Bank Of England Governor Mark Carney Impersonated In $6.5 Million Text Scam – ValueWalk Premium
17Mar2016

Bank Of England Governor Mark Carney Impersonated In $6.5 Million Text Scam

If you receive a text message of Bank of England Governor Mark Carney saying he has $6.5 million of your money, don’t believe it any more than you would a text from International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde offering to sell time shares.

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.

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