The scam took place between June 2010 and Jan 2013, when I personally discovered it in my dad's emails, it's devastated many people. The main guy "agent/advisor" called himself Peter Deboer or Peter De boer - He had a Dutch accent, but the southern Swedish accent is also very similar. He talked a lot about Enschede in Holland and West Germany. He is still active today, but my dad no longer takes international calls. The last time I spoke with him was approx June 2014. We have many voice recordings.
He has links to these fake companies: Vredestein Investment Consortium (this appears to be a legit company and does have an employee called Peter Deboer), others include; Global Investment Group, International Escrow Services, Eldora Gold Resources, Black Hawk Mines, Inca Peruvian Mines, Own Gold LLC, UK Own Gold, Marcus Jones International, Regal Resources.
These 2 websites below are still live and have new designs since 2013. I believe these are or were Peter Deboer's 2 main sites.
- global-ig.com
This was always used as Peter Deboer's lead broker company along with Vredestein Investment Consortium which he said was his, but I think he's just mirrored the real Vredestein aka VICO. But he distanced himself from global-ig by calling it the "broker", but when you phone the number and leave a message, Peter Deboer returns the calls.
It's hosted in Florida, US, registrant name = jorge alejandromendez muñoz, you'll find him on FB and G+ looking very smug.
- internationalescrowservices.biz
This one was always used as a fake escrow and used to get my dad to transfer payments by Marcus Jones International and all linked companies, including all of Peter Deboer's trades - this site is hidden by DomainsByProxy hence the need for a subpoena, it's hosted in Atlanta, US.
The scam started with a fake BT survey which my dad naively responded to - cold calls then started. The first scam was via Marcus Jones International (agent Marcus Collins). After a few payments they disappeared, this is when Peter Deboer made his entrance to carry out the 'recovery room scam', My dad had £40k left when I intervened - he's 73 now.
The scam on the surface looks very complex but here is an overview doc I submitted to the Police in 3 countries. This is the first time I have made this public, but I think it's time. Please don't post it anywhere else.
http://goo.gl/pD114a
After dealing with ActionFraud, NFIB, Police (16 page blow-by-blow statement of every email, phone call, share certificate delivery, etc) in the UK, US and Germany and having submitted so much evidence, plus dealing with FCA, Police Complaints Commission, my MP Andy Burnham, various newspapers and documentary companies I burned out and quit. This is the first time I'm looking at the fraud again.
The Police promised monthly updates, they've emailed 3 times in 2 years. In all countries they refused to trace domains, Skype and BT phone numbers, weren't interested in checking bank accounts (my dad paid into 8), voice recordings or physical addresses.
It actually took me 10 weeks to get a small Police station in Kent to take on the crime. Initially ActionFraud, NFIB, GMP, City of London Police and my local Police all dismissed it. Not interested. Kent took it on because I had a few leads to Kent. Kent passed it to the The City of London Police, but I'm not sure that's a good thing.
Own Gold LLC and Own Gold UK:
This accounts for 20% of my dads loss. We believe all frauds are linked, but I have a feeling that Peter Deboer buys leads from other scammers and deals on his own. These guys are in court in Florida in Feb 2015. A guy who used to work for them came out as a whistle blower and sunk the operation.
I don't know if anything will ever come out of looking at the scam again. It seems all global legislations are set-up to support scamming - it's the easiest way to make money I've seen.