Anti-Fraud Notice
Protecting clients, counterparties, and ECM USA from fraud and misrepresentation.
ECM USA LLC maintains a strict anti-fraud posture. The firm will not proceed with matters involving fabricated documents, false confirmations, misleading communications, credential requests, impersonation, unauthorized representations, or attempts to bypass professional protocols.
This notice is intended to help prospective clients, counterparties, and visitors identify improper conduct and understand ECM USA’s communication and engagement boundaries.
Anti-Fraud Position
ECM USA will not support fraudulent, misleading, or unauthorized activity.
ECM USA’s work may involve institutional advisory, documentation, transaction management, banking-readiness support, capital-readiness preparation, feasibility studies, source-and-purpose narratives, and service-provider coordination. These functions require accurate information, reliable records, and clear authority.
ECM USA may decline, suspend, or terminate review of any matter involving suspicious documentation, unclear authority, false confirmations, fabricated bank communications, altered transaction records, unauthorized intermediaries, or misleading source-and-purpose narratives.
The firm may also decline matters where a party attempts to pressure ECM USA, a bank, funder, fiduciary, lawyer, compliance provider, escrow provider, or other professional counterparty to bypass normal controls.
Prohibited Conduct
Examples of conduct ECM USA will not accept.
ECM USA may reject, suspend, or terminate any matter involving fraud indicators, misrepresentation, impersonation, or improper account-access requests.
Fabricated documents
ECM USA will not proceed with matters involving fabricated, altered, misleading, unverifiable, or suspicious transaction documents, bank confirmations, proof-of-funds statements, SWIFT messages, approvals, or correspondence.
False authority
Matters involving unauthorized representatives, undisclosed principals, false appointments, misleading mandates, or unclear authority to act may be declined or terminated.
Credential requests
ECM USA does not request passwords, private keys, one-time codes, banking credentials, remote-access credentials, or unrestricted access to client or counterparty accounts.
Impersonation
Unauthorized use of ECM USA’s name, logo, email identity, documents, staff names, brand, or communications style to solicit funds, credentials, documents, or approvals is prohibited.
False outcome promises
ECM USA does not guarantee lender approval, investor participation, bank acceptance, financing availability, transaction completion, account opening, or commercial outcomes.
Circumvention attempts
ECM USA will not support efforts to bypass banks, regulators, compliance teams, sanctions controls, escrow protocols, fiduciary procedures, or professional review processes.
What ECM USA Does Not Do
Clear boundaries reduce fraud and confusion.
ECM USA’s role is advisory, documentation-led, and coordination-focused. The firm does not act as a financial institution or regulated transaction executor.
Warning Signs
Treat these communications as suspicious.
Prospective clients, counterparties, and visitors should exercise caution if they receive communications inconsistent with ECM USA’s published standards.
Verification
Verify suspicious communications before acting.
If you receive a communication that appears to come from ECM USA but requests credentials, funds, passwords, one-time codes, unrestricted access, unusual document transfers, or immediate action outside normal protocols, do not proceed until the communication has been verified directly through ECM USA’s official contact channels.
ECM USA’s official website is www.ecmusa.us. Official firm communications should be reviewed carefully for domain accuracy, context, consistency, and alignment with ECM USA’s published standards.
ECM USA may report suspicious conduct, attempted fraud, impersonation, unauthorized use of its name or materials, or misuse of its brand to appropriate service providers, counterparties, authorities, platforms, or legal advisors.
Formal Mandate Requests
Use controlled channels for serious matters.
Qualified prospective clients with serious commercial, financial, project, or cross-border mandates should use ECM USA’s Institutional Review pathway rather than informal, unofficial, or unverified channels.
Submission does not create a client relationship or obligate ECM USA to conduct a review. ECM USA may decline any matter in its sole discretion.