Sterling And Bond
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Sterling And Bond has 2.7 star rating based on 2 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly neutral.
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Anonymous
Fareham, England
Malta and Money Owed
These pair of clowns were in Malta last year trying to start a fund. Neither of them can sell Keith is a jumped up little prat who knows nothing and Andy is a little sneak who feeds off of the crumbs of others., They owe thousands to People in Malta. Anyone looking for Millhouse and want their money that he has stolen. The last I heard he's in Cypress. His son works for Hull FC,, Look him up. As for Andrew Nash, Milhouse will have dumped him and he'll be a loose cannon now. He has no skill, he's just a ligger
Reason of review:
Poor customer service
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Anonymous
Leicester, Leicester
Further proof of scam
Contacted by them and when I said that the investment did not make sense I was of course called by another salesman who said the first guy was no longer with the company ( it is usually that or he is a trainee who has not been with the company to learn anything but is still asked to call 'customers'. Various promises , usually contradicted in another statement or when questioned, are made. These involve reputable British companies buying air time ( phone minutes ) from a company in Russia ( since changed to South Africa ) set up recently but strangely for a major international company has no telephone number and has yet to make an annual financial report. Considering the claim that this company has been operating like this for years tells its own story! A letter of credit is assured - initially claiming that the money never leaves Britain - that is until you explain why that is impossible. Then of course the story changes and payment is expected to be made to another company ( also with poor reviews of the same owner / directors / connections / past history ) allegedly under the banner of RBS. This bank can change so it would appear that the major international company is unsure who they bank with! One can't ask them as there are no contact details available yet for this fledgling but rapidly growing international company. Strangely enough I was asked how much I wanted to invest and what return I would like. There was an immediate opportunity matching these figures - what a coincidence! The crunch came when I was told the contract was sealed when I returned the paperwork - and all details would be sent after. Then I was told that the Letter Of Credit from the bank ( whichever ) would not be sent to me but I could see a photo of something if i wanted to ! The chances of this being genuine could be 99% but it would require a minus sign in front of it.
Preferred solution: Just a desire to help others is sufficient for me.
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Anonymous
Sterling & Bond scam
There is a lot articles about this company also a few where they defend that they have no connection to Capital Alternatives. This is confusing when the CEO Keith Millhench is also the director of Premier Alternatives and Curzon commodities. Andrew Nash of Zest Recruitment claims he is the Managing Director. ..So Mr Nash, can you please give me my money back or get my money back from your colleagues, shouldn't be that hard they are all sitting next to you. If this is the case Mr Nash that you somehow have come to be in charge, can you please explain the following because an accountant friend of mine thinks your product is absolutely rubbish because it doesn’t make any sense. I invested almost £19,500 in 10 acres of African Land with a senior manager at Capital Alternatives Kristan Gander. I never received any return from the investment. After nearly two years of nil returns I was offered a chance to swap my investment into 20 Hectares of a Gola Carbon Project if I invested a further £5,500. I was promised a return from the Gola project within 3 months. I agreed and paid over my £5,500. As readers have probably guessed I never received any return from the Gola project so now I am down by £25,000. I passed my investment details to the FCA along with my experiences of Capital Alternatives. Now out of the blue I get a call from your colleague at Sterling & Bond who wants me to invest a further £25,000 into your project Voiptel with an explanation that you can afford to do this because you will take on my carbon credits and give them a value of £25,000 so I would be getting £50,000 of value in Voiptel. I am confused how you know all the details of my original investment - and even who I invested with! I showed this to an accountant friend and he cannot see how on earth Sterling & Bond can possibly be legitimate. See figures I was offered: Initial investment Africa Land £19,500 and swapped into carbon credits. Extra investment of £5,500 into carbon credits Total investment £25,000 Reinvest a further £25,000 into Voiptel Total Investment that Sterling and Bond agree will now be £50,000 into Voiptel You say you will guarantee me 13% after 18 months which is a payout of £6,500 And then I get my initial payment back of £50,000. It has been said that salesmen get 16% commission at Sterling & Bond which is a commission payout of £8000 So from £25,000 you are going to have a net sum of £17,000. Then Voiptel will use that money to pay me £56,500. That means that Voiptel can make a profit for me of more than 200%. It is rubbish. So Andrew Nash, show us how you can make more than 200% for me AND make money for Voiptel AND make money for Sterling & Bond. How can you explain me that the brokers seem to get a higher commission than that of the investors annual return. I have given your details to DIFC who with no doubt will investigate this further. YOU think you are out of reach from the FCA! It is financially ridiculous to think that you are not operating a SCAM.
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Anonymous
Ilkley, England
Sterling and Bond - 14% return monthly return
I am slightly bemused by all these negative posts regarding SB. Surely it is all about the clients not all these negative ex employees etc. I invested in May 2014 and I have received my returns on time and have been allocated a helpful and effecient account manager. To be honest if I had read all these posts before I invested I probably wouldn't have invested. However that would have been a bad decision. The problem with these sites, a bit like the trip advisor situation, is that there are too many people with vested interests who by posting negative, malicious and defamatory comments negate the whole purpose of these sites.
Pros:
- Returns received
Cons:
- Aggressive competitors
Reason of review:
Upset with the posts
Preferred solution: I would like to hear from investors rather than people with grievances
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Anonymous
Sterling and Bond
I was also contacted. I did some research and it was very eye opening! After they send me their sales brochure I googled some of the companies listed. the investment is in VOIP minutes (is this a thing??) via a company called www.voiptelinternational.ru - website created on 8th may 2014 according to whois. you can see for yourself the claims made by people on pissedconsumer and motley fool. I noticed ther business was looked after by red leaf business services. these are uk based with a man called Victor Falade as the director. if you follow this link http://cleancarbon.us/blog/danger-green-investment-from-capital-carbon-credits-mirror-co-uk-blog/ you can see he is a former employee of capital alternatives. google some more on his name and you get this link - http://www.safeconcerts.com/forum/threads.asp?forum_urn=124&t_urn=37225&pgt=4 and it links him to a lady called Diane Szalay who's name is repeatedly associated with capital alternatives. Szalay Dubai leads you to a man called Gabor Szalay who seemingly, according to various internet opinions, ran Capital Alternatives as well as Provident Real Estate. His linkedon account http://ae.linkedin.com/pub/gabor-szalay/13/74/575 mentions a company he directs that does "alternative investments". Another guy called Steve Graham is also mentioned alongside Gabor Szalay http://cag-brokers.pissedconsumer.com/cag-brokers-in-dubai-selling-fake-carbon-credits-and-diamounds-201311****9580/3.html - he was former AGT... perhaps that's where they got our numbers from? I know I am speculating but Capital Alternatives no longer exists in Dubai (as far as I know), nor the UK. However one of their minions runs the back office for Sterling and Bond? I'd rather invest my money betting that Sterling and Bond is Capital Alternatives by another name than invest into any of their schemes... Not for me
Loss:
$25000
Reason of review:
Not as described/ advertised
Preferred solution: Full refund
19 comments
Anonymous
Dubai, Dubai
SCAM ARTISTS!!!!!! AVOID THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have had the great displeasure of speaking to Sterling & Bond! i spoke to some junior broker or some muppet who wants to make a quick Dirham, he made absolutely no sense! he was talking about and broaching a subject he clearly had no idea.. i also know Andrew Nash (CEO) from his time @ Zest2 recruitment (another poxy scam company) - if his plastic surgeried skin & terrible breath isn't enough to scare you off completely, his scams and dishonourable sales tactics will! he promised me a 12,000 AED basic salaried opportunity and got me to waste my day to come to his offices & then he sells me a commission job selling carbon credits! ABSOLUTE ***.. I hope these scammers @ Sterling & Bonds get closed down sharply. Its a great shame that these *** companies even exist in Dubai
Reason of review:
Bad quality
Anonymous
Bishops Stortford, Hertford
Sterling And Bond - Money Investing Review from Bishops Stortford, Hertford
Lost £10k with sterling and bond, they're a complete scam. Victor falade like the guy mentioned before is the mastermind behind everything
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Anonymous
Unpaid employee
Do not invest your money with this company , they are as dodgy as they come, they offer 11% commission to their employees of the investors money which they never pay. They have no computers in their office and prey on unaware and easily manipulated genuine people collated from an obscure data source. Their head is Andrew Nash who is a known scam artist in Dubai and affiliates are Nick Start and Adam Brown based in Dubai . Google them and you will see what *** artists they actually are . They are rude and obnoxious and have no real interest in customers they deceive and use tacky boiler room style sales pitches to entice innocent people.... I doubt very much they will still be around in time to come.
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Anonymous
Bishops Stortford, Hertford
Sterling And Bond - Commission Review from Bishops Stortford, Hertford
Used to work for this company, but they were offering us 16% commission and showing returns of 14% was out of there within 2 weeks! Definitely a scam! Angelica x
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Anonymous
Sterling and Bond Review
I normally write about my experience with regulated markets and entities but I have decided to pick the alternative investments market and a particular firm that I have had amazing experience with called "Sterling and Bond". Firstly its important to understand an alternative investment which is a very different type of investment class and it is different from your traditional stocks, shares and bond. This market comprises of projects and ideas that are non traditional and can help investors make money and in many cases beat the market per say. I came across them when looking to put some of my savings in other more meaningful ways to invest and found their company. At beginning I had doubt about them but slowly started build relations with the manager assigned to me and his manager whom I also spoke very frequently (due to privacy concerns I am not mentioning names). To better cover my experience with them I have decided to break it down into three key areas which below I have tried to cover in three different paragraphs. Customer Services: Firstly the very first area I would like cover is the brilliant customer services I got from the word 'GO'. Initially correspondence was all based on the phone and later emails. The response time was unbelievably quick and all of my emails were responded in detail answering all my concerns. Investment Medium: The second important area was the medium they advised me of investing into the VOIP investment. It has been great for me they have managed to make me returns on all the intervals they promised me to and never has a return been late, I did not expect them to beat my other investments in-terms of returns but they have been regular and paying on-time. Ongoing Relation like a Family: Finally the most key important area has been me being able to constantly speak with them and get feedback even on matters that sometimes are not directly related to their product and are at times other products. Their honesty and service has won my heart. My Rating to them out of five: 4.5
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Anonymous
London, England
Sterling And Bond - Investment Services Review
Recently I come into some money though family and got contacted by a investment company and iv been unsure on what to do with my money so I stupidly was interested in putting my money away into a investment for the future , but little did I no the company is a complete *** and they have run away with my money Im writing this so people do not make the same mistake as me . I will get my money back don't worry but people should not invest into this clown cause it's a massive *** . Hope to see u all next week when me and a few mates fly out to Dubai ....
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I gave Sean Thacker 50,000 sterling, he told me that i would earn 12% a year with his FX software. he told me he put a stop lost at 35,000.
What a utter lair, he lost all the money never took my calls anymore I have been trying to trace him since. I was last told that he was sunning it up in Malta last year on!!
This man is a *** man! and scam artist!
did not employ him and do not give him any money!
anybody know where Sean Thacker is? i have this office address but no one is ever in {{Redacted}}
or he is hiding.
I lent him 3,000 pound last year.
He know will not take my calls, he said he was trading and would have money coming in. I just want my money back.
http://sean-thacker-from-brigton-trader.pissedconsumer.com/sean-thacker-from-brighton-scam-artist-do-not-give-him-money-to-trade-201605****6388.html
Sean Thacker!! Complete ***.
i worked with this *** at GCI Capital, they guy can't trade, account manage or sell.
He loses all the clients money!!
if he is working at your company just get him out. he is a negative cancer!!
So far the man behind Voiptel International Keith Milhench also know as Keith Millhouse
http://www.redd-monitor.org/2014/10/22/more-scams-sterling-and-bond-voiptel-international-and-velvet-assets/#comment-251****
Keith Milhench (that is his real name) however he goes under Keith Millhouse.
He has opened a company called Great Ocean HK Holdings Limited www.gohkh.com selling scam Forex.
Now this is a scam company well what else would it be.
Keith Milhench also know as Kieth Millhouse left investors in London and overseas shocked when he did a runner with just over 2 million pound stopped paying there returns and was never heard again. He is currently working with a company called www.topfx.com.
We phoned topfx and a lovely lady told us that Keith Millhouse as he is known to them is living in limassol Cyprus.
And we should contact his website should we need to get hold of him. We are investigating further to catch Milhench.
This guy Sean Thacker can't trade to save his life, he host me 50,000 USD lied has no money. Do not trust him.
Sean Thacker from Brighton and Hove use to own Polaris Trading Partners until he went to prison for scamming people. He was sentenced to 18 months.
Sean Thacker did not go to prison as he was in Malta at this time
Polaris Trading Partners
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Sean Thacker, David Rose, and Polaris
I know they read this stuff.
It can all be turned around to a positive if they do the following.
1.
Compensate me for my loss of $26,000 that was incurred by their failure to honour my drawdown limit. 2. Make arrangements with their current broker Swiss PB, or another broker that the broker will automatically action any future drawdown limits as soon as they are triggered. 3.
Start trading with stoplosses on all trades and in a way that allows the stoplosses to be seen on the client's screen.
4. Agree maximum position sizes in order to control risk.
http://www.forexpeacearmy.com/community/threads/polaris-trading-partners-scam.6017/
Sean Thacker from Brighton scam artist