A LIST OF WARNINGS ISSUED BY THE MFSA AND INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REGULATORS IS AVAILABLE FROM THE MFSA'S WEBSITE.

Please visit www.mfsa.com.mt and click on WARNINGS (top of page).

If you don't find the entity listed, please try searching it on Google or any other reliable search engine.

If in doubt, please contact the MFSA's Consumer Complaints Helpline on 80074924 or 00356 21441155 during office hours. Alternatively, send us an e-mail at consumerinfo@mfsa.com.mt and let us know your query.

You may have received a letter which seems to be from a Spanish or Australian or UK company (such as El Gordo or Loteria Primitiva or Australian Lottery) claiming you have been the “lucky winner” of a large cash prize.  To claim the prize, you are told to send your bank details and later, if you continue showing interest, you will be asked to pay a sum that goes towards taxes, bank costs, courier and processing fees necessary to deliver the prize money.

This is a scam! 

 If the prize or lottery notification has any of the following elements, we strongly suggest you do not respond to it:

1. The information advises that you have won a prize - but you did not enter any competition run by the prize promoters.

2. The mail may be personally addressed to you but it has been posted using bulk mail - thousands of others around the world may have received the exact same notification.

3. The prize promoters ask for a fee (for administration or “processing”) to be paid in advance.

4. To get your prize might require travel overseas at your own cost to receive it.

1. We strongly advise against any communication with fraudsters who run these scams. Do not respond at all. If you already have, cease all communication immediately.

2. Keep your credit card and bank account numbers to yourself.

3. If you have already given money to these fraudsters for any variety of reasons, unfortunately, there is not much chance of recovery. Once the fraudsters have your cash, your money is gone.

IF IT SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE,
THEN IT PROBABLY IS!