[ 2015 ] Mexican Attorney General Contact

[Paco36]

I received a call on Dec. 8 with a followup email attaching a pdf of an Engagement Letter, apparently on Secretaria de Turismo letterhead from the caller, Lic. Nubia Denisse Gonzalez Lopez, to authorize her "to accept the appointment for an interagency horizontal examination of transactions associated with the foreign vacation ownership that you own." The letter offers to "conduct an assessment" of institutions, entities, and individuals...establish a legal procedure to resolve any deficiencies...unsafe or unsound illicit acts taken against you..." at all no cost to me. I would receive 82% of whatever proceeds the government collects.
I receive daily phone calls from scammers but have never turned over any money, documents, or financial information. I don't think I've been bilked. So far as I can tell, I still have the right to use my unit at the Grand Mayan or other Vidanta properties and have not been charged anything since I bought it 4 years ago. (Nor have used or exchanged it.)
Should I trust this letter?
Do I have anything to gain by signing it?
Has anyone had a similar contact from SECTUR?

I also got the same call and letter from Nubia.

Previously I had been contacted by a different bunch offering to buy my time share

Got a call from Ralph Marsini (he is from J & B international) saying that he had a buyer for my time share in Cabo. He sent me a purchase contract. Told me that someone from the resort would call me and verify that I wanted to sell. Sure enough Someone named Miranda Pina supposedly from Pueblo Bonito (my resort) called. She said there would be a fee to do a release for the contract. She asked me to wire money. However the money did not go directly to the resort, it went to a third party. They also wanted me to pay a capital gains tax to the Mexican tax agency. Again the payment was going to a 3rd party. I told them I was not going to send money to a 3rd party. Mr. Marsini got real upset and said I was breaching my contract and the he would sue me.

Nothing has come of it.


Ralph Marsini
Email: closing@jandbinternational.com

ralphmarsini@jandbinternational.com

Tel: 1 (720) 792 0285

Address: 410 17th St., Denver, CO 80202- Center City

Web: www.jandbinternational.com


Miranda Pina

CORPORATE SERVICES

(contact@pueblobonitogroup.com)

Av. Ernesto Coppel

Campaña S/N, Zona
Nuevo Mazatlán,
Mazatlán Sin, 82110

Tel: 1 (888) 391 6530 - 52 (669) 259 0140

Miranda Pina does not work for Pueblo Bonito

 

[bobpark56]

RE: Lic. J. Manuel Sánchez Ramírez.
If you look up Señor Ramírez on Linkedin, his bio says he is Titular de Unidad de Transparencia at the Banco de Mexico and has been so since August 2018. If you go to https://www.banxico.org.mx/apps/facultados/arbol/arbol-servidores-facultados.html
at the Banco de Mexico, you will see that the holder of that office since 1 June 2020 has been Claudia Tapia Rangel.

 

[Iggyearl]

Cursory check of the internet showed that Pueblo Bonito vacations are advertised under the web address of www.pueblobonito.com. That is different from the above address of www.pueblobonitogroup.com. Who knows.

 

[Paco36]

Cursory check of the internet showed that Pueblo Bonito vacations are advertised under the web address of www.pueblobonito.com. That is different from the above address of www.pueblobonitogroup.com. Who knows.

They create websites that look like the authentic one and add something different. They use this fake sites to get e-mail.

 

[Paco36]

I received a call on Dec. 8 with a followup email attaching a pdf of an Engagement Letter, apparently on Secretaria de Turismo letterhead from the caller, Lic. Nubia Denisse Gonzalez Lopez, to authorize her "to accept the appointment for an interagency horizontal examination of transactions associated with the foreign vacation ownership that you own." The letter offers to "conduct an assessment" of institutions, entities, and individuals...establish a legal procedure to resolve any deficiencies...unsafe or unsound illicit acts taken against you..." at all no cost to me. I would receive 82% of whatever proceeds the government collects.
I receive daily phone calls from scammers but have never turned over any money, documents, or financial information. I don't think I've been bilked. So far as I can tell, I still have the right to use my unit at the Grand Mayan or other Vidanta properties and have not been charged anything since I bought it 4 years ago. (Nor have used or exchanged it.)
Should I trust this letter?
Do I have anything to gain by signing it?
Has anyone had a similar contact from SECTUR?

They copy the letterhead so it looks official.
The email comes from sectur-gob.com.mx
This is a site they created to receive e-mail
the real website from the Secretaria de Turismo de Mexico es sectur.gob.mx

 

[easyrider]

Anyone offering more for less, or something for nothing, or something not asked for, is usually a scam. If you didn't initiate contact through reputable sources and receive an offer know that it is likely a scam. If you take the offer knowing the above you have no one but your self to blame for the outcome.

Bill

 

[bobpark56]

Here (attached) are the 2 forms I received from these folks today...soliciting information. I will not be completing these forms.

 

[Ty1on]

Here (attached) are the 2 forms I received from these folks today...soliciting information. I will not be completing these forms.

LMAO. All the personally identifiable information they could ever need, plus your bank routing and account number. Amazing.

 

[bobpark56]

FWIW, a similar bank-related scam has been taking place in Spain. Here is the link: https://www.insidetimeshare.com/fake-banco-de-espana-emails-claiming-money-is-held/

 

[beckywsrba]

Heads Up ! We were recently contacted, May 7, 2021, by: Lic. Mauro Martinez Vazquez with a variation of the same scheme. "Please fill in the forms attached" which were the very same forms as posted by merkfritz earlier in this thread. So the scam is alive and well in the scammer world. There are probably many appealing offers to this scam but they all begin the same way - - A cold call from someone you never hear of....and never want to hear from again.

The scam is still alive. We are going through the exact same thing. I talked with the Efrain Lopez Rodriquez assistant to Attorney General and Gerardo Mauricio Vazquez de la Rosa at the Banco de Mexico. The lawyer I am currently speaking is Lic. Guillermo Miranda Reynoso, Dirección de Verificación, with the same address and phone number as Efrain. Today Guillermo said he could get a diversion which would knock the taxes down by $2,100. These people are so convincing. I feel sad that I was duped into this scam. No money has left our hands.

 

[Ty1on]

The scam is still alive. We are going through the exact same thing. I talked with the Efrain Lopez Rodriquez assistant to Attorney General and Gerardo Mauricio Vazquez de la Rosa at the Banco de Mexico. The lawyer I am currently speaking is Lic. Guillermo Miranda Reynoso, Dirección de Verificación, with the same address and phone number as Efrain. Today Guillermo said he could get a diversion which would knock the taxes down by $2,100. These people are so convincing. I feel sad that I was duped into this scam. No money has left our hands.

If no money has left your hands, then you haven't been duped!