By Chris Lang REDD-Monitor recently received an email with the subject “Another VER scam site…” The email stated, I thought it would be a good idea to let you know (in case you’ve not already come across it) about Carbon Credit Registry: https://www.carboncreditregistry.co.uk. They are doing the old ‘reformatting’ trick.
Tag: Carbon Credits
Carbon conman Sami Raja is finally in prison
By Chris Lang In January 2019, Sami Raja was convicted of fraud and sentenced to eight years in prison. In his trail at Southwark Crown Court, Raja was found guilty of six counts of conspiracy to defraud and money laundering. But Raja wasn’t in court, and didn’t go to prison, having fled to Dubai in…
UPDATED – Chloride Eastern Limited is still being cloned by scammers
By Chris Lang In March 2020, REDD-Monitor wrote about a scam company that was cloning Chloride Eastern Limited. The fraudsters were contacting people out of the blue, claiming that they could sell the carbon credits that they had been scammed into buying as an investment.
Regulatory failure: The strange case of a French company called Carbon Market
By Chris Lang Carbon Market is a timber company, registered in France in May 2009. The company imports timber from Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Gabon.
Planet of the Humans (part 1): Blood and Gore
By Chris Lang The new documentary Planet of the Humans is, like anything Michael Moore gets involved with, deliberately controversial. This one attacks renewable energy, some parts of the green movement, and decides that over-population is the problem. Moore released the film on his YouTube channel on the 50th Earth Day. In a week it’s…