If you should receive an unexpected phone call from someone offering fantastic returns on an investment, be extremely sceptical. That’s advice from the Financial Services Authority, based on the proliferation of ‘boiler room’ scams that has been occurring in the UK over the past few years. These scams might involve development of land, overpriced, non-tradable […]
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Debt Management firms warned by OFT about marketing messages
The Office of Fair Trading has recently issued a warning to debt management firms saying that they should not be sending marketing messages through e-mail, telephone or text message to potential customers. This warning has been issued to around 130 businesses all of whom are operating in the commercial debt sector. The OFT have also […]