Sunday, January 10, 2021

Trolling the investment scammers (video)

Last month, we wrote about a new financial investment scam involving Olympus International Limited in Hong Kong. This is a real company selling ceramic and stainless plate, but victim of corporate ID theft by a group of individual trying to scam investors through escrow agents (aka money mules) by discounted shares on the NASDAQ for FireEye (FEYE) before the announcement of a yet-to-be-made public contract with Facebook, and an expected return of at least 40% within three months.

You'll find out more about the scam details in the earlier post, but today, we'll share a photo montage from an audio call with one of the financial advisor, the escrow website is reveals, a Feng Shui "incantation" is performance (just because), and we ask a few questions to validate, or in this case, invalidate the company's claims, before sharing a copy of a passport that's truly a work of art....