Blackmore is two scams for the price of one: Blackmore Bond and Blackmore Global Fund. Both run by Phillip Nunn and Patrick McCreesh of Blackmore Group. Blackmore Bond is a “loan” scheme (bond) which has conned £25 million out of hundreds of victims and is now in default. Blackmore Global is an “investment” scam which […]
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The routine “sale” of insurance bonds (whether the clients need them or not – which 99% of the time they don’t) is illegal in Spain. Undoubtedly this will be similar or identical in other jurisdictions. The Spanish Supreme Court has ruled that insurance bonds are invalid for the purpose of holding investments. But still the scammers continue to flog them indiscriminately – purely for the fat commissions.
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Meghan and Harry – the Duke and Duchess of Sussex – are having a tough time (and are running away from home). Their sadness and confusion is because they have no purpose or passion in life. So I am offering them an interesting and satisfying challenge: taking on and championing the cause of pension scam
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Pension and investment scams have flourished on the Costa Blanca for more than ten years. As each scam gets shut down, the scammers set up new ones – scammers never change their spots. They need new victims constantly – so the public must always be vigilant.
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As the decade comes to a close, it is clearer than ever that victims of investment fraud need justice. The dirtiest stain on society is that of pension and investment fraud. Scammers have made fortunes out of pension and investment scams in the UK and across the globe – in all leading expat jurisdictions. With
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FCA and FOS continue to dismay and disgust; CWM criminal case set to change offshore financial services; Forged dealing instructions epidemic; Offshore advisory firms without an investment license. It now emerges that on top of a failed “City Watchdog” (the Federated Consolidation of Apathy) we also have not just one, but two failed ombudsmen. The
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I’ve been asked by a number of Park First investors to help them decide how to vote in the forthcoming vote – 25th November 2019. There are many options and decisions, with communications coming out from various related and interested parties. It is understandable that investors have some difficult choices and are being given conflicting
Normally a great fan of FT Adviser – and their excellent, independent journalists – I was horrified at the recent “Guide to Structured Products” (particularly the section on how risky they are by Craig Rickman). Noting that this article can be used towards CPD credits, I was astonished that so little attention was paid to
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While Dalriada Trustees and Pinsent Masons count their handsome earnings, HMRC prepare to ruin the victims with unauthorised tax charges from the Ark pension liberation scam. Dalriada Trustees were appointed by the Pensions Regulator on 31st May 2011 to take over the six Ark schemes: Cranbourne; Grosvenor, Tallton Place, Lancaster, Portman and Woodcroft. Designed, set
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“Best of times. Worst of times. Age of wisdom and foolishness. Epoch of belief and incredulity. Season of light and darkness. Spring of hope; winter of despair.” You would be forgiven for thinking the above was written about the world of pensions and investments (by someone far more eloquent than me). However, it was written
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There is no question: Andrew Bailey has failed; he must go – the FCA has failed; it must be replaced by a proper regulator. Wednesday 6th November will see victims of failed investments – repeatedly promoted by negligent or fraudulent “advisers” or brokers – protesting outside the Bank of England from 8.30 a.m. onwards. Hopefully
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Happy Halloween – but do watch out for scary monsters. ESPECIALLY PENSION SCAMMERS! The scariest monsters at Halloween (or, indeed, at any time of the year) are the bad guys in financial services. As my dear old Mum used to say: “It’s not the dead you should be afraid of – it’s the living”. Never
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