International Finance and Trust Julie Holden, Bryan Smyth, Kurt Hamilton Another PONZI Scheme Internet
We invested with this company back in September of 2009, payouts were to be made after six weeks and then monthly paymouts were to continue. We were part of "Trade 2", it didn't take us long to find out investors from "Trade 1" had been waiting for their first payout for months previous to our investing. We have heard every excuse in the book. All excuses closely resembled those of investors dealing with Assured Capital. (Based on research done at this web site) The best excuse is as follows: our trade was finally closed and we were all anxiously awaiting payment to the paymaster. Within 48 hours! Finally! After waiting days and being told it was held up for a missing document or anti money laundering acts, we were told that the transaction never did close, and they neglected to tell Julie Holden (Administrator of IF&T). They forgot, or they THOUGHT they had told her. It had become clear that there was and is some type of fraudlent activity going on. If Julie HOlden, Bryan Smith, Kurt Hamilton or Steve Benders is mentioned in any investment opportunitiy. RUN, RUN FAR, VERY FAR
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David B
Charleston,South Carolina,
USA
Round 1 Investor
#2Consumer Comment
Tue, March 16, 2010
I am one of the "Trade 1 Investors" who lost a big chunk of cash to these crooks. Same MO. We were to be paid after 6 weeks, which turned in to 4 months and 1 year later, still making excuses. This is the same group connected to Michael Kramer, Mark Kramer and Atlantic Equity. I recognize the names of Kurt Hamilton, Julie Holden and Byran Smith as they were all working with Michael, Florence and Mark initially.
Apparently Jeff Hossler is added to the group now. He claims to be working with them to recover the funds he lost with them. He is either one of them or at least very naive.
Don't get suckered in by these crooks. Walk away, no run, run, RUN.