A keyword "Kimura Trading" has taken lot of attention recently. There are high number of clicks, and click rate (clicks per show ads) is more than 50%. This is fairly uncommon situation. Usually Google filters hostile clicks very well.
Kimura Trading says that they are registered in Malta. We cannot find them Malta Financial Service Register. Their street address 48, SIR AUGUSTUS BARTOLO STREET TA’ XBIEX XBX, 1099, Malta seems to be here . Looks like unused property.
We do not recommend dealing with Kimura Trading.
This post was written to make sure that the topic gets attention it deserves (better than appending the list in Antti's original Post) Whoever is doing the clicks, is now doing SEO (search engine optimizing) work for this page!
We have something to confess. This is our first post in five years. This is something that may be hard to trust/believe! It will upset some of our old contacts. We are sure that this will cause a stir in scamming industry. We tell the story anyway. Target here is to keep up the fighting spirit against boiler room scams/frauds.
The blog pissedaboutgettingscammed.blogspot.com and a post about Hoshizaki Equities became quite popular in 2016. The blog was started by a private person, Antti. He was having Google advertisement on certain financial company names, which were easily spotted on various free press release sites. He got many email messages from "clients" of these companies. Almost every time he concluded that the company was a scam company. He got some additional info from victims "ie. clients", which lead him to new sources of info / Google ads keywords. Gradually there few other fellows doing same studies. There was a positive flow!
Initially this was done just for fun (out of anger, since these guys were calling middle of the day asking money on fraudulent basis) and on Antti's own expenses. At some point someone suggested a Paypal donate link to the blog site. Well, donations were not much. It was 6 months from the start of the project, and Antti got a suspicious message, which was offering us "more in depth knowledge of the rogue companies", and also some donations. It was a easy deal, since Antti had spent almost 1000€ his own money to the project (and he was just about to quit!).
Deal was that Antti gets Bitcoins worth of 2500€ every month, and in case if some company name in the blog was not satisfied by the donor the name was removed from the blog&adlist.
Believe or not, the deal was valid for 5 years 1 months! Basically we have received "illegal" money worth of 152500€ in past 5 years. Taking account of rise of Bitcoin, this became a huge donation, totaling more than 60 Bitcoins.
We have shared the bitcoins (cover our losses in fraudulent business), sometimes donated some Bitcoins to some other victims for exchange of info. We don't consider ourselves much of a crooks. One our contact hired a private investigator by using our donations. Unfortunately, Private Investigation project was not successful.
We have spent about 2500€/year to google advertisements. This is a very small investment compared to our incomes. We have donated to archive.org since it is one of the best tools in our tasks. We have also bought some whois database data.
At some point of time Google noted that the blog does not make sense. A private person (Antti) is funding a site, which "does not have enough original content". The blog has too many links to other sites etc?!.. This was fairly upsetting situation, but we decided to start advertising investmenthoax.com site.
Here is the list of removed names from Antti's and investmenthoax.com blog:
Mizuho Financial Global
Mizuho Corporate Global
Pana Mining Holding Group
Pusher Holding Limited, Hang Seng Bank, Hong Kong
Rui Yuen Precision co, Limited, Hang Seng Bank, Hong Kong
Monex BMO Securities
Nihon international
Softbank CIBC International
Shinsei Corporate Management
Nikko Desjardins Asset Management
Lithium Energy (HK) Technology Limited
Saga Nagoya Securities
Cmc Gao Hua
Pacific Chiba Trust
Atb Holdings
Wireless Inc Asia
Onex Busan Financial
Sumitomo Gunma Holdings
Leiko Tokyo Securities
Capital Taiyo Trading
Learning Easy Holdings
Toronto Sumitomo Trading International Holdings
Security Electronic Technology (HK) Ltd
Resona Dai-Ichi Group
Hollis Kookmin Financial
Learning Easy Holdings
Shinhan Daiwa Brokerage
Yamaguchi Laurentian Securities
Kangyo Yokohama Securities
Saga Nagoya Securities
Mizuho DKB Brokerage
Shinhan Dachi Daiwa
Akita Matsui Trading
Seismik Technology Company
Resona Dai-Ichi
FSD Holdings
Ashida Associates
Sapporo International
Oita Sumitomo Corporate
Hana Shizuoka Trading
Royston Carr Asset Management
Nanto Sapporo Brokerage
Daito Nippon Brokerage
Mitsui Gunma Management
Yokohama Daisan Management
Sendai Mebuki Holdings
Ward Henderson Management
Yamanashi Kyoto Management
Tokai Fuji Brokerage
Hokkaido Securities Holdings
Mirai Life Securities
Saitama Rakuten International
Akita Michinoku Management
Osaka Matsui Management
Crest View International
Woori BMO Group
Gunma Fuji Securities
Hamilton Chukyo Brokerage
Okuras Global Capital
Sanwa Alterna Brokerage
List is not chronological, but Mizuho was the first name to be erased. Events lead to the deal makes us fairly confident that the donor is "Nicholas Carter". His voice sample is here. We have been following the blog visitors fairly active. We suspect that "Nicholas" lives/has been living in Zurich, Switzerland. Other sources of info state that this gang is from Kuala Lumpur/Malaysia. It was actually first suspicious clicks to the blog from Malaysia when it started November 2015
June 2021 we got an email from our donor contact
Just to let you know, we've ceased operations permanently so we're obviously no longer requiring any of your services. Thanks for the cooperation
We have hard time to believe that Nicholas has resigned from his job.
We will continue advertising rogue company names... We will cause still some stir in the scamming business.. We are sure that this post will raise number of questions to our inbox. We think that it's not our duty to answer to all "how do I get my money back" questions. We suggest to follow www.investment-scam-asia.com site, and join the group. We are not members of group behind the site, but they seem to be doing a better job than us. They are chasing the same gang.
We apologize if someone feels betrayed or has lost money because of our actions. We have kind of assisted Nicholas & his colleagues scams. On the other hand, boiler room industry as a whole may have taken some bigger hits. Also, Antti's blog would have been lost in cyberspace in summer 2016 if such funding deal was not made. Birth of investmenthoax.com (nor investment-scam-asia.com!?) might not ever taken place.
