preface:
This site has been created to increase public awareness of investment scams.
This blog is run by a private person, but there are few other contributors for the content. Nature of the business dealt in the blog requires anonymity of the contributors. Owner of the blog is also aware of sites like www.pissedaboutgettingscammed.com and anttikorhonenscam.blogspot.com. I am confident that readers of this blog can understand which is true and which is not. I am having Google adwords pointing to this site. I hope that you can appreciate, that I am actually paying for sake that YOU won't lose your money. I do not sell anything. Major part of the advertisement costs are covered by donations.
This blog is run by a private person, but there are few other contributors for the content. Nature of the business dealt in the blog requires anonymity of the contributors. Owner of the blog is also aware of sites like www.pissedaboutgettingscammed.com and anttikorhonenscam.blogspot.com. I am confident that readers of this blog can understand which is true and which is not. I am having Google adwords pointing to this site. I hope that you can appreciate, that I am actually paying for sake that YOU won't lose your money. I do not sell anything. Major part of the advertisement costs are covered by donations.
Hoshizaki Equities is a scam business.
I got few calls (cold call attempts) last week. I had some experience of this kind of scams few years ago, and I knew instantly that this is a another boiler room scam. But, instead saying no, I decided to play with these guys. I downloaded "automatic call recorder pro" to my Android phone. Here is the results. Listen the youtube videos at end of the blog. They were going to sell me Materialise NV (MTLS) shares at 20% discount ;) The stock is real and legit, but I bet that getting any money back would have been impossible. The next trade would have been on a smaller unlisted (fake?) company (eg Boca Mining, Braincure Biotech or similar). Soon, within few weeks, you are in middle of situation where you have to invest more money, otherwise you will lose everything invested so far (which you have lost anyway, I am sorry to say).I would like to share these calls to everybody. Motivation is to reduce these scammers profits.
Boiler room scam might be a new term for you. Take a look one of these links [1],[2],[3],[4]
Bottom line: If someone calls to you out of nowhere and offers investments with very good profits and no risk, it is a scam. If something is too good to be true, it is not true. Always use brokerages authorized by the FSA of the brokerage's home country!
I would like to hear confirmation stories of other companies (than Hoshizaki Equities) doing similar cold calling. Half of the company names listed below I have got by private messages. Please comment this blog, my youtube videos, or email me at antikorliss@gmail.com. You can do comments to this blog anonymously. A simple blog comment "International Partners called me" will be helpful. All emails will be treated confidentially. Don't hesitate contact even if you have invested in these scams and then being ashamed for it. Many people do. I did few years ago. Being quiet you just make the scammers life easier.
Here is a good video, which gives good view of the scale of the scamming business. And what scale of actions would be needed to get your money back..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HbvY1ZDhwg
Although scammers say that they are from Japan, Hong Kong or for example UK (any respectable business country with lively business sector), in reality they are operating usually from countries, where legislation is poor and corruption is blooming. I suspect that "Hoshizaki Equities" is calling from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Of course, they are also using fake names. "Aaron Rubin" or "Nicholas Carter" from Hoshizaki Equities do not exist anywhere. It is very difficult to get any justice by traditional means, if you don't know who to blame and the local authorities (at scammers end) have been bribed. These guys are ruthless, they care only about their profits. And this is where I am trying to hit ;)
Publicity is the best way to fight against these guys. I'll recommend to follow trade2win forums: http://www.trade2win.com/boards/educational-resources/14154-boiler-room-scams.html. Another forums:
These companies get bad fame quite quickly. Therefore scammers are building and generating sites of new companies at amazing rate. Several per a week. And to obtain some credibility for brand new "asset management", "investment services", "financial holdings" companies, they are generating incredible amount of bullshit press releases and advertisements all over the internet.
There are several keywords generating adds for this site. I cannot publish them all since I have to be quite confident before I do. This is why your message would be very valuable. Especially the companies sold on second phase (like Boca Mining Corporation) is very valuable information.
The list below contains only fraction of the names that deserve to be advertised. Initially I made a mistake and published some company names which were not yet active. Now the scammers have taken them down (like Yamamoto AM etc) . For now on I publish mainly the companies that I have received a query or complaint. Sometimes it seems that someone is clicking my ads more than necessary. Google filters these clicks quite well (no extra cost), but if some keyword gets suddenly high number of clicks, it ends up quickly to the list.
I am currently confident that all below are fraudulent, and they seem to generate traffic for this site. Some of the listed companies have become already
Note that somethimes a scammer company has same name than an another legitimate company. This is done on purpose to confuse the victims.
- Hoshizaki Equities
- Larse Capital
- Voth Nixon Group
Yamamoto Asset Management(www.yamamoto-asset-management.com)- Hasegawa Financial Holdings
- Ephraim Global
- Nippon Capital Asset Management (www.nipponholdings.com)
MG Wealth AdvisorsTKI Tokyo InternationalOtsuka Venture Capital- Osaka Financial
Norikura Global- Fox Capital Partners (foxcapitalpartners.com)
- International Partners (intl-partners.com)
- Josef Johan Bauer (www.jj-bauer.com or www.jjbauerprivateclients.com)
- Global Pacific (globalpacific.international)
- Norton Global Asset Management
Portal Wealth Management- Mitsui Credit Global
- Berglund Payton Group
- Fuji Credit Asset Management
- Kline Capital Partners
- QMI Financial
- Allera Capital
- Dalton Financial (www.daltonfinancial.com)
- Equity Life First Union
- Avesta Capital Advisors
- Clairmont Capital Partners
- Resona Corporate Partners
- Asia Pacific Brokerage
- Regency Associates
- Theiss Morgan Wealth Management
- Sterling Group International
- Arthur Sera Limited
- Osprey Associates
- Apex Equities
- Whitehall Capital Group
- Amberfield Group
- Benckiser Roth
- BNP Partners
- Evanson Asset Management (www.evansonassetmanagement.com)
- Clewis Financial
- Rothstein Wealth Management ( www.rothsteinwealthmanagement.com)
- Wilson Bennett Associates
- First Request Escrow
- Tokachi Group
- Allied International Trading
- Experia Management Group
- Bayside Financial Services
- Daikyo Brokerage
- Integrity Research Group
- Trinova Capital
- Ling Capital
- Belmont Financial Group
- Escrow Service Group
- Gemini Acquisitions
- Gem Capital (www.gemcapltd.com)
- Telemedia Company
- Witter Financial
- Peterson Group
- Katana Securities
- IPC Capital
- Nakajima Holdings
- Sandford Waters
- Hasegawa Financial Holdings
- Incheon Commodities Exchange
- McQuiad Group
- Concord Financial Partners
- Jordan Group Financial
- Century Direct Group
- Paramount Trade
- Wallace Associates (www.wallaceassociatesinc.com)
- Anzen Capital
- Tillman Hall Capital
- Red Shield Financial
- Matsuda Global
- Kenje Group
- New Gold Capital
- KFM Investment Group
- Oakmere Advisors
- MWI Consultants
- TA International
- Acquisition Internaltional
- Golden Cross Investments
- Kaufman Capital Management
- Redshaw Associates
- Bourse Forensic Accountants
- Ashwood Finance
- Cressman Financial Group
- Oshiro Associates
- Tatsuno International
- Sparks Corporation
- FDS Research
- Cunningham Mutual
- Drukenmiller Investment Services
- Tradex Global (tradex-global.org)
- Trafalgar Capital Partners (www.trafalgarcapitalpartners.com)
- Thornwood Financial
- Sapporo Mercantile Exchange
- ISG Global
- Bacall and Associates
- Sorrel Capital
- Kings View Capital Advisors
- Virtus International (South Korea)
- Thompson Lloyd Baker
- IGC Associates
- Paragon Advisors
- DA Corporation, Beijing
- The Alden Group
- Rubin Dunn
- Frank Owens Limited
- BLS Investments (www.blsinvestments.com)
- BHC Global
- Safe Mark Limited
- AWDH Trading Limited
- Brandt-Swift Associates
- White-Miller Associates
- South-East Asia Traders
- Genkai Securities
- Changsheng Associates
- Frontier Investments based in Hong Kong (www.frontierinvestltd.com)
- Nova Investments Limited Based in Hong Kong
- Somerset Capital Limited (somersetcapitalltd.com)
- Huang Investments Limited
- Sky Way CPA (www.skyway-cpa.com)
- Takara Global
- Elite Capital Assets
- Offshore East Private Wealth Managers
- Asquith Group
- Axis Investment Group
- Capital Growth Fund
- Timex (www.timexco.com.hk)
- Benard Baxmann Asia Limited
- GQR Global Markets
- Wynden Stark
- Viant Commodities Pte
- Oak Harbour Limited
- Walter Advisory Group
- Direct Asset Partners
- The Huxford Group
- Capital Strategy Partners
- Nakano Corporation (nakanocorp.com)
- The BHB Group
- INTO Investments
- Kaiser Hoffman Capital
- Glenwood Securities
- International Trading Partners
- Capital Asset Partners
- CNG Advisors
- Ocean Star Capitals
- Reinhart Venture Capital
- Ocean Star Capitals
- West Pacific Dealers
- Reforma Marketing
- Global Associates
- Prime Financial Partners
- Pimmit partners
- Cross Border Regulatory Financial Oversight Commission
- Allen Baker
- Private Wealth Strategy
- Verent Capital
- Knight & Mackenzie Partners
- Olympia Capital Exchange
- Seven FX Capital
- Eduard Steinbach PLC
- Sino Green Investment Partners
- Johnson Financial consulting
- Stoxmarket
- Global Tax Solutions
- HQBroker
- RichmondFG
- 53-capitaltrade
- TradeXtra
- AFC Management Ltd
- Blackmore Faulkner
- Axiom Equity
- Kingsberg International
- AML Hong Kong (amltpl.com)
- Wonder Capital Group
- Global Financial Group Advisors
- Sumo Global Transfer
- Aedria (aedria.org)
- Ridgestone Financial
- West Capital Inc (westcapitalintl.com)
- IB Research
- Central Ledgers Ltd (clldev.net)
- London Fiscal Futures Exchange (lffeconnect.com)
- Lion Group Holdings
- Alliance Capital Management (alliance-intl.com)
- Sierra Holdings Limited
- Assured Trading
- Knight Investment
- Yamasaki Asset Management
- Elibank Vernon
- fin-tech services association
- kingbest capital holdings
- asset perfect holdings
- aga capital management
- ace business holdings
- Sukemasa Trust
- Birchwood International
- Aidyia Hong Kong
- Foley Asset Management
- Global Capital Holdings
- Joseph Stone Capital LLC
- McCarthur Asset Management
- Bernet International
- Boca Mining Corporation
- Frankling Mining Inc
- Boca mining Holdings
- Braincure Biotech
- Houyi Power Gen
- Nano MediTech
- Menza Mining Corp
- Genocore Biotech
- ATW mining
- Cayman Exploration
- Dorado Resources
- Ansai Technologies
- Triton Ore
- Cayman Exploration
- Unique Grow Pacific
- Kinetix Exploration
- Silverhorn Mining
- Wising Century Solartech Company
- Horton Global Industries
- Building Services Design Studio Limited
- Concept Mining
- Yokohama Marine Mining
Bank accounts (and holding companies) used in these scams:
- Pacific Allied Trading LTD, Noor Bank, Dubai (Hoshizaki Equities)
- Ming Fu (HK) Industrial Ltd, Hang Seng Bank, Hong Kong (Mitsui Credit Global)
- Able Century Limited, Hang Seng Bank, Hong Kong, (Nippon Holdings)
- Mimirso International Co Limited, HSBC Hong Kong (Osaka Financial)
- Ekl International Co Limited, Hang Seng Bank (Mitsui Credit Global)
- Glory Jet Limited, HSBC Hong Kong (Nippon Holdings)
- Team Light Limited, HSBC Hong Kong (Nippon Capital Asset Management)
- Kings Sun
- Solution Direct Limited
- Brilliant Arctic Limited, HSBC Hong Kong
- Cosmic Wonder Company Limited, ICBC Macau
- Acetrade Asia Trading Company
- Boltin Limited, HSBC
- Redington Limited, HSBC
- Wealth Top Creation Limited
- Asicon Trading Limited, China Citic Bank International
- A and P Holdings Limited, Bank Sinopac, Taiwan
- Hamberg Limited
- United Equity Clearing Limited, Bank of China, Hong Kong
- High Net Global, Cathay United Bank, Taiwan
- High Net Global, Sanghai Commerical an Savings Bank, Taiwan
- JLM International, Bank of Taiwan
- Deepblue Global Ltd, Mega international commercial Bank, Taiwan
- Deepblue Global Ltd, E. Sun commercial Bank ltd, Taiwan
- New orchard group, Hellenic bank Cyprus
- Greenfields International Ltd, Eurobank EFG Cyprus
- Millennium union ltd, Bank of communications co, Shanghai
- Alpha Business Solution Ltd, Sanghai Commerical & Savings Bank, Taiwan
- Starmax Asia Industries Limited, Wanchai, Hong Kong
- Rosendale Worldwide Limited, Bank of Communications, Shanghai
- LNX Technologies (Hong Kong) Limited
- Sino Ocean Resource Limited, HK
- Smart-In Develop Limited, HK
- Hamberg Limited, Hongkong And Shanghai Banking Corporation, Hongkong
- Pinacle Limited, Hongkong And Shanghai Banking Corporation, Hongkong
- Pinacle Limited, Hang Seng Bank, Hong Kong
- Meiteer International Tradind Limited
- Long Will Limited, ICBC Macau, Macau
- E H (Hong Kong) SCM CO, Citibank N.A. Hong Kong Branch
- Fu De Enterprices (HK) Limited, HSBC Hong Kong
- Unig Limited, Hong Kong
- Reynald Rongcales Giray, Hong Kong
- Kimball Group Limited, Hang Seng Bank, Hong Kong
- PVSS Holdings Limited, HSBC Hong Kong
- Tian Xi Fu Limited, Hong Kong
- EFTTE Limited, Hang Seng Bank, Hong Kong
- FESM Holdings LTD, Hang Seng Bank, Hong Kong
- AFG Holdings Limited, Hang Seng Bank, Hong Kong
- Meida Innovation Limited, HSBC Hong Kong
- Full Way Limited, ICBC Macau
- Hongkong Ztwow Trade Limited, HSBC Hong Kong
- Hong Kong Qianghui Trade Group CO, Hang Seng Bank, Hong Kong
- HK Younghui Indutry Int ́l, HSBC Hong Kong
- HongKong Ztwow Ttrade Limited, HSBC Hong Kong
- Charm Assets Limited, HSBC Hong Kong
- Dawson Trade Internal CO, HSBC Hong Kong
- Kimsfer International Company,
- Canfeng Trade Limited, HSBC Hong Kong
- Green Isle Limited, Cathay United Bank
- Hornsea Global Limited, Bank of Shanghai
- Opencast Limited, Bank of East Asia (China) Limited, Shanghai
- Thompson Bright Ltd, Bank of China, Hong Kong
- Sim Partners Limited, Agricultural Bank of China
- Instant First Limited, Emirates NBD bank, Dubai
- Aoguan HongKong Co. Limited, HSBC Hong Kong
- Cu Limited, Bank of China, Hong Kong
- Lnx Technologies (Hong Kong) Limited, HSBC Hong Kong
- Shenzen Opticore Technology Co. Limited, Hang Seng Bank Hong Kong
- Sun Shui Ka Trade Co. Limited, ICBC (Asia), Hong Kong
- Burghley Limited, United Overseas Bank Ltd, China
- Safenet Group Solutions Limited, Ocbc Bank, China
- Titan Solutions International Ltd, East West Bank, China
- Wentwood Enterprises ltd, Mauritius commercial bank
- Lipchis Group Ltd, KGI Bank, Taiwan
- Kepu International Trade Limited,Hang Seng Bank Limited , Hong Kong
- MHG Group Limited
- Bonds & CO. Commerical Brokers LLC, ENBD, Dubai
- BVL Trading Ltd
I encourage everyone when dealing with these companies to record the conversation with the scammers. This is important! It will make them quite pissed ;) It's very easy for them to change company names, websites and phone numbers to set up a new scam. But it's rather difficult to change your voice, accent or intonation. Before publishing the recording you might want to wipe out your own voice from the tape. A quite tedious work, but Audacity is the tool. You can make a youtube video using Windows MovieMaker tool. If you can trust me (just nobody, alias Antti Korhonen, Finland), I can do it for you (like I did for BNP Partners, Tillman and MWI videos).
If you are really pissed and you have some spare time, you could start a project like this... It is fairly easy to create a blogger page and maintain an Google adwords account. Google adwords is very powerful tool in information sharing. Display network ads will find its audience even if the person is not actively searching scammers name. It's enough that you have had some contact with the keyword some time ago. It is essential to get new boiler room companies listed in Google frontpage. Only few people will find the names in FSA warning lists, when you are given a short time to your due diligence process. FSA lists are often updated 3-4 months too late. By having Google adwords account, you will get good statistics about activity of the keywords. A big help in this project!Fact is that we are dealing with criminals. While having project like this, I recommend you to use fake identity (as I do), and make sure that your street address is not publicly available. The reason why I am eagerly offering my knowledge to the public, is that it will reduce my risks. More we have insiders in the private group, more powerfull we are. By joining the forces, there might become a chance to get some money back from scammers. No guarantee of course, but I am sure that this kind of project causes high blood pressure and headache to scammers.
Blogger (this site) and youtube provide very good statistics of the readers of this blog. There has been about 21000 visits and 9000 visitors since mid November'15 this site (one year). It is about 20 visitors per a day. Every day there few are visitors, who seem to read the blog in great detail. In this respect, I am slightly disappointed the amount of messages I get. Anyway, I have lots of information and private messages from scammed people, but I cannot publish all the info here. My modest estimate is that I can easily cause loss of 100000€ per a month to scammers. Knowing this feels good, although every click may cost me few cents. Google advertisements worth of 20-40€ is enough to end a scammer company business, because if you do advertisements for 2 months and maybe obtained 30-100 clicks, the scammer name will remain in google frontpage although no ads are shown.This is enough ruining an "emerging" boiler room business.
Scammer "Kenneth Abbot" from Knight & Mackenzie Partners, Tokyo:
a Scammer from ISG Global:
Scammer "Sam Hancock" from Ling Capital:
Scammer "Jonathan Brookes" from Ling Capital:
Scammer "James Bryant" from ISG Global:
Scammer "JessJames Watson" from BNP Partners:
Scammer "Gerald E Powers" from BNP Partners:
a boiler room scammer voice sample by antikorliss
Scammer Anna Hamilton from Tillman Hall Capital / IPC Capital
Scammer David Berg from Tillman Hall Capital
Scammer Mark Price MWI Consultants
Scammer Sarah Reid MWI Consultants
Scammer Amilia Graf, Rubin Dunn
A scammer from International Partners (intl-partners.com)
Adam Zola from ISG Global
David West from ISG Global
A scammer from Oakmere Advisors
More videos from Youtube user ScumCleaner: (Daikyo Brokerage, GEM capital)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFUAZVZiQaRItmuNXwVBgqg
More videos from Youtube user Jason Cooke:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQu3tQ8jRM18q9yBX5TBn2g/videos?shelf_id=0&view=0&sort=dd
If you were about to donate a significant amount of money to the scammers, then maybe you could think about small donation to this blog. This way you make sure that this work continues. Scamming business would not exist if authorities (police, financial services authorities, banks etc..) could do something about them.
If all people involved to these scams (scammed, or just get called) would take some real actions, we could paralyze whole scamming industry. I know, my project is touching only pinnacle of the boiler room scene. If more and more people would adopt this kind of information sharing tools, I am confident that scammers will face some downturn of incomes, financial crisis, pink slips etc.. sooner or later. Please donate, if you don't want to take a risk, have time to write a blog, edit the recordings, share information. My intention is not to earn money from donations, just cover some of my Google Adwords expenses. More than the donations, I would like to see more brave guys and girls taking part in this project. Or founding their own [1],
