We’d like to remind Forumites to please avoid political debate on the Forum.

This is to keep it a safe and useful space for MoneySaving discussions. Threads that are – or become – political in nature may be removed in line with the Forum’s rules. Thank you for your understanding.

📨 Have you signed up to the Forum's new Email Digest yet? Get a selection of trending threads sent straight to your inbox daily, weekly or monthly!

Latest Treasury Gilts Bond Scam using Tilney name

jimjames
jimjames Posts: 18,932 Forumite
Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
edited 4 June 2021 at 4:02PM in Savings & investments
Yet again another scam has popped up, this time using the genuine investment company Tilney name to promote their fake bonds.
They are trying to sell Treasury gilts at various rates as well as Barclays corporate bonds
The domain being used is fixedincome-tilney.co.uk which was only registered in May 2021 and is nothing to do with the genuine Tilney company. They have used the names of 2 real Tilney employees for their scam but these are nothing to do with it

They are more worryingly using fake caller ID to show as Tilney - London Mayfair on the phone screen. Fortunately I could see what they were up to hence registering for the info but others could very easily be taken in.
If you hand money over it's likely to be gone as you have no idea who is behind this.
https://damn-lies-and-statistics.blogspot.com/2021/06/tilney-treasury-barclays-bonds-fixed.html
Original advert came from Facebook so yet again they are taking money without any care who is paying for the adverts or if they are real.

Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.
Meet your Ambassadors

🚀 Getting Started

Hi new member!

Our Getting Started Guide will help you get the most out of the Forum

Categories

  • All Categories
  • 352.4K Banking & Borrowing
  • 253.7K Reduce Debt & Boost Income
  • 454.4K Spending & Discounts
  • 245.4K Work, Benefits & Business
  • 601.2K Mortgages, Homes & Bills
  • 177.6K Life & Family
  • 259.3K Travel & Transport
  • 1.5M Hobbies & Leisure
  • 16K Discuss & Feedback
  • 37.7K Read-Only Boards

Is this how you want to be seen?

We see you are using a default avatar. It takes only a few seconds to pick a picture.