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Dward
03-27-2013, 08:25 AM
I received a response to my inquiry. The grammar and spelling in the inquiry appear to be Asian responding in ESL but with an incorporation certificate from England (of course a doghouse can be incorporated and get a certificate). In their response, they claim to have an office with available phone service; however, due to excessive traffic, they do not answer this phone nor provide the office address. They claim to have over 1,000 subscriber/members in this, their first month of business. They did not address my request to provide verifiable credentials and financials.
Any information from reliable sources will be appreciated.

ribshaw
03-27-2013, 08:36 AM
Hey Dward, welcome to Real Scam. You could always drop a copy of the letter in to the forum, and/or drop the whole text in to google and see what pops up. I did a quick search of Bentley Investment and came up with what looks like a High Yield Investment Plan, which is a Pozni scheme. No research is needed, no investor ever has made those rates of return.
There is also a Bentley Investment that is a student organization that manages part of the Bentley Endowment, whatever that may be.

As you may know, scammers often use a close or in this case identical name to a real organization(s) to give an air of legitimacy. As you also pointed out bad or questionable grammar should always be a red flag. Finally, private investment pools are not allowed to advise to the general public, which is why you never see ads for Hedge Funds on Bloomberg or CNBC.
So I doubt them sending an email or letter somehow allows them to skirt the marketing law.

littleroundman
03-27-2013, 09:28 AM
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc153/thelittleroundman/scams%202/ben1_zpsb3f1a6b0.jpg

* Claiming to offer 9% ROI per DAY

* Claiming to offer 300% ROI after 30 days.

IMPOSSIBLE

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc153/thelittleroundman/scams%202/benhyip_zps13cc214b.jpg

* It even calls itself a HYIP.

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc153/thelittleroundman/scams%202/com_zps19063359.jpg

* A Companies House check reveals it is a Private Limited company, has been incorporated for only 6 weeks and is NOT licensed to offer investments to the public.

* It appears on the usual suspect HYIP ponzi forums where NO legitimate business would allow itself to be featured

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc153/thelittleroundman/scams%202/bentcosta_zps732d0c03.jpg

IOW, it's just your normal, run-of-the-mill HYIP ponzi fraud

http://www.realscam.com/images/misc/realscam-logo1.gif

YOU decide

ribshaw
03-27-2013, 09:31 AM
(!)300% after 30 days, even if they only do 10% of that it sounds like a great deal. And not constrained by all those evil gubmit regulationz, where do I sign?((!))