Should advisers offer a scam 'sense check' service?

Expertise applied ad-hoc for a fixed fee

Laura Miller
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One adviser in Devon is urging anyone who is contacted by potential scammers to call him before they part with any money. Is this a new service advisers can offer a likely grateful public?

Philip Milton, managing director of Philip J Milton & Company, an independent wealth manager in Barnstable, has issued an oft repeated but too frequently ignored warning to investors - it is not just the elderly or vulnerable who are susceptible to financial fraud, you are too. "The perpetrators of this type of fraud are especially cunning and use a number of psychological tricks to warm the prospective victim and then gradually entice them deeper into their web with ever more attractive - and plausible - suggestions," he said.   Too good to be true Milton gives an example that w...

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