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European Property Coin Is Back

European Property Coin Is Back 300 233 SOS Team

European Property Coin is back yet again proving that some scams never die, they just get rehashed and come back as another follow-in-fraud attempt. In January 2019 one of our…

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Qualiacare Investors

Qualiacare Investors 300 300 SOS Team

Qualiacare Investors. Quite often hotel room and care home room scams turn out to be a minefield of cross-company loans, massively over-priced rooms and opaque transactions making it very difficult…

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GIS Forestry Bonds

GIS Forestry Bonds 360 240 SOS Team

GIS Forestry Bonds. A few years ago GIS Forestry Ltd sold fixed-term bonds to investors. The bonds paid 10% interest. Now that the bonds are falling due for repayment the…

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Shepherd Cox Legal Action

Shepherd Cox Legal Action 400 267 SOS Team

Shepherd Cox Legal Action Earlier this week, a UK solicitor representing a large group of Shepherd Cox hotel room investors issued the first letters of claim to some of the…

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Justice

Shepherd Cox Director IVAs Withdrawn

Shepherd Cox Director IVAs Withdrawn 300 200 SOS Team

Shepherd Cox Director IVAs Withdrawn. Last week the meeting to seek approval from creditors for the Individual Voluntary Arrangements proposed by Lee Bramzell and Nick Carlile was rescheduled to this…

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IFMRRC Scam

IFMRRC Scam 300 233 SOS Team

IFMRRC Scam. IFMRRC is an acronym for a network of China-based scammers.  IFMRRC claims it is the International Financial Markets Relations Regulation Center.  This organisation claims to be a regulatory…

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Festival Hotels Group Appoints New Director

Festival Hotels Group Appoints New Director 500 333 SOS Team

Festival Hotels Group Appoints New Director Peter Robert Shakeshaft has been appointed as a director of Festival Hotels Group Ltd.  Here is a list of some of his director appointments. …

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Chinese Withholding Tax

Chinese Withholding Tax 300 233 SOS Team

Chinese Withholding Tax We have received details of another share scam.  This time it is being perpetrated by two organisations which are presented as separate, but are part of the…

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Justice

Shepherd Cox IVA Proposals

Shepherd Cox IVA Proposals 300 200 SOS Team

Shepherd Cox IVA Proposals In our previous article here we gave an overview of the Shepherd Cox Directors’ IVA Proposals.  In this article we had intended to analyse some of…

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Justice

Shepherd Cox Director IVA Proposals

Shepherd Cox Director IVA Proposals 300 200 SOS Team

Shepherd Cox Director IVA Proposals.  Part One. Thanks to those creditors of Lee Bramzell and Nick Carlile who have forwarded copies of the Shepherd Cox Director IVA Proposals.  The documents…

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