Scams

Imagine the scene. You have made a decent amount of money with your investments over the years. You have done your usual morning check on your portfolio and the market. While enjoying your morning coffee you get a call from a very nice-sounding man asking you about your investments and aspirations. He’s particularly interested in your triumphs and what sort of size your fund has grown to.

And would you know it, he has an amazing opportunity that you really ought to invest in! But he is too polite to push you there and then to buy. Perhaps he can phone back in a week or two, when you have had time to digest the written material he will kindly email to you. No high pressure there then. Could he really be a conman?

Maybe to make sure you check ...

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