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Scam 2017 - Clone of Fisher Investments Institutional Funds PLC

Hi All,

I am looking for other people who like me were caught by the scam in September 2017 that involved a fraud under a business that was a clone of Clone of Fisher Investments Institutional Funds PLC. You will know that the fraudster took advantage of what I believe was a massive gap in the compliance process of foreign currency transfer firms that they should of been aware of and I am looking for people to join me in a potential group action to pursue this.

To prove I am not another scammer trying to take advantage of you we will both know the name of the constabulary and detective sergeant who investigated the fraud which I will exchange with you as well as other details that a scammer will not know.

Please join me in trying to take to account the financial institutions that let these frauds happen and then wash their hands.

Thanks

D Williams.

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  • Browntoa
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    D_Williams wrote: »
    the fraudster took advantage of what I believe was a massive gap in the compliance process of foreign currency transfer firms that they should of been aware of and I am looking for people to join me in a potential group action to pursue this.
    Beware of throwing good money after bad pursuing legal action if it has little chance of it working.

    I'm not clear what your argument is but it sounds the equivalent of trying to prosecute the police because they failed to prevent a con man ringing your door bell.

    The FCA are pretty useless but to be fair there are practical limits what can be done to prevent an anonymous scammer in another country cloning a web site and cold calling members of the public. The FCA did issue a warning about them.
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