Concern in relation to travel agent & due diligence

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I'd bet my last euro this is a Russian scam as the lafrenchfly website above is designed by promodex which is a Russial host. Click on the feefo rating and it links to a different page on the website entitled Palm.

Please please do not send money to this crowd.
 
What I know:
(1)There is a travel agent registered in Hong Kong called LaFrench.
(2)They operate out of a serviced/virtual office in Hong Kong.
(3)The management of the centre have no contact number for them.
(4)The director of LaFrench is a Frenchman called Gilian Charly Michel Bittoum.(not Bittoun)
(5)M.Bittoum lives in Shanghai.
What is not clear is the connection between Tourists heaven (.Com or .org) and this travel agent.(If indeed there is any connection)
(6)Their new website [broken link removed]
Looks sketchy to say the least(if it is a website that has any connection to La French)
I got the new website details through Facebook messenger on the touristsheaven page.
 
So, the update is that the organisers are now saying that they are satisfied that everything is in order - they are now saying that they are able to pay through Paypal which would provide protection but my friend is not sure if that is really a guarantee? Definitely that link to Russia would ring alarm bells with me, to be honest I'm not sure what the significance of feefo & Whois is as I'm not a tech person.
 
onekeano said:
...they are able to pay through Paypal which would provide protection but my friend is not sure if that is really a guarantee?
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PayPal protection is very limited, even if they find in your favour, they will only refund money if they can take it out of the other party's account.
 
I think you have enough answers to your question here.

There is a tendency towards defamation in these replies and I don't have time to review them all.

Brendan
 
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