Phone and e-mail scams: Don't be the next victim

You are sitting at home wondering how to get a decent return on your savings in the current low interest rate, volatile equity market environment when the phone rings.

It is a commodities broker who deals in carbon credits. He has several hundred carbon credits left over from a massive corporate deal he has just done, and he is trying to find retail investors to buy them.

The investment is a sure-fire winner, he tells you.

He is selling the credits at a knockdown price, which he is able to offer owing to the huge scale of the corporate deal he just carried out.

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