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PLANET PENSIONS also known as Square Mile and Aktiva

PLANET PENSIONS S.R.O. – HELL ON EARTH FOR PENSION SCAM VICTIMS

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Since 2013, thousands of clients of Planet Pensions – previously known as Aktiva Wealth Management and Square Mile International Financial Services – have been scammed out of their pensions. John Ferguson and David Vilka of Planet Pensions (Square Mile/Aktiva) advised UK residents to transfer their pensions into QROPS including: The clients were conned into these […]

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Utmost Leonteq Fraud

Utmost Leonteq Fraud

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Insurance bonds and QROPS continue to flourish with thousands of victims being defrauded into these arrangements every year. The Leonteq structured note fraud has now settled out of court and there is some limited compensation payable to victims of Utmost International’s investment scams.

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Pension Scams Explained

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Every offshore pension scam starts with a “financial advisor”. Or, at least, a slick salesman posing as a financial adviser.   This person can also call himself a “wealth consultant” or “senior associate”. After the scammer pretending to be an adviser, the next player is the life office. More accurately described as a “death” office, this

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Pension Scam Investments

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The world of pension and investment scams is dominated and driven by commissions on investments (usually unregulated). The scammers’ strategy is always identical: get the pensions away from the safety of a reputable pension provider and into the hands of a SIPP, a SSAS or a QROPS. One purported benefit of these types of schemes

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Brev at Bond Review has been doing the FCA's job for it for more than four years.

Goodbye Bond Review

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Brev at Bond Review has been doing the FCA’s job for it for more than four years. He (or she) has warned the public on the excellent Bond Review blog about the dangers of investment scams in the form of “bonds”. While the FCA have sat around doing little of any use – except keeping

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Blackmore Global pension scam victim who cares

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The following blog was written by Stephen Sefton: a Blackmore Global Victim who cares about pension scams. Stephen was scammed by David Vilka of Square Mile International Financial Services around six or seven years ago.  Vilka, who had neither qualifications nor a license to provide pension or investment advice, arranged the transfer of Mr. Sefton’s

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Who cares about Careys and the world of pension scams?

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Pension scams have been destroying lives for more than a decade.  The scammers cause poverty, marriage breakdowns and even death.  Death caused by stress-related illness.  And death by suicide. A typical pension scam involves an unlicensed person pretending to be a financial adviser.  This is illegal.  But it goes on all the time, in the

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