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One of the important steps when choosing a broker or investment project is checking the methods of online and offline communication.
On the website of a financial company that interests you, contact information and office coordinates can be placed in different ways. Usually, phone numbers and quick contact buttons should be looked for in the menu area. If the site selects a regional number in accordance with the IP of your device or displays a free hotline 8 800, this can be regarded as the company's customer focus.
Depending on the scale of the broker or investment project, several addresses may be indicated on the resource. Small firms usually fit their coordinates in a couple of lines in the "footer" of the site. Giant companies implement separate sections with all the coordinates of their representative offices in different cities. If offline communication is important to a potential client, he should find the address closest to his home or office.
In the modern world, it is also important that the financial company's website has
- online chat for unregistered users;
- a window for correspondence with the support service in your personal account;
- a form for requesting a call back;
- e-mail address;
- buttons for going to messengers or pages on social networks;
- a section with answers to frequently asked questions.
Как проверить контакты и координаты на правдивость
Let's say you've noticed a company that offers favorable conditions for increasing your funds. However, you've never heard of its name and there are no reviews about it on the Internet. What should you do? Start checking.
Within this article, you'll learn how to quickly check a phone number and office addresses using Google or Yandex.
Phone number
Search by number - the system will show who it actually belongs to and what references there are to it. It's normal when the combination is listed on the website of the company being checked and is recorded on media resources about earning money.
If the number is repeated on similar websites, then you've run into scammers who are creating one-day companies and cheating you out of money. If the number is found on the resource of another business that has nothing to do with finance, then someone has stolen the digital combination and is pursuing clearly illegal goals.
If review sites contain stories that the number is used for cold calling, this is an alarm signal.
Office address
The coordinates of the offices listed on the company's website should be checked in online registries. The FTS resource will reveal the addresses of branches of Russian companies. But international registries are rarely so useful.
Check the address in online maps and look at the building in "Satellite" mode. Reliable brokers and funds occupy entire floors in business centers. Large organizations settle in the central parts of cities.
An online map can open your eyes and show that the company made up the address. This is a 100% argument to refuse cooperation. You can also sometimes find out funny things: the offices of some pseudo-brokers end up in... cowsheds, and fake funds - in garages. Fraudsters often “locate” themselves in locations that they choose at random. (In reality, they are located in the countries of the former USSR.)
It is important to search for information about addresses in Google or Yandex. It is often possible to find out that hundreds of companies are located at one address. The two most frequently used addresses among fraudsters are: Trust Company Complex Ajeltake Road Ajeltake Island, Majuro Marshall Islands MH 96960 and Suite 305, Griffith Corporate Centre Beachmont, Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. These coordinates are offshore and do not bode well.
Some companies indicate non-existent emails. There are free services on the Internet for checking the validity of email addresses. Use them.
Phone numbers and office addresses on financial scammers' websites
Phone numbers and office addresses are among the key data of financial companies - check them before depositing money. This, as well as checking registration and license, can save you hundreds of thousands of rubles.
All investors and traders need to be able to correctly “read” the data presented (or not) on the websites of financial companies.
1. Lack of data
A common practice: a financial company hides its phone numbers and addresses of representative offices. It prefers callback order forms. This should not be. Secrecy is a signal that it is worth refusing to cooperate with a broker or investment project.
Reliable companies strive to be customer-oriented. They leave all sorts of contacts for different representatives of their target audience: chats, phone numbers, office addresses. If all this is missing, then the company, firstly, is hiding from users, and secondly, is not ready for live communication without scripts.
2. Office on an offshore island
A common situation is when a financial company provides a single address and that is offshore. It convinces that it is located in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (an island in the West Indies) or Mauritius (an island in the Indian Ocean). This should be regarded as a danger to capital.
Offices often deceive users about being registered somewhere on the edge of the earth. Fraudsters find high-sounding addresses on the Internet and copy them to their resources. If the offshore registration of a broker or investor is confirmed, the office cannot be located on the islands. Again - where is the address? With such meager incoming data, it is not worth starting a business relationship: it is almost impossible to find those responsible for financial losses.
3. Foreign phone numbers
One of the typical situations: a company positions itself as foreign and assigns a phone number with a British code. As a rule, it does not answer. The support service or manager calls from numbers that do not accept incoming calls. All this does not speak in favor of the company.
A hotline, a regional phone number and a central office number - all this should be on the website of a customer-oriented company. If it is difficult to contact a broker or investment fund on your own, you should refuse to interact. This should also be done if there is an offer to negotiate in WhatsApp.
4. Lack of social networks
One-day companies almost never create social network pages. However, website developers often add Facebook and Twitter buttons: if the user clicks, he is “transferred” to the top of the resource. This should not be the case. Moreover, all modern companies that aim to survive for a long time need social networks.
Social networks are another important point of contact. Many users do not take Facebook and VKontakte seriously, but in vain. You can get useful information and contact support on corporate pages. Fraudsters most often refuse social networks to avoid hundreds of complaints under posts and not waste time deleting them.
5. Bots in online chats
Fraudsters prefer to communicate verbally. They use online chats that appear in the right corner of the site only to collect phone numbers. It is impossible to get a meaningful answer in correspondence.
Reliable companies respect the right of users to choose the method of communication. They do not impose their terms. However, companies that pursue illegal goals work according to scripts. They first “process” clients over the phone: this allows them to effectively establish personal contact and get the owner of the capital on the hook.
If you choose a broker or investment company, take the time to study the contact details and office coordinates. This will help you weed out scammers.
