No need to give details why Davenport Laroche & Pacific Tycoon and many other webpages are just scams. Some of them are used as catchy advertisements like www.investcontainers.com and others as “independent traders” like Green Charters (www.greencharterstrading) in Bulgaria actually acting as recipients for the money of the “containers owners” which are then transferred to scammers accounts in Cambodia. A simple search (ignoring paid comments and blogs) would convinced anyone that it’s all about a big Scam based in Vietnam with empty offices in Hong Kong. Here are some tips for those who did not pay attention to the warnings and have fallen in the trap in order protect other potential victims and potentially get some of their money back.

▪ After realising you have been scammed go to your bank. Tell them what has happened and ask them to block all remittances of funds to scammers’ accounts. These accounts most of the times are said to belong to Traders, cooperating with theiscammers but actually belong to the scammers themselves. This will not save the money you have paid but you will cut the life line of the scammers and save other people money. At the same time report the scam to the responsible authorities of your country. Australia has done some work on that. Note that the site of Davenport shows an Australian telephone number which is Voip not in Australia but with no physical address there.

▪ For legitimacy reasons the scammers claim to be based in Hong Kong. You must file charges to the HK authorities in person or by a local lawyer. The Hong Kong authorities know a lot about the scam and the persons involved. It’s a shame that they have left the scammers to operate there for such a long time.

▪ If you want to find the scammers in person their offices are in District 2 in Vietnam. The authorities there won’t be able to help a lot but a private investigator will tell you where the scammers are in less than an hour. District 2 is a small suburb in Ho Chi Minh City. Show the picture to a private investigator. A picture of the person who runs the scam can be found on the internet (obviously not the picture of the fictitious Jacques Piccard, advertised by Davenports sites as this is nonexistent and was made up by the scammer)

▪ In case of a class legal action victims of Davenport Laroche and Pacific Tycoon should know that they have been scammed by the same people. The alias Ted Malory of Pacific Tycoon is the same person with Theo Chamberlain and Gregory Canaris of Pacific Tycoon is Costas Poumbakis in Davenport Laroche.

▪ Complain to Google for letting the scammers advertise their fraud on various sites at the counties targets (mostly UK, Middle East, Australia. I don’t think that the proceeds from advertising the fraud offer any justification. Google could have done much more. They are partly liable.