I conclude immediately that this is an elaborate scam, I say she's not available, but tell me more. He's in a firm acting for a rich buyer who wants to acquire Pru shares, to get a majority. "Henrik Carlson" calls at about 20:40 this evening, very polite wanting to speak to my wife about her Pru shareholding. My contribution was to go a bank account in the Philippines. Two female "employees" also contacted me, one with the surname Gonzales.Īll three had AmericanoSpanish/Hispanic accents I contacted a partner of Centerview based in London and was told the same. I contacted Centerview and they confirmed that they do not have an employee called Brian Gonzales. That's when I stopped answering the phone. That came several days later, when I was asked to transfer almost £6,000 as a sign of commitment – I would then receive the sale price and refund of the upfront payment. I decided to see where this would lead by completing forms sent to me, such as a non-disclosure agreement and sending proof of my identity. He followed up by sending me authentic-looking paperwork with the company logo, bearing the correct address, phone number, fax number and email address. He explained that an offer of more than £50,000 had been made for 250 BT shares owned by my mother, who died in 2006. I was recently cold-called by Brian Gonzales, an apparent employee of Centerview Consulting in New York City. Also, I did a WHOIS look up for the website address of the email account they sent the NDA from. It's too risky to contact thousands of individuals and expecting none of them to expose the takeover. My best advice for you is: hostile takeovers target specific shareholders with big holdings. How did they know these things? Somehow, they have access to the share accounts of a company they are helping to facilitate the hostile takeover of. Somehow, they had my contact details, and they knew I had bonus shares in a certain company, that I sold years ago. I hadn't heard of it as a scam, and I'm still not 100% sure it is. They weren't asking for any information that they didn't already confirm they had. I didn't send it back, although I thought I would. It begins with a non-disclosure agreement. I'm glad I found this page of comments, mirroring my experience. Had I agreed to buy the warrants and paid the tax I could have ended up sending them over £100,000! I declined, and have not heard from them since. They next said that I would have to pay US tax of over £13,000 (which would be returnable) before I could receive my proceeds. By this time I had found this Website and declined the offer but strung along with them to see what happened. They found that that I had 3 warrants attached to each of my shares which meant that I could buy them for £3.50 and they would pay me £11.85 giving me a total return of over £187,000 for an outlay of around £40,000. I was then passed over to their lawyers at Popplewell Capital Group LLC. But, like others, I first had to pay an Indemnity Bond of over £4,500 which, as I know now, stupidly I did. They were offering £11.85 per share compared to the prevailing market value of £1.14. They then found that I had a large number of Script Dividend Shares that I didn't know I had. I had to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement. As with others, I received an unsolicited phone call from a lady in the USA working for Omnicom International Group, acting for a client who wished to acquire my 486 Centrica Shares at a premium because they were in the process of making a hostile take-over bid. I have been scammed and lost quite a lot of money but could have lost a lot more. I can now see from the other comments on here how it might have played out next, had I given my email out. Fortunately, I told them I did not believe them and did not give my email address. They initially indicated they would send the form in the post and then started asking me for my email details so that it could be "turned around" in 24/48 hours. They had my name, address and telephone number and were requesting my email address to send me a form. There were 2 calls: the second was from a supervisor. For information, the telephone number that I received the call from was: 0017702838084 in case this is helpful for anyone else. All sounded somewhat suspicious so was glad to find this site as I realised that it was probably the same people or a similar scam to those listed on here. Received a call out of the blue (US number) from someone telling me I still owned script dividend shares from BAA shares that I owned up until the point that BAA was bought by Ferrovial and that a company was attempting to carry out an aggressive takeover and required a further 8% ownership of shares so were interested in mine amongst a large number of shares.
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