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HL Investing - Hargreaves Lansdown Clone Scam
jimjames
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Posting for reference in case anyone searches Google. It looks like there is a clone scam going on using the HL Investing name to pretend to be genuine company Hargreaves Lansdown and offering a 8.85% fixed rate investment bond.
Usual thing of recently registered domain and name used on emails of Sebastian Bush@hl-investing.co.uk. The person is a genuine HL employee and nothing to do with the scam - emails will not go to him.
This is a scam and has nothing to do with the real Hargreaves Lansdown.
More info here
https://moneyforums.citywire.com/yaf_postsm287834_Be-Aware---Scam-using-HL-Credentials.aspx
Usual thing of recently registered domain and name used on emails of Sebastian Bush@hl-investing.co.uk. The person is a genuine HL employee and nothing to do with the scam - emails will not go to him.
This is a scam and has nothing to do with the real Hargreaves Lansdown.
More info here
https://moneyforums.citywire.com/yaf_postsm287834_Be-Aware---Scam-using-HL-Credentials.aspx
Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.
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I feel very sorry for anyone who is scammed, the people doing this are despicable. Saying this, I do find it amazing that people still fall for these things. Always treat any unsolicited phone call or text as a scam.1
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Trouble is, if you are an HL customer you will be so used to getting a load of marketing bumph from them that you may just assume this is one more, without properly checking.
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Hopefully if you are an HL customer you'd go to the real HL website and find that it doesn't exist but they might get some click throughsLHW99 said:Trouble is, if you are an HL customer you will be so used to getting a load of marketing bumph from them that you may just assume this is one more, without properly checking.Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.1
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