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.
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.
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 ;)
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 companiessold 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 inactive,thanks to my actions.
Note that somethimes a scammer company has same name than an another legitimate company. This is done on purpose to confuse the victims.
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:
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],[2],[investmenthoax.com][boilerroomscamwarning.blogspot.com][faisalmashat.blogspot.com][www.financial-frauds-advisor.info]
