Fraud Warning: Altas Investment Finance Limited (the impersonating entity) (2025-07-02)

Summary

This is a public fraud warning issued by the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) about an entity calling itself Altas Investment Finance Limited, which is impersonating a genuine but now-dissolved Jersey company of the same name. The impersonating entity operates via a website, an email address and social media pages, and is falsely claiming to trade from the dissolved company's former registered office address in St Helier.

• Nature of the fraud: The impersonating entity falsely represents itself as Altas Investment Finance Limited and falsely claims to operate from that company's former registered office address.
• Unauthorised activity: The impersonating entity is carrying on, or holding out as carrying on, Schedule 2 business (Lending) in or from Jersey without JFSC authorisation.
• Legal breach cited: The JFSC states this conduct breaches Article 10 of the Proceeds of Crime (Supervisory Bodies) (Jersey) Law 2008, as the entity has never been registered or applied for registration under that law.
• No connection to genuine entity: The JFSC confirms the impersonating entity, website, email address and social media pages are not connected to the genuine, now dissolved, Altas Investment Finance Limited.

The notice is informational and does not impose ongoing compliance obligations on regulated businesses; it advises the public not to deal with the impersonating entity and asks anyone who has had dealings with it to contact the JFSC's Enforcement team.

Applies to

members of the public, unauthorised businesses