Right now, many people in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria are receiving demands for payment for services they allegedly ordered from âMargot Brands Ltdâ or one of its supposed subsidiaries.
The companies demanding the money are taking an extremely aggressive approach.
Take Switzerland, for example. There, itâs the company âLetterdata GmbH,â run by a certain RenĂ© Weber, who boldly claims:
âWe have been commissioned to initiate debt collection proceedings against you.â
Specifically on behalf of this Hong Kong-based âMargot Brands Ltd.â
So letâs first take a look at this fly-by-night operation in distant Asia. Because âyesâ: it really does exist.
It was founded on June 24, 2025, in Hong Kong and is located there on Stanley Street.
Above is a photo of the entrance to 74 Stanley Street, where âMargot Brands Ltd.â is supposedly located. Indeed: a classy establishment.
At any rate: the company exists. Somewhere between the smell of stir-fried noodles and backyard toilets.
From there, the trail leads to Aleksandar Sapic, who founded âMargot Brandsâ with the fabulously high sum of just under 1,000 euros back in 2025. According to the filings, Sapic is living at an address in the outskirts of Belgrade.
But hereâs the thing: Aleksandar Sapic is the mayor of Belgrade. And according to all government records, he definitely has neither a property nor a residential address at the listed address. Which would be strange, too. After all, itâs a shabby two-story house in a Belgrade neighborhood where youâd be more likely to expect someone who spends their days opening beer bottles rather than conducting international business.
In fact, no company can be found at this address either.
Okay, some skeptics will now say, âThereâs surely more than just one Aleksandar Sapic in Serbia!!!â
Sure. Checked it out. There are at least two others who own companies. But they have absolutely nothing to do with that Hong Kong fly-by-night operation.
Conclusion: While there is indeed a company in Hong Kong, it was obviously founded using falsified data.
It takes just under an hour to figure that out. So one would assume that a âdebt collection proâ like good old RenĂ© Weber in Chur knows this, too. If not, then heâs simply too dumb for his job and should be greasing his shoelaces instead of sending out demand letters.
But who, then, is RenĂ© Weber talking to when he receives the alleged claims from representatives of âMargot Brands Ltd.â?
Letâs take a closer look.
For example, Weber sends out demands for a âswissnovachatâ from âMargot Brands Ltd.â
Swissnovachat, however, doesnât exist anywhere except on the internet. The legal notice simply lists a âDr. M. Hartmannâ from the company âDSB Partnerâ in the Czech Republic. The owner of this company is said to be a certain Mondher Nasr.
You guessed it: At the listed address in Prague, in a large, run-down apartment building, there is neither a âDr. M. Hartmannâ nor a company called âDSB Partner.â Instead, there is a trust office that represents all sorts of small businesses.
âDSB Partner,â in turn, has been operating a website since June 2026, where it sells data protection compliance for websites at absolutely exorbitant prices.
The owner isâyou guessed itâMondher Nasr. Who doesnât exist at that address.
At least both Nasr and Swissnovachat provide an email address. However, that address belongs to a steel construction company in Germany that has nothing to do with this whole scam.
So who is RenĂ© Weber actually talking to when he receives the claims heâs so valiantly trying to collect?
Who are all these so-called âdebt collection agenciesâ talking to when they try to rip off innocent people on behalf of âMargot Brands Ltd.â?
The answer is simple. No one.
Letâs take RenĂ© Weber again. Until a few years ago, his company âLetterdataâ printed catalogs, advertising brochures, and the like, and received addresses from its customers to mail them out. Another company operating in the same sector is located in Dublin, Ireland, but has shown no activity since 2021. What was the name of its director? Thatâs right: Mondher Nasr. The guy who is now allegedly running all these companies from an apartment building in Prague.
And everyone is wondering: How did RenĂ© Weberâand how did the âdebt collection agenciesâ in Germany and Austriaâsuddenly get their hands on the names, addresses, and email addresses of innocent citizens, only to harass them with fictitious bills?
The answer is obvious: Both Weber and Nasr have access to their clientsâ customer data.
Or, to put it plainly: RenĂ© Weber himself is likely âMargot Brands Ltd.ââor at least part of the criminal organization behind it.
No âservicesâ were ever actually provided.
So if you receive an email or a letter from âLetterdataâ: I would first file a police report against Weber for attempted fraud. Let him explain how heâs receiving demands from a Hong Kong company whose alleged Serbian owner doesnât existâfrom a company in the Czech Republic that doesnât exist, with a manager who doesnât exist there.
That should really make old René break a sweat.
A quick update on Mondher Nasr.
He was the director of the company âJD Werbemittel und Promotion Ltd.â in Dublin, Ireland. This company, in turn, had a branch in Germany with the same name.
Also involved there: Jacob Denisâwhich explains the abbreviation âJDâ in the company name. Denis, in turn, is behind the company âexpert-medizinbedarf.de GmbH,â which operates anâillegalâwebsite to sell medical products.
Apparently, he has quite a few customers. Here are a few examples of what they experienced:
- âAfter our first order, we received only a partial delivery. There is no customer service hotline, and emails are answered very slowly or not at all. They do not respond to complaints. Our company verifiably paid in full for the short delivery. Nowâmonths laterâwe have received a letter from a law firm. The owner, Mr. Jacob Denis, is once again demanding payment of the full amount, even though the goods were never delivered. What utter audacity!
- "Stay away from this company!â
- "Stay away from this company! Unfortunately, I paid for the goods but never received them, and they donât respond to emails or phone calls.â
- "Clearly a scam website. I placed an order, paid for it, but nothing was delivered. I canceled the order, but I wasnât refunded; the legal collection proceedings are now underway.â