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    Boiler Room Scams

    Have a look at - http://www.advfn.com/ asks if you mean one of these - Trans Global Svcs (BB) USBB:TGSI Trans Global Logisti (OTC) USOTC:TLGI Trans Global Svcs (OTC) USOTC:TGSI Trans Global Svcs Inc Mobile Stream comes up zilch, you might mean Mobile Streams? That...
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    Boiler Room Scams

    My word is my bond Yes, the phrase, "My word is my bond", applies only if you reserve it for someone you know will look after it - and you know it by reputation and by looking into their company affairs. Never by stock over the phone, he says !!! I never bought stock any other way until the...
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    Boiler Room Scams

    Oooh you are having a black Tuesday, aren't you? Not all investment opportunities are theft. For instance, if you bought shares in a FTSE 100 company you know where you are - regulators and the Stock Exchange rules. Prudential share price is high and does oscillate. It was falling yesterday...
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    Boiler Room Scams

    Boiler rooms But a British person can't do that - we work on the basis that "my word is my bond". These boiler roomscams are talking about stocks that don't exist, like Pharma Holdings Inc. These are money laundering people bleeding investment funds from the recently retired. The latest thing...
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    Boiler Room Scams

    I suspect if you did that you would get burgled by sun-up and your family threatened within the week! These are not nice people, seriously, not at all nice. The sort who might slip a horse's head onto your pillow as you slept.
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    Boiler Room Scams

    Pharma Thank you for that. My friend says he didn't send any money yet and thought it very trusting of someone to send him a share cert he hadn't paid for. I think it very odd to see an actual share cert at all these days- the paper is not the usual watermarked stuff anyway. I always make...
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    Boiler Room Scams

    Pharma Holdings Thanks, that is very illuminating. So, if this old guy has parted with money to get the share certificate, and not just been given it by a fellow Rotarian as a classic scam example, his money is now in the Bahamas? Anybody know a good Fraud Squad Operator in the Bahamas? (Or...
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    Boiler Room Scams

    Pharma Holdings Inc Have found a list of pharma companies worldwide and it's not there! http://www.pharma-info.com/en/
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    Boiler Room Scams

    Scam or 1 man firm So is there a firm called Pharma Holdings Inc or not? Sounds like a Columbian drug baron's money laundering front! How do I find a registration number to know if it really exists?
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    Boiler Room Scams

    Pharma Holdings Inc If I can't find a companies registration number it must be a scam, but how did this poor old guy get landed with such a share certificate? Maybe it was a Christmas present joke from a relative. Surely nobody would buy into a company they couldn't have checked out? How would...
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    Boiler Room Scams

    Pharma Holdings Inc The other day a friend showed me a share certificate for Pharma Holdings Inc. Looked a bit odd, though I don't know why. Maybe because you don't often see share certificates these days, it's all electronic. Is it a scam company, or is it for real?
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