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Tag: Boiler rooms

Prestige Investment Group Limited: More red flags than a Chinese military parade

Posted on 19 April 20165 December 2017

Over the weekend, someone called Lee Hales contacted REDD-Monitor. Hales wants to speak to investors who have been scammed into buying carbon credits as investments. I wouldn’t trust Hales, or his company Prestige Investment Group Limited, as far as I could throw them.

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360 Invest Group

An email trail of a carbon credit scam. Featuring Carbon-ex, 360 Invest Group, Carbon-Expert, and Colemans-CTTS

Posted on 2 April 20162 May 2022

360 Invest Group: A carbon credit investment scam.

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Response from Thorn Medical: “We request that you immediately remove any mention of us from the article on your website”

Posted on 30 March 201613 July 2016

Last week, REDD-Monitor wrote a post about Opus Capital, a company previously known as Carbon Neutral Investments. The company’s director, Paul Seakens, has featured several times on REDD-Monitor.

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A recovery room scam is cloning Opus Capital. Meanwhile Paul Seakens, director of Opus Capital (previously known as Carbon Neutral Investments) was hired in 2014 to advise Thorn Medical, a stem cell research medical company, whose directors now include Lord Beaverbrook, Sir John Lucas-Tooth, and Sir Eric Peacock

Posted on 24 March 20162 June 2021

In February 2016, the High Court in London ordered 19 companies into liquidation. One of the companies was CNI (UK) Ltd, one of three companies that emerged in 2013 from the ashes of Carbon Neutral Investments, a company involved in selling carbon credits to retail investors.

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A company calling itself “Blackrock Commodities” is running a recovery room scam. Along with other companies calling themselves “Carter & Carter”, “Asio Capital”, and “Alexander Forbes”

Posted on 22 March 201617 May 2017

A company claiming to be called “Blackrock Commodities” is cold calling people who have been scammed into buying carbon credits as investments. “Blackrock Commodities” claims to be able to sell the carbon credits for £5 to a Swedish company called Asio Capital. All you have to do is pay an advance fee. It’s a scam,…

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