I actually got an email today... saying:
We represent the governmental organization of the Republic of Cyprus which performs the supervision, support, and regulation of national financial activity and its foreign transmissions.
You were contacted by a junior manager from our consumer protection service hotline desk. If you have received this letter, then we suspect that you may have become a victim of fraudulent actions by the fraudulent broker which is currently under criminal investigation in the jurisdiction of the Republic of Cyprus. Unfortunately, the company you have cooperated with was not eligible to provide you with any banking or brokerage services due to not having a valid license issued by the government of the Republic of Cyprus.
According to the Data Protection Directive (Directive 95/46/EC) of the European Union and General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Union your data is stored in an encrypted manner and shall not be passed to any third parties without your personal permission in written / voice recorded form excluding the cases specified by the law of the Republic of Cyprus
In order to make a complaint and have a possibility to withdraw your lost investments from the frozen banking account we have to clarify the following information:
1) The name of the company you cooperated with;
2) The period of your cooperation with this company;
3) The total amount of money that was transferred to your broker;
4) Please specify the way you have used to transfer the money to the broker (wire transfer, private account / family account, debit / credit / prepaid card, exchange services online etc.)
5) Please specify the names of the retail banks you would like to receive your money back.
In case you have the e-mails, telephone calls records, telephone numbers saved or any personal information about your manager from the company you have cooperated with we would kindly ask you to provide us with this information as it might be helpful for us in further court proceedings.
Please provide the documents which may confirm the fact of your cooperation with the company.
Any ideas? Anybody?