Venture Capital Group

Venture Capital Group

3rd Floor

52-58 Tabernacle Street

LONDON EC2A 4NJ

Tel: 020 7549 8359

Fax: 020 7549 7837

Email: venture.capital.group@ntlworld.com

Names Tony G Parker, Senior Partner and Sean O’Driscoll. Also involved with a Nigerian scammer calling himself “Stromm Roberts” (but he often forgets this when you call him) Also known as Ron Overs. Uses telephone numbers 0870 9125910 (+44 8709125910), 07092317681 (+447092317681), 0112348053531092 or 07031931047 (+447031931047) – all of which route to Abuja, Nigeria.

Web: http://www.zyworld.com/vcg/

This outfit allege to help companies around the world to get Venture Capital.

They “achieve” this very quickly but then insist on a £9,000 fee upfront.

We have been unable to find anyone who has received funding – but know of people who have lost £9,000.00

Despite repeated requests for an interview, Mr Parker never returned our calls and the girl on the “switchboard” (who always insists that you “have a really lovely day”) would only confirm that he has changed his mobile number, but that she could not give it out.

They pretend to be in the City, the financial heart of London, but I have been able to confirm via the Managing Agents that they are not in the building shownon the website, which is a respectable building.
They previously pretended to operate from Hindgate House, London as Portland Project Evaluations.

Interestingly, when we shared some info with www.zyworld.com (Minerva House, Pynes Hill, Exeter, Devon, England, EX2 5JL Tel : +44 (0) 1392 209500 Fax : +44 (0) 1392 209510) who host their site and lend credence to the operation, they were only concerned to see if VCG were paying their hosting bill.

As they are making payment, albeit via a differnet address, zyworld lost interest and say they will continue to host their site.

So, if you are looking to host a scam site to give some solid appearance to your rip off scheme, use zyweb – just make sure you pay them ….

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Update December 2006

Mr Parker has been in touch several times to arrange a meeting to put his case to use, which we have very much welcomed.
He also denied knowing Mr O’Driscoll, but oddly later agreed to a meeting with the 2 of them …
However, each appointment was broken and he has not replied to any of our questions.
We will continue to keep an eye on the company and to try to get answers from Mr Parker.