Registered with the FCA
Mohammad Hadi Balouti is registered as a small payment institution. That is a lighter regime than full FCA authorisation, applied to smaller payment firms, and safeguarding of customer money is optional at this size.
Website, phone number and address
Compare these against whatever you were given. Scammers clone real firm names and reference numbers but use their own phone number and website, so a detail that does not match the register is the clearest warning sign there is.
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Phone number
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Address
66a Burley Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS3 1JX, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When sarafietebar.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 0113 224 2380 is, and the other firm that gives it
- Who else gives the postcode LS3 1JX
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Etebar Trading name: A name it trades under now.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Handle payments & transfers No FSCS coverSafeguarding is optional for a payment firm of this size, so your money may not be held in a separate protected account. Ask the firm whether it safeguards customer funds before sending it money. FSCS protection does not apply either way.
- Complaints Ombudsman, freeYou can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
Show FCA detail (1 permission)
- 6. Money remittance.
FCA disciplinary action and complaints
No FCA disciplinary action.
The Financial Ombudsman Service only publishes complaint figures for firms with 30 or more new complaints in six months, so there are none here for this firm.
Key dates in its history
Mohammad Hadi Balouti’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2018
26 October 2018
- Registered as a small payment institution
FCA register
2013
15 August 2013
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Began trading as "Etebar"
FCA register
16 May 2013
- Supervised by HMRC under the money laundering rules from this date
FCA register
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
Firms connected to Mohammad Hadi Balouti
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Mohammad Hadi Balouti. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firm
- 1
- share its phone number
- 1
- share its postcode
- 1
In the full report: the connected firm, named
- How it is linked: the same phone number (1), the same postcode (1)
- Who links it to this firm: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Mohammad Hadi Balouti
Other firms of the same type (payment or money transfer firm), nearest first.
In Leeds
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- 3 background checks on its contact details
- All 4 events in its history
- 1 connected firm, named, and who links them
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Sources and links
- Its entry on the FCA register register.fca.org.uk
- How safeguarding works fca.org.uk
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk