Is email from ‘David Moody’ in Japan a chance to sell my Safeguard Technologies shares… or a scam? TONY HETHERINGTON investigates
Tony Hetherington is Financial Mail on Sunday’s ace investigator, fighting readers corners, revealing the truth that lies behind closed doors and winning victories for those who have been left out-of-pocket. Find out how to contact him below.
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R.M. writes: Many years ago, I foolishly bought shares in Safeguard Technologies, a US company that featured in your column as a rip-off nearly 20 years back.
Now though, I have just received a call from a man in Japan who gives his name as David Moody, and he has emailed me with a purchase agreement for my shares.
Is this another scam?
Tony Hetherington replies: The offer to buy your shares has come from DCP & Consultants, which gives its address as a major office development in Tokyo. The call came from a man who signs himself as David Moody LLB, the Japanese company’s chief legal officer. And the company itself is said to be headed by chief executive Konno Yatsuhiro.
The DCP website boasts: ‘DCP & Consultants has been known to be an outstanding provider of financial and investment…
