I received the exact same pitch today on 7th December from a Michael Spence (with a British accent) supposedly from The Peterson Group Indonesia. The number that I was called from showed up as +2095551214.
He said that this was an IPO opportunity that hadn't been made public yet and that I needed to act now. He mentioned that the the
maximum number of shares he could offer was 38,000 units, then tried to offer me 19,000 units, then a minimum of 10,000 euros worth at 1.20 a unit which would increase to 2.20 in value within a few months. When I still said no he offered a one time offer to start off 'our relationship with you' of 4,500 shares. Foolishly I said ok at this point, as I allowed him to rush me. I shortly (within a couple of mins) got a call from his 'compliance team' a Mr Gary Nichols, again with a British accent, to confirm the transaction, and be informed that I would receive the payment request and need to make payment within 3 days.
Immediately following I googled this offer and came across the scam mentioned here. I have not paid any money, and after reading the posts here have no intention of doing so.
A couple of hours later I received the following email from The Peterson Group:
Dear Mr. XXXXXX,
This letter confirms that your trading account with The Peterson Group is now active.
Your account number is XXXXXXX. Please quote this on all correspondence with us.
Based on your authorization we purchased 4,500 shares of Petrodyne Oil & Gas. TheTrade Confirmation and bank transfer instructions are included with this email.
Please forward confirmation of the payment by email to
[email protected].
Once the payment has cleared you will be sent a payment receipt.
Yours sincerely,
Emma Brownlee
Senior Accounts Officer The
Peterson Group
[email protected]
The beneficiary bank listed is: PT Bank Maybank Indonesia
Beneficiary Account Name: PT Premiere Trans Agent
Beneficiary Account Number: 2 535 000020
As I mentioned I haven't paid anything. Now I need to work out how to get rid of them.