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Sidstone Gray & Partners

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  • Located in bogus address in New York, sidstonegray.com has a website registered via Godaddy in Jan 2011. Business registration number does not exist in New York State records. Their business phone number is a mobile number registered to a Anwar Alsabah of 150 34th St New York.

    Searches with Google turn up a vast number of results for this company. These a due to a mass posting by them to all the free listing pages. There is not one legit article about them from anyone.

    When asking to put up your share of the bond they want to use a company based in Hong Kong. This company also has a website, rockfieldtransfer.com, reasonably convincing, again registered in the last few months with Godaddy. A search for them on Google gives no results.

    DO NOT DEAL WITH THESE PEOPLE
  • Hi,

    Just backing up the previous post. Do not go anywhere near sidstonegray.com

    The same goes for
    Whittmansimmons.com
    idaconsultancy.com
    karwaytransfer.com
    rockfieldtransfer.com
    Rockfield Ltd in Hong kong
    Any website registered by DomainsByProxy.com would be worth
    avoiding IMHO.
    Check out the websites of the SIPC and the SEC for advice about these
    scams.

    Cheers
  • m0n3y_3
    m0n3y_3 Posts: 61 Forumite
    This type of scam must have been around a while, almost exactly the same wording of such a scam offer is described in pages 311/312 of the book The Naked Trader second edition Robbie Burns 2007
  • SIDSTONEGRAY.COM WHOIS

    Registrant:
    SSG Co.

    Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. Domain Name: SIDSTONEGRAY.COM

    Domain servers in listed order:
    NS1.SUSPENDED-FOR.SPAM-AND-ABUSE.COM
    NS2.SUSPENDED-FOR.SPAM-AND-ABUSE.COM
  • Thank you thank you. I am at the moment waiting for a document to be signed by me from Karway. They are going to give me £4.25/share for 3188 shares, at the moment they are worth about 17p . I only have to put up £7697.94 as a bond.
    thanks to this site I don't think I will be going ahead.

    :T
  • Hi ,

    Wonder why website of IDA Consultancy has not been suspended? I know the motley crew there should be suspended (literally!)

    Cheers
  • jimjames
    jimjames Posts: 18,935 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    nautiways wrote: »
    Thank you thank you. I am at the moment waiting for a document to be signed by me from Karway. They are going to give me £4.25/share for 3188 shares, at the moment they are worth about 17p . I only have to put up £7697.94 as a bond.
    thanks to this site I don't think I will be going ahead.

    :T
    Thats great news that this site has been able to help you avoid being scammed by these people:T
    Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.
  • oldfella
    oldfella Posts: 1,534 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    tell them to send you the money and take the 3.5K out of it
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