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As you might know, through investment and financing fraud thousands of individuals and businesses all over world loose millions of Dollars every year. My business is to protect my clients, sometimes in cooperation with associates from other countries, from fraudulent investment and finance schemes.

I have specialized in this field, because some years ago two con men in the Republic of South Africa used my name to run their fraudulent scheme, of course without my knowledge.

An American citizen with name Brandon P.B. (of course, I know his full name, passport no. etc.) run a company named "Capital Access S.A. cc", incorporated in Pretoria in the RSA at 1991-09-27, Registration No. CK91\25610/23. He and his South African partner Cecil L. were involved in Real Estate and Business Finance as stated in their brochure. But in their brochure they changed the name of the company to "Capitol Access S.A.". This was a small, but useless, attempt to mislead victims later. To understand why their operations could run more or less relative easy, one has to consider the situation in South Africa in 1991.

At that time it was really hard for businesses in the RSA to get a loan (local banks charged an interest up to 30%) or any other kind of financing. You may remember, at that time the "Apartheid" system was still in power. So it was also more than difficult to get funds from foreign sources. Within the same time I worked through partners also as finance broker in the RSA. Through different circumstances Brandon B. and his partner heard from me. Because it seemed that I had a good name, they used, as last page in their brochure, a -fake- facsimile I never sent to Brandon B. The text of the fake fax caused the impression that I was the man in background who had access to multi-million lenders in Hong Kong. So Brandon B. and his partner Cecil L. offered financing for any business purpose. And they found their clients. Clients had to pay a part of the brokerage fee in advance, if the application was accepted by "Capitol Access". Of course, they accepted every application. But… with signing a nine page "Loan Commitment Binder" on behalf of a so-called "Meichong Investment Trust" the loan applicants had to pay once more in advance (of course!) a fee they called "Escrow Fee Deposit". You might imagine what happened next (?). You are right - Brandon B. took all the advance payments, and …no funding, nothing happened, absolute nothing!

Lastly, Brandon B. disappeared from the RSA. He left his South African partner Cecil L. behind without money - a con man cheated by his partner. Cecil L. stated first that he did not know that all was a big scam - and many people believed him. He came to Europe with some of the victims to meet me, to find a way to help them. We had long discussions till late in the evening at that day. At the first moment, I thought: May be, he really didn't know what happened. But I was still skeptical - and how surprising... Later in the night, when the others were in their rooms, he gave me a bank guarantee of US $ 10,000,000 (Ten Million Dollars) issued by a prime bank in his favor. He said, that I should use this guarantee to help the victims of his partner. What do you think how valuable this piece of paper was? I knew it from the first moment: Absolute nothing! It was good made, as it is mostly in such cases, but fake. Why Cecil L. made this idiotic mistake, is still a mystery for me.

I told you this short story to show you how easy it is sometimes for fraudsters to make money. On the pages Investment Fraud and Business Finance Fraud/Financing Scams you can read more examples on fraudulent schemes.

To come to the end; I never became any problems through the misuse of my name by Brandon B. and Cecil L., because my partners in the RSA knew me too good and could help me to retain my good name.

Within the following years I worked also in other countries as intermediary for business finance, and so I have seen many so-called (by themselves!) finance companies, trusts, intermediaries, and fraudulent investment schemes.

Now one of my businesses is to help others not to loose their hard earned money for nothing. I am not longer a finance broker or intermediary. I stopped to work in that business 7 years ago.

What my associates and I can do for you, and how you can contact us, you can read at the end of the pages Investment Fraud and Business Finance Fraud/Financing Scams.

And if you like, read my short story Internet Fraud - Experiences with an Internet Fraudster. But please note; this story has nothing do with investment or finance fraud.

Frank Wobst
FW - Investment Consulting

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