Berkeley Warbect Ltd/Berkeley Clerkenwell Ltd

Has anyone heard of the following companies:

Berkeley Warbeck Ltd or Berkeley Clerkenwell Ltd

I understand that they are offering land investment shares with vast returns.

Is this cosher or a Boiler Room?

Thanks

Probably a boiler room scam, I will have a quick look and see what I can find. Did they cold call you?

They dont seem to have websites by the way.

pboyles said:

Probably a boiler room scam, I will have a quick look and see what I can find. Did they cold call you?

They dont seem to have websites by the way.

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No we suspect they did this to one of our customers. By the way I spelt name wrong - Berkeley Warbeck Ltd

Tracy Watts said:

No we suspect they did this to one of our customers. By the way I spelt name wrong - Berkeley Warbeck Ltd

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Hi Tracy,

They are part of Berkeley Land as you can see at the bottom of their website.

http://www.berkeleyland.co.uk/

These companies work on the fact that we have limited land and buy plots of land that
have virtually no chance of planning permission. They use salesmen to hard close and give the prospect of great returns but usually investors just sit with this on their portfolios as they cant sell.

http://www.learnmoney.co.uk/advice/advice-87.html

http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/

Ged

Thanks - we suspected that

Hi there,
I was one of the "fools" that bought into plots of land @
[*]Woodmancote, Cheltenham
[*]Home Farm, Northampton Road, Towchester
[*]West Chestnut, Greater London

last year and @ the begining of this year. Since May 2011 they stopped communicating and basically disappeared as you cannot contact them. Has anyone else had this problem, if so what did / can you do?

Uk Land is one of the infamous ones. They are a well known example that has had a lot of press. Read up on that and the rest are pretty much the same. I should think that the information about the land one is being offered can be got from the council,

You should, also, watch Spain. It's surprising how many come out here and blithely hand over money in complete trust. People who would not buy a property in the UK without proper searches do that.

We get spectacular displays on tv of whole buildings, built without permission, being blown up by the authorities. The Marbella administration gained a lot of notoriety in the days of Alcalde Gil.
One guy signed building permits, for a price, and the only authority he had to do it was that he was the brother of the prime minister's right hand cabinet minister.

Sorry but there's little you can do because they was no fraud. All they did was convince you to buy something that's say worth £200 for £10,000. That's how these scammers can get awayt with things.

In future, be very wary of strangers calling offering you easy money. Plus, do your own independent research.

Also, be careful in the future because your name is hot, ie you fell for this scam so scammers will no doubt be calling you again and again in the future trying to set you up. If in any doubt, post here, this board is good at stopping people re scams.

IAGRANT said:

Hi there,
I was one of the "fools" that bought into plots of land @
[*]Woodmancote, Cheltenham
[*]Home Farm, Northampton Road, Towchester
[*]West Chestnut, Greater London

last year and @ the begining of this year. Since May 2011 they stopped communicating and basically disappeared as you cannot contact them. Has anyone else had this problem, if so what did / can you do?

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It's ok to buy property. You have to go to an agent and do the right thing. Another trick that was played in the old days was to induce the unsuspecting buyer to declare a lower amount than that actually paid to avoid paying tax. The effect of that was that the seller pockets the difference, undeclared and untaxed and ,when the buyer wants to resell his flat he has a capital gains tax problem.

Much of this has been hammered on the head, of course, but a lot of people thought that they were buying cheap property from unsophisticated peasants and got their fingers burnt.

Now the peasants are moaning about the Rumanians!

This company was Berkeley Warebeck, that then changed to Dentam Frost (Land Investment in London - Dentam Frost). This company moved office 3 times in as many months.

Then during the summer of 2011 have disappeared. These companies have used some bogus Australian directors.

The new venture of these guys is GS Commodities or Gold Standard Commodities (Home - Gold Standard Commodities) based in a serviced office in Victoria. NOT been operating since 2007. Stay well away, total scam artists, including the same people cold calling to rob people out of their hard earned money for Berkeley land and Dentam Frost.

STAY AWAY unless you want to lose you money.

How can a company established in 2007 have a domain name registered on 8th September 2011. SCAM SCAM.

Domain name:
gscommodities.co.uk

Registrant:
Appleguild

Registrant type:
Unknown

Registrant's address:
1
Warwick Row
Victoria
SW1E 5ER
United Kingdom

Registered through:
GoDaddy.com, Inc.
URL: Domain Names, Web Hosting and SSL Certificates - Go Daddy

Registrar:
Key-Systems GmbH [Tag = KEY-SYSTEMS-DE]
URL: Key-Systems™

Relevant dates:
Registered on: 08-Sep-2011
Renewal date: 08-Sep-2013
Last updated: 01-Nov-2011

Registration status:
Registered until renewal date.

Name servers:
ns67.1and1.co.uk
ns68.1and1.co.uk

APPLEGUILD LIMITED
1 Warwick Row
London
SW1E 5ER

This company operates since 2007 according to the GS Commodities site, yet they have dormant accounts since 2007. They are total scammers and if you are stupid enough to fall for these guys, you deserve to lose your money.

IAGRANT said:

Hi there,
I was one of the "fools" that bought into plots of land @
[*]Woodmancote, Cheltenham
[*]Home Farm, Northampton Road, Towchester
[*]West Chestnut, Greater London

last year and @ the begining of this year. Since May 2011 they stopped communicating and basically disappeared as you cannot contact them. Has anyone else had this problem, if so what did / can you do?

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Hi - I was also one of the fools sucked into this scam by Chris Newhouse's hard sell.
In hindsight, a few basic checks with the planning authorities would've blown the scam.
All my hard earned cash is blow by these tosspots !
Hope I don't meet them on a dark night !