Offshore East Private Wealth Managers at www.offshoreeast.com is scam. The fraudulent website, which claims that they are an asset management firm with wealth managers, wealth advisers, or "Private Financial Counsel" with years of experience, is not registered in Japan according to the Japanese Financial Services Agency. Therefore, online users are asked not to conduct business on the same website.
The "Offshore East Private Wealth Managers" Website (offshoreeast.com)
Advisory Office
LG Twin Towers, 2 Jianguomen Outer St, Chaoyang, Beijing, China
+86-10-6410 5380
+86-10-5904 4810
+86-10-5885 0588
Regional Headquarters
Otemachi Financial City Grand Cube, 1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
+81 3 4540 0817
Registered Office
Edobori Center Building, 2-1-1 Edobori, Nishi-ku, Osaka 550-0002, Japan
Offshore East Private Wealth Managers uses a type of scam called "Cold Calling," which is fraudulent practice aimed at soliciting investors all over the world. "Cold-calling" is a practice where by an entity disguises itself as a brokerage firm or an asset management firm and approaches potential investors via non face-to-face channels, such as by phone, fax, and emails, in order to solicit investment in securities or financial products.
Typically, a "cold caller" makes unsolicited calls to potential investors, cajoles them into deciding to purchase certain securities, and then, becomes unavailable for contact after the investor sends the money for that purchase. As a result, the investors cannot obtain the securities although they made the payment, and they also cannot get back the money they paid. Investors need to be more careful and vigilant, as cold callers have been using more varied and more sophisticated tactics. (For example, some cold callers execute transactions properly and make profits for investors at first. Then, they solicit bigger transaction and make the investors transfer the money for it. After that, the cold callers disappear.)
In most countries, a person is required to be registered with or licensed by the national regulatory body before conducting solicitation of securities transactions. However, cold-callers do not have such registration or licenses. One of the characteristics of cold callers is that it is extremely difficult to discover their whereabouts. Many cold callers indicate their office locations on their websites (or documents sent to investors), but they rarely operate at that location. Apparently, cold callers intentionally hide their whereabouts, so that they can avoid being visited by the investors they approach. Notably, it is very typical that cold callers claim that they are located in a country that is different from the location of the prospective victim. For example, there are many cases in which cold callers that have approached American or European investors claims that to have an office located in Japan (at a building in Tokyo, for instance. This is why investors should be very careful and vigilant about conducting business with these entities, potentially opting against conducting any transactions via these entities.
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