WATCH OUT!
WATCH OUT!
Firstly I was approached by a person claiming himself as “Robert” and of England origin (different identity may be used in any other situation) through a phone call and was introduced to an investment opportunity. It was during the time that Robert was also in contact with several people whom I had known and they were getting into investing their money.
From my end, $80 was paid to verify whether the entity is in existence and it appeared from Hong Kong site (back in 2021) that the entity was existing. No further information was available on the site. Having not much background further than that, the conversation with Robert continued as he was trying to understand my background and financial capacity, as if trying to assist with my financial need to construct a volunteering space to render some charitable activities (which has been my primary aim to get into the investment scheme).
Usually the phone conversation takes place between 12.00 am (midnight) to 3.00 am (AEST) whereby its to accommodate Robert’s available time as he claimed to be operating from the United Kingdom during that time. Initially, I did not intend to invest much. However he said the minimum amount for investment is like USD7,000 but cannot earn much from the investment with such a minimal investment amount. That had caused me to obtain loan so that my noble goal to build a volunteering space can be quickened. Knowing that I would know many other volunteers, he was encouraging me to introduce more people whom I know by Whatsapp to create a group there, but somehow I was not inclined to introduce the volunteers as I intended to solely bear the cost of building the volunteering space without troubling anyone else. Only now I realise that his approach is mainly to sweet talk according to each person’s personality and goal to make them to commit more money or more people into the investment. Such a disgrace that even noble causes are now used to manipulate for extracting lump sum money out of a common person!
My first investment was suggested to be for a preponed portfolio prior to its listing and then directed for private sale. So I took some effort to read about the share portfolio which he had indicated and it looked promising. However, it did not occur to me to investigate further about this culprit and his intention at that point of time. When it occurred to me, I asked him to return my invested money and he showed that digitised money (on the relevant digital platform was transferred) but no money proceeds came through.
While that digitalised money was shown, and I was further pulled into another round of investment for a different set of portfolio for institutional sales this time around. When I started to feel very uncomfortable in not seeing any money proceeds of the initial rounds, investigation started on him and tracing through company address(es). Only then, I was triggered to check on him and he started threatening me using various means. That was the time, I started realising my biggest regrettable mistake when he showed his true colours. It’s a cold-blooded fraudulent act, misappropriation of hard-earned money and mercilessly executed to an ordinary person.
My 25 YEARS of earning had been robbed away leaving me in the streets with my entire family being without any financial support plus the loan to be borne by me with the financial institution. Its cruel and don’t ever trust such scammers if they show you identity or any registration of company UNLESS and UNTIL, you get to investigate 100% before getting into any sort of investment wherever you are in the world because these people can easily swap identity, impersonate and establish company with new name anywhere and anytime. WATCH OUT!
7 February 2022
Unprompted review
