Money you'll never get · stamped CLONE
The copy of a real investment firmCLONE
A real scam people fell for this year, next to the real thing. The numbers mark the three things to check: hover or tap one to see what it tells you.
Invest up to £20,000 a year, free from UK income and capital gains tax.
Investments can fall as well as rise in value, so you could get back less than you invest.
Hargreaves Lansdown is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
Minimum investment £10,000. Your adviser: hl.clientdesk@outlook.com
Always check the address.
The name and "regulated by the FCA" are copied from a real firm, but the address is not hl.co.uk and the adviser writes from an Outlook account. You check the register, see the real firm, and pay the copy.
hl.co.uk is Hargreaves Lansdown's own site.
hargreaveslansdown-invest.com is not hl.co.uk, and the contact is an Outlook address.
It asks you to open an account on the firm's own site.
Your name and phone, so an "adviser" can call and take a £10,000 deposit.
It warns you could get back less than you put in.
A fixed 8.4% a year, with no risk mentioned.
RememberFound a firm on the FCA register? Contact it only with the web address and phone number the register gives, never the ones on the page you found.
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