Asia Futures Exchange (AsiaFEX) - Warnung GM Litigation Assistance - 2017-Jul-26
Investment Fraud - Investors Alert
Today, so-called "Cold Calling," a fraudulent practice aimed at soliciting investors, is conducted all over the world. "Cold-calling" is a practice where by an entity disguises itself as a brokerage firm or an asset management firm and approaches potential investors via non face-to-face channels, such as by phone, fax, and emails, in order to solicit investment in securities or financial products. Typically, a "cold caller" makes unsolicited calls to potential investors, cajoles them into deciding to purchase certain securities, and then, becomes unavailable for contact after the investor sends the money for that purchase. As a result, the investors cannot obtain the securities although they made the payment, and they also cannot get back the money they paid. Investors need to be more careful and vigilant, as cold callers have been using more varied and more sophisticated tactics. (For example, some cold callers execute transactions properly and make profits for investors at first. Then, they solicit bigger transaction and make the investors transfer the money for it. After that, the cold callers disappear.)
In most countries, a person is required to be registered with or licensed by the national regulatory body before conducting solicitation of securities transactions. However, cold-callers do not have such registration or licenses. One of the characteristics of cold callers is that it is extremely difficult to discover their whereabouts. Many cold callers indicate their office locations on their websites (or documents sent to investors), but they rarely operate at that location. Apparently, cold callers intentionally hide their whereabouts, so that they can avoid being visited by the investors they approach. Notably, it is very typical that cold callers claim that they are located in a country that is different from the location of the prospective victim.
GM Litigation Assistance has received extensive information from investors with regard to these cold callers. Investors should be very careful and vigilant about conducting business with these entities, potentially opting against conducting any transactions via these entities.
2017-10-10, http://www.sfc.hk/en/alert-list/1992:
Name: (New)Asia Futures Exchange / ASIAFEX
Type:Fake regulators and/or market operators
Address(es):20-24/F, 9 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong
Website:www.asiafex.org
Remarks:The entity gives the above Hong Kong address but it is not located there. It uses three bank accounts in Hong Kong in the names of MUH Holdings Limited, Taccon Limited and Teletech Systems Limited for settlement. It is apparently associated with Mitsubishi Global, an unlicensed entity on the Alert List.
Add date:10 Oct 2017
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