Unregulated Investments

I read an article this week by Jeff Berkowitz, founder and CEO of Delve, a competitive intelligence firm. They help companies assess political and reputational risks. He raised an interesting and important question. Should investors add politics and reputation to their life of due diligence? Jeff’s answer to this is yes, and he makes a…

Clint Canning, a scammer who conned people out of £2.7million in an investment scam, has been jailed for 9 years. Canning, who also went by the aliases:  Christian Beauchamp and Clint Foster, was also disqualified from being a director for 15 years for conspiracy to commit fraud. His wife, Eleise Wallace, was also found guilty…

The latest phenomenon in the world of investment scams has a rather unusual yet striking name. ‘Pig-butchering’ scams. It was reported this week that scammers are conning Brits out of their life savings from scam companies based in ‘prisonlike’ compounds in South-East Asia. Thousands of crypto investors across the world have been defrauded out of…

By now, you must have heard the name Bernie Madoff. The disgraced Wall Street financier and former chairman of NASDAQ who ran the largest scale Ponzi scheme ever known. The scale of it so large, that he has been referred to as a ‘financial serial killer’. However, he was already an established and successful businessman.…

A married couple were convicted last week for heading up a cold calling investment scam targeting elderly victims with a total loss of over £2.7 million. It’s not often we see white collar crime punished in the UK, so this is a refreshing piece of news. Southwark Crown Court found Clint Canning guilty of fraud…

Research from Which? found hundreds of investment ads on Facebook and Instagram that are misleading investors into potential investment scams. The findings come as there’s been a huge surge in losses liked to investment scams. Here at I&L, we’re always on alert for the newest scams that pop up and have done many a post…