Rogues Gallery & Hall of Shame

• Alan Holloway
  We are slightly ashamed to admit this person is an ex-partner.
• Malcolm Newbould
  An ex employee.
• Investors in Time
  of New Bond Street London an Essex postal address.
• Regency Coins (UK) Limited
  Successors to Investors in Time with a similar Modus Operandi.
• Gold & Silver Bureau & John Coppin
  Forerunners of Investors in Time.
• Ian Ogilvy, Jeweller
  A page we have been meaning to add for some time.
• Inaccurate and Defamatory Posting by "KAC" on Money Supermarket Website
  In August 2007, "KAC" semi-anonymously posted a forum entry on moneysupermarket.com which contained a number of inaccuracies. We believe his inaccurate comments are deliberate and defamatory.
• Fred Eder of Spain
  This British ex-pat, apparently living in Spain, possibly running a bar, tried to transfer over £50,000 belonging to a London hotel group, into our account in December 2000, causing us problems when a rather stupid or amoral Metropolitan police officer suspected that we, as would be recipients, were the only possible suspects. When he re-surfaced a few years later, the Met neglected to act on our report to them.
• Harvey Ross of Leeds
  Harvey Michael Ross appeared on the coin and bullion dealing scene quite suddenly, from nowhere, sometime in the 1970's. He immediately became one of our major competitors, but it's easy to do this when you are using other people's money.

Why Gold? Many of the scams listed above could involve shares, cash, bank accounts, or other commodities other than gold. The reason that they may include gold is because it is a highly portable and liquid form of wealth, and many people are aware of gold's reputation as a safe haven investment.

Fair Comment Although we are critical, on our websites, of a number of individuals and companies, we believe our comments are honest, accurate and fair. We also publish them under our name. If any of the targets of our comments wish to disagree, they are welcome to write to us with any corrections or amendments, preferably in the form of a statutory declaration. We will give such correspondence due consideration, and make edits to our web pages as required.

Unfair Comment A number of people who we have reported for copyright abuse, or named and shamed for other unethical behaviour, have from time to time posted negative, untrue, biased, and defamatory comments about our company and its directors. On occasions where this has been done openly, we have written to the authors with a legal notice to cease and desist. On other occasions, such comments have been published anonymously (or sometimes semi-anonymously). We regard these anonymous authors as cowards. Unfortunately it is now easy for anybody to publish almost whatever they wish on internet websites. U.S. based sites such as Google's Blogger, Twitter, Automatic (Wordpress), and many social networking sites are no longer liable for defamatory statements published on their sites, even after they are served notice. Many of these sites state that they will not remove defamatory material without a court order. This would almost certainly need to be from an American court, probably one in the state where the site or host company is based. Wikipedia will not release contributor identities without a court order.

See Also:

Copyright Theft Our alphabetical list of copyright thieves, some of whom also feature on this page.