Three new follow-on-fraud recovery room scams have been covered by Safe Or Scam this week.
Scammers pretending to be from Blumarble Capital have been writing out to victims of the Essex and London Properties fraud claiming to to be working with The Insolvency Service. It is the usual story that the Insolvency Service has recovered money for investors but isn’t allowed to send it to the victims until they have paid a fee. It’s total b******t and if anyone is taken in by it and pays money to Blumarble Capital that will be the last they see of it. They may well approach investors who have lost money in other scams so be warned. If you are approached by Blumarble Capital it is a scam. You can read more on this link to the Safe Or Scam article on Blumarble Capital.
FFCC-org.com is the domain name used by a group of scammers calling themselves ‘Fraud and Financial Crime Consulting’. They have been targeting investors in the High Street GRP (High Street Group) companies. They claim to have been “appointed by Parliament to investigate and prosecute High Street Group and associated companies”. How do these guys think these things up ? It’s a scam and they will eventually try to persuade High Street Group investors to part with more money. We repeat the warning above. If you are approached by Fraud and Financial Crime Consulting with a similar story it will be a scam. You can read more on this link to the Safe Or Scam article on FFCC-org.com.
Longview Financial Services is the name used by scammers who have been writing out to investors in Minerva bonds. Minerva was a scam bond company which has collapsed. These scammers have quite a lot of information on the victims so they must have got that information from an insider e.g a sales agent company, the back-office service provider or the escrow company. All the people associated with these bond sales are not to be trusted. The story this time is that they have recovered the money, but in order to release it to the investor they need the 16 digit reference number (there never was a 16 digit reference number). Of course, the investor is going to respond with “I don’t have a 16 digit reference number” in which case Longview Financial Services offers to help out. They can get a new one issued for the investor, but there is a fee. The spiel is that once the investor pays the fee a new number is generated, their large investment sum is released to them and they get a full refund of the money that was paid for the 16 digit number. As you may have guessed, the moment the investor pays the fee that’s the last they ever hear from the scammers masquerading as Longview Financial Services. You can read more on this link to the Safe Or Scam article on Longview Financial Services.