Some Info on a Mergers company

Lobsterpot_2

Heard from Hoffmans today that they have their 51% and things are starting to move more quickly. According to Companies House Hanover Capital Group PLC is in Liquidation so no way is someone going to pay £22.32 per share! The sting in the tail is that before you get your money you have to place 6% of what they are offering you in an Escrow account - possibly never to be seen again!

Lobsterpot_2

mexsus wrote: »

Ive been following through quite far on this one...they have said that because this is a hostile takeover that the buyer needs 51% of company. They (Hoffmans) have potantial to 'buy' 58% for their client so its a first come first served basis. They say a bond must be put in place and the seller must pay 6% of this bond - never heard of that one before!! They are offering me £200k for my worthless shares but want £8k to be held by a company based in Nevis with an Estonian bank account - hahaha what an intiricate scam this one is!
The thing is that they guys who phone are so detailed about it all its amazing really.
But my advise is that this is a highly sophisticated scam as no solicitor i know has heard of any share deals being done in this manner anywhere!
but then i may just lose £200k...we'll see.
Anyone had anything further on them?

As you can see from my post they are out to sting people for a lot of money due to their high valuation of these worthless shares. When they rang me initially they never mentioned Oxygen which then became the Tera Group, before changing name to Hanover Capital Group PLC. I said that I had very few shares in Hanover but on checking with their legal department they said that the shares I had in Oxygen had been 'multiplied by 5'. No mention was made of Hanover. I have cleared my bank account and told the bank to put a block on it regarding withdrawals and no way am I coughing up x thousand pounds towards a bond. I have alerted the police but they are not interested as no crime has been committed - yet! I will keep you posted.

JDC_MBA_PHD

I can prove that these guys are at the very least liars. How? They rang me with a similar story to those reported in this thread, and over several phone calls told me that the company concerned had done a four-for-one swap, in other words given me four shares for every one I own. The company concerned assured me that this is not true. Therefore they are liars.

Other things that made me suspicious are:

They claimed to be from Montreal, but did not have Canadian accents. If you know how, a Canadian accent is easy to tell from an American one, even if it is overlaid with a foreign accent. The accent they spoke with was more New York than Canadian, albeit with a foreign veneer.

One of them was quite surprised when I asked if there was still snow in Montreal – a common occurrence in late March. He recovered his composure quickly and claimed it was minus 25 degrees. I checked a suitable web site: it was minus three degrees.

This gentleman, a “Mr Suarez” did not know of the existence of a famous Montreal landmark within a few hundred feet of the address on their website. (I used to work for a company headquartered in Montreal – hence my local knowledge.)

The website is in English only. There is no French language area. In Quebec I strongly suspect that that would be illegal.

Neither of them understood me when I spoke to them in French. Firms in Quebec are required by law to answer their telephones in French.

In short, I do not think they are based in Montreal at all.

Furthermore, another of their “staff”, a “Michael Sou” abruptly hung up on me when I queried his claim that a transaction between Britain and Canada would be regulated by the “SEC”, an American regulator. Despite having phoned me several times in the previous week, he did not call me back.

I think that’s all the information I need to make me not want to touch them with a 10-foot pole.
:rolleyes:

JDC_MBA_PHD

Oh, and BTW, further to my posting just now, the police in my countrty did not want to know either, but they did refer me to the Financial Services Authority, who were most interested, and said they would contact the canadian authorities.

fishy_taste

Contact the city of london police - I did and they sent me a questionnaire to fill in. The person who rang me from JR called himself John Delfino, but he did not sound Canadian or even North American to me (not natural - a poor put on). I got a sense of Indian/Pakistan - that sort part of the world. Who knows.

One thing, they are not hq'd in Montreal or even Canada. The web site is registered privately in Holland, but the IP address locates in Florida. Both of whih are probably merely 'piggy-backs'.

TEN_TREES

I was contacted by Kelly Wilson at J R Hoffman with the guff about needing to get 51% of the shares. The number she was ringing from started with 00210 (into the uk). Bt couldn't find an international code starting with 00210 but it is likely to be in Africa. The number was 0021053523 ring them up and ask them if its hot today!

fishy_taste

TEN_TREES wrote: »

I was contacted by Kelly Wilson at J R Hoffman with the guff about needing to get 51% of the shares. The number she was ringing from started with 00210 (into the uk). Bt couldn't find an international code starting with 00210 but it is likely to be in Africa. The number was 0021053523 ring them up and ask them if its hot today!

Interesting. When John Delfino called me the number he was calling from was suppressed. Maybe Kelly was a little thick and didn't know the code to stop the number from being revealed.