Well here we go again, and another name to add to the family of Litigious Abogados, just a slight change from a previous one, Legalidades Abogados is now Legalidades Tenerife. The lawyer is still Alberto Kalim Ro Galvera, along with Juan Luis Lutabaris, Miguel Halcon Morato and Manuel Goletas Gitano.
The company address is one that has been used before with Legalidades Abogados:
4, Calle San Francisco, Santa Cruz, 38002, Tenerife.
Telephone number are:
Freephone: 08008021916
Tenerife: 0034 822680087
The new website is www.legalidades-tenerife.com and was registered on 16 April 2018, obviously due to the fact that Inside Timeshare has previously identified the photographs of the so-called lawyers they used on previous websites, this one does not have any photographs, the registrant is again hidden by a privacy service. But it is still a fake law firm nonetheless. .
According to the letter sent to our reader, they have lawyers legally authorised to operate in any court of law in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Malta. The growth of the company over the years has been mainly due to numerous cases against timeshare companies.
The letter also states that they are currently involved in a class action for punitive damages against Petchey Leisure Group SL and MGM SL, along with one of their directors Mr Howard Manton.
Apparently their consultants have “gleaned” enough information to lodge a claim on the clients behalf. Their lawyers have successfully lodged the clients claim with the court on Tuesday 5 June 2018, using ref number BOE-S-2018-136. The hearing has been set for Tuesday 19 June 2018 at 12.20 at the Santa Cruz Court No 5.
Well that is very quick work indeed, they obviously have a great deal of influence with the judges and the courts.
The claim amount is for 22,934€ but there is a fee that needs to be paid first, this is for the Court Procurator and is 706€ which has to be paid directly to the Procurator. In this case the Procurator is Elinabeta Yessica Elierz with the address:
Calle Abierta Numero 6, Edificio, Cerebro, 228, 38001 Santa Cruz, Tenerife. This address does not actually exist, it could not be found on google maps or any other searches.
There is no telephone number only an email:
procuradores-elierz@europe.com
The website www.elinabeta-elierz.com/ was only registered on 29 May 2018, it is not even a month old. The Registrant is also hidden by a privacy service.
The bank account the money has to be paid into by bank transfer is in the name of the Procurator and is with La Caixa, Avenida Islas Canarias, 2, El Faile, 38632, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The number at this address is actually an apartment, although there is a bank on the corner of Avda Islas Canarias and Calle Fuerteventura, it is not a La Caixa, the bank is actually a Caja Canarias.
The other strange thing is the “court” document lodging the case, the defendants are: Petchey Leisure Group SL, Resort Properties SL, Silverpoint SL and Howard Manton. There is no mention of MGM SL, plus we didn’t know that Resort Properties and Silverpoint were linked to Petchey!
It is blatantly obvious that the whole scam will be just as we have seen in the past, Next week on probably Wednesday 20 June, the client will be informed that the Director Howard Manton will have pleaded guilty and the court has awarded even more than the original claim. Now the second stage of the scam will kick in, there will be taxes to be paid to release the money, then if they are true to form the third stage will come into play.
This third stage is the envelope sent to the clients with the cheque will arrive opened, the letter from the court will be there but the cheque will be missing. The client will naturally contact Legalidades informing them of the missing cheque. Days later a new company that has been “appointed” by the court will be in touch and inform them that the cheque has been cashed, it did used to be a gang of Romanians, then it changed to Ukrainians, we just wonder what gang it will be this time. Anyway this new firm will need a payment so they can reclaim the lost amount from the bank.
As we have seen in the past this is a very clever and well worked out fraud, the paperwork looks very convincing especially if you do not know what the genuine ones look like. They are full of official looking stamps, logos of genuine official bodies and the English in the letters is actually quite good.
In the end, this is a fraud, the process of taking a case to court takes a lot longer than these guys claim, from being lodged with the court and the trial date being only 14 days is an absolute miracle!
If you have been contacted by a law firm with a similar story to this, contact Inside Timeshare, your information will help others. Unsure of who is contacting you or just needing to find out if one you have found on the internet is genuine, again use our contact page and we will point you in the right direction.
Doing your homework is going to save your precious hard earned money, don’t let these crooks lead better lives than you with your cash!
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