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    Boiler Room Scams

    Hi Anley / Everyone, Apologies for my lack of posting on the board, have been away. In answer to your points there from my understanding of what goes on, its pretty simple. The early boiler rooms seemed to be owned by US or Canadian citizens, this made it very difficult to set up UK companies...
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    Boiler Room Scams

    http://www.trade2win.com/boards/options/52078-buttonwood-gold-options.html Discussed on thread here. If they called you, scam 100%
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    Boiler Room Scams

    Best bet is just sign his email address to any/all of the boiler room websites, I am sure they would love that!
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    Boiler Room Scams

    Hi folks, My my it has got a bit heated in here hasn't it! I have been trying to get money back on some of my investments over the years, some successful, some not. Most of it from pink sheets and OTC BB, but more recently property. What I have discovered from experience whilst there is more...
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    Tennison Dean - Suspect Boiler Room

    Hi Anley, Appreciate the post, I am doing as you point out there, checking and waiting, and as you point out, if there was a spurious lawyer, they could do as you suggest. Personally I am no fan of lawyers, but they do have uses of course. As I said, I am going to see exactly what european...
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    Tennison Dean - Suspect Boiler Room

    Hey Anley. I personally have been contacted by European Mediation, and am a long sufferrer of boiler rooms as you will see from previous posts. They contacted me about a property purchase I made a couple of years ago through an outfit called Red Hot Homes, Long story short, it would seem I may...
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    Boiler Room Scams

    I quoted on the post that this above is a response to before from Kenmajor about oxbridge, a paul adams was mentioned. Now I have come accross that name before somewhere, graves stanly and peabody i beleive, long gone of course with a large chunk of my money, last known in amsteram and then asia...
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    Boiler Room Scams

    DK Group Thats quite a barrage of replies there on that one! The boiler room industry is so beaten up now they will take anything and say anything to get it, there is no making money from them though, the "sell and send me the difference" wont work, they will come out with another story as to...
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    Boiler Room Scams

    Post the website on here, we can tell you a lot more with that, the name hargreaves brennan returns 10,800 pages alone, including one about a robert brennan, a famous stick scammer from the 80's. If thy are not selling or buying stock, it will be savings plans, gold or oil in some form or...
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    Boiler Room Scams

    OK, elsewhere on this board, Global resources is listed as a scam, http://www.trade2win.com/boards/brokerages/14154-boiler-room-scams-17.html Ashbourne, need more info, like website or something like that, the usual google terms arent throwing anything up, but this certainly does not mean they...
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    Is this a boiler room???

    There you go! these guys have been running a while now, hetherington of the daily mail (UK) has reported on them before I think, but they have been running at least a year I think. To everybody out there, follow the link above, look at the other links that the Aussie authorities mention, and...
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    Boiler Room Scams

    It's as simple as buying phone books, scraping the net, and the really posh ones buy investor lists, which beleive it or not are public record!
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    Is this a boiler room???

    Be careful!!!!!! These scam merchants are getting wise to returning a couple of trades to you to gain your confidence these days, ie they will do a couple of trades and make you 2 or 3 cents on the dollar on a 5k investment and send you the money back, just to say "there you go" and basically...
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    Boiler Room Scams

    Good point, As I have stated numerous times on this board and others, when posting put all the company details you can in, including the websites, link out to them from here too, that way, when someone else is doing due diligence this site will come up above these 2 bit scam sites easily.
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    Boiler Room Scams

    Saw this quote above on a reply a couple of pages back and thought I would dig it out to quote from the same, old as it is! Sterling Montague was on the costa del sol, another Mark Dalton outfit apparently, an age old boiler room merchant who did time for his troubles scamming pensioners back in...
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