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Suckered: The Fraud SMS Pump and Dump Scheme

Reader and friend Haresh Nagpal writes on twitter about the proliferation of fake SMS’s that are pump and dump schemes. He mentions an SMS like this: And ...

Banks Give Loans to Multiple Persons Against Same Property

In a property called Shiv Kala Charms, buyers are hardly charmed as it turns out the builder has sold the property to multiple people and many of them have ...

Suckered: The Case of Gujarat NRE Coke and The We-Wont-Tell-You Edition of Accounting

Gujarat NRE Coke is in an accounting mess. Businessworld writes that the company’s Australian subsidiary, Gujarat NRE Coking Coal, listed on the Australian ...

Using Stocks To Launder Money

Avinash Celestine is on roll. In a long but very readable piece, he talks about how money is converted from Black to White using stocks. At the helm is the ...

NSEL Tells MoneyLife How They Wanted Us To Think It Works

NSEL had supposedly given an interview to Moneylife where they explain their operations. Now it appears some of this are a little awry. Here’s my take on ...

Video: The “100% Risk Free” NSEL Investment Product

The Crisis of NSEL that has brought Financial Technologies crashing 80% is all because of a product that seems to have been actively advertised as a “safe” ...

NSEL Might Have “Dummy” Stocks in What Seems To Be a Financing Scheme

The NSEL problem gets more complicated. It’s now a case of borderline fraud, it seems. Remember the owner of the NSEL (National Spot Exchange), Financial ...

Zylog Promoters Accused of Fraud by SEBI, Stock Down 90% Since Oct-2012

SEBI has found Zylog management potentially guilty  of massive fraud, says SEBI, in an interim ex-parte order (party not present) that disallows them from ...

Suckered: Saradha Goes Bust and Frauds Depositors

One more sad story that emerged last week was a chit fund that went bust: The Saradha Group. Taking money from depositors all over the eastern states of Assam ...

Zenith Sarafs Accused of Fraud, Asked to Produce $34 Million Bank Guarantee

SEBI has ordered the Saraf family of Zenith Infotech to produce bank guarantees of $33 million without using any funds of the company. SEBI has found evidence ...