Stagecoach Shares - phone scam?

webchap

Just adding another variation here so that people might come to it through google. I was contacted in very much the same way as above. This is concerning the selling of my centrica shares. Lots of phone calls, each moving things on and magically their lawyers had found loopholes so that my 250 shares (wrong anyway) were now 5000 and with the price offered were worth nearly £50,000. Of course there would be the usual scam money up front to the tune of many thousands for the 'insurance bond'. All a scam. The company involved is so called Richardson Capital Group
Address : 201 Portage Avenue, 10th Floor Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 3K6 Canada
Tel No : 1 204 977 2268 / Fax Number : 1 204 480 4839
richardsonconsultancy.com. they have a professional look, but rather generic, website talking about how they have been in business for 53 years. Unfortunately the domain name was only registered on July 28th 2012, a day or so before the phone calls came! Their 'independent' middle man company is baronintltransfers.com, a company of long standing and great experience I'm sure, except that the domain was only created on 20th May 2012. For anyone who's searching for Richardson Consultancy or Richardson Capital Group of Canada to check out these companies online - it's a scam.

CKhalvashi

It definitely sounds fishy.

The best one I've had was for a 'client' looking to buy shares in xyz Limited, as part of a hostile takeover, where the client already owned 36%.

A company that I own, owns 100% of the shares, and they were very quickly reported to the FSA!

CK

lightanddark

Further to the replies of GroundKat and Webchap, I had much the same experience of a phonecall followed by a request for non-disclosure. By accident I did not attach the non-disclosure letter to my reply e-mail. At the same time I contacted the FSA who advised that all of these types of transactions must be through registered /approved companies. They suggested I ask who was representing the Canadiasn company in the U.K.
When the representative from Richardson Consultancy phoned back to ask what had happened to the non-disclosure letter, I asked what Authority they were registered with. NO ANSWER - only I will get our legal department to call you. I am still waiting

roycollingwood

I keep being contacted by:
Alpha Corporate Consultants LTD.


Address: 90 East Drive, Bleecker Street New York, NY 10004
Phone : 1 914 517 2751
Fax : 1 914 462 3270
Email:
Website :

Who want do pay me for some shares I own, the only problem is they want me to put up an £4000 bond..........

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HA HA HA HA

Derring

Mine was a company called Dant & Company of New York who are secretly involved in a hostile take over of Centrica.
I appeared to have suddenly acquired 5000 shares and they wished to purchase them for between £8 to £17 a share.
Very strange that the value of my dividend payments received didn't reflect this number of shares
Their explanation was that Centrica are deceiving me regarding my true share holding.
To expedite the deal it would of course be necessary for me to provide an insurance bond of around £2000.
I cannot understand how they expect any sane person to accept the rubbish story that their feeble level of intelligence has concocted.
Unfortunately, there must be some people willing to believe it, otherwise they wouldn't do it.
Reported to the FSA.

Wifeyknowsbest

roycollingwood wrote: »

I keep being contacted by:
Alpha Corporate Consultants LTD.


Address: 90 East Drive, Bleecker Street New York, NY 10004
Phone : 1 914 517 2751
Fax : 1 914 462 3270
Email:
Website :

Who want do pay me for some shares I own, the only problem is they want me to put up an £4000 bond..........

:rotfl:
:rotfl:
HA HA HA HA

This bunch of scammers has been in touch with us today! Just want to say 'Thanks' to all contributors as when I put Alpha Corporate Consultants in Google, MSE was the 3rd line down!:T That was enough to tell me they were trouble!! Thanks

member03030

Got a scam call today wanting to buy my centrica shares, the company based in new York called Rhaines, LLC.....Sent me a non disclosure form etc

https://www.rhainesllc.com/

sunalwaysshines

I've always thought there must be a lot of very gullible people who get caught by this sort of thing. But....now I have been contacted by H & R with the same sort of scam as others are posting. I'm amazed how sophisticated this is. These people have spent lots of time on the phone explaining everything, answering all my questions. They even give you a U.S. phone number and you can do 1471 to get the callers number. I'm still not 100% convinced it isn't genuine but there is no way I am going to post a £5K bond.

A lot of people would be taken in by this. They are doing it at a time when there is talk in the market about a hostile takeover anyway - very clever.

Thank goodness for Martin's website which us gives us a forum for posting warnings to others.

CFLEETWOOD

I received a call from Rhaines yesterday offering me £10 to £17 for my "Petards" shares ( worth about 30p!), so thought straight a way it was too good to be true. They did try to find out how many shares i owed, but recognising it was a scam, i did not provide them with any important information.

Out of interest i let them email me a letter & non disclosure form which looks professional, but i will not be signing it!

I'm going to report them to FSA.

everyexpensespared

from 0019145172742 from a woman with a (?Hispanic) accent purporting to be offering me between £7 and £14 per share for Centrica shares - they still only have 41% of the shareholding (no progress in the last few months then!) and want to mount a hostile takeover with 51% of the shares at which point mine, if I had not sold them, would become worthless paper (according to her!) My 88 shares aren't going to make much difference so I did give her my email address but when she started talking about bonds and insurance I felt completely confirmed that it was a scam - strangely she hasn't sent the form through!