Unicorn Ventures - Advarsel
En række tilfældige danskere er åbenbart blevet kontaktet af sælgere fra firmaet Unicorn Ventures. Firmaet er tydeligvis ude for at fuppe folk - deres område er en form for aktiehandel. Jeg har ikke personligt haft kontakt til dem, men det har Studmuffin, der heldigvis lynhurtigt gennemskuede deres foretagende. Faktisk havde Studmuffin så meget overtaget, at han kørte de nævnte sælgere rundt i manegen til stor underholdning for de læsere der fulgte med på hans blog.
Man kan kun håbe på, at alle andre havde evnerne til at gennemskue svindleriet i tide, men kvag mit arbejde ved jeg, at det ikke er tilfældet. Nogen er gået i fælden - sådan er det altid, desværre. Dette til trods for, at disse selskaber og deres metoder gang på gang er blevet afsløret og beskrevet grundigt - til advarsel og beskyttelse for alle.
Studmuffin ønsker at videregive sagen til de mere etablerede medier for at advare endnu flere. Jeg håber det lykkedes for ham.
Hey, cool at du er med til at sprede ordet
Hello, i wonder about this society but can’t understand what u said about it could you translate main points in english please
Hi ai and thank you for your comment.
My post about Unicorn Ventures is basically a warning about them. They con people into buying fake stocks promising buyers great wealth.
Nobody should do business with them, but instead report their activities to your local police.
Hi
I write this in English though I’m Swedish and understand the danish you written.
I fell for the trick and sent 4 000€ to a bank in Taiwan and I will tell you about the following steps they take. After about 10 days a man called and presented himself as Tony. Helena who I had contact with was on a trining session to advance as she was very good in her business. What this guy suggested to me was to sell my netnetnet-shares at 6.50€ which he could get although the share at the moment was at about 4.50€. The money I should use to buy other shares. However there was a catch, I had to invest another 6 500€. I said “No thanks” but he kept on calling me and finally I told him to send the paperwork. When I received it I send a mail in which I declined his offer. After another 4 days he calls me again and is now angry wondering what I am doing. He has already sold my shares in netnetnet and there is a deficit of 6500 € on my account. I told him that in the contract they have sent me there is a clause that says he must have my written approval to sell shares for me. He claims that is only valid for the very first deal with netnetnet and now he must take this to their “Legal department”. After another 2 days he contacts me again asking if I have changed my mind and will send them the money. He has not taken it to legal as he felt sorry for me. He tries to get an “OK” from me regarding that I shall send the money and I avoid the question. In the end he says I must answer with “Yes” or “No” on if I am going to pay. I say I will try to avoid it with all means and he tells me he will send it to his lawyer in Stockholm. He asks me if that is OK and at that moment I hung up on him. He has phoned me another three times this afternoon but I do not answer when there is a hidden number on the phone.
Thank you migger for your answer,
I come from switzerland and was about to invest in it before i saw those threads here and in studmuffin.dk posts.
I hadn’t time to do the appropriate researches till this morning and now i can establish the following facts:
Unicorn Ventures isn’t registred in the CRC of Lisbon (Commercial Registry).
Their number can’t even be found in the portugish yellow pages.
The building you can see in their website doesn’t match to any of the one existing in Rua Hermano Neves. Their adress mention they are rua Hermano neves 16/17. Number 17 doesn’t exist so far i could search.
It really sound like a swindle. I hope it isn’t for Anders..
Could you tell me Anders if you have tried to order them to sell your shares? If already done what was their answer?
I’ll contact portugish police in the next days to let them know this story. It seems they tried in a lot of european countries. If they are really cheaters, we must try to stop them.
@Anders: Im sorry to hear that you’ve transferred that much money to this company and I sincerely hope, that you will be able to at least get some of it back.
A great thanks for your story - as you can see it already helped another possible victim avoiding loosing money.
Im curious though - about the 4000€ you transferred. Did you actually obtain any stocks for this money or are they lost to you. Again thanks for your account.
@ai: Good job doing some research before transferring money. And you add some great points to assist others in avoiding being conned by these people.
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ai, by the way you are also in Switzerland ? I have taken some appropriate actions now, I am sure other people in Switerland may have serious problems with UV soon, perhaps we should talk together. I am located Region Lausanne-Geneva, where are you ?
@pal i also live in this area, i give you my mail and i’ll give you my phone in answer: zoio@bluewin.ch
See you soon
Hi ai, I sent you an email yesterday evening, you then have all my phone numbers etc. Talk to you soon. Best regards.
So they said to Anders that they would sell (or have sold ? ) his shares for 6.50, much more than market value ? Again yesterday they tried to convince me to buy the same shares at 4.00, much less than market value.
All this sounds really serious, huh ?
Wondering if those who are “buying” shares through U-V are actually owning those shares at any time, or if the money does not just get into someone’s pocket ?
Or perhaps somebody has another explanation ?
Hallo, I’am Austrian and I was called by “Alex Koch” from Unicorn-Ventures, Portugal. The number, he gave me was 351-21-031-0314.
A websearch have given, that the company is not listed in the yellow pages of Portugal and the phone number is used by many other “brokers” or there names. Also the given number often is the main number of the “company”. It seams that the scammers make “shadow textes” for the internet.
He had my Name (always want me on landline) but I never give away my name in combination with the number of the landline.
So I do not know, how “Koch” got my contact datas?!
However I know, that no company have to give something away and if it would be a really deal they would do it alone, with no privat person. - But I didn’t get ride of him, so I was exposed to his speaking. - Always with the aim to never invest ANY CENT! - After the call he wrote me an email, on which I answerd with NO. He called about 30times (befor and after) with “unbekannt” (that means with no number) and so I had an “alarm-trigger” not to pick up the phone so I refused the calls by clicking the “red phone”. At the last call he take to the answerphone in the way of: I will bomb your house, everything will smell like gas and than BOMB!, Hurensohn, Schwuchtel, Wixer etc. I have copied it from the answerphone to my pc for collateral reuse.
Some Keywords (he used in the calls) for searchers: prweb.com, Focus media china, repower systems, netnetnet.tv
I hope this “company” will get their punishment
Thanks for this thread!
ps:
He invested in time to speak the threat in an good german way…
Warning from Norwegian Financial Supervision Authorities, dated 03 August 2007 :
http://www.kredittilsynet.no/wbch3.exe?ce=18962
I have been contacted by several peoples of Unicorn Ventures, first a lady, then Larry Thompson and now Chris Cooper.
At the first i said them to call me back in october but they still call me very offen and then i accept they offer that is same as indicated by anders. It will be interesting to know if he get back something from his first investment.
I found also a warning in spanish: (http://usa.invertia.com/noticias/noticia.aspx?idNoticia=200708081013_EFE_ET3087&idtel=)
Somebody found some names of some managers of this company. It seems that they have no one official responsible.
fyi i’m leaving in Switzerland too
URGENT URGENT URGENT: need help with UV
Please could you tell me if anyone got their previously invested money back after cancelling the new deal?
We unfortunately fell for their trick and now we are afraid that they will take some legal actions against us and take the money we “agreed” to transfer (luckily we saw the warnings before transferring the rest of the sum)?
What happened to Anders in the end? (if anyone knows him please contact him)
Thanks you in advance
Didi
Hi again
I have not heard anything from UV since I had the threatening conversation on July 4th. I got a phone call from “Hidden number” some days after that phone call which I did not answer. I have givven up on the money I sent them and hope I have got rid of them. I have no intention on contacting them to get my initial money back as I do not think there is much of a chance and as one of our sayings in Sweden says “do not alert the bear that is sleeping”. I am following the messages on migger.net from time to time.
Best regards
Anders
Suggestion to those who are seeking to get their money back or who want to complain :
* Contact your finance and banking supervision authorities in your country.
* Contact your local police who should tell you which is the competent police specialised in international financial matters in your country, that could help you.
* Contact netnetnet TV in Geneva / Switzerland (see their web-site) : They should know who is responsible at UV since they seem to have made some “major deal” together in order for UV to seel their shares.
Hello,
unfortunately I found this discussion too late so like Anders I have made a first investment with UV. BTW I am from Germany.
First I was contacted by a research organisation from India with a survey about investment aims and knowledge. A few weeks later “Laura Burns” from UV called me and told me about NetNetNet.TV but I was not interessted. The next call came from “Markus Schmidt”. He told me he was born in Germany (Hamburg) and he understands a bit German but cannot speak anymore. He called me about five times and finally I have transferred about € 4000 for buying 1000 NetNetNet.TV shares with about 20% discount. In the meantime I had a call from “Alex Koch” who calls himself a very satisfied customer of Mr. Schmidt and just wants to confirm that Mr. Schmidt and UV are reliable. He spoke German and lives in Lodon now. We talked about 15 min.
Markus Schmidt spoke about some new deal with IKEA which is not public so far but has to be published within 90 days. This would last into much higher prices of my shares. I told him that I will take this first investment to proove if everything he told me becomes true.
The next call a couple of weeks later came from “Tony Klien”. Just like Andres he told me that Laura and Markus were on a training session to advance as they were very good in business. The second or third call he asked me to sell my NetNetNet.TV shares at € 5 which would be a profit of about 20%. (The market price at that time was only at 4,20) And he wanted me to reinvest the money in Nano Tech Shares. At that point I aggreed as the 20% profit did sound good and the nano tech deal did also. The buying price was € 2,00. After a few days he called me again and told me about a fantastic offer. He would have a signed contract to sell 15 Million shares of Nano Tech to a fund for a fixed price of 6 Euro per share. And he wanted me to join the deal. I only had to increase my shares to 25.000 which would be the minimum to join. When I told him that I will NOT send him another about 35.000 € he called me again and again allways with another opportunity to join. Another client of him would allow me to join he portfolio for this deal. First I need only 15.000 shares, next time 10.000. etc. Then I wrote him an eMail that I will NOT make a next investment until all given information including the IKEA deal with NetNetNet.TV are approved. After that eMail two days ago there was no contact anymore. I will now after reading this discussion send them the order to transfer my Nano tech shares to my local broker and we will see if and how they will react.
regards
Bluebird
Well I am also one of the stupid ones. I bought netnetnet shares twice and then even nanopharm.
In an exchange all my netnetnet shares were transfered to nanopharm (a company which doesn´t produce anything right now afaik)but the figures looked well(as everything looks very professional from UV even my bank managers say so)
Afterwards I was contacted and told that the price for the shares went to 8E per share but I could only sell if i buy another x shares to be part of a big deal. I said I will think about it and I will see if I have the money (which I didn´t have). They send me an invoice anyway which I declined to pay.
Then Mr ROY YOUNG got very upset insulted me via telefon. I told them to sell my shares, they say your account is unsettled. You can´t sell buy whatever until you pay the last deal which I didn´t authorize.
Well right now Mr Young tries that Nanopharm show me proof that i owe shares there. So what ? I will not trade with them any more.
Donnot trade with UV. I tried to call them in Lisbon. Yeah Answering machine. They need sell orders…they don´t need buy orders..funny isn´t it. They also said that they are recording everything.
Right now its a nightmare. I can´t sleep at night and my stomach is cramping steadily.
My money is gone. Period. BTW I didn´t have the lawyer threat yet.
And one more thing. Never talk to people about business in a foreign language if you are not 100% sure you understand everything.
Fleeced sheep
UV is not to be found in Lisbon Commerce Registries, or in any Phone Directories.
As a matter of fact, this company does not exist.
Therefore this “lawyer threat” is just a bluff, a company that does not exist can not sue you. The problem is, you could not sue either a company which does not exist. Money was transferred to a bank in Taiwan, right ?
UV is now among companies declared not allowed to trade securities, on lists issued by authorities of most European countries, including Portugal. Just google around…
Have you noticed ? Each person reporting about UV (and ARTEMIS FINANCIAL by the way, same story) in the forums is referring to a different name of the contact-person at UV or AF. Who would believe they have such a huge number of employees ?
Google also ARTEMIS-FINANCIAL, see some other forums on the same matter.
Yep scam. Big one and the next company is coming up..called Artemis.
What is funny that they use all the same shares…Netnetnet…
So we have a nice chain…HB Capital Pegasus Unicorn Artemis and Edzell..seems to be pretty well organized. Maybe we stupid ones are financing the mob or even better Al Kaida.
Fleeced sheep
Hi Fleeced Sheep
By the way are you also in Switzerland ?
I saw your pseudo also in the “Beobachter” Forum on Internet. Here in “Suisse - Romande” there were some articles about UV in the newspapers in July, but still they seem to cause damage…
Austria..and no articles here
but on a different group ONE (1) person got his money back..although he had no idea why. ALL others had problems and no one got a cent back..
Sia
someone got money back from uv ? what is that different group
http://www.tradingideas.de/2006/07/25/transnational-automotive-group-tamg/
read and cry..mostly german but you will sufficient data in English AND that this is not the first time…
Sia
Artemis Financial are phoning Noreveigans with the same scam. Some bull shit story about “cheap” stocks in netnetnet.tv with huge profit within 12 months.
A warning has been issued by the norwegian authorites.
I just got the second call from Budapest, and have now received an introduction letter by mail.
Stones
I am in the same situation as all of you and took following action:
I called clint in geneva asking for an appointment with Richard Walker ,in my capacity of shareholder of NNN.The answer was that RW will not be back befor 3 weeks.Clint speaks in brocken french and claims to be scottish and australian???? he confirms that their office is on the 3rd floor of 36 Blvd helvetique in geneva.
I suggest that the people who live in this area play the same game and report we will see where it goes.There is nothing wrong for shareholders to go and see the company.You should also ask the date of the next shareholders meeting and the venue.It could be an opportunity to meet the representative of UV and Artemis.
Another way is for people living in this area,to ask the phone company who is the subscriber of the phone no022 7007641
I cantacted by email the chaiman od Incite media that alledgedly has been tacken over by NNN for an amount of Swiss Fr 26 millions.He has not answered yet.I will try to call him as well just to ask if his company actually belongs to NNN.Incitemedia has a cite with the board members,they are a swiss A.G.corp and it could be easier to follow that lead as they seem so far to exist.
Iwill keep you posted of developments
Suggestion :
have a meeting with Clint immediately, do not wait for RW to get back.
I got an answer from incite media but it is from Clint Bauld who confirms that NNN owns inciemedia.It means to me that they all belong to the same group of swindlers. I will keep you posted of my further action with the authorities in switzerland
Hej,Nick from Zürich
Contacted from Artemis financial, Troy Eulberg, Bsc. Hons, Senior Portofolio Specialist, & Monica Serano. Offer 1500 shares NNN.TV à 4 € each. Spoke with liaison officer Michael Dean (yes Michael Dean!=Vice President of Global Equity Trading!see: forum.beobachter.ch) from Allocations Department who after confirmation of my Personal data send me “Bank Transfer Instructions” & Account Opening Forms. Just This: Thanks to all of you!!!
Dear all,
thank you so much. I just prevented my husband to buy shares from NNN.tv via Artemis Financial. This time, the guy from Artemis called himself Mr. AXEL SCHNEIDER (very funny… Germans know that years ago a big real estate swindler named Mr. Schneider had been very active).
However, their story was the same: IKEA contract and another big contract under negotiations… huge share price rises up to 20€ expected…
Thanks!
Dear all,
I have invested very heavily into Artemis Financial, and it is now close to Euro 100 000. I am an experienced investor in the Norwegian market, and fell for this scam. Can somebody please help me?
some people are joinig forces here :
http://www.ouaza.com/wp/2007/08/31/arnaque-boursiere-artemis/
See the latest entries.
I bought 10000 share netnetnet.tv Inc from Unicorn Ventures. Just Artemis Financail call me to change the shares for nanopharmtechnologies.
Can somebody please help me.
I live in Austria
Lieber Wolfi…
Ich fürchte dein Geld ist futsch.
Und Artemis gibts immer noch ? Das sind Betrüger.
Sia
und check die FMA Webseite…
Dear all,
yesterday two persons (English and Canadian) were arrested in Holland. According to Swedish television only cheated swedes has lost about 20 000 000 €. I have not any idea whether Unicorn is one of the names under which those two have worked. Most countries has some agency, in Sweden Finansinspektionen, with list of companies one should not deal with. There are hundreds of names, Uniciorn and Artemis are just two.
I think we just can hope that this will stop more people to fall for the scam.
Hi
I’ve also invested in netnetnet.tv thru Artemis. Was stupid not to cheque available web-sites for warnings. The share price is now going down and the saying is that the company is going bankcrupt..I expect loose all my money. Have also been called up by Artemis who advice me to switch my money to nanopharmtechnology. But I have to add more money to save my initial investment. There is no way I will do that! Don’t throw in good money after your ealier folly! Accept your loss and let’s try to get Artemis out of the market and our minds…
Got an email from nanopharm (after 1 year..) where they said that they are a strictly private company and have no ties whith either unicorn or Artemis.
So same scam different name.
Sia
beware …. now these guys Unicorn Ventures and Artemis have changed to a new company, supposed to be located in Italy :
Fosse-McKenzie
Just google search fosse-mckenzie financial and you will find a quite familiar web - site, quite familiar types of press-releases, …
Hi,
it seems that there is a new player on this market…
HAWKINS & DOYLE
Same shit as Unicorn and the other. They do also not understand when you say NO!!! and keep contacting you over a long period….
So please be carefull with these guys, too.
Kind regard
the blue bird
Bluebird,
Do you know what stock they are trying to sell?
Regards
Karsten
Well
Someone just checked this HAWKINS & DOYLE it seems their website was just created May 9.
Just one comment : when any such company contacts you, ask if they have the necessary official authorization to sell securities in your country. If they are not registered (for instance in Norway, at Kredittilsynet), then just tell them you can not buy anything from them or continue listening to their arguments, since thea are not allowed to sell stock anyway.
and another idea :
just tell them you ar going to report their activity to the banking and finance authority in your country, asking this authority if this is a “serious” company offering you their service or if it is doubtful. I bet they never call you again unless they can prove they are duly registered in your country as a serious banking or finance company complying to all necessary regulations, controls, etc.
@Karsten
ADDITRON TECHNOLOGIES (h**p://www.additrontech.com/) is this time the best investment ever
Regards
the blue bird
Hi,
just another idea:
If you do not know these investment companies just “whois” them.
There you can find out when they have registered their domain AND
what is more interesting who is the hoster. A serious investment company will never use a LowBudget hoster.
For Fosse-McKenzie there is Godaddy.com the hoster. Just look at their webside and you will see that this won´t be used be a serious investment company.
Regards
the blue bird
And the Additron website is registered by a privacy protecting firm i The Netherlands october 29th 2007. Just like Unicorn, Artemis, McKenzie uses Domains by Proxy in the US. No serious company would use this method. And just like all the others Additron sent out a lot of press releases in the beginning of this year.
Regards
Karsten
Hi,
HAWKINS & DOYLE, DAVIS MAYER GROUP and THOMAS CASTLE MANAGEMENT
- all these guys are promoting ADDITRON technologies (CTL - coal to liquid
technology).
Unfortunately I have checked the background (venture companies & success stories) too lousy prior to buying a certain amount of shares!
Obviously better to admit a loss of entry capital than to agree to their advise to increase interest in this company.
I agree with bluebird and bob, be careful with these guys.
Regards
Liam
All these so-called “brokers” are in fact purely fictive “companies”, actually they simply do not exist ! There is generally nothing to be found at the address where they claim to be located, or in the best case you would just find a post-box. Their web-sites try to give a false impression about who they really are : purely so-called “boiler room companies”. It is not clear wether the companies in which they try to sell shares are genuine, or if it is all purely fictive as well, the money you are “investing” just getting into someone’s pocket. In any case if you look around on internet where people discuss their investments based on the advice of these boiler-room-brokers that keep calling people, they ALL end up having to admit that their money “invested” is purely and simply lost.
Hi,
and here is the next stupid one.
I was called be Artemis and bought netnetnet.tv shares. Sold them for 6,-€ a share and bought for this nanopharm shares. (like all the others).
Now Mr. Charles Levene called me.
Head of global equity
charles.levene@artemis-financial.com
I have to buy immediately shares from MeTex., then Nonopharm share will dropping down soon and this is the only way to save my invested money.
There is no way, that i will do this shit again!
Unfortunately i have found this side to latte and i will loos my before invested money.
So when we have no chances to get our money back, how can we better warning more people to do not the same stupid things like we did?
J’ai en ce moment des appels d’une sociéte : Pollia Ventures qui me propose le même type de deal pour 5000$ d’action :
Achat d’action : PANTERA PETROLEUM a un prix de 15% inférieur au cours actuelle. Je présent comme vous une arnaque.
Tous ce traite de façon orale avec des personnes qui parle anglais.
Le processus est le même que celui décrit sur le lien suivant : http://www.ouaza.com/wp/2007/08/31/arnaque-boursiere-artemis/
je ne donnerai pas suite => mais merci à tous pour vos commentaires qui m’on confirmé mes craintes
see also :
http://www.wallstreet-online.de/diskussion/1141549-71-80/pantera-petroleum-inc-oelfund-im-chaco-basin-paraguay
lots of GERMANS contacted by :
Pollia-Ventures
Kimura-Financial
Fosse-McKenzie
Akeman-Capital
etc….
These fake brokers seem all to belong to the same gang, previously operating under the names Unicorn-Ventures, Artemis-Financial, … Just taking money from people against fake stock, nobody sees their money again.
helo, additron/ hawkins and doyle are now making calls to Singapore. Hawkins and Doyle is fake, brokers sounds filipino or taiwanese, with stupid accent, telling me he is from canada, and working for a company based in philippines and Japan, SCAMMMMM. Additron is fake. Its a scam, dont send any bank details or money, its fake, fake, fake, the website are fake.i cant believe people fall 4 this, but sadly yes, people do fall for it. I sincerely hope for all those who fell for it that u all could get your money back, i wonder whats next after hawkins and doyle, theyll probly change names again
Never give your email adress or handphone numbers, or theyll just keep buggin u
those doing research on this scam i hope u read this thread: Hawkin and Doyle ,FAKE, SCAM, CHEAT, ADDITRON
Cheers
ho, singapore
Hi there
I just had a conversation with Artemis Finacial. Same procedure: NetNetNet from Unicorn, then Nanopharm and now MeTex….
I guess no more comments….
Bye bye hard earned money
But live goes on and there are much more worst things on the world than money.
Jogy
Hi,
the only way not to lose money is NOT dealing with Unicorn/Fosse/FosseMcKenzie/Kimura/Additron/Namura etc.
Different names, same guys.
They take your money, and you get a pdf receipt for virtual shares.
If you do not give additional money to raise your account, they become unfriendly, and then hang up and you never see again….
Here an actual warning from Austria, watch different names:
http://www.fma.gv.at/cms/site/EN/warnmeldung_aktuell_liste.html?channel=CH0059
I also bought shares from additron technologies true Hawkins & Doyle. unfortunately I found this website to late and I bought shares. a few weeks later I got a call from Davis Mayer group. I agreed to buy more but then found out they are scam. I didn’t transferred the money. can they do something? I think my first investment is lost anyway. what we can do to stop them. Is there even a chance to get the money back?
Thanks for your help
Chris
Hi,
i informed the police in Germany, but say said in advance that there are not many good chances to do anything against a company in Hungary.
I will now wait till I get the final results and after that I will inform all magazines and newspapers which I know to make them more popular as they are in the moment.
Maurice
The problem is, your “broker” in Hungary does not exist. Not much to do against a “company in Hungary ” that can not even be found.
To all the scammed people,
This broker companies are a big fake. If they find their names to often on google,… they shut down make a new broker company take their victims (only them who do not know that their money is gone) to their new company. They explain for example that in order to handle more big deals for You and other business people they had to merge in the new company name like e.g. kimura-financial, akeman, fosse, …. This is the short story. But what can You do if You are one off the vitims in Europe or the rest of the world. Get the following email adress betrugsopfer@online.de
They are trying to do something against that, but they need as much victims as they can get, including Your Infos. See also
The german forum
http://www.wallstreet-online.de/diskussion/1141549-111-120/pantera-petroleum-inc-oelfund-im-chaco-basin-paraguay#neuster_beitrag
I promise You all You will never get them alone.
In other discussions you can find the same deals with other names since 2005, but it´s the same method. (I found out France, Norway, Sweden, Austia, Swizerland, and now Germany,…)
Good luck
P.S.: Do not waste time in trying to get information about the brokers in the former named coutnries, You will not find them, the phone numbers (most of them voip) and adresses are faked, do not exist.
Hi,
I live in Paris, France, and was contacted by POLLIA VENTURES in the end of May…
After they’ve sent me their documents I did some research.
The Telegraphic Transfer Instructions made me really suspicious. (I will never transfer any money to a bank in Taiwan !!) the way they’ve urged me to conclude the transaction : “Monday it will be too late …”
- the company is not registered in Luxembourg.
The web hoster is Godaddy.com, and as Bluebird said : a serious investment company will never use a low budget hoster.
“If you can not prove that you are duly registered in Luxembourg as a serious finance company complying to all necessary regulations, controls, etc. I will report activity to the banking and financial supervision authorities in France and contact the local competent police specialised in international financial matters here.
Waiting to read you.”
Since then it’s a total black-out, never heard about them again…
Yes you are right this is the way to handle these guys. The sad thing is that not everybody had the reaction like you to make the appropriate research once called by these very convincing “brokers”
By the way have you seen the French forum on these matters ? :
http://www.ouaza.com/wp/2007/08/31/arnaque-boursiere-artemis/
This is happening in Asia as well. I’m in Singapore, got call from Thomas Castle Maganement introducing Additron Techonologies on it’s Caol-to-Liquid technology…..they call you on different occassion,1st a Junior exec, than their Manager, then they get another guy thier Allocation Officer (who claim that he’s independent person to ensure no fraud…)After you remit, they stop calling you, than sometime later some gys from Davis Mayer Group would call & said that Thomas Castle has appointed them as their transfer agent….they would tell you that a Mutual Fund has agreed to buy 5milion @ $21 each & you being their investor get to buy at $4 each & in 4 week thime you would be getting back money at $21/share. These guys are Pros, they are very good at perstering people & they are well informed…. Beware… Is there any way to get back the initial $ ? I have doubts, any other victims in Singapore or Asia , pls share your case….
Got conned first by broker from Hawkins & Doyle. Then Davis Mayer Group. Same modus operati as LK. Thought that these companies are genuine. Did a check on the web for their websites. Looks very professional with press releases on their tie-up with Additron Technologies. Stupid to fail to realise these can also be created by them to give impression of genuine business ventures. Regret that I read all your warnings too late.
Anyway, had reported to the Singapore Police Department (Commercial Affairs Dept)on this. However, the Singapore Police cannot do anything as this is overseas and outside their jurisdiction. Hope no one will be futher conned of their hard earned monies by these international conmen.
Hello,
Seems I am not alone. Same story as LK. Problem is that you want to beleive them as you have allready put alot of cash into this. For me USD 60.000. I am from Norway and would appreciate if anyone has any good ideas on how to get my money back allthough I think its all gone.
Hey everybody
They have now started a new scam. This time they say they are from Canada.
Same procedure, a surway in investment.
Typical IP telephony, from anywhere.
To KE
They are always to steps in front of anyone that comes after them.
The Police or other agencies will never be able to take them down.
(at lest not leagely)
Sorry about yor loss
Stones
one must be crazy to send usd60K to some guys just calling on the phone….
Does anyone know or heard of Pollia Ventures,
I was called and asked to made a trade whit them.
@rene
Just read some of the above posts. Pollia is the same as Unicorn, Artemis,
Fosse-McKenzie etc.etc. Boiler Room scam. What country are you from, and what stocks were they trying to trade?
Regards
Karsten
Hello to everybody,
I was scammed by Unicorn Ventures with Netnetnet.tv shares and NANOpharm shares (in Sept. 2007). I did file a police report but nothing could be done so far.
I am taking action through my brokerage who will be instituting a Class Action in the States on behalf of their clients. If you have queries and or information can be sent to truth@commerceinvestments.us which is an e-mail account they have set up for this purpose.
Michael, Germany
Hello everybody.
After having made a few quick searches on the net I would suggest that everybody should proceed with caution when contacting commerceinvestments.us as suggested above by Michael. Too many warning flags.
Correct me if I´m wrong, Michael, but something is not quite on the level here.
Regards
Karsten
Davis Mayer are just conmen, why do you fall for us ?
Davis Mayer are international con brokers, now we’re targeting Singapore. As a lot of Singaporean are greedy lot so can con them easily. Go on comment nobody can stop us cnning.
In today internet, evey web-site can be a fake. Conmen likd Davis Mayer can even make use of other wen-site name to get con money. I was coned when I was young, as I’m greedy thinking of get rick fast. All the above con stories were not new, it just now present in different media and more hi-tech. Everyday there’re many Davis Mayer or Thomas castle telling people how to get rich by attending get rich courses or investment. If money can be easily get, why do people do not know you want to share this wealth with you? Ask even your relative, if they know where to dig gold, will they tell you to join them ? Anyway this con men will get their karma in their latter life. And to those who share their experience, believe you’ll also be blessed for the good deed.
Agreed to Nobel, there is no free lunch.
Hi All,
i just been called from somebody from the USA, phone number was
001-41445807413
I would have a big chance to buy now! for 2,59$ Medical Connections shares.
He shows me the shares over the webpage of Yahoo –> Finance and search MCTH.ob
I’m surly will buy nothing, but will inform you!
Hope this will help someone.
Hi. I have contacted a lot of times by UV, AF and oter companies.
The next name they will use is Portway Capital.
Same shit, new wrapping.
Regards,
Karon
Dear All, I was close to doing what you some of you encountered. That is, falling for an offer which is really “to good to be true” - then it is normally so.. Still, the convincing calls you get put you very close to saying “yes”. Indeed I said “no” but it did not end there so I actually got an invoice payable for an account in Taiwan… Still no formal acceptance from me..
I referred to the terms of agreement which I would need to accept before the first deal was binding. I could not accept them because of some formal mistakes in it - not something I said, there were actually errors written. But of course “the deal was already made and I had to pay”. They could not sell unless I had payed (logic?). By this time I knew it was a fraud and I proposed we should simply split the revenue. I would not play with the fire like that once again…
The I got a new call from someone (even more convincing and more brains) trying to convince by being “my personal contact” that would look after me… In the mean time I looked for the (non-existing) address and tried to call them back (answering machine!). After being very angry with me, they finally stopped calling.
Connecting to the above message, this company was PORTWAY CAPITAL… After some fast (because everythnig should happen now according to the seller) contacts with the authorities there is now an international warning for the company - do a search on google!
I do not wish this to happen for any investor out there. PC even claim to pay money to prevent this type of actions - they are simply using people that believe in their advice.
Wish you luck and be careful!
Kind regards