In my case it was people posing as a property management company and escrow office supposedly located in Minnesota (but we know that to be false) to handle sales of time shares in Mexico. They contacted unsuspecting people all over the US and Canada who owned time shares in Mexico and said that they had prospective buyers for said time shares. They would get the people to wire money down to Mexico for capital gains, maintenance fees on the time shares, attorney fees for the people in Mexico handling the sale, etc. The documentation that was notarized were Guarantee Letters to make the deal look legitimate. It was signed by a representative of the company on one side of the letter and on the other side of the letter it was signed by the notary and the stamp was added. It was absolutely nothing that any of us would even put our seals on. There was no notarial wording anywhere on the document. They also had documentation added that was from the Mexican Government with seals on it as well. It's amazing what the general public will fall for when they see an official looking seal on a document . . . and they were all round seals. One of the things had my middle initial wrong and my expiration date didn't match what they had printed on the seal.
If anybody wants to see what the documents look like so you can get an idea of what the criminals are doing with our notary commissions, please e mail me or private message me and I will scan and e mail a copy to you. |
