Action Fraud is “the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime”, according to its website. Victims should report fraud to Action Fraud, and reports are passed on to the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau.
Category: UK
Indonesia’s Katingan REDD project sells carbon credits to Shell. But that doesn’t mean the forest is protected. It’s threatened by land conflicts, fires and a palm oil plantation
The Katingan Peatland Restoration and Conservation Project covers an area of about 150,000 hectares in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. The project was created in 2007 by an Indonesian company called PT Rimba Makmur Utama. The director of the company is Dharsono Hartono.
Radio 4’s Anatomy of a Fraud: Featuring World Commodity Trading, Heritage FA, Eco-Synergies, IGL Labs UK, Diffraction Diamonds DMCC, Diffraction Limited, Citadel Trustees, and World Gemological Institute
In November 2019, Radio 4’s File on 4 broadcast a programme titled, “The Anatomy of a Fraud”. It documents in detail how 86 year-old Cynthia Tuck was scammed into handing over almost £400,000 in fraudulent investment schemes. And how the authorities and police have utterly failed her.
Northern Powerhouse Developments: Another “investment” scheme promoted by Property Frontiers collapses
Property Frontiers is an investment company based in Oxford. Ray Withers, the founder and director of the company says, “I founded Property Frontiers back in 2004 due to the fact I personally had a bad experience investing overseas. I strove to build a company offering a professional service, that did its research and due diligence,…
A company calling itself Payment Solutions is running a recovery room scam
Last week REDD-Monitor wrote about John Greene. He’d been scammed into buying carbon credits as an investment by a company called 360 Invest Group. That company disappeared in 2012, but John is still being contacted by scammers.