ALERT: Business Consumer Alliance received a complaint alleging a consumer received a fraudulent check from WorldBusiness Capital Inc. (WBC). WBC responded advising that they have been a victim of identity theft. Scammers have sent fraudulent checks using the information of WBC to various addresses across the US.
According to WBC the company exclusively offers their services to small and midsized businesses and not individual consumers. In addition WBC reports they promptly notified the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) in Hartford, Connecticut, where its office is located of the scam. WBC has been advised by the USPIS that the fraudulent scheme is being conducted by parties that are located outside the United Sates. The USPIS did not provide WBC with guidance concerning financial or other motives of the perpetrators.
In addition to alerting the USPIS, where WBC was informed about these instances, it also contacted banks it learned were named on the fraudulent checks to alert them to the conduct at issue. If WBC learned of individual victims, it also undertook to inform them that the checks were invalid and should not be deposited.
Consumers can report the scam to the USPIS at https://www.uspis.gov/report/.