I was recently contacted by a company called APAG-AUDIT AG claiming they have discovered funds that belong to me during the course of an audit. I was scammed by a group of companies last year and have been contacted by numerous companies claiming they have recovered funds that belong to me. In every case so far, the companies were confirmed as scams. This is the first company that is actually listed and has a history of performing audits on financial sector companies. The problem I have is that I have been unable to find a single employee listed with a local register. For instance I contacted the FCA in an attempt to confirm registration in the UK. They were not listed because they are primarily a firm of lawyers. This is strange given Chartered Accountants are normally involved in financial audits not lawyers. The company has also recently changed their web address from .com to .org.
They are not requesting fees directly however, the exchange they want me to use does charge a 2% transaction fee that I would have to pay upfront before any amounts held in bitcoin could be transferred to me. The platform they want me to use is called cb-online.group and is formally named Crypto Bank. When I google Crypto Bank I find that there are numerous platforms using the same or similar names and 98% of them have very poor reputations.
Any help anyone could provide regarding how to determine this firm's legitimacy is greatly appreciated.
