Complaint Review: Fredrick Wareham & Co. Consultant Broker Inc.

We received a letter in the mail stating a person with the same last name as us had passed away in a car accident and that they had left behind 12.5 million dollarsUS in stocks/ bonds. The letter asked us to contact him via phone or email. I contacted the man named Fredrick wareham and he told us the same thing the letter had already stated. he told us that he would work on our behalf but he would want 60% of the funds and our part would be 40%. I agreed to the conditions and we said our goodbyes. We then received a text message stating that he had been to london, to the HSBC bank plc in London, UK. and that he had settled the stocks for 14.50 dollars per share with the funds available for 14.5 million dollarsUS. Now we would have to go to London UK. and meet him at the bank with our passport and sign for the check and we would bring the check back to the U.S and deposit it in to the bank of our choice. Then he would wait 72 hours and the funds would clear in which he would fly to the states and we would write him a check for his 60%, which he was going to invest a portion of his earnings into stocks in the United States.

I did alot of checking on his name, internet, and all the paper work I received from him. We purchased tickets to go to London and a hotel stay which cost us $4000. The next thing to happen was when I finally called the bank in London and in the United States. He asked us to bring $12,300.00 in cash for administration fees. That was it. I called him on his scam and called more people and was able to verify the scam and am now stuck with tickets to the United Kingdom. The man didnt get a dime out of us but it still cost us. Even though the airlines is willing to give us one year to use the flight tickets we still have to pay a surcharge of $300 each to change the date. Don't get scammed by this CON ARTIST. He has a foreign accent and he speaks nice on the phone but he's a wolf in sheeps clothing.