Clear Books PLC shares

bigadaj

Biggles wrote: »

I hear what you say, JJ.

But if I sent a friend an email saying:-
I'm your friend
I've invested in this company
It's owned by my good friend
He's looking for more investors
You can invest too
It's very cheap
I promised him I would let you know
Then I think my said friend would think I was recommending that he invest.

;-)

If I was the friend I might not be your friend any longer.

JamesMc69

I agree with JimJames this could be a break of DP,

But also i think the email sounds like it was a Financial Promotion and therefore it should have been signed off by an Financial Conduct Authority authorised company - if it was not the email would have been an illegal financial promotion.

baz657

Not sure if you guys would be happy with this but Money Saving Expert is being implied as a supporter (even though the wording is very clever) on the latest share offer by a dodgy looking testimonial.

http://www.clearbooks.co.uk/2014/08/19/crowdfunder-patricia-kelly/?source=footer

Reaper

baz657 wrote: »

Not sure if you guys would be happy with this but Money Saving Expert is being implied as a supporter (even though the wording is very clever) on the latest share offer by a dodgy looking testimonial.

http://www.clearbooks.co.uk/2014/08/19/crowdfunder-patricia-kelly/?source=footer

I searched both the main site and forums and this thread was the only thing that came up, and reading it I can't see how it could ever have inspired anybody to invest so it sounds made up to me. I have reported it to MSE to see if they want to take any action to get it removed.

Nanpy

Interesting old thread. I thought this sort of crowd-funding for investments was actually illegal in the UK. Obviously not. I know the SEC has been looking into it in the USA.