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	The SEC has issued investor alerts designed to educate investors and assist them in avoiding scams offered to them through, among other things, phone solicitations by brokers who claim to be licensed in the United States. Alerts related to these topics include the following: Protect Your Money: Check Out Brokers and Investment Advisors Cold Calling - Know Your Rights The Fleecing of Foreign Investors: Avoid Getting Burned by "Hot" US Stocks Worthless Stock: How to Avoid Doubling Your Losses "Advance Fee Fraud" Schemes

Public Alert: Unregistered Soliciting Entities (PAUSE)

List of Fictitious Governmental Agencies and International Organizations Associated with Soliciting Entities

The SEC receives complaints from investors and others, including foreign securities regulators, about securities solicitations made by entities claiming to offer investments endorsed, approved, or otherwise supported by governmental agencies, including the SEC, or international organizations. As reflected in the SEC's investor alert entitled, "Fake Seals and Phony Numbers: How Fraudsters Try to Look Legit," the SEC does not "approve" or "endorse" any particular securities, issuers, products, services, professional credentials, firms, or individuals, and does not allow private entities to use its government seal. Here is the link to the SEC investor alert: http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/fakeseals.htm

The SEC has looked into these complaints and has learned that in many cases, the governmental agencies or international organizations claimed to have lent support to such investments do not exist. In an effort to warn the public about these entities, the SEC is posting the list below. The SEC will regularly update this list.

You should be aware that this list does not include all fictitious governmental agencies and international organizations. Also, you should understand that the inclusion of a name on this list does not mean that the SEC has concluded that a violation of the US securities laws has occurred or that the SEC has made any judgment about the merits of the securities being offered.

For a list of entities claiming to be registered, licensed and/or located in the United States and that have been the subject of investor complaints [click here] to access PAUSE. To see the official SEC release describing and providing more details about this list, [click here].

If you have information, questions or comments about the entities on this list, please contact oiea@sec.gov or call 202-551-6551.

Name	Comment
The Center for Securities Department 1870 Twin Towers East Martin Luther King Jr. Drive SW Atlanta, GA 30334 Phone: 770-824-0505 Fax: 770-206-2394 and 770-872-5506
Center for Securities Investigation Department 324 W. Main St. Brighton, MI 48116 Phone: 810-852-1701 Fax: 810-852-1702
Central Equities Administrators 1201 Main Street, Suite 180 Columbia, SC 29201 Phone: 803-227-0805 Fax: 803-753-9559 Website: http://www.cea-sc.org/
Central Stock Regulators 3200 West End Avenue Nashville, TN 37203 Phone: 615-349-9977 Fax: 615-250-4897
Commission on International Trade and Economics (COITE) Phone: 205-258-3060 Fax: 888-846-8271 E-mail: coite@revenue.com
Division of Securities for the District of Columbia (DOSDC) Phone: 202-596-3591 Fax: 202-330-5156 E-mail: hotline@dosdc.org No website or address provided in documents.	The Division of Securities for the District of Columbia (DOSDC) is impersonating the genuine Securities Bureau of the Department of Insurance, Securities & Banking (DISB) located at 810 First Street, N.E., Suite 622, Washington, DC 20002. The impersonator has NO connection with, and is not to be confused with, the genuine Securities Bureau of the Department of Insurance, Securities & Banking (DISB) of the District of Columbia.
Federal Securities and Investments Regulatory Commission (FSIRC) 915 Second Avenue, Suite 2110 Seattle, WA Website: http://www.fsirc.org/ (The website is no longer accessible.)
Federal Securities Regulatory Agency Henry M. Jackson Federal Building, 27th Floor 915 2nd Avenue Seattle, WA 98104 Phone: 202-747-7823 Fax: 202-478-1738 Website: http://fsraonline.org/ and http://fsra-protect.org/ (The websites are no longer accessible.)
Financial Securities and Equities Bureau (FSEB) 2nd Street, SW and D Street, SW Washington, DC 20024 Phone: 202-461-3251 Website: http://www.fsaeb.us/
Global Compliance Agency 201 S. College St. Charlotte, NC 28244 Phone: 704-817-0614 Fax: 704-817-0615
Global Investments Compliance Center 5005 Rockside Road Independence, OH 44131 Phone: 216-220-1600 Fax: 216-220-1601
Global Securities Crime Investigators 7700 Queens Ferry Lane Dallas, TX 75248
Global Securities Protection Agency 41 Marietta Street Atlanta, GA 30303 Phone: 678-954-0522 Fax: 678-954-0523
International Association of Transfer Agents 30 Wall Street New York, NY 10005
International Board of Mergers & Acquisitions 433 North 6th Street Philadelphia, PA 19123 Phone: 215-475-5894 Fax: 215-701-2491 Website: http://gov.ibma.us/
International Commission of Securities 600 Superior Avenue East Fifth Third Building Suite 1300 Cleveland, OH 44114 Phone: 440-869-9952 Fax: 440-848-2305	Onsite inspections conducted over the past year by the Ohio Division of Securities found that no regulatory agency was located at the address given for this entity.
International Compliance Assistance Center 41 S. High St. Columbus, OH 43215 Phone: 614-947 0105 Fax: 614-947 0106
International Equities Administrators 5865 Ridgeway Center Parkway, Suite 350 Memphis, TN 38120 Phone: 901-896-0327 Fax: 901-339-0522
International Exchange Commission 190 High Street Boston, MA 02110 Phone: 617-861-4470 Fax: 617-861-4458 Website: http://iecnet.org/
International Exchange Commission 545 8th Avenue, Suite 501 New York, NY 10018 Phone: 212-330-0995 Fax: 212-465-3392 Website: http://www.iecommission.org/
International Fraud Assessment Agency 1001 Fourth Ave. Plaza Seattle, WA 98154 Phone: 206-274-0077 Fax: 206-260-3086
International Information Exchange 775 15th St. NW, Suite 500 Washington, DC 20005 Phone: 202-263-1950 Fax: 202-263-1951 Website: http://theiie.net/
International Organization of Registrar and Clearing Agents (IORACA) One Post Street, Suite 1830 San Francisco, CA 94104 Website: http://www.ioraca-gov.org/
International Organization of Transfer and Registrar Agents 501 N. Brookhurst Street, Suite 310 Anaheim, CA 92801 Phone: 714-844-4831 Fax: 714-844-9083 Website: http://www.iotra.org/
International Securities Accreditation Authority 30 E. Broadway Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Phone: 801-618-2100 Fax: 801-618-2119
International Securities Administrators 312 Walnut Street, Suite 1500 Cincinnati, OH 45202 Phone: 513-297-1593 Fax: 513-672-2308
International Securities and Equities Board 1441 L Street N.W Washington, D.C. 20005 Phone: 202-552-1506 Fax: 202-315-3628 Website: http://gov.iseb.us/
International Securities Regulators 101 Federal Street Boston, MA 02110 Phone: 617-861-9038 Fax: 617-507-1076
International Securities Commission 1250 E. Apache Blvd. Tempe, AZ 85281 Phone: 480-240-5726 Fax: 480-240-7129 Website: http://iscomm.us/
International Securities Validation Division 251 W. Washington St, Phoenix, AZ 85003 Phone: 602-926-1312 Fax: 602-926-1313 Website: http://isvd.us/
International Share Verification Department 1 W Pack Square Asheville, NC 28801 Phone: 828-420-0484 Fax: 828-420-0485 Website: http://isvdepartment.us/
International Shareholders Compliance Department 500 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 320 Chicago, Il 60611 Phone: 312-281-0329 Fax: 312-276-4752
International Stock Regulators 2415 East Camelback Road Phoenix, AZ 85016 Phone: 602-357-1678 Fax: 602-391-2036	Onsite inspections conducted April 30, 2007 by the State of Arizona Corporation Commission found that the purported regulatory agency was not located at the address given for this entity.
International Stock Transfer Administration (ISTA) 8025 Corporate Drive Nottingham, MD 21236 Phone: 443-320-1009 Fax: 410-630-3545 Website: http://gov.stocktransfer.org/
Regulatory Advisory Commission 350 S Main St Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Phone: 734-619-0501 Fax: 734-619-0502
Securities Administration 605 University Street Seattle, WA 98101-4112 Phone: 206-395-2023 Fax: 206-299-9916 Website: http://www.stocktransfers.us (The website is no longer accessible.)
Securities Compliance Agency 212 S. Tryon Street Charlotte, NC 28281 Phone: 704-817-0609 Fax: 704-817-0610
Securities Regulation, Protection and Litigation Agency 101 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 Phone: 646-918-5136 Fax: 206-299-3723 Website: http://srpla.org/
Securities Regulatory Agency 801 W. Main St. Boise, ID 83702 Phone: 208-906-2310 Fax: 208-906-2311 Website: http://securitiesra.us/
Securities Regulatory Authority 203 Carondelet Street New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 Phone: 504-210-1576 Fax: 504-210-1577 Website: http://srauthority.us/
Securities Trading Commission 1110 Connecticut Avenue NW Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 202-204-2310 Fax: 202-330-5349 Website: http://gov.sectco.us/
Securities Validation Department 600 South Lincoln Avenue Steamboat Springs, CO 80487 Phone: 970-367-1704 Fax: 970-367-1705 Website: http://www.securitiesvd.us/
US Shareholders Registry Department 240 Woodrow Street Chester, PA 19013 Phone: 484-694-9433 Fax: 484-694-9433 Website: http://www.us-srd.us/
United States Federal Court of Arbitration Federal Office Building 201 Varick Street New York, NY 10014 Phone: 646-616-7551 Fax: 646-514-0670 Website: http://fcoaus.org/
United States Investment Dealers Organization (USIDO) 1644 Murfreesboro Nashville, TN 37217 Phone/Fax: 615-528-7875 Email: info@usidealers.org and United States Investment Dealers 1311 S. Burnside Avenue Gonzales, LA 70737 Phone/Fax: 225-410-9219 Website: http://usidealers.org/
United States Securities and Investments Commission Website: http://www.ussicommission.org
United States Securities Regulatory Commision (sic) 2001 L Street NW Washington, DC 20036 Website: http://gov.ussrc.us/
United States Settlement and Claims Commission a.k.a. Settlement Claims Commission (SCC) 125 North Madison Street Stockton, CA 95201-9005 Phone: 209-751-4458 Fax: 209-751-4501 Website: http://www.scc-us.org/ (The former website http://scc-gov.org/ is no longer accessible. However, the current website is accessible.)

To view the SEC's Data Quality Guidelines, click [http://www.sec.gov/about/dataqualityguide.htm].

http://www.sec.gov/investor/oiepauselistfake.htm

Public Alert: Unregistered Soliciting Entities (PAUSE)

List of Fictitious Governmental Agencies and International Organizations Associated with Soliciting Entities

Modified: 03/19/2012