... John Middlemiss was one investor in BFS, who parted with £11,000 on 4,000 shares before he grew concerned about cold calls from BFS salesmen. Mr Middlemiss, from Beckenham, on the south-east London/Kent border, paid over the money in February 2009 and was even sent share certificates. BBC London recorded various calls with BFS salesmen and at one point they urged Mr Middlemiss to close a deal and buy an allocation of another 33,333 shares. Get down the bank.”
Mr Middlemiss turned down the offer but has still been left £11,000 out of pocket from the original investment. Victims embarrassed
Det Ch Supt Stephen Head, from the City of London Police, said: “BFS seemed plausible, it seemed like a plausible company but in actual fact it’s a complete sham.
“It’s just a mechanism for cheating people out of their money.
“We’ve been able to seize assets around the world, we’ve got an international seizure order out, so that we will be able to do our very... ...