FRAUD & IMPERSONATION

01. How genuine outreach looks

Genuine contact from Dark Sky is quiet and personal: a conversation with a principal, at your pace, about your agency and your plans. This website is our official channel. If you want to confirm that any call, email, or letter genuinely came from us, contact us through our contact page and a principal will confirm or deny it within one business day.

We publish no phone numbers, so treat any number claiming to be an official Dark Sky line with caution until you have verified it with us directly.

02. What we never ask for

• We never ask for payment of any kind — no fees to consider your agency, no deposits, no processing charges, and never gift cards, wire transfers, or cryptocurrency.
• We never ask for passwords, login credentials, or remote access to your computer or agency management system.
• We never ask for client data, financial records, or carrier documents before a mutual NDA is signed.
• We never impose decision deadlines, and we never threaten consequences for taking your time.

Anyone doing any of the above while using our name is not us, whatever their email signature says.

03. A note for retiring owners

Fraud that borrows an acquirer's name is often aimed at owners approaching retirement, because the moment is emotional and the sums are large. Our real process is published in full on this site — a confidential call, an NDA before data, an offer from verified numbers. If an approach in our name deviates from that published sequence, treat the deviation itself as the warning.

04. Recruitment fraud

Impersonators also pose as employers. Dark Sky never charges application or onboarding fees, never asks candidates to buy equipment, and never extends an offer without a real interview process with named people. Open positions are listed only at our careers page; if a role or recruiter cannot be verified there, it is not ours.

05. If you receive a suspicious approach

• Do not send money, documents, or credentials, and do not click links in the message.
• Verify with us directly through our contact page — describe what you received, and a principal will respond within one business day.
• If you have suffered a loss, report it to your local law enforcement and to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center. We will cooperate with any investigation involving misuse of our name.

Reporting an impersonation helps the next owner who receives the same message. We take every report seriously, and we are grateful for them.