Thierry Boinnard
ESI Miami Gold Shipment Fraud
Miami, Florida
The scam is typical, where it is a good story that ends up very ugly.
The owner of ESI, Thierry Boinnard, meets with the person who wishes to ship gold from Ghana to the United States or elsewhere.
The seller "places" his gold into ESI Ghana offices, and they issue a phony SKR or safekeeping receipt, stating that ESI is holding gold.
Next they issue an invoice to ship the gold after the buyers have paid $40,000 or $80,000 or
a similar amount which is basically 5% of the "value" of the purported gold kgs.
This amount will be a percentage of the value that the buyer wishes to ship, so it varies.
We have seen 3% to 5% most typical, but it will undoubtedly keep changing to confuse the victims and keep the authorities at bay for a while.
After the payment is wired to the ESI bank account in Accra Ghana, usually at Ecobank, all of a sudden the amount needed changes, or the seller changes his mind, or the government changes the fees, or the taxes, or there is a general strike or an earthquake or the department store collapses.
We have seen any number of excuses used to never ship, and then ESI shows small receipts for shipping gold in the past few years, maybe three times or so, and the victim is drawn in again.
ESI will NEVER ship gold, they will take your money, period.
We have several victims, and we need more.
Please send me your details and how you were scammed.
This guy is going down, even though he thinks he is brazen enough to flaunt the laws.
I have a created a Federal file for this criminal, he will be incarcerated soon enough.