Just think of your experiences as an investment in an education you obviously didn’t get from university or high school. You are either born with it, or you pay for it.. and if you got scammed.. you just paid for some much needed education.

I get tricked same way thant you and is ready totake legal procedures against tem despite they seem really professionnal. Do you know what I should do?

What is the procedure to follow if we want to track them? Go to the police of my own country?
Thanks for any help you could give me….

I am extremely suspicious about few of the names involved above. (sorry but I have to become suspicious now after what Happened to me). Therefore I will not share more info for now.
I will take my own actions with the financial authority in the country I live. I believe I have enough info to do some tracking.

i was first contacted by steve baxter, to buy dvn.
then i was forcefully put into a position by Mark Press( selling dvd and buying pink sheets of avitech) which was more than i could afford without my consent.

now according to them, my money is blocked for five years, and still if i don;t pay the balance of the avitech transfer i cannot touch my money.

anwyays…lets bring these guys down! I am ready to help because others who might be less fortunate than me should not go through losing large amounts of money through these scam artists.

maxell mood i e-mailed you but did not get a reply!

well, I am one of the guys that got caught as well and for big money. If only I had search again in august on the web, I would have found your comments and stop the process.
Somebody was (Maxwell Mood) talking about a law suit, I am of course interested to participate as well. i’ll do anything to try to get some money back.
I was contacted by David Baroni & Mark Press as well.

I have other names availabl: Simon Roth, David King, Richard davis.

Just for you informtion, their phone has been disconnected and I have not been able to reach them for the past 3 weeks.They might be on the run already.

I can share my full story and it is not a nice one. I am ashame i have been so naive but i guess i am not the only.
I would like to get directly in contact with the people that are trying to catch those guys.

Vincent

Just to share my thoughts & I really want to take legal actions against them & appreciate if you could let me know the proceeding if any.

Regards,

Forgot to comment on StupidStupid’s note of 2007-10-22 14:34:51. This is what I would recommend:

First of all, don’t worry. As this is no legit. business, they won’t take you to court to have you pay… Remember they are very talented and highly skilled impostors who’s everyday job is to sound incredibly credible…and somehow plead or threaten you to hand them your money = their livelihood.

Second, if they harass you again, ask them to procure you with a copy of the explicit buying order, signed by you (in writing!).

An oral order they would only pursue if the firm is a serious business, telling you specifically that “..we will now ask you to accept the following etc.. and we will tape this for the record”
Sure enough the fellows might even have taped that you say “yes, I will buy so and so..” but say “I don’t care, so take me to court!”

Third, threaten them to go the police if they persist.
Most scams are not happy about the disturbance of any police force, not even if they have the local one in their pockets. (Costs, bribes) they prefer the easygoing, simple, criminal deals that function smoothly.

And: don’t worry!

Peter

This time I did not succumb…

Some days ago a fellow from SFG called.

How he got my name & tel.number, I don’t know, but can only guess and I will willingly share my suspicions with you all - even if it containes some, for me, unflattering caracteristics:

Years ago I was contacted by a friendly Swedish-speaking lady from a broker-firm in Marbella, Spain (I live in Sweden and happen to have a summerhouse in Marbella…) who wanted to sell some shares in a Spanish company, that sold advertising on a rent-a-car fleet. As there is a company like this in Sweden, and it works fairly well I believed in the idea and bought shares for about USD 4500.- (Not a large sum, but enough to buy a nice persian rug…) The shares then was “handed over” since the initial company went bankrupt (?) to another firm, and then to another company.

The scam was finally accomplished when they wanted to “sell” my shares that they said were “restricted” for a profit. I only had to send some money to lift the restriction. That was a sum of ca. USD 17000.- the I would get this sum, plus the profit to a bank account of mine. (Stupid isn’t it, in restrospect…)

But the people realising this scheme were very cunning; they build up a certain personal relationship with you, talking about weather, family etc. Then they act.
Do I have to say I never saw any money at all?

The interesting thing is that after this fraud numerous persons has contacted me, either to do something similar or to try to sell my (worthless)that I still own… some time ago I was haunted by a creaky-sounding elderly man, presenting himself as Dr. Hamilton, who incidentally had to hang up and call back “because he had a visit from Professor So-and-so, who came by to thank him for a splendid business deal” By then I had learnt my lesson:

Always go to a local broker, that you know or at least know EXISTS.

NEVER do business with some company that just phones you incognito, Probably it is a criminal scam.

This time with SFG I could tell them the truth: I had bought a flat for USD 550000:- and had to pay interest and have no reserves or funds. In spite of this they called back and asked if we could do a buy as “we said” last time we spoke…

Good luck, and follow my simple advises…

P.