Last week, REDD-Monitor wrote a post about a Marbella-based company called Carbon-Expert Ltd, which sells carbon credits to the public. The question, as with all such companies, is whether Carbon-Expert is another boiler room scam.
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Carbon-Expert: Another boiler room scam?
Carbon-Expert is another company selling carbon credits as an investment. As with other companies selling carbon credits, the question is whether this is another boiler room scam. Carbon-Expert’s website certainly includes potentially misleading information.
Anglo-Capital Partners: Another boiler room scam?
Anglo Capital Partners’ website describes carbon credits as “The ethical alternative investment” and “a phenomenal alternative investment opportunity”. This description is dramatically different to the advice on the UK’s National Fraud Intelligence Bureau: “If you buy carbon credits you WILL NOT make any money no matter what the salesman says.”
Is the Knifton family behind Carbon Neutral Investments?
In November 2012, REDD-Monitor reported on a company called Enviro Associates. The BBC had secretly filmed Luke Ryan, a director of the company, making misleading claims about carbon credits as investments. Ryan said there was “serious money” to be made.
Carbon credit boiler rooms: What you need to know and what to do if you’ve been scammed
REDD-Monitor has reported several times on sales of carbon credits in the UK, from what seem to be boiler room operations. The Metropolitan Police recently put out, “The Little Book of Big Scams” (pdf file, 3.9 MB), explaining how to avoid these and other scams and providing advice on what to do if you are…