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],
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Good way to check the status of financial corporation is to look after their history in web:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130204181932/http://ephraimglobal.com/
For instance, this Ephraim Clobal's web page was a nanny agency 2013 and during 2014 this web page was out of internet:
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Are you looking for a quality, experienced caregiver, who is caring and has a heart for children and the elderly?
What is right for your family? Ephraim Global Nanny Agency specializes in bringing families and employers together with the best Nannies / Caregivers to suit their needs. The results we see are of happy, caring and lasting family relationships.
> Find Out More…
A comfortable atmosphere for Nannies to work.
Are you a person who is passionate for excellence and have strong passion to help busy parents for their children and provide care for Elders and Disabled; you are in the right site!
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If this "company" has an internet history only for a few months - it is a scam.
You can also check from Google the history of Ephraim Global. Select search time interval for a few years ago and check the results: nothing financial hits - it is a scam.
Check the owner of the IP-address.
Check the company's home page. Good findings are pdf-files: who is the generator of these pdf's. When they have been made.
After that I bet it is a scam - for 99,999% probability.
And one thing more... Check the company's address from Google Maps. If this is a office hotel (which rents faxies and anwering servicies) = it is a scam.
And check the telephone addresses also. Are they real or prepaids?
Thanks. Webarchive seem to be better than Google cache. Google seems to find couple hits of Ephraim Global from 2005-2008. This is why I was bit hesitant to add Ephraim to my list
I recently have experienced almost the exact same approach.
Names of stock: BYD (indeed legitimate), before you know it transferred to BMCA (Boca Mining Corporation) with an incredible profit followed by yet an other transfer to a mystery client in desparate need of this stock indicating a factor 3x gain.
If only I were to invest an additonal significant amount of money.
Initial Trader Company: Nippon Holdings
Fast forward ''acquired'' by Osaka Financial, both registered in Osaka
(But this is not the case i.o.w. the Japanese authorities SESC).
The voices in the youtube sounded very similar to the people that I talked to on the Phone.
There is more to tell, but I am interested in addressing this to the appropriate authorities. How can we team up to make this happen ?
Peter
Thanks for the message. Nice to hear that I am on right track.
Sure you can make a report to your local police. Usually they can't do anything since you don't know your opponent (who, what country). If the loss is significant then your federal police might take the case and with help of foreign police raid the address you have - and will find nothing.
It is certainly worth making a report to your local FSA (financial services authority). They will add the company name to a warning list.
I don't know any other appropriate authority.
Hello Antti,
I had a phone call from Ephraim Global in October and was stupid enough to believe their story and made some investment. A month later they call me again in order to in-crease my position (they did sell me some existing shares). The promised profit was so huge that I suspected some form of fraud. I then researched internet a little bit further and finally found your page, thank you.
As I refused, they called again for another opportunity. If you want more details, I can write all the details to you by email. I suspect that the scammers are reading this page and I don't want them to know too much.
Anyway, in conclusion Ephraim Global is a scam.
Yes please, email me. Especially the fake companies sold on 2nd round are very valuable information. They are sold by many boiler rooms, and "click succes rate" to a scam victim to find this blog is certaily better with these keywords.
Thanks for sharing this. I got a call from "Japan" and they sent me e-mail. They will be call next week but I won't answer to an unknown number.
Best way to get rid of these guys is to record the phone calls with them and then publish the recording. They won't call you again ;)
Hi there, that company called INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS has been constantly contacting me, how do i get them to stop??
I guess they are "intl-partners.com" from Tokyo. Please refer them to this blog. Also, you may record the calls and send them to me.
"intl-partners.com" from Tokyo called me
EPHRAIM GLOBAL is scam. All is a fake! Please be patient with me and my English :-).
I'm from Germany and was one of these idiots that invest some money. I'm not rich and the things they said, soundet coherent. Mr. FRANK LAMBERT told me I should invest in Solar City (SCTY) at a special price of 23 US$. Thea were good for 55$. So I trust after a check of SCTY. The price was at 27 but I could get it for 23, so I bought some. I had a call with another guy who explained me everything step by step and sent me some docs to sign and explained all clearly. Now, after some weeks this Frank was in the states. A guy named DAVID ZERA called me, who handle only big accounts and also mine from Frank ...
……………………………………………………………………………………………..
He told me to sell at a fix price of 41$ (at that time the price was 32$) on 14th Dec. He confirmed in written 3 options for me:
As promised, I send you this written summary of what we can do within the next few weeks;
1. Your advisor, Mr. Frank Lambert is temporarily away as he just had been promoted. Until his return, I will be handling your account; of course, with your permission.
2. If you are interested in a rapid sale, your position could be sold on December 14th at the fixed price of $41 per unit which is already secured under a technical institutional contract.
3. In anticipation of the above mentioned transaction several clients requested that they increase their current holding; if you also decide to do so, there are several positions (500, 750 and 1,000 and 5,000 units) in SCTY for the price of $23 per unit, available for private clientele only; this allocation is not available for either institutions or prospects outside of our client base and neither can be used by our company for our own benefit due to international securities trading regulations.
All the above data is confirmed and provided to your attention in full confidentiality for your personal use exclusively.
……………………………………………………………………………………………
Well, I decided for option 2. but then: no reply. I called the “direct line” and wrote 3 mails. In a 3rd one, I said, I want to buy some more shares, but only less - 250. Well, ZERA called back …
I told him that I like to sell. He said no, better way is ti Switch to Braincure Biotech (price 5$ they will go ti 7.5$ at least. No interest, want sell my SCTY. Answer: OK, thank you for your second deal with us.
I received a Switch Order Confirmation that I should sign. I didn’t and gave sell order by mail – now with the 4th reminder. The SCTY is now 55$+.
Well, no response. I think my money is lost. If I want buy shares next time, I go to my bank and speak face to face.
Do yourself a favor: DON’T INVEST YOUR MONEY WITH EPHRAIM GLOBAL. THEY ARE A FAKE, A SCAM, A FRAUD. I paid for this experience. Tell all you know. Warn them!
EPHRAIM GLOBAL is scam. All is a fake! Here is my true story. Please be patient with me and my English :-).
I'm from Germany and was one of these big idiots that invest some money. I'm not rich and the things they said, soundet coherent. Mr. FRANK LAMBERT told me I should invest in Solar City (SCTY) at a special price of 23 US$. Thea were good for 55$. So I trust after a check of SCTY. The price was at 27 but I could get it for 23, so I bought some. I had a call with another guy who explained me everything step by step and sent me some docs to sign and explained all clearly. Now, after some weeks this Frank was in the states. A guy named DAVID ZERA called me, who handle only big accounts and also mine from Frank ...
He told me to sell at a fix price of 41$ (at that time the price was 32$) on 14th Dec. He confirmed in written 3 options for me:
QUOTE
As promised, I send you this written summary of what we can do within the next few weeks;
1. Your advisor, Mr. Frank Lambert is temporarily away as he just had been promoted. Until his return, I will be handling your account; of course, with your permission.
2. If you are interested in a rapid sale, your position could be sold on December 14th at the fixed price of $41 per unit which is already secured under a technical institutional contract.
3. In anticipation of the above mentioned transaction several clients requested that they increase their current holding; if you also decide to do so, there are several positions (500, 750 and 1,000 and 5,000 units) in SCTY for the price of $23 per unit, available for private clientele only; this allocation is not available for either institutions or prospects outside of our client base and neither can be used by our company for our own benefit due to international securities trading regulations.
All the above data is confirmed and provided to your attention in full confidentiality for your personal use exclusively.
UNQUOTE
Well, I decided for option 2. but then: no reply. I called the “direct line” and wrote 3 mails. In a 3rd one, I said, I want to buy some more shares, but only less - 250. Well, ZERA called back …
I told him that I like to sell. He said no, better way is ti Switch to Braincure Biotech (price 5$ they will go ti 7.5$ at least. No interest, want sell my SCTY. Answer: OK, thank you for your second deal with us.
I received a Switch Order Confirmation that I should sign. I didn’t and gave sell order by mail – now with the 4th reminder. The SCTY is now 55$+.
Well, no response. I think my money is lost and with it the summer holiday for my family. I was so stupid. If I want buy shares next time, I go to my bank and speak face to face.
Do yourself a favor: DON’T INVEST YOUR MONEY WITH EPHRAIM GLOBAL. THEY ARE A FAKE, A SCAM, A FRAUD. I paid for this experience. Tell all you know. Warn them!
Ephraim Global ist Betrug. Bitte oben lesen.
EPHRAIM GLOBAL Erfahrungen: Betrüger, kein Geld geben
Ephraim Gloabal. Betrug.
Ephraim Global: Finger weg!
I try to post something in German too, so that google will find this at the key words EPHRAIM GLOBAL & Erfahrungen or Betrug (scam/ fraud). I hope their business will be stopped ...
One thing for the age of a web site:
http://www.scamadviser.com/
have a look at ephraimglobal.com. Now I know more how s.o. can check if a site/ company is serious,
Yes I think too that the company is a fake. Scamadviser told about the age:
Website: braincure-biotech.com
Title: Braincure | Biotech
Domain Age: 361 Days
Website Speed: Very Fast
Website location = USA/ MA, but the adress on the homepage is TAIWAN.
So EPHRAIM GLOBAL is really scam. Fake, Fraud, Betrug, Finger weg! Unseriös/ not serious.
I can definitely confirm that Nippon Capital Asset Management (also knwo as Nippon Capital AM) and Osaka Financial (same bastards, they just changed names)are running a boiler room scam. Nippon has been officially put on the Japanese FSA warning list, and they have confirmed to me that Osaka Financial will also be listed on it very shortly. Some names of these scumbags, so people will find this when googling them: Michael Stone, David Stewart, Anthony Harris, Charles Worth, David Silver. Stock they use in the scam is BYD and Boca Mining Corporation (BMCA).
All the companies mentioned above are on my public list. But, it's always nice to hear that my ads are paying off.
Wow! I got some attention.
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Please remove all reference to BOCA on your posting and retract the untrue statement immediately. If you do not, I will take appropriate legal action on BOCA's behalf.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this critical matter.
Regards,
Joseph Drexel,
Legal Counsel
Boca Mining Holding Company Limited
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Dear all.
These companies are true masters in their craft.
It's a pity such talent is wasted on criminal activities.
Now, I consider myself lucky to have found this blog as I was bound to be trapped too.
I have a request to whomever reads this:
If you have fallen for this kind of scam, I feel for you. There is no shame in being honest and fall too easy for these dishonest deceivers, it is our nature.
Due to the information over here I got of the hook just in time.
If, on the other hand, you know that you would most likely have proceeded with their proposals and actually lose your money, be very glad.
I understand that the author of this blog is spending private money in keeping this to the public's attention.
Please do the same as I did, send a small donation to the author of this blog.
That is one investment that is guaranteede profitable, as you by now already gained the money you were going to pay to these criminals
I suppose the author is to modest to ask, so I will do.
If you have questions you may contact me:
TheTrueLuckyOne@gmail.com
Thank you again. All comments, private messages (and especially the one above) drive my motivation higher. I will keep on doing this for months.. But, as requested, I added a small donation button to end of the page. I'll remove the button if I start to earn more than I pay to Google adwords ;)
New hoax attempt - I assume: "David Scott" from Fuji Credit Asset (www.fujicredit.com) trying to sell BYD stocks, because Apple is going to start the electric car development in collaboration with BYD and the stock will skyrocket. The name of Warren Buffet was emphasized as a source. It took a long while when I asked him to repeat his name and the company's name in the middle of the conversation. (He told someone came to him to ask something else in that critical moment). This is so interesting...
That's funny, Mitsui Credit Global's Elliot Levine also offered BYD with the same inside information.
They already are listed on an alarm list issued by our national financial markets authority.
I like an idiot did business with Nippon and am sorry to say my money appears lost however, some months before this i also traded with Fuji Credit and this all seems to be running smoothly.I completed the first trade with reasonable return and i am awaiting results on the second, i will keep you posted...
Well. Nippon Capital Asset Management and Fuji Credit Asset Management are same group. Proofs you get by email.
The reason i say this with major element of doubt is earlier in your thread you basically promoted a company called Economic frauds detection & prevention, however this company is a complete and utter scam that works on a fee basis and runs for the hills with the money that's paid for so called help, again i can vouch for this with my first hand experience.Are you pushing already scammed people into an even deeper problem,as it looks that way
Simply Google the following http:/economicfrauds.com fraud
Again i would say this leaves big doubt in what are you trying to achieve as it throws a very dark cloud over your blog promoting as your promoting a fraudulent company on a blog trying to prevent such activity(bizarre to say the least).
This could be an error on your side however, how many other errors have you made with no consideration about the terrible consequence it may have to others.
If you look at their application forms and terms and conditions, there is hardly any difference.
Also the websites have similarities in the basic structure.
Being scammed is an awful thing as anyone who has been a victim (Like me) will tell you,people deal with it in many different ways some being tragic,However most of whats written here is just hearsay or over thinking AKA anger or even paranoia.
People deep down really want to know the truth so they can move on and close a chapter whether good or bad and sites like this don't really help people they just confuse even more.So how about posting some concrete evidence as apposed to just hidden assumptions it will be far more beneficial in the long run if your intentions are truly sincere.
Good luck in your quest....
Thank you Anonymous (14th Feb, 15:48) comment about economicfrauds.com. In this business you cannot trust anybody, it should be kept always in mind. There are lot's of different "recovery scams" around. Boiler-rooms.org used to be one.
To me it looks like there is two sites. There is ecomicfrauds.com, and also a site economicfrauds.net. The latter is selling "due diligence reports" to the public at quite high (but still reasonable) price. I think that this kind of service is needed, since hardest time for the victims is when being in doubt.
I am afraid that the scammers have made a clone ecomicfrauds.com to disturb ecomicfrauds.net. This is just my assumption, I could be wrong. My advise is to not send any money abroad when it comes to "boiler room scams". Before or after being scammed.
My intention is to build a "open source" boiler room scam list. If we get enough people to work for this and invest for this, we will make a change. We have still problems, since there is a need staying in anonymity, and scammers would like to disturb this activity also. Lack of trust..
Antti Korhonen
Shame on you, clearly the truth hurts that why your pulling down my truthful comments.
You will be exposed
Today has been an exceptionally active day of comments. I deleted some of them being redundant. I have a feeling that someone has got pissed because Fuji Credit is on the list. It may or it may not be that economicfrauds .com or .net has faced similar distraction campaign. Don't care. Judge yourself!
Antti Korhonen,
You are a fraud, and your collaborating with all the other fee based companies i will not stop until your exposed.
Reveal your true identity if you've nothing to hide,or are afraid people will track you down in Helsinki for the fraud you are.
You are clearly a thieving little coward.
I have deleted about 10 spam comments here in this mornning. I found another 10 in spam folder filtered by Blogger. For each new spam message, I will send a new company name to Economic Fraud Detection & Prevention
HEY! I am impressed! I have been credited by a fan page "anttikorhonenscam.blogspot.com". This also explains the burst of spam messages about Economic Fraud Detection & Prevention (economicfrauds.net) Now its clear, this company seems to be legit for sure, and they are ALSO doing a good job!
Funny, some links on that page are dead links, some generate an alert from my malware protection as linking to an attack site.
What he mentions as your site (www.pissedaboutbeingscamed.com) is even non-existent.
Looks like he has little routine in linking to usefull sites.
I am not one of the lucky ones! I unfortunately fell into the trap set by EPHRAIM GLOBAL and when i found this site it initially restored my faith in humanity, however i am now very confused.
Simple google searches of economicfrauds.com prove that there have been warnings that economicfrauds.com as early as 2011/2 (http://www.scambook.com/report/view/115492/Economic-Frauds-economicfraudscom-Complaint-115492-for-$650.00) has been used as a 'recovery scam', very similar to boiler-rooms.org mentioned in an earlier thread.
How is it possible that economicfrauds.com is clone of economicfrauds.net if economicfrauds.com was the first of the 2 sites? Why would economicfrauds.net use the same logos etc. as the original .com site if they weren't one of the same? Also if you read the .net site, they confirm that .com is one of their domains?
You have said yourself that you will forward details to the economicfrauds.net people; have you really done your DD into these people, because all of the posting for the last five years very clearly confirm they are scammers linked to multiple sites and mutiple scams?
As I said earlier, in this business you cannot trust anybody. Also remember, that everything that is in internet is not true.
I think I was wrong when I initially stated .com .net are different sites. I don't want to click any links, since I am being currently hacked quite heavily.
To me it looks like that scammers have got pissed about economicfrauds, and they are mailing disruptive inforamation everewhere they can. My "fan page" opened my eyes.
I think that after some time I delete all references of economicfrauds here in my blog comments.
I know this wont be posted so this is for you eyes only,read carefully.
You address will be revealed that i guarantee,i want my money back you thief.
i will have great pleasure in revealing your address on-line to every single criminal company so they can act accordingly this is because of the fraudulent advice you have been handing out for your own personal gain.
I am not going to stop until your true identity is public knowledge.
Lets see how brave you are when your are no longer able to hide behind your computer.
Here we have example of messages I get constantly...
Good work! I would like to add to your list a company named Clairmont Capital Partners
I got contacted several times by Berglund Payton Group advising me to buy Solarcity at 14 USD ( current rate +-19USD) with a return of >2x within 8 to 10 weeks.
Reading all the comments above I think I am gonna pass on this "fantastic" investment.
I would like to congratulate you on your blog and further that you are even paying for Google Ads to make people aware of scams / possible scams.
I run a business in the property investment market my biggest challenge is keeping my clients away from scams. Trouble is, these guys are good and with the lack of time people tend to have to do proper due diligence, people are naturally tempted by high returns and even smart people do get caught out.
I have a client who in late 2014 bought Alibaba shares from a company called Theiss Morgan Wealth Management. Sadly it turned out to be an elaborate scam and he lost a big chunk of cash.
I came across your blog via your add as I myself was cold called by a company on your list called Dalton Financial. I knew it was a scam immediately but went along with the call.
I am sorry that people several people who have posted here have been caught out, but they do provide some decent advice on ways to check out companies. I am going to send an email to my database over the coming days and put in a link to your blog. I hope it helps others not to get sucked in to these criminals.
A couple of years back my company informed clients of a scam that we were aware of and before I knew it we were receiving heavy handed legal letters from big law firms with claims of defamation and their intention to take proceedings against us. Was pretty stressful and unpleasant for a while, so if you are wondering why I have not disclosed my identity, that is the reason. Of course all the investors lost their money.
Anyway, well done again for the blog and I hope I can send some traffic your way soon.
You can ad The Sterling Group International to your list! They started as MG Wealth Advisors.
Have anyone heard of Kline Capital Partners, which is supposed to be based in Hong Kong?
Kline Capital Partners has all the signs of a boiler room scam. And yes, I have got messages from scammed people.
Thanks for the wake-up call on Kline Capital Partners. They claim to be located in Hong Kong, but they are not registered with the Securities and Futures Commission there.
Been getting calls from Dalton Financial. Posted some info on International Skeptics -
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=304514
Ashamed of being scamed. Thank you for reveling those facts. Wish only that blog would be published before september 2015.
Hi!
This time it took me some time to track these scammers who´s, I suppose,going to offer me BYD shares at a discount obviously. Their stories including Warren Buffet and that Tesla is going to manufacture their cars, some new model, in the BYD,s company.
Same story offered by a new frauder, Asia Pacific Brokerage Services Limited, which is not scam-listed yet. The voice in the phone was a lady this time.
Looking forward for their offer!!
Hi
Dallton Financial nearly scammed me. They are up and running and "selling" Walt Disney" shares with 7 % rebate.
Here is one more experia management group to look upp fore.
Mitsui Credit Global, called. Then they changed (were taken over) by Resona Capital Corporate Partners Same staff called after the "take-over". They are currently selling Boca Mining Holding Company. Watch Out!!
I´m a victim...
Thanks a lot for your site, I will gladly donate to it as this is very honorable activity. Please could you confirm whether this Osprey Associates is a scam? Ospreyassociates.com - They are on your list, although their site has existed for a few years now. I agreed to do business with them over the phone, after doing some research I became suspicious about them and refused to pay their invoice. Now they are threatening me with handing over my case to their lawyers and so on. It is most probably part of their scam scheme as well, just wanted to confirm with you that the company on your list matches the one I have encountered. Of course I wouldn't want to get intro trouble. Thank again.
Osprey Associates say that they are founded 2008 and they are from Japan. It does not convince me, since the site has been on sale mid´14 (see archive.org) and I cannot found them http://www.fsa.go.jp/en/regulated/licensed/. Please ask where they are licensed?
I wish I have read your blog earlier, but Arthur-Sera Limited started their scam and fraud in October 2015. They offered me Pinterest private placement shares. And I know other people are being offered Airbnb private placement shares starting January 2016. This is their website - www.arthur-sera.com. They claim to be registered at Cayman Island, office at Tokyo and Hong Kong. But I have checked, Tokyo and Hong Kong are only virtual offices.
They target only non US citizen since they claim you get to have tax free investment. After they cold call you and introduce themselves and their offer, they would ask you to sign up an account for free. After giving your name and address through telephone, another compliance officer will call you. Afterward you decided not to invest, then they will start to threaten you that you have showed interest, they have registered your shares, if you back out they will send legal letter. But the thing is you only registered without committing to the trade.
So let say you have proceeded. Then they will come up with new tricks to ask you to top up your number of shares. For example there are valuable stock options, non US citizen need to own 5000 shares to sell out, non US citizen need to pay off 51% amount of the 5000 shares to sell out, etc. And they will ask you to sign margin trading agreement and corporate facility agreement. Then using that to threaten you it will affect your credit rating etc. They will even tell you stories why they do not want to be registered with any regulatory bodies.
Please be careful.
Hi, I would like to add to the bank account alert list that the scammers use.
1. AAFRA SERV INC., Metro Bank Addition Hills, Philippines.
2. INTRANSFER SERVICES CORP., Eastwest Bank Fort Marajo, Philippines.
Thank you.
Well, I would like know more about above transfer agents, before I lift them to my list.
Hi, the two bank accounts were used by Arthur-Sera Limited. And surprisingly the two transfer agents are registered with SEC of Philippines. I don't know how they do it.
Great site and great work.
I got scammed by the company JJ-Bauer. Now known as JJBauerPrivateclients. They claim, in my dealings with them, to operate from NY, London, Luxemburg. They use the names and bios (a bit tweaked) of well-known professionals
Keep up the good work.
I have been scammed >200K USD by BNP Partners parent company (BNP Capital Partners,LLC registered in Delaware) Fraudsters are Jonathan Franklin, Gerard E Powers (Jerry).
I bought 5000 Class A Ferrari shares/Warrants they promised to sell it Kingdom Holding institution within few months and reap me double the ROI then said money is credited by Holding company ready to collect and said me to clear tax/restriction fees so they can release the payment to me. Once I cleared all the payments their website is down, their HK +852 58083924 is not contactable. They had introduced me existing client Simon Coleman, Perth +61863650410 who claimed has 5 years relationship with BNP Partners; his number that I used to speak until yesterday suddenly became a callback number today. Please strike this company as anyway they are absconding to reply emails g.powers@bnppartners.com, j.franklin@bnppartners.com.
Same bad experience for me with EPHRAIM GLOBAL. (sorry for my not perfect English but I'm Italian)I was contacted last November first by Mrs. SARAH SPIROS from EPHRAIM GLOBAL. She conviced me to invest in Solar City (SCTY) at price of 25 US$ so I bought some sending wire transfer to Hong Kong (HAMBERG LIMITED).
In December I had a call from another guy who explained me SARAH SPIROS was in the States. Then this guy named ROBERT HERMANN called me several times and often he was very arrogant by phone. He said that he handle only big institutional accounts and also mine for sure (stupid me...) I refused twice to upgrade my position of investment. Then he convinced me to switch SOLAR CITY at selling price of 44 US$ and switch to Braincure Biotech price 5$ with no cost of transaction. (normally 1%). All last month of March always Mr. ROBERT HERMANN tryed to force me several times again to upgrade my position in BRAINCURE BIOTECH price 5 US$, promising me fantastic selling price at 12.90 US$ within the middle of April.
Now I Always said NO MORE, but I think it is too late to see coming back at least my firt investment. Never received reply to my e-mails from EPHRAIM GLOBAL. And often telephone calling seems to arrive from an italian number from Rome 06 87809600 while Mr. Robert Hermann supposed to be in Japan !
DO NOT INVEST YOUR MONEY WITH EPHRAIM GLOBAL. THEY ARE A FAKE,A FRAUD.
Ve lo dico anche in italiano: NON INVESTITE I VOSTRI SOLDI CON EPHRAIM GLOBAL e' UNA TRUFFA. ATTENZIONE SE VI CHIAMA UN NUMERO DI ROMA 06 87809600
Any got scammed by Arthur-Sera Limited? I heard some commented that their tactics similar to boiler room scam, but is there anyone who got scammed by them?
See the comment here 18th March by Anonymous. Economicfrauds.net have listed them too.
Thanks Antti. The comment made by anonymous on 18/3 did not mentioned he got nailed by Arthur-Sera. He just mentioned that Arthur-Sera tactics. I just want to be sure about it.
As for Economics Frauds.net did mentioned about this company, but I did not purchase and read the report. The report could be otherwise.
I just hope someone who got scammed by Arthur-Sera to voice it out. When I checked their website through scam advisor and or scamvoid.com, this website has existed for more than 10 years. If they are fraud/scam, many would have make it viral.
Am not trying to defend them, but I just want to know if there is any victim by them.
CY, I am quite sure Arthur Sera Limited is a fraud. They tick all the boxes of a boiler room scam.
1. They use virtual office addresses.
2. You cannot find them at any of the company registrar at countries they claim they operate at.
3. They use VoIP phones.
4. They are not registered broker or financial adviser at countries they operate in.
5. Don't forget you can buy over website domain and recreate a layout for it.
6. Most importantly they ask you to transfer money to an oversea account. Never do that because your country's law cannot protect you anymore.
Read
https://www.sec.gov/oiea/investor-alerts-bulletins/ib_privateplacements.html
US SEC has issued a lot of investor alerts on private placement offer. You need to be an accredited investor and buy from a registered broker if you want to buy US private placement shares. So if you are not, then it is fake.
Icebox, ich hab die beiden kennengelernt (am telephon) willkommen im Club.
Bin gerade in der Auseinandersetzung.
Dear Antti and all fool'S who have been ripped off by those scaming criminals,
unfortunately we are victims of those criminals who are selling faked shares, too.
I am writing to you to a) avoid others to grope into this trap and b) to get the chance over a worldwide community to get more information about those criminals and to have a slight chance in getting back a minor amount of the "invested" money. I know, after reading all your experiences, that there is not a real chance but we wish to keep a bit of hope......
My husband has been contaced end of 2015 by several people by an anonymous phone number to get to know if he is interested in stock shares and if he has experience in it.
The company he has been contacted by is called DAIKYO BROKERAGE LIMITED (www.daikyo-brokerage-limited.com). After obtaining his trust, as an entry he invested money to buy shares of Hydrogenics for 7USD per share which could be sold for more than 13 USD per share. As a next step the invested money+the profit has been used to buy shares/options for BRAINCURE BIOTECH. He had to invest the same amount to buy more shares, afterwards JAMES O'SHEA ("investment advisor") mentioned that he would need to buy an additional 10.000 shares....Of course he could almost tripple the profit since the shares/options could be sold by more than 13 USD. Next step was the payment of a SECURITY DEPOSIT to get the amount finally transferred to the German bank account of 20% of the share value.
Unfortunetaly we found your side plus the webside scamadvier.com very late, fortunately not far too late, so that the security deposit hasn't been paid, but still it hit a big whole into our pockets.
What we found out during our investigation in the world wide web was, that information about DAIKYO BROKERAGE LIMITED and BRAINCURE BIOTECH has been explicity distributed in the internet around the time my husband has been contacted (Nov 15-Jan 16) and we came accross the name of the author PRISCILLA TUCKER who wrote an article about Braincure Biotech (http://newsbox.com/release/89020/) but also a lot of other articles (http://www.scoop.it/t/press-release-by-priscilla-tucker).
Majority of the money had been transferred to the BANK OF CHINA (HONG KONG) LIMITED and account holder UNITED EQUITY CLEARING LIMITED. If you agree, please post them on your blog too. We informed the police and also contaced the bank but as you are probably all aware, the process is very very slow. Nonetheless, we need to do everything to make people aware of those criminals and to finally hurt them as much as possible.
This are some news which we found recently in the internet:
Austria’s FMA warns against investment firm Daikyo Brokerage
Austria’s Financial Market Authority (FMA) on Wednesday issued a public warning regarding investment company Daikyo Brokerage Limited.
The company, operating via www.daikyo-brokerage-limited.com, offers a variety of investment services, including trading in stocks and various derivatives. The “Contacts” section of Daikyo’s website says the broker is based in Japan.
The Austrian regulator notes that Daikyo Brokerage Limited is not not entitled to provide investment services in Austria requiring a licence. The provider is hence not entitled to provide investment advice in relation to financial instruments pursuant to Article 3 para. 2 no. 1 WAG 2007.
https://leaprate.com/2016/04/austrias-fma-warns-investment-firm-daikyo-brokerage/
Daikyo Brokerage Limited
The FMA warns investors against the conclusion of investment services requiring a licence with this provider
Pursuant to Article 92 para. 11 first sentence of the 2007 Wertpapieraufsichtsgesetz (WAG 2007; Securities Supervision Act), the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) may disclose to the general public by publication on the Internet, in the official gazette “Amtsblatt zur Wiener Zeitung”, or in any other newspaper with nationwide circulation, that a particular natural or legal person is not entitled to carry out certain investment services (Article 3 para. 2 nos. 1 to 4 WAG 2007), provided that said person has given cause for such action and informing the general public is deemed necessary and reasonable with regard to possible disadvantages of the person concerned.
By publication in the official gazette “Amtsblatt zur Wiener Zeitung” of 14 April 2016, the FMA informs that
Daikyo Brokerage Limited
with alleged business location in:
Mid Town Tower
9-142-1 Akasaka
Minato
Tokyo
Japan
Tel: +81 345 789 434
Fax: +81 345 789 230
https://www.fma.gv.at/en/consumers/investor-warnings/national-investor-warnings/detail-natwm/article/daikyo-brokerage-limited.html
New one on the block. Gem Capital called me with amazing offer on PayPal's shares which are going to boost when Apple, Alibaba or Amazon buys them.
Be careful out there...
I got scammed in the same way from similar companies that
you didn't list in your blog, one is
witter-financial.com and the other is
trinovacapital.com
They use exactly the same approach that you listed and maybe
they are managed by the same people.
I can conclude that Arthur-Sera Limited and Katana Securities are managed by the same people. Their modus-operandi is exactly the same. Besides, YTRL Serv Corp and Intransfer Services Corp could be part of them, although both are registered with Philippines SEC.
Beware. I am one of the victim.
Belgium,
I am also a victim of Daikyo Brokerage Limited.
same modus operandi that Mildred (Germany April 11, 2016)
The author's name is Clara Moretti, a woman speaking English with an Italian accent and speaks some French.
It seems that another scam is brewing. I was contacted two days ago in the same way with the same boot speech. The name used is "Alenxandra Louys" and the name of the company is "NJ Holdings".
I have a short recording of the conversation. I see what I can do to inform the largest number of people.
hi Atti, this is a great blog, and an impressive list of boiler rooms that you managed to get in trouble.
I have some knowledge about a bunch of crooks running boiler rooms in Asia, focused on expats, operated out of Manila and Jakarta, their banking business is all going via Jakarta since a few years, the authorities know exactly whats going on but do nothing to stop them, the bloody crooks have ruined countless people, they run their dirty business since 2010 already, some victims committed suicide, came across real horrible stories since I am after those bastards.
How to email you? you can contact me under joehendrix737@yahoo.com
Also in Finland got a similar offer from yet another company called "Nakajima Holdings". Also selling BYD shares at a 20% discount and that are supposed to go up like crazy very soon. A bit of research pointed out pretty much every warning sign that they are probably scammers too. quite legit seeming at first and pretty much the only suspicious aspect was the cold-calling approach and the promise to cash out a lot quickly. Certainly seem like a significantly more dangerous bunch than your average Nigerian scammer. Fairly legit-looking website too.
Scammed by a KANAGAWA ASSOCIATE for 3 years
Started with ORGANOVO then converted to CEREBAIN after that silence then try to sell without success. I have said that I will make a claim to regulator institute and computer crime unit.
Reaction: Immediately converted in GENOCORE BIOTECH at no cost
From then proposal to sell but I have to invest twice to be able to sell these shares.
Contact taken with CEREBAIN proves that's KANAGAWA didn't have any possibility to sell their shares because they didn't even exist.
GENOCORE is also probably a fake company that has change two times it's WEB server location
Another information, all of the people from KANAGAWA change at each operation, and also the owners of KANAGAWA and GENOCORE are located in NASSAU
I think that Dakyo has scammed me as well with braincure biotech
Hi thank you very much for Your work revealing the scammers!
I got a call from Nakajima holdnings, another scam, and looked them up on this site when I saw your Google ad.
Do you have a paypal-account or any other way for me to support your effort, since you're expending your own money on this?
If so please mail it to me on Jarltollefsen@gmail.com
I support you in what way I can.
Sincerely Jarl Tollefsen
Hi Any knowledge of Sandford Waters from Tokyo selling Cayman Exploration shares and using Bank of Taiwan for the account ?
I have not got any info about Sandford Waters yet, but please tell me more at antikorliss@gmail.com
Is there any poiibility to have something back I mean if there is any action that could be taken to recover something ?
Hello I'm writing from Italy.
I've started investing with International Partners some months ago (www.intl-partners.com).
Now I've asked to sell everything but to finalize the deal they are asking for 25,000 $ due to an "Identity Surety" that the US tax administration needs to be sure of my identity.
I'm pretty sure that is not true, and I'm really concerned to have lost all my money.
Someone has experience with Internationl Partners ?
International Partners is a scam. FSA Japan has raised a warning from them. http://www.fsa.go.jp/en/refer/cold/
It is very unlikely to get any money back.
Hello everybody,
I am also a victim of
Daikyo Brokerage Limited
They had nearly the same way (like Mildred said) to catch me with HYDROGENICS because I am very interested in new way of mobility and electricity.
After a while they start with BRAINE CURE BIOTECH and I didn´t have more money to invest and so they persuaded me to sell the Hydrogenics shares and reinvest it into Brain Cure Biotech.
And now I could not sell these shares because I don´t have the minimum volume for selling it to a big investor.
Hopefully we will alert some other outside investor to keep their fingers away.
And we will find us on these blog together for a strong comunity which find this defrauder and hurt them as much as possible.
...
My last investment is almost two months ago, and I am somehow convinced that they scammed me. I am writing "somehow" because THEY still keep in touch and want to convince me to pay the required last payment. Afterwards I will get back my investment and the huge profit.
On one hand I understand that considering the few phone calls and the amount they ask me to pay really pays off for them, something like few thousand $ per hour. On the other hand they received already that much money before, do they really need to squeeze the last cent out of my pocket???...I mean in worst case I will become bankrupt and they give a shit!?!? Why? Because it's easy? Because it makes fun to make people cry?
In addition, what makes me confused: They seem to be angry about my behaviour not willing to pay more and it sounds like real emotions. Are they kind of actors? FYI, I posted before already a comment on this blog, but I learned I should be a bit more careful :)
to the anonymous who posted on 28/5/16, 1:40am:
your ordeal is exactly the same as mine. Wondering if it is coming from the same scammers. i have lost a sizeable amount and yet they still continue to squeeze more. I even confronted them that they are scammers. but, they just said, i google too much and bombarded with a lot of unverified information. And, they don't even mind to meet me and show me their company to get me convinced.
Like you said, they seems to be angry when i am not willingly to pay more. They even told me, once i have remitted the money, within 24 hours, they will transfer my returns.
I am not sure how to catch these buggers and get back my money. I am thinking to get Interpol to help.
Mind if you can share the company that scam you?
Hi Antti.
I had some more interaction with Osprey Associates. I have asked them where they are licensed. They refused to answer in email, instead they kept calling me. I wanted to confront them one last time, so picked up and asked the question again. They led me to the the Financial Services Agencies lists (this one http://www.fsa.go.jp/en/regulated/licensed/sfc.pdf) and they claimed there are tens and tens of financial agencies in Japan, but none of them appear on the list. This was "their proof" that they were genuine, they have tried to convince me by telling me that other agencies are missing as well. And that because they can operate tax-free, they are not on the list.
Then they tried another technique, telling me that I could have paid part of the agreed sum, let's say half of it and the minute it would had been processed, they would have sent me some special confirmation about it so afterwards I could pay the rest. And that I don't need to worry because money will sit with the transfer agent (https://www.sec.gov/answers/transferagent.htm) and investment bank, not with Osprey directly.
Some time has passed now, I haven't taken any further actions and it seems they gave up and finally stopped calling me. Even though they were threatening me with legal consequences, they are not playing any dirty tricks regarding that (yet).
Thanks again for everything you are doing against these scammers. There is some issue with the donate button on your page, it does not seems to be working. Once fixed, please let me know, I want to support your cause.
I have got some funding to this project enought to cover my adwords expences for next few months. Donations link is disabled
@ Anonymous May 28, 14:47: It's Daikyo Brokerage, but I am sure either the same scammers operate from different company names or they simply use the same techniques as decribed by Slavo.
@ Antti: Great for you and for us :-)
I really hope that this blog is big pain in their asses.
I got scammed by Wilson Bennett Associates www.wilsonbennett.com Anyone here with same experience or any information about them? Thank you in advance for any help!
I have been scammed by the following “company”
McQuaid Group
Tokyo Tatemono Shin Shibuya Building,
Level 10, 1-34-1 Higashi, Shibuya-ku,
Tokyo, Tokyo-to, Japan
Phone: +81 3 4510 6162
Fax: +81 3 6737 1262
I was cold called & a great sales pitch was given, website, referrals , supporting documentation, broker agreements etc. long story short, I “invested” $5000, supposedly in Acorda therapeutics.
This was also supported by numerous documents, I was called a few times subsequently to update me on my “investment”& this week offered shares, they would sell my shares in Acorda & I would be required to add funds for an acquisition in Linked In “an opportunity not to be missed” bla bla bla
Almost text book to your website “modus operandi”
Do I have any recourse & who would be the relevant authority to report this fraud to?
You can make a report to your local police and your local FSA. They say most likely that its not their jurisdiction, but some police forces are better than others (AuctionFraud UK). I have feeling that some scammers avoid UK citizens because of this.
Essence of the blog is that collaboration of the victims is needed to take this further. If we get big group enough, interpol might get interested. We can try to identify the scammers by open source manner(bellingcat). Voice samples are important in this sense.
There are numerous ways going on. I know that the scammers are quite afraid of all this.
Hi folks,
I think I'm another victim of Daikyo Brokerage limited.
I have been approached by telephone (when I was at work) and convinced by them to invest some money in a company called Hydrogenics. Once finalized it, they made me switch the profit to another company called: Brain Cure Biotech and here started the scam.
In fact my advisor: James o'Shea (or whatever is his real name) started asking me to add other money in order to reach the minimum amount required to sell my shares to a specific buyer. This is the classic mode of action of the scammers: first they mislead you and then they fool you! I said that I didn't have more money to add and he tried to convince me to ask for a credit...of course I refused and now I've lost part of my money...
I really hope they would choke with those money!!!!
For your information :
The Google-link to this page
http://pissedaboutgettingscammed.blogspot.be/2015/11/i-got-few-calls-cold-call-attempts-last.html is NOT WORKING.
I had to work around it to get here.
Yes I am a victim too. Invested about 10,000 euros in 'Hydrogenics' through 'Daikyo Brokerage Limitied'.
My "Senior Portfolio Adviser" called himself "Thomas Lee".
Direct Email: thomaslee@daikyo-brokerage-limited.com
Direct Line: +81 345 789 464
He was soon replaced by "William Banner", the 'Vice President', no less.
Direct Email: william.banner@daikyo-brokerage-limited.com
Direct Tel: +81 345 789 464 (same number)
Now, seven months into the adventure, it's "Tom Rogers" (Chief Risk Officer)
Direct Email: tom.rogers@daikyo-brokerage-limited.com
Direct Tel: +81 345 789 464 (still the same number)
All very Japanese names...
The story is going on:
In the same manner as for the "client" on 28 May 2016 at 01:40, there is Michael Belfer at IPCcapital HK, who is pressing me to pay a last rate to a contract of 100K shares of HYPG (does anyone know that fund?). I'm 99% sure to be scammed after all I read here and want to add the details to Anttis collection:
IPCCAPITAL, believing in Mr. Belfer now sold to JORDANGROUPFINANCIAL
with the so called SPVs (special purchase vehicles) whereto the payments have to be made:
LNX TECHNOLOGIES (HONG KONG) LIMITED,
SINO OCEAN RESOURCE LIMITED, HK
SMART-IN DEVELOP LIMITED, HK
and the personal actors
Michael Belfer, Chief Investment Officer
Simon Green, Account Manager
Henry Richards, Allocation Manager
Anna Hamilton, Allocation Dpmt.
I would much appreciate if someone is under contract with the same villains, to report it to Antti, might it help.
Thanks for this blog!
Dear Antti and fellow bloggers,
I have been scammed since 2010 (although it has taken me years to actually accept i have been scammed, I know I have after reading your blog amongst others).
The company who has taken 15,000€ur of me in stock (ASTOR mining company) is Century Direct Group based in Delhi, India.
I now know I am not the only one as I have recently found a fellow victim (via another blog and now we are in contact via email) of the exact same stock and brokerage firm but much more money it would seem.
the strange thing is i am still in email contact with the same guy, 4 years down the line, who tells me to hold on and we shall eventually find buyers...but it has been 4 years since I have been asked for any money, so why do they still keep writing to me.
If you want more details I can email you directly, but meanwhile everyone watch out for Century Direct Group (very professional indeed not to mention convincing and very well spoken).
thankyou
Paramount trade i think one of this companies
Guys, I got scammed big time by Arthur-Sera Limited. Lost USD360K. Big lesson for me. Even their transfer agents YTRL and Intransfer Corp are a bogus company. Their transfer agents are based in Philippines and both are registered by Philippines SEC.
Beware of these assholes. These guys will continue to suck you dry. Even if you confront them, they have answers for it. They even can arrange one-to-one meeting with you and give you first class treatment.
Beware. Greed Kills.
Wallace Associates Inc. is a boiler room operating from virtual office in Singapore.
Do not pay or you lose your money.
Their contact details are:
Address:
Level 15, 137 Market Street,
Singapore, 048943
Tel.: +65 3108 0588
Investor Relations Tel.: +65 3108 0512
Fax: +65 6722 0794
Email:
info@wallaceassociatesinc.com
Does anyone have some experience with Regency Associates (http://www.regencyassociates.com/). I believe I am victim of scam as after two successful investments I am stuck with requests for some additional fundings.
Regency Associates is a scam. I have got few complaints of them. Pattern is that Regency trades legit shares almost daily basis. I have seen one of their "account statement", incredible profits! It pity that they are a scam, because they could be doing very good trading by legal means.
Problems start when you are going to cash your profits.
Dear Antti,
As victim of LARSE Capital,here is the a name of the person from LARSE Capital. They contacted me for more then a year and never made a mistake in their name, so could be three real names or first name only.
Simon Hyton
He made me make/sign a NDA, Client agreement, W8 tax form.
I appreciatte their smartness, but it would be nicer if they had normal jobs to enhance life on this planet.
Regards
Anonymous, name know to Antti
Dear Antti.
I found your page and I was just about to make a payment to "Long Will Limited, ICBC Macau, Macau" for shares bought from a Company called Red Shield Financial and got suspicious then I saw that a Hong Kong Company uses a bank in Macau and the benificiary name was Long Will Limited. Am I correct?
Moi
I advice you not to pay. Please listen my new IPC Capital/Tillman Hall videos
Good stuff Antti. Mr Charles Baker from Red Shield Financial would probably make it to your list as well. His calls fit the pattern. Nasty suckers they are.
Dear Antti. This is an excellent site. It should be supported by financial authorities.
I was contacted by Red Shield Financials just recently. They were very convincing, very professional. Although rewards they promised were very impressive I decided to make some reseach before making any kind of monetary input.
I really did not find any evidence of them being a serious broker house. Their internet net site was fairly new. They were not listed on the HongKong securities system. Board members had no history you could google about. They had only couple press releases used by paid servicies. Makes you wonder?
After reading through your site am convinced I made right decision not to proceed in any dealings with the company.
I was contacted by Red Shield Financial couple a months ago and phone calls started again at the beginning of this month.
They called me again after I told them that I'd think about their offer. When I told them that I find it hard to trust a company that I've done a background check (simple googlin' around and reading this website) they told me that we're on a recorded line. At this point on I got very annoyed since this was not informed at the beginning of the phone call and just told them a 'good day' and shut the phone off.
Hopefully they won't contact me again and yes, the guy on the other end of the line was pretty convincing at first. After the second call he started to push really hard so that I'd make a decision.
I was contacted by Elvis Diamond from Trinova Capital, a subsidiary of Dalton Financial.
First I was in contact With Neal Caffrey, who sold me Newmont Mining (NYSE:NEM), which is a legit company. Their prediction of a rapid rise was accurate and the Money was reinvested in
Cayman Exploration With an elaborate story about the Bungaroo project and cooperation With Rio Tinto. Later, the story also included a new project: Magnet.
My contact was Daniel Bryant, who speaks a lot like Simon Cowell and told me he is living in Tokyo but originally from Port Talbot, Wales.
Every transaction was handled by Edward Cole.
This page saved me getting deeper into the scam. So thank you!
The only thing I want to know now is how to stop them.
I have already reported the crime in my home country.
Contact web hosting Companies to take down fake company sites?
Has anyone ever heard of Kenjegroup.com or Matsuda Global ? I am quite sure I have been scammed and I don't want to get deeper in the into it.
Resona Partners is down!!!
Did somebody else have contact with them?
This is av very good site, hopefully it will serve its purpose, my story is as follows:
Case Idigi/XGT Technology shares
Back in 2000 I was contacted by one Chris Gary from a company called NCR Capital Management based in Marbella, who rang me down and very strongly sold in buying shares in this company, which according to him, was in possession of some groundbreaking wireless technology. I guess this was from something that is now known as a ‘boiler room’. It ended with me buying some shares. Next step was in 2001, then NCR /Chris Gary was out, new broker/seller was a person named David Madden, sold me additional 5000 shares. Then very little happened, some information came in now and then, ownership changed and I was approached by some Americans or others doing a lot of talking, indicating that someone were interested in taking over the shares for a substantial amount for various reasons. After some time, it always boiled down to nothing. It was names like North Star Research Group, International Mergers, J & C Law firm, Carribean Asia Depository Corporation, Manila. The XGT company still exist, it seems, quoted on Nasdaq, www.xgtechnology.com
In mid 2015 I was again approached by a call agency or whatever it was, a Hong Kong based one, called Telemedia http://www.telemediacompany.com/ and a person named James Taylor who wanted to know if I were interested in selling my shares. I confirmed I was, and some weeks thereafter I was contacted by a person named Leslie Butler from a company called Gemini Acquisitions, address TD Canada Trust Tower, Floor 31, 161 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, telephone no 1 647 846-4508, http://gemini-acquisitions.com/ . He sent over some documents regarding sales of the securities, sales contracts etc. I signed these and sent them in return, this was in the beginning of May.
Later on I was called up from a company called Escrow Services Group, a person called Bradley Jones, website http://escrowservicegroup.com/index.php who was supposed to do all the paperwork, set up an escrow account etc. First I was asked to transfer some 14 % of the agreed payment for the shares as a vendor’s bond. I did so to an account established in a Cyprus bank, Hellenic Bank Public company Ltd. I was told this was the only thing needed. After some time I was informed that warrants was connected to my shares, so I had to make new payments to release the 10000 warrants, in return more money would be transferred for my total possession of shares. I did so and transferred more payment to the same account. I was told then everything was fine, and my settlement would be released. It lasted, but some weeks thereafter I was again informed that due to regulations and requirements from some Trade Association, a tax bond had to be set up, more money was transferred, to an account called New Orchard Group in Hellenic Bank, Cyprus. I was then told that within 48 hours, the settlement should be transferred. A lot of explanations was brought up for no -transfer, I was told there was a deviation of USD 17 on the tax bond, though I had the confirmation on the correct amount. Later on I informed both guys that my patience is over, this resulted in them both making themselves unavailable. Some time thereafter a person called Richard Holden called me up, pretending to be CTA of Gemini. He pretended to be the person who were supposed to sort the things out, it ended up in endless quarrelling on mail and telephone.I guess they are all located at the same place.
I have later on called them several times, on all numbers available, only no response, one email from Richard Holden, the so-called CTA, from March 8, warnings on Gemini and ESG are now all over, Gemini has now closed their website.
Please watch out, I guess they will try again with other names and covers.
Hi Antti,
I was investment-scammed in 2015 for substantial money and it has been a mental struggle to recover from it, apart from financial problems. My son could help me out otherwise we had to sell our home. I never experienced such mean, despicable people. I never read much about scamms, wasn't aware of their tactics and paid the price.
I understand why you started this blog and also now want to do something about this scum. Every time a new site is reported I'll contact them and 'check'. KFM Investment Group last week deleted their website, they must have realized they were too heavily exposed. I hope I come across them in their new crime venture, I have unfinished business with them.
The problem is there is no internet-authority. Police here say it is out of our jurisdiction, Interpol is informed but does not act etc. There are not many options left. The internet is a paradise for criminals.
Someone is doing a good job too on scamwarners.com, exposing numerous fraudsters, look for the section 'fake websites used for fraud'.
I am prepared to work together or assist if helpful.
Thank you for starting your websites and blog Antti, it is good to know I am not the only victim.
Boeing/ATW Mining shares
This case started out in August 2015 with a person called Taylor from a company called Belmont Financial Group, http://www.belmontfinancialgroup.com/ address Hong Kong doing the cold calling, I did not manage to hang up, and later on an allegedly more senior person named Daniel Vandergaard from the same company called me up and put heavy pressure on me to buy shares in Boeing making a good profit. I did so, then after a short time, he called me again and persuaded me to convert these shares into shares in an unquoted company, ATW mining of Perth, Australia, http://www.atwmining.com/ .
Later on, I communicated to him that I wanted to get out of this, to do a so-called repatriation of my funds. He accepted this, but told me that to be able to do this, I needed to increase my holdings in ATW with 10.000 shares. I did so, and he supposedly put together a syndicate which should buy the package of shares at a favorable price. First attempt were not successful, a new one was put together after New Year, I was finally asked to transfer a performance fee, which I asked some questions to. Then they all made themselves unavailable, Daniel Vandergaard, Edward Rush, and Carolyn Goldsmith, I guess this is all fictitious names.
After some time I was approached from ATW, a person named Tarka Morris, to whom I expressed my wish to have my share position sold. Some time thereafter, a person named Jonathan Brookes from a company called Ling Capital, lingcapital.com, address Tokyo, Japan , called me up and told the same story, he would put together a syndicate, but I needed to buy another 5000 shares. I did so. Then to make the deal, I needed to transfer money to cover come up with some security deposit for a certain portion of the deal. Profits indicated were tempting. I transferred th sec.deposit, and awaited the repatriation. After some days Brookes informed that one participant had pulled out, and the remaining 3 had to cover up. Then it was over for me, even the alleged top man , Samual Hancock, of the company called me up for a long conversation, this convinced me of fraud. None of them are available in either way. The names are on Warning lists.
Hello Antti
I have been dealing with two companies on your list. ( delaing! read I have been robbed) one is Telemedia and the other is First Request Escrow.
But there are two more entities in this and I wonder if you know them also.
One is Acqusition Internaltional in Tokyo and the other a new commer called TA International Tokyo and Being.
Looking at TA Ints webb page etc It appears to be a clone of First Request Escrow
Thank you in advance
Karl
Hi There,
Oakmere Advisors /Singapore seems to be active. Currently selling MACK on 10% discount. Pondering whether I would exchange some of my time for theirs... I.e. chat on the phone for a while, just to make it a bit more costly for them to conduct their "business". I had another call a month or so ago, from Singapore as well, but I don't recall the company behind the call (it was way less refined than this one).
Hello Phillippe,
Yes I am scammed as well and another business friend from me also.
Watch out for this company please do not invest more, because you will lose more money.
RGDS Bart
Hello all,
Last year I was called by Matsuda Global, they changed name in Kenje Group after 2 months.
I bought shares from them from Tesla and later on they brought me in to Unique Grow Pacific.
After 30 days they asked me to invest more in UGP, but I did not do that.
After 3 months I spoke another Dutch guy who did the same thing as me, it is stupid to do, but If I see all these
comments here above I am not shaming my self anymore.
Is Interpol reading this or another authority, so we can do something together, because this has to be stopped.
Best regards from Holland,
Bart
Hi Bart,
Thanks for your confirmation. Yes, exactly the same for me but first "shares" from General Electric and then Unique Grow Pacific....
I won't spend more money for these craps.
Best Regards
Philippe
Wallace Associates Inc. is now on Investor Alert List by MAS Monetary Authority of Singapore.
http://www.mas.gov.sg/IAL.aspx?sc_p=W
wallace associates inc are looking to do a share swap with me but are looking for $5000 up front
5 min of research and ifound these comments
please do not give your hard earned money to them
Most likely a current ongoing scam or what do you think? It sounded pretty convincing on the phone but fortunately I looked things up before transfer anything...
The information below was gathered today (so it is fresh):
Company: Golden Cross Investment (Hong Kong)
Offer: Netflix shares at $89.55
Namnes used in telephone calls: "Chris Long", "Henry Martin"
Bank account holder: Tian Xi Fu Limited (Hong Kong)
Reasons for suspicions:
- Company claims to be founded in 1994 but https://web.archive.org/web/20160617035309/http://goldencrossinvestments.com/ only has one capture from June 2016.
- Only one hit on google older than from 2016. That one claims to be from 2004 but the oldest snapshot on web.archive.org is from 2011.
- All google hits except the single one from 2004 are either from the Company web site or based on press releases issued by the (fake?) Company.
- No google hits on combinations of "Golden Cross Investment" and the four names of members of the "team" except on the Company web site and in the press releases mentioned above.
- One team member has a different first name in some press releases than on the Company web site.
- No hits on Company or any of the named persons in "Public Register of Licensed Persons and Registered Institutions" of Securities & Futures Commission of Hong Kong.
I was scamed by Matsuda and Kenje. I have spend around 120.000eur and I have came accross this website far to late. I am furius and very disapointed not of them but my self since they played me good.
I think I will newd at leat 5 years to financaly recover from this.
Agents that contacted me
Luke Jones
Hello Guys,
I have a new Company for this List:
Wheaton Capital ltd. Hong Kong
On the FCA List is this a Clone of Wheaton Capital ltd. London which has the license to sell and buy shares.
Since the 09.08.2016 they are on the Fraud List of Hong Kong.
Unfortunately i have paid to them because a Mr. Colin Reynolds offers me PayPal shares to 37.25 $ and i have to buy 150 shares of it. I searched the Internet about Wheaton Capital and find no negative entries, so i made the deal with them. In May a Mr. Berkovich called me, that Mr. Reynolds is not more my Account Manager but he will manage my Account. The Voice of Mr Berkovich Sound like Mr. Berg from the youtube video. To confirm the deal about 15.000 shares of HYPG i was called from a Miss Hamilton, the sound Looks like the Same as in the video above.
I feel ashame to be scammed. But the third bank transfer was been cancelled, so i only invested 13.000 € and no 24.000 € they want from me.
Now an other man has called me to fix the Deal about the 10.100 € they missed, but now i have found your blog, so i will warn anybody else for this Company.
I paid about 5000euro for shares in ifx infineon. the scam company is called locker global or locker capital. Dealt with a Weston Smith. A John William King went through the security Details to assure me they are not a scam.the bank account was in latvia .. Later on a Christian Charles said weston is now studying in usa so he has taken over my file . He tried to sell me shares in a diff company but i said i couldnt afford it .afterwhich he would always reduce the amount of shares to buy so i could afford it . One hour later i emailled to say i am not keen to buy and he said the trade was already made but i ignored him and didn't pay . I did continue to email them to sell the shares in infineon but no reply . Finally he said he can sell at 18euro but i needed to buy another 1450 shares at 14 euro in order to make it a 2000 lot with My original 550 purchase . That wd cost 20000 euro. I said i can't afford it then he said the accounts dept can apply a 50% margin so i only needed to pay 10000€. They will sell immediately and i will make the profit the amount will come back into my account within a week . And he was also trying to assure me they are sincere etc . Anyways even if they say they will take me or you to court don't pay them any more money . They have no legal way to take you to court. The €20000 they wanted me to pay was now going to a hk bank account . The last time i paid was to Latvia bank . Also there is an iosco website . They are international securities. Unfortunately they only listed locker in June 2016 but my first payment was in Mar 2016. Lucky i didn't pay two days ago again for the €20000. Weston was based in jpn and Christian is based in Luxemburg
I was also scammed for a large amount of money, Wheaton Capital seems to be very active. Anna Hamilton is a very talented accounting department Manager since she is also working with men, exact same voice as in your clip. Also Colin Reynolds as well as David Ackerman(n), Chief Investment Officer, Henry Hall, and still I seem to be upsetting John R. Barrington
Director of Portfolio Structuring & Management very much when I am answering back to his ridiculous suggestions of investing even more. I will lost likely lose my appartment over this, and my fiance is sick, so this pretty much has destroyed my life. Started with paypal, and now I have bought a shitload of HYPG shares. Kiitos Antti tästä sivusta!
In addition to my post @15.07 I just realised he voice of "Mr. Berg" is the voice of David Ackerman!
https://www.iosco.org/investor_protection/?subsection=investor_alerts_portal
Here is the link to the iosco website where you can search by company
"Redshaw Associates" seems to be new name to the list. According private site http://www.globalinvestoralerts.org/redshaw_associates_inc.shtml
,it is connected with Wallace Associates. They have a really nicely designed web site.
Company Information:
SINGAPORE ADDRESS: #26-01 One Raffles Place Tower 1 Singapore 048616
TOKYO ADDRESS: Level 3, Sanno Park Tower,
2-11-1 Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan 100-6162
Email:info@redshawassociates.com
Website: www.redshawassociates.com
I was scamed from http://oshiroassociates.com/ They first sold me shares of General electric after that convinced me that it would be better to invest in Unique Grow pacific. Which is legitimate Company registrated in Hong Kong with production facility in USA- Houston Texas.
now I own 4.000 shares of UGP and have now idea if I overpaid or if I would be able to sell it in the future.
Hi, I was scammed from TillmanHallCapital,broker David Berg and allocation department lady was Anna Jampers (same as Anna Hamilton in the YT video).
They called me 4 -times in June to buy DXCM shares for 61,26$, have seen them growing at Nasdaq to 93$. Once they was at about 80$ David called to make a even better deal, buy 100000 KR shares for 1$ each. He told me, that there a 5 of us, so he can devite it to 20000 for each of us. I paid the difference (DXCM sold etc)...
After a time he called, that I´ve to buy 5000 more and ask "can I calculate, 100000 divided in 4 is 25000, so the amount have changed. To finish the deal I had to buy security Bonds (25000 for 1$each) and he promissed that once the money is on his account I´ll get it back within 72 hours...two weeks again and he called me that the deal is now finished and I am the sixt and last one. Once its gone through the fincal department I ´ll get everthing back. Again one week later the asshole called again and told me that I´ve to pay the managment fee (more than 17.000€)and the return changed from 82500$ to 137500$ (the return changed everytime..)At the same time he told me that Tillman Hall Capital was bought by Kaufman Capital Management. So there is now even more options etc.. Wellcome letter and Davids new business card was provided by mail.
Last week he called me that "very important information, don´t pay the mgmt fee.." he haven´t got the money back from his client, so there is no reason to pay him because he can´t pay me (two weeks ago told that everything is finished)...Told him that I just like my investments back, and he said, "here is your picture,this is your address, why we dosn´t meet tomorrow at your house" - so he tried to threat and called me Nazi - after this I put the phone on hook.
Today Kaufman Capital Mgmt´s boss called and asked whats going on etc. promissed to talk to David and call back within 30 min. (they are gone since 2,5 hours..)
So, they are really professional, have everytime the right answer - JUST WARN everybody outside there, do sell shares /get money back no payments are needed and if they are making so good deals, why they need your money !
I am from Finland and I am one of these idiots that have invested money.
I have invested in total about 60 000 Euros in this stupid deals. I feel so used, stupid and very embarrassed to even talk about it.
First I invested with Westward Group and then later MWI consultant came in telling me that they can help me recover my money. They have a client who is willing to buy all my shares and then will move me to Ford shares.
They need to convert my ford shared into class A shares so it can be sold quickly. For that they were requesting about 16 000 USD. Told them I don’t have. They were very convincing and manage to convince me to send 5000 EUROS.
When its time to get my money, they are saying I have to pay IRA tax to the US authorities before my found can be release to me. This is when I woke up. I have been so stupid and didn’t learn from my previous experience with Westward Group.
Just recently I got later that they have changed their name to SPARKS Corporation. It was a merger/ acquisition.
I feel so stupid that words cannot describe it.
I am happy you have this blog. Please make people aware as this guys are heartless and thiefs.
I asked why they
Do anyone know about Marvontgroup operating out of Tokyo (they say!). I have long time investment which will not materialise!! Jim
Marvont Group has been blacklisted by Securities and Futures Commission (FSA Hong Kong). It is a scam.
Yes I found FSA comment but only that they are not licensed! And I cannot find more "negative" info around! I think FSA will list any not licensed trader as part of their purpose? Jim
You cannot find anything negative about Marvont because your comment is one of the first.
FSA investor alerts have always format "not licensed". It is "lawyer jargon", which leaves slight possibility open that there would be an unlicenced legitimate brokerage.
FCA UK nails it
If you deal with an unauthorised firm you will not be covered by the Financial Ombudsman Service or Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) if things go wrong.
Unfortunately there are firms that operate without our authorisation and some knowingly run scams like share fraud and other investment scams.
I am just in the middle of such a scam! Just realised it yesterday.
Companyname is: FDS Research
based in Singapore
Wants you to invest (in the second stage after investing in a blue chip) in SILVERHORN MINING CO. based in Australia
To my knowledge this scam is pretty new so I want to get the word out!!
Anonymous said...
Anyone knows something about cunningham mutual, Hong Kong.
I read the same story at may 19 on this blog about selling stocks from Hydrogenics and than buy stocks from braincure biotech? The same is happening to me now.
Now i need to buy 1000 stocks more too complete the deal!
I was called today from company Drukenmiller Investment services, the lady was selling BYD stock at 20% discount ;-)
Seemed very legit but after a while my BS radar started to go off...
Probably a scam.
I have been contacted by a man that claims to be Richard Heart from the Hong Kong based investment firm Trafalgar Capital Parners.
He claims the firm has been in business for over 20 years, yet the Internet Archive have not seen their domain before 2013, and even then it was just an "Welcome to nginx default page". Now there are two more recent hits, both from this year.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160601000000*/http://trafalgarcapitalpartners.com
This sure seems like a scam.
He is selling Netflix stock.
I was scammed by Golden Cross Investments. See info from a post, 6 september.
Company: Golden Cross Investment (Hong Kong)
Offer: Netflix shares at $89.55
Namnes used in telephone calls: "Chris Long", "Henry Martin", "Harvey Adelberg"
Bank account holder: Tian Xi Fu Limited (Hong Kong)
I'm just approached by Japan based firm, apparently with an european branch called Aichi-BMO International who wants to sell Geely at a discount of 5%. Explanation would be that Google wants to buy Geely.
Gemini Acquisitions, Telemedia and Ling websites are now cancelled, I guess that confirms the fraud activity, watch out for new dresses!!
Hi
Optionfm is contacting me regularly . I did invest 250 dollar which their website suggest, but that is not enough according to them . I get contacted to invest at least 2500 dollar which is a hell of a lot of money.
There has been excessive amount of page views of the blog this afternoon. Number of views is several per a minute and it has been lasting several hours. Some sort of lousy DDOS attack? If yes, I am honored. This motivates me even higher! Good luck with google servers ;)
Btw. keyword "srmex" in adwords seems to get high attention today. What would it refer to? Any guesses?
ISG-Global has talked to me several times. Pushing me to make an investment to samsungs part dealer of some sorts. I didint have any money in the first place to invest but i wanted to learn more. Thank god. Webpage www.isg-global.com seems quite new and frankly poor. Man speaking was Richard Lloyd - seemed like a real business man and very good enlgish. Called from a Japan number +81 6 4560 4041 whcih is known as a Century Trading number also. ALWAYS GOOGLE THE NUMBER! If its a scam, usually it's the same number but different names. Sent them and e-mail regarding the info and asked for evidence about their business. :D we'll see.
I get some suspicious email contacts now and then.
Someone was offering me today name&address of a scammer, who is behind companies Sparks corporation, MWI consultants, Wallace Associates and "Bacall and Associates" (which was unknown to me). Price tag of the info was $5000.
As a proof he had a pic of a printed email document, which had a "Received" stamp on it. Someone had been paying $111000 to the scammer. Presumably the loss of the victim was already more than $600000
5000 EUR will be paied to the person who will send
relevant information about scammers behind these companies.
The list can be found here
https://boilerroomscamwarning.blogspot.com
Thanks for your excellent page. Cleared a lot of things, as I was not aware of things like this before!
I got contacted by a company called Virtus International. Got curious as to why they have selected me so I chatted a while. Quite convincing guys. They have nice web page and all (https://virtusinternational.com/). They even have managed to generate a couple of press releases of their operation in some newsrooms. However, if you look carefully, you see that everything has been carried out in 2016, and in a couple of recent months. Name of the guy calling was George Mora (+82 70-6278-8966) and he was suggesting to buy Illumina (ILMN) in Nasdaq because its going to rocket boost in next three months. Well, in next three months I will see whether I should have taken his offer :-)
There is a real company named Virtus dealing with financing in US which complicates things a bit. Google finds a lot of stuff because of them if you google "virtus international". Quite clever.
Pete
+1 for Sorrel Capital out of HK (for being a scam). They guarantee good returns, not sure that would apply for the investor ;-)
Has anyone heard of Empire Asset Investments, trying to push Tesla for a chance to then roll into Space X stock...?
Looks like an US brokerage. Registered ones you find here:
http://brokercheck.finra.org/Search/GenericSearch
empireassetinvestments.com is first seen on apr 23 2016
and uses the same ip adress as
primeassetinvestments.com
stay away from those guys
teutons
Sorrel Capital called me in Finland. They seem quite legit, even if the website seems a bit polished to be real. After reading this I backed out on this, thanks Antti!
to check for an Hong Kong company use
www.icris.cr.gov.hk
and
http://www.cr.gov.hk/en/home
or yellowpages for Hong Kong
http://www.yp.com.hk/home/en
teutons
There are a number of Boiler Rooms across South East Asia selling stocks and IPO's etc as a front, simply to take your money. There are long term BR's set up in Jakarta, Manila, Bali and Kuala Lumpur, one that has just started up in Koh Phangan. There are also rooms that get set up and close down regularly across Asia all the time.
However, there is one company that has a very sophisticated set up and has been in operation over a decade. Nearly all other rooms across Asia have been set up by people who began their careers scamming with this company. The likelihood is that this was the company who contacted you and also the company who took your money. They change the name they're operating under regularly, change the IPO that they are pitching, change their website, their fake address (usually in Hong Kong and Japan) and even change their phone number from time to time. As I said, their set up is highly sophisticated and they have offices throughout Asia performing different tasks, however they have 1 head office where ALL the scamming and money taking takes place. They take huge sums of money from "clients" at a rate of around 15-20 paid deals per month, we're talking about 50-60 millions at year, so as you can imagine, they have the funds to continue covering their tracks for the foreseeable future.
Cressman Financial Group is quite activ in Entral-Eastern Europe... Lost almost 75000EUR... Sorry to say, but hope they'll spend the money for medicines...
about www.sorrelcapital.com located in Hong Kong
they claim to have offices in four locations
but only phonenumber on one, the company seems
to be very poor
and by my old hat there was also sorrell capital hedge fund
located in London that closed in 2014
teutons
Also was scammed by goldencrossinvestments.com see info from a post, 6 September and 25 October
I think "Harvey Adelberg" from Goldencrossinvestments could be the same like following scammers:
Peter Trautmann from Clewis Financial- David Berg from Tillman Hall Capital- David Ackermann from Wheaton Capital
Company: Golden Cross Investment (Hong Kong)
Offer: Paypal Shares
Names used in telephone calls: "Theo Walker", "Martin Frazer", "Henry Martin", "Harvey Adelberg"
Bank account holder: Tian Xi Fu Limited (Hong Kong), RM 1101 11/F San Toi, BLDG No 139 Connaught RD Central Hong Kong
Call: +85230170147
Wish those peoples a painfull death!!! Merry Chrismas.
Also in German:
Achtung, Golden Cross Investments sind Betrüger !!!
Sollten Sie bereits Geld investiert haben investieren Sie nicht noch mehr, das Geld ist so oder so weg! Eine zugegebenermaßen sehr professionelle Falle die mit lukrativen Aktien lockt.
forgott to write down the phone numbers who called me from Golden Cross Investments:
0085261826355
0085230152846
0085230141853
0085230170147
There is a new one in scamtown Rubin Dunn
Watch:http://www.rubin-dunn.com/
I have already alarmed the Dutch AFM
Don't believe this kind of selling on the phone!
A warning from Holland
7th December 2016
to the german victim of golden cross scam
in german
hallo kannst du mir ein mail auf teutons598@gmail.com
schiecken es eilt
teutons
dutshman yes you're right it is a scamsite
if you are a victim contac griffin&miller in your contry
Domain Name: RUBIN-DUNN.COM
Registrar: ENOM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.enom.com
Referral URL: http://www.enom.com
Name Server: SKYNS1.INSTANTCPANELHOSTING.COM
Name Server: SKYNS2.INSTANTCPANELHOSTING.COM
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 30-dec-2014
Creation Date: 30-dec-2014
Expiration Date: 30-dec-2016
teutons
dutchman have the AFM take the site down RUBIN-DUNN.COM uses the IP address 185.52.54.67 hosted by SECURED SERVERS AMSTERDAM in Netherlands,
teutons
Does anyone know - if grace century is also a scam? Or a legit? They are based in middle east (RAK in UAE).
There are some negative postings about them and their CEO Scott, but Scott has responded to these postings.
gracecentury.com is a scam site, have all the signs written allover
https://www.whois.com/whois/gracecentury.com
GODADDY, WILDWESTDOMAINS, DOMAINSBYPROXY, DOMAINCONTROL, they also probberly dont have an lincens to sell whatever the the sell in your country..
STAY AWAY you will loose your money
teutons
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/grace-century-grace-century-fz-llc-cold-calling-mailing-constantly-c603006.html
teutons
Greetings from Sweden
I received a call from Golden Cross Investments a while ago, sounded too good to be true, so I said no.
I saw a here a comment about Griffin & Miller, please be careful with these guys as they are also reported on economicfrauds.net (https://economicfrauds.net/warnings/gandm-litigation-assistance-nederland), some sort of recovery scam maybe?
Voice of "Anna Hamilton" is also a voice of Ann from "allocation department" at Kline Capital Partners from Hong Kong. (known from November 2015 to May 2016)
Voice of "David Berg" is also a voice of "Michael Kline", "founder" of Kline Capital Partners. He is the most anoying of them.(known from November 2015 to May 2016)
Be aware that Kline Capital Partners was "bought" in June 2016 by Jordan Group Financial.
Phone numbers to be aware of (Kline Capital Partners) are 852 6357 1139, 852 61826 355, 852 53673976.
Jordan Group Financial 813 3365 2417.
I got contacted by a company called Virtus International. Mr. Adam Bolton wanting me to buy shares in Illumina, promising they will go up min 40% before end of feb 2017. I promised over the phone to buy the shares and they sent papers for me to sign, via Email, an brokerage account application and client agreement form. I signed and Emaild back to them. Then I got thinking common why would a successful stock broker in Korea be calling a no namer somewere other end of the world with such a golden opportunity and decided to have look at the internet. And yes they have a website and some press releases I found and then I came across this site and found what I was afraid of, thanks. I asked Mr. Bolton during our conversation what happens if I do not pay when I am supposed to, I am due to pay after the weekend, he told me I would be blacklisted for all future investments on the USA stock market. Will be interested to see what happens after the weekend.
no matter what they say DONT PAY they cant do anything against you no legal action
dont think mr bolton dare to showup in a europe courtroom
all they say is just like what they sell HOT AIR or bollocks
found this company from 2007
virtus international 615 Belmont Montreal Quebec Canada
www.virtusinternational.com
at least some good new
http://www.financemagnates.com/forex/regulation/hong-kong-court-takes-strong-actions-suspected-boiler-rooms-freezing-4-3-million/
Thank you Teutons for good news. hope that monney will be returned to victims. Sorry to say but International Partners isnt among listed.
beware off those guys
http://www.bhcghk.com investmentbank..
We are conveniently located near you. Visit or call us today!
3109 Tower 2, Lippo Centre 89 Queensway Admirality 89 Hong Kong, Hong Kong 32258 HK
CALL US HOW; THERES NO PH.NUMBER THEY WILL CALL YOU
warning against a clone brokery
BLS Investments and www.blsinvestments.com should not be mistaken for BLS Capital Fondsmæglerselskab A/S and www.blscapital.dk.
www.blsinvestments.com is a perfect clone well done job by the scammers
BUT there phonenumber is in USA / New York +1 212-488-5444
on main page theres 2 flags English and Danish, been clicking like a mad maniac on the Danish flag but nothing happens
albagasltd was the first to go
Hello,
I've read the comment of Teutons of last 11th December and the answer of Anonymous of yesterday about "International Partners". I'm dealing with them !
Are they scammers ? Please let me know if someone of you had experience with them.
Thank you.
Luca.
warning
www.safemarkhk.com associated with CTI limited, AWDH Trading Limited
Featherstone Pte Limited they uses bank accounts in Hong Kong in the names of Charm Assets Limited and Kimsfer International Company Limited for settlement.
International Partners is a scam. Info can be found here
www.fsa.go.jp/en/refer/cold
Please email me for further info.
I have also shares op GENOCORE BIOTECH. GNCR CN1000007515 from Apex Alliance (Apex equities - White Miller association)
is it a scam company?
This has to STOP
Thanks a lot
According to information in the FSMA’s possession, Apex Equities is apparently approaching investors who had previously invested with various companies about which the FSMA has issued warnings (Brandt-Swift Associates, White-Miller Associates, South-East Asia Traders, Genkai Securities, Changsheng Associates, etc.). The approach taken by Apex Equities may vary: either it tells investors that it has taken over the aforementioned companies, or it claims to be able to recover the funds they invested with those companies. The latter practice is a common feature of “recovery room” fraud
could you please tell who you have been talking with
from the "companies" and their web sites
thanks
11 December 2016 at 23:36
hy Antti thanks for lighting the sky
I was reffering that "international scamers" arent listed among mentioned BRoom. i am victim of IP they stole from me 13k € first called me Frank Wilson then Thomas cuningham, Thomas Sinclair, James Casey, Aaron Mitchel Rothchild, Adam Jaroue. The last one Jaroue he he once busted i face him that i know he is a scamer robber. Well he was calm didnt loose nerve. I am certain that nerves would jump to celling when we would be face to face. They all had perfect english.
luca dear firend i am sorry but you have been robed.
www.genocore-biotech.com/en is an third party scam site setup by the same people as the other sites only to make you believe the scam
www.apex-alliance.com is first seen on 1 aug 2015
WARNING
www.frontierinvestltd.com
www.NOVAINVESTLTD.COM
www.SOMERSETCAPITALLTD.COM
www.HUANGINTERNATIONAL.COM
Hong Kong boiler room scam
dont send money
WARNING
www.baysidefinancialservices.com Tokyo and Hong Kong
www.lingcapital.com Tokyo
www.arthur-sera.com Tokyo oohh they really love that ragging bull
DONT CALL US. WE CALL YOU
W A R N I N G FAKE US Regulatory Trade & Commission sites
All US goverment sites ends like .gov or .gov.us
www.usrtc.org
www.gov.securitiesenforcementdepartment.us
on there cold caller warnlist they have this warning
"Asset Recovery Solutions
One Penn Plaza, Level 6
242 West 34th Street
New York, NY 10119
Phone: 212-246-5088
Fax: 646-365-3375
Website: http://www.arsu.eu/"
check the address it belongs to some German goverment
really not clever. DOH.
Feel free to sign up and post your boiler room websites at scamwarners.com
No charge!
Elite Capital Assets - http://elitecapitalassets.com
15th Floor, 120 Adelaide Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M5H 1T1 CANADA
E-mail: info@elitecapitalassets.com
Phone: +1 647 846 8111
Fax: +1 647 946 6873
I am in contact with a company Takara Global, I first bought Genral Electric and then stupid I am convinced to but Unique Grow Pacific. I have dealt with so many people, I am now being told to buy shares in a company called Learning Easy Holdings otherwise I will loose all of my money. I am going crazy and now i see this website and Unique Grow Pacific being sold by oshiroassociates.com, Oshiro Associates. This is a scam I know.
Website of Wheaton Capital Hong Kong is closed
Why they can't be cought ? There are real persons with real documents who register web domains, companies etc. and who have bank accounts... ? One problem is that police from Europe isn't very keen to investigate in Hong-Kong... Would it make sense if I contact police in Hong-Kong or Japan by myself ?
It would make sense to file a report to Hong Kong (or Japan) police, the country where you have made payments. This is actually only way forward. Your own police cannot do anything.
But, your report to HK police will very likely stay bottom of the pile, unless the money lost is 6-7 digit number.
In order to get some weight to police reports we (as an internet community) should be able to link these fictitious companies, and then we would get more weight for the investigations.
BTW. I just read the news: "British website designer murdered in Pattaya in front of his Porsche". I have a hunch, that the piece of news is linked to these scams
Hi,
Got scamed by offshore east private wealth managers. Offshoreeast.com
Everything was pretty much how you described.
You can check their website. Still active.
Any ideas what to do?
Regards
Hello Antti,
I made an inquiry at Houyi Power Gen about my shares and they wrote me:
Dear ..,
Thank you for your email and welcome to Houyi Power Gen, we are pleased to welcome you as an investor. With regards to your questions a review of our records has shown the following regarding your current holdings in HYPG. Current Holdings – Registered name – ... – The registrar shows that you are currently holding 96,217 shares of HYPG stock.
Should you need further information on your holdings, please inform the financial professional from whom you purchased these shares.
Regards,
Investor Relations
Houyi Power Gen
www.houyipowergen.com
I guess it's a fake. From Jordangroupfinancial, well known in your files for being scammers, I got offers to sell for 2.25 or even 5 $ the share, but have to hold 120.000 or 150.000 shares.
Is any one in the same discussions? I'm currently talking to Markus Herrmann, formerly to John G. Ramsay, Anthony King, Michael Belfer. Further people's names see my post from 23 June 2016.
Of course I won't pay another cent. If anyone likes to abuse a scammer personly, here the direct trading floor number: +81 3452-08915
Best Regards
Offshoreeast.com is a scam company.
Ideas what to do
- file a police report in a country where you have paid money to
- ask your local FSA to blacklist the company
- make some noise. As mentioned in the blog, voice recordings, bank account details should be made public. I may help with this. This will make scammers life more difficult.
Further info by email.
I don't think Houyi Power Gen company exists at all.
I am in the same situation
I bought 5000 shares of HYPG from Wheaton Capital Hong Kong and after a while they called and said if I want to sell the shares I must buy another 5000 shares.
After a lot of phone calls and e-mail they convinced me to buy the missing shares.
I now had 10000 shares and they said they would sell them in a short time,
They also sent me documents for the transaction.
Then nothing happened, and after a couple of weeks I sent them a e-mail asking what's going on.
They called and said there was some problem i the financial market and to close the deal I had to pay some tax or fee. I told them I would not pay more.
Then nothing happened for a long time, suddently they called from Jordan Financial Group and said they have bought Wheaton Capital and it was them who now handled my shares.
They also said I have to pay some fee if I want to sell the shares.
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