Hi, could you please tell me the name of your Senior Account Manager, thanks and does anybody know if they are based in Hong Kong or is that another lie?
Hi Tolly
OptionFM have claimed for some time that they operate from a Hong Kong premises, in Central Towers, but they never did. An alert put out by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission warned of this fact quite some time ago.
I contacted the manager of the building in Hong Kong that was claimed to be OptionFM's main office, and he didn't have OptionFM on his tenant's list. The 20th floor from which they claimed to operate was a serviced office area. The providers of those serviced offices did admit to me that they could arrange to deliver correspondence to BO Technologies (OptionFM's parent company at the time), but they stated that they had never heard of OptionFM, and that OptionFM had no right to use that address. Whenever we asked an OptionFM contact whether they were in Hong Kong, they usually said "yes" but there was often a suspicious delay. The customer contact staff didn't seem to know if the legal department was also in that same office area. We had a few phone calls purporting to be from "the London Office" but the client contact officer in Hong Kong advised that the company was based in Hong Kong, and that the London office was "just a correspondence office". Most of the phone calls were not made at times consistent with a Hong Kong operation.
This is all part of the web of deceit that is OptionFM. I note that in their most recent web site, they no longer list their false Hong Kong address or give a Hong Kong telephone contact number. They also seem to have lost their license with the IFSC in Belize, and indeed have ditched reference to their original parent company, BO Technologies, which was registered in Belize. They now claim to have a new parent company, Artemis Technologies Limited, operating from the Caribbean tax haven of St Vincent. As I've said elsewhere, if it looks like a rat, and smells like a rat, it is a rat!
By the way, some of the personnel names in OptionFM have been used for a while, but I suspect they just draw names and personas out of a hat, and swap the names and position titles around when things get sticky. I see Steve Silver's name mentioned in a few angry exchanges over a long period, but the crooks we dealt through 2015 included Don Michael (the Senior Account Manager who executed the fraud); William Robbins ("Head of Recovery" and apparently a supervisor of Don Michael at the time); Peter Roman ("Senior Analyst" and "CEO of Recovery"); Tracy Weston (Head, Customer Support); Rachael Stone (Customer Complaints); Ross Smadja ("Deputy Vice President, Customer Relations"); and Kelly (no surname!) from the legal department.
