Pushy American Salesman

raymo19

Has anyone heard of this company Laidlaw. He called me today asking how much I held in stocks and generally being pushy (which is their job i suppose) Ive just heard about these scams before but wanted to know if this form was legit. Their website is laidlaw.com

Cheers

dunstonh

(which is their job i suppose)

You dont say what his job is and the site redirects to FirstGroup America and is about transport. The whole thing appears to be American on the site with only one page about Laidlaw.

raymo19

hi,
Sorry, my mistake the website was laidlawltd.com - they asked me waht bracket of shares i held (500k, 1m, or 3m)and if they could contact me if a bargain investment opportunity came up. Just curious about the firm.

raymo19

found them......
http://www.ct.gov/dob/search/search.asp?qu=laidlaw

Paul_Herring

raymo19 wrote: »

hi,
Sorry, my mistake the website was laidlawltd.com - they asked me waht bracket of shares i held (500k, 1m, or 3m)and if they could contact me if a bargain investment opportunity came up. Just curious about the firm.

Was this a cold call or have you previously had dealings with them or one of their associates in the past? (I'm guessing the former or you wouldn't have posted.)

This sounds distinctly like the start of some of the letters I see in the financial section of my weekend paper where people have lost lots of money through boiler rooms etc.

The phrase "bargain investment opportunity" sounds a little too good to be true.

Personally I wouldn't touch with a barge pole, but see what others come up with.

Paul_Herring

One other thing - make sure that the ones that called you aren't actually impersonating:

http://www.laidlawplc.com
http://www.laidlawgrp.com

Because the site you mention seems to have copied (or vice versa) the graphics of the plc site I mentioned.

If they truely were the same company (as the graphics indicate) then they would have one site redirect to the other, not have two separate sites.

This is looking fishy to me.