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LUCY LAW VICTORY
Huge congratulations to my
mate Marc Abraham on the
launch today of his
inspirational book Lucy’s
Law: The Story of the
Little Dog Who Changed
the World.
Anyone who tries to
make a profit by breeding
puppies in unspeakably
cruel conditions is going to struggle to sell
them in England thanks to Lucy’s Law, which
comes into force next month.
It all began with a desperately sick
Cavalier King Charles Spaniel called Lucy
who was rescued after being forced to breed
litter after litter in a vile puppy farm.
I remember the first time I met Marc and
we discussed over a cup of tea his plan to
get the Mirror on board with his campaign to
end this cruelty forever.
I honestly never thought we’d be
successful as it’s so difficult to get a change
in the law.
But I reckoned without Brighton vet Marc
and his brilliant band of animals lovers, from
celebrities such as actor Peter Egan to small
charities with little money but mountains
of passion.
Lucy’s Law is the story of their wonderful
victory for man’s best friend against all
the odds.HERO Marc Abraham (right) with Penman@PenmanMirrorIf you’re the victim of sharp practice I want to hear about it. Email [email protected] or
write to Penman Investigates, Daily Mirror, One Canada Square, London E14 5AP. I can’t respond
to every letter but can promise to read them all. Please, no SAEs or original documents.A particularly sneaky version of the TV
Licensing scam is doing the rounds.
Emails are being sent from the address
[email protected],
which is only a slight variation on the
genuine [email protected].
The message says that your licence is
due to expire and you must renew it or
face additional charges.
“We are sorry to let you know that your
TV Licence could not be automatically
renewed,” it reads. “Something went
wrong with your Direct Debit payment.”
If you click on the link you’ll be directed
to a fake TV Licensing website – one way
of telling this is that none of the tabs
labelled About Us, Contact Us and
Privacy Policy work.
Any bank details you input will be
harvested by fraudsters.
A spokeswoman for TV Licensing said:
“We never contact customers out of the
blue to ask for bank details, personal
information, or to tell them that they may
be entitled to a refund.”‘We’ll make most
millionaires ever’
Outrageous claims mark launch of new get-rich-quick scheme
There’s something about Moyn
and Monir Islam that reminds
me of the sort of people who get
fired during the first episode of
The Apprentice.
Their principal talents seem to be
the ability to wear a suit and spout
risible cliches.
“Nothing is impossible, the word
itself says ‘I’m possible’,” chunders
Moyn.
“You don’t have to be great to start
but you have to start to be great,”
says Monir.
Unless I’ve missed one, the
brothers from London are now
plugging their third get-rich-quick
scheme.
First they were involved in
promoting OneCoin, which claimed
to create 300 millionaires in one year
but turned out to be one of the most
notorious investment frauds of
recent times.
“I believe in the OneCoin concept,
I believe in the vision,” declared
Moyn. “We have moved into our first
dream home, we have bought our
dream car,” boasted Monir.
OneCoin was supposed to be a
rival to Bitcoin but it couldn’t be sold
on any cryptocurrency market and
the only way to make money was by
convincing other people to join.
Now the founder, 39-year-old Ruja
Ignatova, is on the run from the FBI
and two of her key associates are
awaiting sentencing in the United
States for their role in the £3billion
global fraud.
At one rally Moyn and Monir were
carried shoulder high to the stage to
gush about the fortunes to be made
from OneCoin – but I’m sure they
were just innocent dupes.
Next they moved into flogging
“wearable technology”, gizmos you
can strap to your wrist to measure
your heart rate and stuff.
Not that they were actually selling
the products. What they promoted
at mass rallies was a scheme to
earn money by recruiting others.
“Can we be at least worth
£2billion by 2020?” asked one of
the brothers at a London
recruitment rally in January- “Absolutely yes, if not
m o r e .”
So why had they bailed out
of OneCoin?
“Things have
started to blur up
quite a bit,” one of the
brothers said vaguely at
a rally in 2017 for the new
venture.
“The money we are making right
now, we don’t feel good about it.”
Now wearable technology has
been dumped by Moyn and Monir
and they’ve moved into yet another
barmy venture.
It’s called Melius, which
superficially is a business selling
software to help people trade on
crypotocurrency and foreign
exchange markets.
Yet again, the reality is that it’s all
about recruiting others.
“Every time you refer customers
or a distributor who buys a subscrip-tion you earn commission,” says
Monir in an online video.
You get 20% of what every new
recruit pays, and then 10% from
everyone they recruit in turn.
“31 December 2022, this will be a
billion dollar company,” he gushed
with depressing familiarity.
“This company is going to
produce more millionaires than any
company that I know of.”
Much of this is horribly irrespon-
sible, such as the encouragement to
pump as much money into this as
you can, borrowing it if necessary.
“Successful people think about
not ‘Can I afford it?’ but ‘How can I
afford it?” he says.
You’re urged to target friends and
family and organise at least four
sales presentations a week: “If you
do that you are bound to become a
crown ambassador”.
So you might lose all your friends
but at least you get a ludi-
crous title.
Most of what they’re saying
is rehashing old material,
including a sob story about
how they used to be so poor
they slept rough until striking
it rich.
As before, you’re urged to get
in quick and ignore anyone
who might caution against this
madness.
A promotional video tries to
associate Melius with genuine
business giants.
It claims: “Microsoft, Apple,
Amazon, Netflix, Google, Alibaba,
Facebook, Airbnb, Uber and now
Melius, the next big giant in the
industry.”
Really?
Given how much the Islam
brothers like the sound of their own
voices, I was surprised that they
haven’t replied to my requests for
a chat.‘‘This company
is going to
produce more
millionaires
flASH than any other
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Monir
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