Sep 7, 2016
Got several calls from the same number, and others today, same thing lots of background noise, Indian or similar accent. It is a company calling themselves Trade 12. Complete scam. They wanted me to open a brokerage account with them for online trading. When I asked how they got my name and number, they said it was from campaigns they were doing???!!! I kept asking them questions about the markets, they kept saying I couldn't loose, even if the share price dropped all I had to do was sell and I would make a profit??? They kept switching me between different "account managers", until eventually I spoke to a "senior account manager". I asked him how I could make a profit from my shares dropping in price and he told me 100% I would make a profit. I told him he didn't understand basic accounting, to which he told me to " go [***] yourself, you little [***]!!!" Hilarious really, he was on load speaker in the office and my colleagues and I had a good laugh.
A few hours later another "senior account manager" called trying to sell the same [***]. So I asked him the same questions as before. He started asking me what I do and how much I earn, of course I wouldn't tell him. He told me what ever I earn is a drop in the ocean compared to him. He said he earned $100,000 a week, I said I earn $1,000,000 a week!!!, to which he also told me to go [***] myself, and hung up. Very entertaining, but let it be a warning.