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Currently, the business of egg donation is not regulated by government agencies. Anyone can open an egg donor agency without obtaining a license. Although, the vast majority of egg donation agencies are not fraudulent, there have been a few fraudulent agencies over the years which should alert prospective recipients to do their due diligence in selecting an agency. This web page provides information to help prospective recipients to avoid fraudulent egg donor agencies.

A. Basic Background Information

Here are some helpful general articles which explain how to avoid scams and fraudulent agencies:

• Predator Surrogate Agencies – How To Avoid Becoming A Victim
• Avoiding Adoption Fraud and Scams
• Friday Legal Updates - Fertility & Insurance, Kansas Agency, Baby Scammer, Embryo Dispute, Custody Battle, NY Stalls Same Sex Bill & Adoption Agency Bankruptcy

B. What You Can Do to Protect Yourself

Based on past fraudulent agency tactics, here are some actions that you can do to avoid scam agencies.

1. Carefully review escrow company issues

Or, carefully review the agency's escrow company. If the donor or surrogate agency owns the escrow company, this is a serious potential conflict of interest.

Examples:

• Surrogenesis - they owned their escrow company. This would have been difficult to know, however, in order to avoid this problem, recipients/IPs might use their own escrow company.

2. Is the egg donor agency audited by an independent company?
 

3. If the street address is not on the website, then be very leery of the agency.

You should see a street address where you can go visit and inspect.

Examples:

• B Coming - They only have a post office box on their website
   

4. If the names of owners/staff are not on the website, then be very leery of the agency.

In addition to at least the owners name, you should also expect to see a biography of the owner.
 

5. If you see a fast buildup of the agency, then review more carefully.

Examples:

• Surrogenesis - they built their business extremely fast. Many of the office locations listed on their website were simply post office boxes.

C. Egg Donor / Surrogacy Agencies - Examples of Scams

Although the vast majority of egg donor agencies are reputable, there have been some fraudulent agencies. Here are some examples of fraudulent/scam agencies:

1. B Coming

• Bernie Madoff Looks Good In Comparison (3/13/09)

2. Surrogenesis

This agency was owned by Tonya Harding. Problems became very apparent in March 2009. Some additional information:

• Peeling Away The Layers Of The Onion That Is Tonya Collins (4/18/09)
• The Fraud Perpetrated By Tonya Collins, SurroGenesis & Michael Charles (4/14/09)
• More Information On SurroGenesis, Michael Charles & Tonya Collins (3/14/09)
• Fetal Foreclosure - If you stop paying a surrogate mother, what happens to the fetus? (3/24/09)

3. Options National Fertility Registry

• Options National Fertility Registry v. The American Society for Reproductive Medicine et al

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