Recent content by LJT

The essence of a good scam is to make the target relaxed. The essence of avoiding being the target is to stay tense, and secretive. I find a high degree of cynicsm, and a good sense of paranoia helps wonderfully. Hanging up is the best solution, "put it in writing, I don't do anything over the...

Hopefully the other posts here will have made you breathe more easily, they can't do a thing other than make noise! Send the bank details to Archway and/or the FSA though, as that may provide another tracking detail to help nail this lot. I suspect that the real Henderson Group would be...

Splitlink, no offence implied by my comments. You make an excellent point as well; many forget that as they trawl the internet they leave a vast amount of data out there that is easy pickings for the unscrupulous. When my data got "cloned" it was taken from public records from Companies House...

Speaking as an approaching "elderly" at 56 :) - You are 100% right. I have seen first hand the damage this stuff can do and I would dearly love to see some of them in court. I had my id stolen/cloned some years back and used in a 419 type scam including a mock up of my passport! I saw the...

Not in the least, but it is interesting to see how long they may have maintained the illusion of pressure before moving on, or if they just stopped calling. I am slightly suprised that they even tried the "legal" route given they were clearly on a hiding to nothing. I doubt that I will ever...

My curiosity is close to breaking point! What happened next?

And another one - http://www.newyorkfinanceco.com Searching the unique text in the original website produces quite a few results (I am beginning to enjoy this too much). This lot seem very busy!

Sadly they will keep going as it takes little time for them to keep dialling. You could try getting the number blocked/traced by reporting to your service provider, but as they seem use a Voip host I suspect that it may be difficult. However, I found that saying to them in blunt tones that 1)...

In my view this is a "take the money and run" variety of scam. The "offer" price was 172p with my "proper" sources indicating 186p. I suspect that if I hade persisted they would have insisted on physical certificates, which would have turned out to be less than genuine. I won't deal with...

Nice research! I will remember to try that next time. Having said that, the company trading and performance look real enough. I think that the company was wholly incidental to the process as I think that the (alleged) scammer picked up on my interest in mining and metals and just picked the...

The company was Centamin Egypt Ltd, LSE and TSX listed. I admit that I was quite interested as I like miners and gold :)

I also got a contact from them, and I actually do live in Tunbridge Wells! Very pleasnt warm syrup conversation with a gent called Ethan, trying to sell shares in a LSE listed mining co at a below market price due to "a trust fund over allocation". Three calls over several days, I admit I...