By Chris Lang 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…
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A company calling itself Payment Solutions is running a recovery room scam
By Chris Lang 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.
A company calling itself Global Capital Holdings and/or Herald Investment Trust is running a recovery room scam
By Chris Lang 360 Invest Group was a scam company that sold carbon credits to retail investors. REDD-Monitor first wrote about the company in August 2013. 360 Invest Group targeted pensioners with high pressure sales. In 2016, I wrote two more posts featuring 360 Invest Group based on a series of emails between 360 Invest…
Robert Sedgwick: The solicitor who helped London Capital & Finance sell mini-bonds also helped scammers sell “carbon benefit units” from the April Salumei REDD project in Papua New Guinea
By Chris Lang In January 2019, an investment scheme called London Capital & Finance went into administration after an investigation by the Financial Conduct Authority.
Carbon credit fraudster Sami Raja appeals his prison sentence. While he carries on scamming in Dubai
By Chris Lang In January 2019, Sami Raja was sentenced to eight years in prison at Southwark Crown Court. He was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud and money laundering. Between January 2012 and August 2013, Raja and others miss-sold carbon credits to 130 retail investors. Two companies were involved in the £2.4 million fraud:…