There are unfettered firms which exist only on paper as a front for flogging shares and land investments etc with the promise of extraordinarily high returns when in reality they may be nearly worthless.
Thousands of investors have been caught out by land investment scams like the one happen in Kent popularly known as Kent land scam where very slick, convincing and persistent salespeople ring up and verbally bash them into parting with cash – usually with the line that the land investors is