Investment Fraud Toward Loan Funding Schemes

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Yet Another Loan Funding Scam
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• As I have previously mentioned in various
  articles, our office has seen a shift within the
  marketplace of white collar fraud schemes from
  investment fraud toward loan funding schemes.
• For those of you who investigate financial
  crimes, and/or provide due diligence related
  services, these schemes are remarkably easy to
  identify.
• Unfortunately, the victims of these fraudulent
  loan funding schemes do not typically consult
  with anyone until it is too late.

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• For those of you who may be unfamiliar with loan
  funding schemes, they are a fraudulent
  undertaking whereby a promoter falsely promises
  to provide, or arrange for third parties to
  provide, private loan funding for the victim.
• In my experience, these schemes could be
  categorized as two basic variants - the advance
  fee scheme, and the escrow based scheme.
• This particular case study relates to the advance
  fee variant as promoted by Bruce Green, who
  claims to be the Principal behind Secure Platform
  Funding (www.secureplatformfunding.com/).

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• To visualize the comparative difference between
  the advance fee version of this fraud scheme and
  the escrow based variety, please see the articles
  I have published regarding the escrow based
  schemes promoted by John B. Ramsey, as President
  of Astra, HERE and by Ruth Liverpool, HERE.
• The advance fee variant of the loan funding
  scheme is typically pretty simple, and the much
  more straightforward of the two victim losses
  tend to be much less.
• In these cases, the promoter charges an advance
  fee for their services in arranging third party
  loan funding, claiming to have the contacts
  necessary to effectuate this borrower/lender
  connection.

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• In this case, Bruce Green claimed to represent
  the Bank of Bahrain, and further claimed to be
  involved with other iconic financial
  institutions, in defrauding my Client of 50,000
  in connection with a promised ten million dollar
  loan and bank instruments.
• In an effort to establish himself in the mind of
  this victim as a major player in the world of
  international finance, Bruce Green produced
  various documents related to bond transfers,
  letters of credit, Swift MT760, etc, that he
  claimed to be somehow involved in.

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• In reading through some of these documents,
  appended for your review in the Relevant
  Documents section that follows below, it is easy
  to imagine that they might serve to enhance the
  credibility of the individual that produced them.
• For example, this transmittal document 700M
  Global Bond Transfer dated October 21, 2010,
  references a seven hundred million dollar
  (700,000,000) Global Bond from the Central Bank
  of Venezuela to the Bank of Bahrain Kuwait, for
  the benefit of Innoventure Partners, Inc.

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• Coupled with this document, Innoventure DBA
  TecPro Bank, that purports to connect Innoventure
  to TecPro Bank, they provide an image of
  credibility.
• Other Dazzle and Dupe documents as produced to
  the victim are appended for your review in the
  Relevant Documents section that follows below.
• On September 3, 2010, Bruce Green persuaded the
  victim to initiate a 50,000 Escrow Deposit with
  an International Attorney who is a Graduate of
  Yale University, has been practicing law since
  1966, is currently registered with the Supreme
  Court Bar, has served as a Lawyer in London
  England and New York USA and has served the
  United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

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If you are investigation this individual, I have
his complete social security number, and other
information.

• Bruce Green is associated with various addresses
  in Nevis
• Secure Platform FundingSpringates Building,
  Government RoadCharlestown, Nevis44 20 3808
  9841CEOofAgreements_at_secureplatformfunding.comOff
  ice_at_SecurePlatformFunding.comwww.secureplatformfu
  nding.com

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• Again, if you are investigation this individual,
  I have his complete background check, and other
  information.
• Two of the exhibited documents below should be of
  particular interest to those of you who may not
  have had a lot of experience with con artist
  communications.
• I have, but the way these people shine their
  victims on with lie after lie, and then become
  righteously indignant when questioned, never
  ceases to amaze me.

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• Please see the compilation of text messages, and
  compilation of emails, appended for your review
  in the Relevant Documents section that follows
  below.
• In wading through the various communications and
  exhibits, you will note that Bruce Green claims
  to have a connection with the Bank of Bahrain,
  and alludes to his involvement with various other
  icons of the financial world such as Credit
  Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Banco do Brasil, Bank of
  America/NYC, TD Bank/Philly, Bank of Ireland,
  East West Bank/LA, HSBC/LA, JP Morgan Chase,
  Barclays PLC, Regions Bank/Memphis, UniCredit
  Bank AG/Cologne, etc.

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• Once upon a time, the worlds financial
  institutions did not comply with FinCENs FATF
  initiatives, but those days are long gone, and
  every financial institution in the world has a
  compliance department.
• In a world where financial institutions strictly
  adhere to Know Your Customer compliance
  regulations, one would expect to have no trouble
  verifying that these financial institutions had
  business relationships with a mover and shaker
  behind transactions involving hundreds of
  millions of dollars.

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• I asked Bruce Green to refer me to contact
  persons willing to verify his involvement with
  their institutions but he declined to comment.
• I also asked Bruce Green to identify any
  professional licensure that he may have FINRA
  has no record of him.
• Bruce Greens recalcitrance strikes me as odd,
  especially since, on December 2, 2011, Bruce
  Green suggested that my Client travel to New York
  and offered to introduce him to the Chase
  Banker who could verify the legitimacy of his
  representations, and assured him that he would
  receive his money back, with interest.

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• Later, on December 16, 2011, in an apparent fit
  of righteous indignation, Bruce Green once again
  claimed to be able to prove his linkage to
  financial institutions and protested the
  comparative reference to Ruth Liverpool, the
  notorious promoter of various loan funding fraud
  schemes who is currently awaiting trial, and
  profiled in my article, Dr. Who?

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