We have already handled a case linked to intfadservice.com: after twenty-five thousand euros lost, a fake UN agency, a non-existent Italian authority and a fake payment network promised her 34,500 euros in exchange for 475. If you received the same messages we can help you.
Note: we are a law firm dealing exclusively with online fraud. If you were caught in the same trap and want help, you can write to us using the form at the bottom of this article.
Why we say intfadservice.com is a scam
We have already handled the case of a client who, after losing around twenty-five thousand euros in an investment fraud that began in 2024, became the target of a second operation, this time built around the domain intfadservice.com.
The fake recovery built on intfadservice.com is the cruellest variant we meet. It arrives once the victim has already lost everything, has taken on debt chasing the money, and someone tells her the funds have been found and are waiting for her.
We publish this article with a precise aim: to show in full the documents that are used, so that anyone receiving them recognises them before paying.
Three masks in one operation
Whoever operates behind intfadservice.com does not use a single identity. They use three, in sequence, each covering a credibility gap left by the previous one.
The first mask is a United Nations agency. The messages are signed IFAD and specify that this is "a state agency which does not provide commercial services". IFAD genuinely exists: it is the International Fund for Agricultural Development, a UN specialised agency based in Rome, which works on rural and agricultural development. It has no connection with intfadservice.com, it does not recover funds and it does not contact anyone to return money. The domain name is built to evoke it.
The second mask is an Italian authority that does not exist. Our client was sent a document headed "Financial Supervision Agency — Asset Recovery Department, Rome", complete with a file number (ASF-2026-4418) and an issue date. In Italy supervision of the financial markets is exercised by CONSOB and the Bank of Italy, and in other fields by IVASS and COVIP. A "Financial Supervision Agency" with an "asset recovery department" does not exist. It was invented.
The third mask is an international payment network. A further message, in English, is signed with the name of a well-known card network and demands 475 euros to "localize" a transfer of 28,000 dollars. Here too: that network does not write to cardholders asking for payments, and has nothing to do with intfadservice.com.
The text of the fake decision
It is worth reading how the document sent by intfadservice.com is written, because every element has a function.
It states that the recipient's name has been entered "in the register of beneficiaries entitled to compensation" for management irregularities found in the period 2021-2025. It gives a precise reserved sum — 34,500 euros — a file status of "in progress", and a deadline: 15 December 2026, after which "the collection of applications will be closed" and the amount "will be transferred to the Regulators' Compensation Fund". Finally it specifies that "the service for beneficiaries is completely free".
Three techniques, all recognisable.
The first is the exact figure. Not "a sum", but 34,500 euros. A round number would be less credible; a precise one looks like the result of a calculation.
The second is the hard deadline. It exists to stop the person pausing to check or talking to someone. No public administration extinguishes a financial entitlement because the holder did not reply to a message by a given date.
The third is the declared free service. "The service is free" appears precisely because a payment will be demanded shortly afterwards: it defuses suspicion in advance, so that the later demand looks like a technical exception rather than the real purpose of the operation.
The 475 euros, and why the figure is small
The financial demand from intfadservice.com, when it comes, is 475 euros. It is presented as a "mandatory procedure" to "localize" the transfer, and the message adds a refined detail: part of the amount, 75 euros, has supposedly already been covered by a "legal representative" of the agency, named in full. It further specifies that "your inspector" repeatedly asked to pay it himself, but that such payments "are not permitted".
None of this is accidental.
The figure is deliberately small compared with the promised prize: 475 euros against 34,500 looks like an acceptable risk, and that is exactly the calculation the victim is led to make. The contribution already made by a third party creates a moral obligation, the impression that someone is exposing themselves for her. The refusal given to the "inspector" makes it inevitable that she is the one who pays.
And above all: those 475 euros are not the last demand. After the payment will come a conversion fee, a security deposit, a tax. It is never only one.
The rule that always holds
We put it as simply as we can.
No public authority, Italian or foreign, no United Nations agency and no payment network contacts citizens to return money, allocates sums to people who have made no application, sets forfeiture deadlines by message, or asks for advance payments of any amount.
If someone does, as happened with intfadservice.com, they are committing an offence. And the documents they produce — letterheads, file numbers, stamps, signatures — are false, however polished they may look.
What we checked on intfadservice.com
The messages give as contacts two foreign numbers, one German and one Swiss (+49 155 1065 ** and +41 77 997 **), an email address on the intfadservice.com domain and an address on a street in central Zurich. A prestigious address on a website costs nothing and proves nothing.
The public registers show that intfadservice.com was registered on 10 October 2024 with a European registrar, expiring on 10 October 2027: a domain paid for three years, not one. Its technical records were last changed on 9 July 2026, a few months before the facts we examined.
One element deserves attention and sets this case apart from many others: intfadservice.com has an active mail service. It means the emails signed with that domain really do come from there and land in the inbox, with a letterhead that looks official. A professional mailbox costs a few euros a month and requires no verification that any body exists: it is not, and never has been, a guarantee.
The money, the loans and the exhaustion
There is an aspect of this case that has nothing to do with the law and that is nevertheless why we wrote this article.
The person we followed in the intfadservice.com case took out several loans to chase the sums she had lost, and today works essentially to repay them. When we offered her a free assessment of her case she replied that she did not feel able to go on, that she would rather work a couple of years and pay off the debts.
It is an answer we respect, and we report it because it describes better than any analysis where this kind of fraud ends up. It does not merely take money: it consumes the trust and the energy needed to react. Those who build fake recoveries aim at exactly this, because an exhausted person does not report, does not check, and in the end pays.
To anyone in this position we say two things. The first is that you must not pay anything, whatever deadline you are given. The second is that assessing a case costs nothing and commits you to nothing: even simply knowing for certain that a document is false is worth a phone call.
The criminal framework
The conduct of whoever uses intfadservice.com amounts to fraud under article 640 of the Italian Criminal Code, aggravated under the second paragraph no. 2-bis for exploiting the circumstance of distance referred to in article 61 no. 5, and by the aggravating circumstance introduced in paragraph 2-ter by law 90/2024, applicable because the facts date from 2026. Since the victim had already been hit by an earlier fraud and was led to believe in an institutional intervention, the reduced capacity to defend herself carries particular weight.
To this is added impersonation under article 494, here in a substantively aggravated form: this is not merely a false name but the assumption of the status of a public body and an international agency. Also relevant are the material falsity of the documents produced and, as regards whoever receives the sums, money laundering under article 648-bis or self-laundering under article 648-ter.1.
As for the original 2024 fraud, which predates the intfadservice.com messages, the payments were made through an international money transfer network. Those operators too are subject to the identification and record-keeping duties of legislative decree 231/2007: they keep the data of whoever collected the money, and that data can be obtained by the judicial authority. It is a route many victims do not know they have.
Aggravated fraud becomes time-barred after six years, up to seven years and six months with interrupting acts; the civil claim follows the longer term under article 2947, third paragraph, of the Civil Code. For transfers abroad the tools are the European Investigation Order under legislative decree 108/2017 and preventive seizure under article 321 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
What to do if you received these messages
Do not pay anything to intfadservice.com and do not open the forms linked in the messages. Do not provide identity documents or bank details. Do not reply "to clarify": every reply confirms the number is active and exposes you to further contact. Keep the messages in full, with headers, numbers and attachments, because they constitute evidence of a false assumption of public status. File a criminal complaint attaching those documents. And if you have suffered a fraud in the past, assume your name is in circulation: fake recoveries almost always reach those who have already lost.
We can help you
Our firm deals exclusively with online fraud and has already handled cases entirely comparable to intfadservice.com: fake public authorities, fake international agencies, forged documents with file numbers and deadlines, and payment demands presented as mandatory procedures.
If you have received communications from intfadservice.com or from anyone offering to recover money in exchange for an advance payment, contact us using the form at the bottom of this page: we will review the documents and tell you honestly what concrete prospects exist in your case. The assessment commits you to nothing.
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