Warnings

GUERNSEY INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SERVICES COMMISSION, INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SERVICES CERTIFIED PAYMENT LIABILITY COVERAGE, IFSP & LC CERTIFICATION DECLARATION FORM The Commission has become aware of a scam in which victims are asked to pay a fee in order to obtain "Certified Payment Liability Coverage" from the "International Financial Services Commission", to enable funds to be released. The...

​The Guernsey Financial Services Commission has recently investigated a number of cases where Bailiwick residents have received unsolicited telephone calls from staff of investment businesses that do not have their place of business in the Bailiwick. The practice, where a person makes an unsolicited call to a potential investor seeking to sell them investments during the course of that call, is...

The Commission has had a new twist to an investment scam brought to its attention and wishes to warn local investors about it. Over the past few years a number of local residents have been "cold called" by brokers from outside the Island attempting to get people to invest in shares in small overseas companies. The general pattern has been for the value of these thinly traded shares to dwindle and...

​The Guernsey Financial Services Commission has recently investigated a number of cases where Bailiwick residents have received unsolicited telephone calls from staff of investment businesses that do not have their place of business in the Bailiwick. The practice, where a person makes an unsolicited call to a potential investor seeking to sell them investments during the course of that call, is...