Blog posts tagged with: fraud

Cape Fisheries - another Crowdcube success goes bust.

Cape Fisheries raised £136k on Crowdcube in summer 2015. Now they have been closed by CH. No news of what happened to the money invested by 121 Crowdcube clients.

Myshowcase's final crash

Our recent report of the give away of Crowdcube funded MyShowcase to Miroma Group has now been confirmed. A communication from Crowdcube, who are the nominee account holders in this mess, states...

Yet another Crowdcube Bond issuer fails.Taylor St Baristas files a £800k loss.

Hi - Hot from the Swamp today we have the Taylor St Baristas accounts. TSB used Crowdcube to raise £1.8m on a 4 year 8% bond. Target profits for YE Mar17 were just over £1m; generated by 20 coffee...

Insolvency Service get it wrong again over Solar Cloth Co

The UK Insolvency Service has looked at the dealings of the Director of The Solar Cloth Company and decided that they do not warrant any action. 

Crowdcube try to make excuses for Rebus failure

Crowdcube's blog now has this posted - a so called explanation by you know who - on Rebus

Crowdcube accusation is very serious.

FCA on a busy afternoon.

Swipii - have we finally reached the bottom of the barrell? Probably not given Crowdcube's record.

Six months after using Crowdcube and being valued at £7.5m, rewards gizmo failure Swipii has entered Liquidation. Even we didnt think that level of incompetence was possible

This time the misleading is too obvious to ignore. Seedrs funded and Covid grant wasting West Berks Brewery lied to investors on the FCA platform

We know it's been happening for years but this case is caste iron proof of just how rigged this system is aginst investors and the UK taxpayer.

Ben Pugh's Farmdrop - Ploughing its own dark furrow in the annals of Start Up Failures

£57,000,000 is the current black hole left by Ben Pugh and team - hundreds of good supppliers left unpaid and Crowdcube investors penniless.

The Full Disaster that was Crowdcube funded Moneydashboard is now revealed. Crowdcube investors have been wasted. WOW!

Here is the pathetic excuse for comms sent by Crowdcube to its investors in failed Moneydashboard. Again someone needs to go to jail

Fish Rot from the Head. Crowdcube found guilty again of misleading investors in their Sugru pitch by the FOS.

It has taken 4 years but finally jusitce is served. The completely misleading information or lie given by Crowdcube to investors in Sugru has now been accepted by the Financial Ombudsman and...

British Business Bank has used £1.14bn of UK taxpayers cash to supposedly support UK Business via The Future Fund. So why are they hiding the names of 670 companies supported?

Two companies we know of have used the FF - Zapaygo has already gone bust and the other, Mettrr, is a pitiful mess. Together they have taken £7.5m from the FF.