walks like a duck quacks like a duck - identity fraud?

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long story short we have worked for a company based in the UAE (but carry out work in the `uk for them ) for a number of years,

never had a problem getting paid previously, up until today.


just had the company we contract for ask for all my personal details, full name dob place of birth and a copy of my passport on the premise that their bank wont release funds to our business until they get this in regards to "compliance"


now the people at the company i trust (relatively) but the whole thing smells off to me

anyone want to share some thoughts? or have experience in dealing with Mashreq bank in the UAE


and for the record i've sent nothing and dont plan on it, (this is where you tell me about some change in rules in the uae and i'm being para
 
Would the company you contract for already have most of those details anyway?

Have they passed on official documentation from Mashreq Bank? They're a customer of ours and i worked with a couple of their guys a few years back so i know they're a fairly big bank out in the UAE. You just need to confirm whether it's actually the bank requesting this info, or if someone's claiming they work for MB and are trying to get your details.
 
Scam said:
Ha, I wouldn't be giving any company in the UAE my passport details. They can jog on.
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it was a big bag of nope from me, especially seeing as a good friend of mine lost 5 figures last week from online bank fraud the daft bugger
 
Vanquish-Storm said:
You are not your company it is its own entity so why do they need your details?
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Because a lot of countries have laws requiring certain sectors and industries to verify the beneficial owners of funds and services to prevent money laundering or terrorist financing. Not necessarily the case here and I'd certainly be wary!

Edit: and that also doesn't include circumstances where institutions are required to verify the beneficial owner in order to meet requirements in different jurisdictions, e.g. the requirement to meet USA FATCA rules.
 
Try applying for tenancy references/checks, the information you have to provide to these unheard of companies is horrifying.
 
Perhaps you can get them to put you in direct contract with the person they're dealing with at the bank itself.

It does seem a bit silly that you guys need to go through this in order to get paid though give you've had multiple previous payments from them in the past.
 
HybridX said:
This needs expanding on lol
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friend of mine runs a garage, made a payment to a supplier and never thought anything of it, next time he used his card declined, checked the account emptied.
bank are faffing him about and his business cashflow is gone :(
 
Be very careful handing over those kind of details..... especially to a country like UAE.

They don't exactly follow the same standards of the UK. It could be legit and they don't store said details just use them to verify who you are but you never know....
 
Malevolence said:
Just send them a signed photo of you wearing a Qatari football shirt.
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LOL - And if they attack you/assault you when removing the Qatari football shirt from you (because showing sympathy for Qatar is illegal even though you're at a football match watching the Qatari football team) then once you go to the police to file an official complaint you can get arrested again for telling lies and have a local doctor declare that you must have beaten yourself up.
 
233 said:
friend of mine runs a garage, made a payment to a supplier and never thought anything of it, next time he used his card declined, checked the account emptied.
bank are faffing him about and his business cashflow is gone :(
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That sucks balls, hope he gets at least some of the money back if not all
 
233 said:
friend of mine runs a garage, made a payment to a supplier and never thought anything of it, next time he used his card declined, checked the account emptied.
bank are faffing him about and his business cashflow is gone :(
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There is more to it then your friend is telling you. Him making a payment to a supplier through his own bank gives no details away for his account to be compromised, unless you mean he used his card details to make a payment over the phone. If his was account was emptied via card payments, then your mate has nothing to worry about and the bank will get his money back to his account. Sometimes this takes a few days, purely for transactions to cancel and fall out of the pending transactions cycle, of for the transactions to be refunded. A very different situation to the OP here.
 
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