Previously we have reviewed Carlauren Group’s care home investments offering 10% per year and Carlauren’s C-Coin cryptocurrency investment, which Carlauren claims will jump in value by 170% as soon as they have sold £35 million worth (current sales as at April 2019: £3,290).
Carlauren hasn’t been particularly happy with my coverage, previously sending its former Head of Marketing into the comments to make vague accusations about “significant inaccuracies” without actually pointing any out.
Their unhappiness has now escalated into perjury.
The United States’ Digital Millennium Copyright Act allows the owners of copyrighted material to file takedown notices, asking Google or other web providers to remove the copyrighted material.
There is a way to abuse this process to trick Google into removing content from its web searches that you don’t want to be seen. This involves stealing the content from the owner, uploading it elsewhere, changing the date so that your stolen content appears to have been uploaded first, and then filing a takedown notice to Google, claiming that your stolen content is the original, and the real content is the copy.
This is exactly what Carlauren Group has done.
A filing uploaded to the Lumen database indicates that an “Isabel De La Iglesia” claimed (in Spanish) that my first two Carlauren blogs were written by her on 16 and 17 August 2017 on jhonsonconsultores.wordpress.com, and then stolen by me.
Needless to say this is not true and it is very possible that Isabel Church does not exist. Also needless to say, no legal proceedings have been received by us from Carlauren or “Isabel De La Iglesia” directly.
It would have been physically impossible for either blog to have been written in August 2017. Carlauren’s C-Coin did not exist at the time, and my first blog was based on Carlauren investment literature dated Spring 2018.
The stolen articles have now been removed from jhonsonconsultores.wordpress.com, although a fragment remains in Google’s cache. The blog now shows a bunch of Spanish-language articles that have also been ineptly stolen from elsewhere. For example, this blog (stolen from tenemosnoticias.com) pretends it was published in 2016, despite the fact that it includes Twitter quotes from 2018.
Filing a DMCA takedown notice requires the filer to swear that the content is theirs under penalty of perjury.
While I could easily file a counter-notice, I think I’d rather let this sorry episode stand as a warning to potential Carlauren Group investors.
Investors in Carlauren Group, their Care Home Group suites or C-Coins should think very carefully before investing in an unregulated company whose representatives engage in this kind of blatant deception.
That really is bizarre! Never mind the investors, what about the elderly living in places run by people who think this behaviour is appropriate?
The mind boggles!
Carlauren did not pay us for 3 months. What and where should be our first line respose
If an unregulated company owes you money and isn’t paying it, then your options boil down to 1) take legal advice and risk throwing good money after bad 2) write it off.
Hello Margaret I am also an investor with Carlauren group and I haven’t been paid since 2 months. Do you know if there is a class action already organised to defend our interest ? How can we get legal support ?
Hello Thuy and Margaret, I’m in the same situation as you as an unpaid Carlauren investor, I’d like to know if there is any legal support organised
Dear Jackie and Margaret, maybe we should find more investors and create a WhatsApp group to exchange our ideas ? A Carlauren officer told me they would contact me within the next month to let me know what they intend to do for the payment…in the meantime I can only wait.
Hi Jackie me and Thuy were able to connect. You can contact me at [email protected] in order to join our group of investors.
This just gets more interesting…
https://heritagehotelsuk.com/
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/06190597
Sean Murray seems to be ditching Carlauren Group entirely for this business, which was once registered to Langdon Court Hotel (a hotel owned by Carlauren!!!). Wayback Machine says this website was set up in late June.
Sean Murray’s name appears in this article about a scam operating along similar lines. Geting people to invest in property promising huge returns.
Don’t k ow if its the same guy?
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/aug/02/-sp-beware-detroit-buy-to-let-property-marketed-uk-investors
I can confirm it is the same guy, as per Companies House records.
More to follow tomorrow.
As promised, new article: Isle of Blight: Carlauren Group hits problems with care homes, hotels and “Ibiza-style beach club”
There is a Facebook group called ‘Carlauren Investor Community’ which is pulling together all the disparate investors and interested parties to act jointly against Carlauren. I suggest you join this, they have a lot of information and some excellent minds.