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ALERT 2007-50
OCC ALERT

Comptroller of the Currency
Administrator of National Banks

 

Subject: Unauthorized Banking
Description: The IFT Bank, N.A. aka IFT N.A. Internet Bank
 Date: August 7, 2007

TO: Chief Executive Officers of All National Banks; All State Banking Authorities; Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Conference of State Bank Supervisors; Deputy Comptrollers (districts); Assistant Deputy Comptrollers; District Counsel and All Examining Personnel
 
RE: The IFT Bank, N.A. aka IFT N.A.
http://www.iftiprivatebanking.com
Phone and Fax: 877-833-3735
customerservice@iftiprivatebanking.com

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has been informed that the above-mentioned entity is representing itself as a national bank on the Internet and is offering banking products and services to the general public. Please be advised that the OCC has not authorized the referenced entity to operate as a bank or conduct banking business anywhere in the United States. Also, no record of such a company being authorized or licensed by any regulatory agency to conduct the business of banking can be located.

No public information is available as to the location of the listed entity. Contact information is limited to the above-listed telephone, fax, and e-mail address. The listed e-mail address takes you to an anonymous e-mail service address at [ouraddress.com].

Information concerning this matter that you believe should be brought to the attention of the OCC may be forwarded to:

E-mail: occalertresponses@occ.treas.gov
Mail: Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Special Supervision Division, MS 6-4
250 E Street, SW, Washington, DC 20219
Fax: (202) 874-5214
Internet: http://www.occ.treas.gov

For additional information regarding other types of financial fraud, please visit the OCC’s anti-fraud resource at: http://www.occ.treas.gov/fraudresources.htm.

 

          /signed/          

Richard C. Stearns
Director for Enforcement & Compliance