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Gregster
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Registered: December 2004
Location: Slovenia
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Websites to check for international boiler rooms

http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/fleecing.htm
AUSTRALIA
http://www.asic.gov.au/fido/fido.nsf/byheadline/Co ld+calling?openDocument
or
http://www.asic.gov.au/fido/fido.nsf/byheadline/li st+of+unlicensed+overseas+cold+callers?opendocumen t

HONG KONG
http://www.hksfc.org.hk/eng/investor/html/alert.ht m

or
http://www.hksfc.org.hk/eng/investor/html/unlicens ed_overseas_comp.htm

THAILAND
http://www.sec.or.th/enforce/invalert/boiler.shtml
or
http://www.sec.or.th/enforce/invalert/actionen.sht ml

GREAT BRITAIN
http://www.fsa.gov.uk/enforcement/firm_alerts.html

NEW ZEALAND
http://www.sec-com.govt.nz/invest/overseas_brokers .shtml

SPAIN
(Firm names in English but details in Spanish)
http://www.cnmv.es/english/adverticias/indice_espa nol.htm
http://www.cnmv.es/english/index_e.htm



11/11/2004 3:24:12 PM FRAUDULENT OR UNREGISTERED FIRMS GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
The definition of a “boiler room” is a fraudulent or unregistered firm using high pressure and/or deceptive sales tactics.

As of Sept 11, 2004 VRI has 379 fraudulent or unregistered firms listed on this website. There are listed offices for 233 of them. We have listed them geographically to see if any patterns can be determined.

The geographical distribution can only be roughly estimated due to the following factors.

1) Many firms claims to have multiple offices in different countries.

2) Many firms ‘switch’ their offices from country to country due to regulatory actions and it cannot be determined which office is the home office at any point in time.

3) Some addresses are no longer valid.

4) Some addresses are nothing more than ‘letter drops’.

5) Some addresses do not even exist where they are supposed to be located. Nonetheless it can be seen that the bulk of fraudulent or unregistered boiler rooms are located in Asia as per the ‘king of the boiler room’ articles quoted on this site.

ASIA - 142
Hong Kong – 68
Thailand – 18
Singapore – 15
Japan – 11
Malaysia/Indonesia – 10
China – 8
Philippines – 5
Australia – 3
Macao – 2
Taiwan – 2

NORTH AMERICA - 50
United States - 41
Canada – 9

EUROPE - 28
United Kingdom - 9
Spain – 5
Switzerland – 5
Europe (various) – 9

SOUTH AMERICA - 13
Central and South America – 10
Caribbean – 3




 
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