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VFM Leasing Clone of Venus Fleet Management: How to Reach the Genuine Firm

This FCA warning concerns the impersonators, not Venus Fleet Management Limited, which is authorised and has no connection with them. The details the impersonators use differ from the genuine firm's in ways that anyone can check.

The FCA's record

The FCA records that fraudsters are contacting people under the name VFM Leasing and presenting themselves as Venus Fleet Management Limited, Firm Reference Number 659744. The FCA states that the genuine firm has no connection with them.

The details the impersonators use are the website venusfleetmanagement.com, the email address info@venusfleetmanagement.com, the landline 0151 808 4445 and the mobile number 07537 130280.

The FCA gives the genuine firm's address as Castlefield House, Chapel Street, Bingley, West Yorkshire BD16 2AL, with the telephone number 01274 270859 and the email address sales@venusfleetmanagement.co.uk. The firm's entry on the FCA Register lists its website as www.venusfleetmanagement.co.uk.

What this means for clients of the genuine firm

Money paid to the impersonators never reaches Venus Fleet Management, and the protections that come with dealing with an authorised firm, including the Financial Ombudsman Service and the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, would not cover that payment.

Where a bank transfer to the impersonators was made on or after 7 October 2024, the paying bank should be told at once, because reimbursement under the Payment Systems Regulator's rules may be available.

The clone keeps the genuine firm's name in its website address and changes only the ending, from .co.uk to .com, so the address looks right at a glance. Its landline begins 0151, the code for Liverpool, while the genuine firm's number begins 01274, the code for the Bradford area that includes Bingley, and it adds a mobile number that does not appear in the FCA's details for the genuine firm. Anyone contacted about a lease or a payment in this name should call Venus Fleet Management on 01274 270859, the number the FCA Register lists, before paying anything.

Source: FCA Warning List → · Published 6 October 2026 by the FCA · Summarised by MetaAshes 10 October 2026

This summary states only the facts published by the FCA at the time of writing. It is not financial or legal advice, and the FCA's own listing is the current record.