by FraudInfo

Date First Reported: May 2013

Primary Name Associated: Giovanni Bertolotto

Description of Potential Fraud:

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An Ontario lawyer has notified us that he received an email from the purported Giovanni Bertolotto of Binding Union with regards to a commercial debt collection scam. For examples of other names attached to this kind of fraud see our Confirmed Fraud Page. For an explanation of how this fraud works see our Fraud Fact Sheet.

Here is the initial email. Some also include the name Giorgio Vincenzo as the president and Aten Elletronical as the company.:

From: Giovanni Bertolotto
To:

We are Italian company and require your assistant in collection matter, please let us know if you can handle this case, we shall forward you the detail so you can run a conflict check.
Our email sever is current down Please reply to my personal email: [email protected]

Yours Sincerely,

Giovanni Bertolotto President
BINDING UNION srl
via Cuorgne 21
Torino, Italy (Zip/Postal:10156)
Tel: 39-011-2625414
http://www.binding.it/
[email protected]

How to handle a real or suspected fraud

If you have been targeted by any of these frauds, please forward any of the emails and supporting documents that you have received to [email protected].

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