WBFI Trading is a scam that relies on cold calls from Central Europe:
WBFI Trading (Wealth Builders Financial International) a so-called
precious metals advisory firm is bankrupt. WBFI's president and owner
Judy Jackson is an experienced "loader", a sales term for someone who
takes an existing client and tries to induce them to buy more. She is
well known in the seedy telemarketing and cold call sales industry.
Jackson previously dealt with shady stock sold in Spain, Costa Rica or
Florida. She has a registered business in the state of Florida under
the title of Wealth Builders Financial International. She has recently
branched out to the EU and is now located in Budapest, Hungary where
Jackson has created a clever shell game of fraud and deception,
selling gold and silver to the UK and the EU. Wealth Builders is also
a registered business in Hungary. One of the main reasons Jackson left
the United States was to avoid criminal prosecution for fraud. She had
previously worked at Livingston in Budapest a company dealing with
with IPO stocks. The company was shut down by the Hungarian National
Police for fraud, the owners are now in custody in Budapest, awaiting
trial. Jackson fled two weeks before Livingstone was shut down to
avoid prosecution. Jackson also worked at Rhino Commodities in
Barcelona, Spain, which was sanctioned and fined by the British FSA
for cold calls and fraudulent activities. Rhino has since closed their
offices in Barcelona. Jackson is now using this website to sell from
the EU at: https://www.wbfi.eu/
The owner Judy Jackson is a con artist and has gone through a number
of partners and employees: cheating them out of payment and profits,
promising generous commissions, salary and then giving only half of
the promised commissions or nothing at all. One former partner had
several real estate projects, mostly fraudulent ones. Gabriell Jarrod
(one of many names he uses) wanted 50% of the business based on his
leads which were worthless. The leads were free downloads from real
estate lists: agents, property investors etc. One scam involved a
Romanian property development getting clients from the UK to invest,
take the commission from the sale and claim that all was well and the
development was proceeding as planned. The Romanian property owner
would take the money but not build anything. Amazingly no one ever
checked to see if they were building the development. Apparently the
Romanian partner claims that all the money was in his wife's name and
she has just died. His property rental and real estate business in
Hungary was failing due to the economic world recession and he thought
he could hustle his way into the gold and silver market by promising
good leads for free to Jackson. See this link for Internet press
release info at:
http://wbfiscambuyerbeware.blogspot.com/
Starting in January 2008, to replace her former partners and his
employees Jackson has imported and surrounded herself with friends and
street people, some from the USA. One big black guy they brought in
from Philly, was abusive and crazy. Derrick would go out and smoke pot
and crack and come back in and try to close deals, coming into work at
her home so drunk, he collapsed in the couch for half the day until
one of the owners caught him sleeping, apparently passed out for
hours. Jackson questioned Derrick but wouldn't fire him as WBFI needed
his skills so desperately. Jackson is being sued in Budapest, Hungary
as she does not pay her landlord or bills. Jackson rents a large home,
pays the first months rent and deposit, she then refuses to pay
anything further, claiming that their is a problem with the plumbing
or the Internet connection will not work, stays five or six months
until the owner files suit and forces her to leave the residence and
then moves on, repeating the procedure so she can rent an expensive
home in the hills at a discount or as Jackson states, "almost for
free".
The first week in March 2008, WBFI supposedly had $700,000 in excess
equity or profit from our clients accounts (the book). The owner
previously only dealt with gold and silver, Jackson then decides to go
into platinum and palladium, when it had peaked in price due
supposedly to an electricity shortage in South Africa. She then
convinces all clients to change from gold to palladium, Jackson claims
that she is not even charging a commission for the service.
Interesting in that the first pitch we used to get clients in, was
that WBFI only charges a one time fee. However, in the disclaimer/risk
disclosure that is sent the fine print states that WBFI charges a 15%
commission every time a transaction is completed, to include loads and
rolls. Palladium is a thinly traded metal used in the auto industry,
the day after she convinces all her clients to change metals from gold
into palladium, the metal loses over $200 an ounce. Her economic
genius is astounding, in 24 hours she loses over a million dollars,
putting every client into margin call.
Jackson claims to be under heavy stress and suffers from migraine's.
Jackson hired a private Hungarian doctor to give her injections of so-
called vitamins or cocktails, because of her supposed medical
problems. Jackson claims that she is constantly vomiting blood and
suffers from stress headaches. I have never seen her hospitalized, she
has her partner Blair simply call the doctor and then gets injected
with Morphine or Seconal. Some injections were a mixture of Demerol
and other strong narcotics, that knocked her out for the evening and
the next day. I worked in her home and was asked to stay late to do
evening calls to the UK. When I was ready to leave I saw Jackson on
the living room couch and her pants or skirt lowered and the doctor
injecting her with a large syringe. I also found many needles in their
home and she claimed to be a diabetic. I also found wrappers with a
tarry black substance, many containers for Xanax,Valium as well as
Perkaset, all being prescribed by the Hungarian doctor.
Jackson gets around many laws by transferring her UK accounts to her
US banks and metals depository, where legal action to reclaim client
losses is harder to locate as they have to file suit in Florida and
not Hungary. The US clients funds are put in a Hungarian account, so
if legal action is sought they have to file suit in the EU. Jackson
employs a metals depository in Miami, Florida called Capital Asset
Management, which is operated by a Cuban who uses the street name of
Carlos. My understanding is that Carlos gets a lot of his funding from
the Floridian Cocaine trade. Her former US website at http://www.wbfi.com/
has been discontinued and the web address is for sale because of her
legal difficulties in the United States where she can no longer openly
conduct business.
Jackson has lost all the profits from the gold and silver. In the
middle of March 2008 thanks to a huge influx of cash from the US
government and a slightly improved US economy, due to speculation that
the government will put more money in the market place and give
generous tax refunds. Oil tanked and so did gold and silver over a
week long period in March 2008. Because of these factors WBFI has now
lost value with the remaining gold and silver which has gone into
margin. Many of Jackson's remaining clients can not make margin due to
the heavy losses already sustained. Almost all have lost their entire
investment, total 6million dollars from over 30 clients. Apparently
with the metal that is left, she has cashed out all the client
accounts and split, closing her doors............ Setting up another
phone room in another office in Budapest. The owner took the Easter
holiday as cover to close the accounts, not pay the employees and take
off.
Ms. Jackson and her crew are looking for new clients to build a new
book. Whatever you do, do not do business with this firm. My best
advice if you want a safe investment, keep your money in the bank. The
United States Embassy in Budapest, Hungary has been notified of WBFI's
activities as well as the FBI who regulates the gold and silver
bullion market in the United States where the bullion from her firm is
supposedly held.
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