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I can tell you with certainty as a former employee of Albert Holmes.

This company is a complete "boiler room".

Here's my experience.

A job was advertised on the juniorbroker.co.uk website offering over 200k a year. So as a young ambitious lad i applied and got the job, well a 1week trail. The deal after was a "self employeed" role with a 1k a month retainer.

It is/was based on Lombard Crescent in an old building at the end. The job description stated that the had their own four story office building to themselves in central London, which was true. But only when you considered the ground floor contained the staircase and the top floor was a kitchen, just large enough for a table, it was all a bit of a statement. The first and second floors housed two small open floors about 200sq each that contained 10 brokers crammed in on each.

On my first week, i sat beside another new guy on the first floor. (he lasted 3 days) We where given a script to read out over the phone. "Hello Mr, XXXXX,  Its XXXXX from Albert Holmes i hope you are well" it started. The script was about two pages long and contained a number of possible outcomes and stuffed full of spelling mistakes. We where then asked to contact a list of investors, who had expressed an interest in carbon credits, known as leads. These leads where issued over the computer network from Steve Shelby, so for example the computer screen would say for example "Mr Jones" contact number "45646XXXXX". If someone answered we would start into our script, and leave a comment on the computer what the outcome was."

I can say that i contacted thousands of these leads in my time there and not one person had requested a call from a carbon broker or knew anything about it. I know this because i tended to deviate from the script more than often. Moreover i was able to see that total amount of leads on their system displayed in the computer software, it was about 250,000. The total  of many subcategories. I remember some of them where called things like " ISAs/ Savings Investors"  "'Oil and Gas Investors" and many other subcategories that had nothing to do with carbon.

The scripts 2nd or 3rd line read "You where contacted by my colleague not so long ago." This implied that the call was not a cold call and was following up on a lead. This was total lies, there had not been any previous call. To make matters worse i would say about 30% percent of all the calls i made where of deceased individuals, and by that mostly within the last 5 years. Often these calls where answered by family members and loved ones. In fact the other guy who started at the same time as me left because he had called 3 people in a row that where all deceased, the third call was answered by a family member during the wake of the deceased individual, causing much distress to my colleague and the person at the other end of the phone. I called everyone that someone can think of at all different types of bogus addresses, one after another. I called Chinese restaurants, firestations, mental insitutions, all looking for people that didn't exist and i'm sure didnt have a clue what a carbon credit was, nor express any interest in them.

The leads where all rubbish and lies, lies to the brokers and lies to those potential investors. Created from a lieing scirpt.

In my second week, i was having extreme doubts about the whole thing i had made about 10 leads on my list of around 1000 calls i had made, these people where often  the very kind accommodating by nature characters, who genuinely where more interested in being facilitative than investing (The real kind that don't deserve being a sucker on an albert holmes lead list). It was the same story for all the other young guys that worked there. Up until this point there had been no effort by any senior members to explain what a carbon credit was, or any of the mathematics, fundamentals, investment research behind them, suitability for clients, etc. So i decided to do some research and find out what research the firm had done. To my surprise by that Monday lunchtime, i realized nobody knew a thing about them, just things they had read from their copy of that script, when i asked a Steve Shelby, he told me i didn't need to know that sort of thing. Another broker that had been there several months, overheard this and warned me not to ask difficult questions and advised me to keep my mouth shut or i would face the music. He also told me that every week steve shelby would get new young guys in on a "trail" and use them to cold call assisted with the script and then tell them they didn't get the job. Then he would contact their leads the following week, this effectively gave him up to 10 free lead generators.

That afternoon, i secretly emailed the names and contact numbers of all my leads to myself. And when i got home i contacted them all from my mobile phone, telling them not to trust Albert Holmes. That was my 6th and last day with Albert Holmes.

I have since left London, a wiser person.

I will keep my details private, but if anyone requires me to testify in a court of law for the practices i witnessed at Albert Holmes and i am happy to do  and bring them to justice.

Hi I wonder if we worked together!! I filmed Steve at work as I thought his work manner was wrong and fealt he was lieing to clients/investors and eventually employees Interesting read! spot on and shocking and now I know I was used too.. Steve Shelly is an utter [removed:lang] il have pictures of him put up at Buckhurst Hill and loughton station next week it wont be very pleasent after the calls Ive had today from other victims. Think he can get away with ripping me off.Big mistake. Steve now works for another firm I will disclose them if he is still working there next week..

After investigation further on Steve Shelly and His operation of Albert Holmes I've discovered that Steve Did not pay tax and National insurance for all employees even though it was deducted from their pay. Next thing after his ongoing attitude and failure to pay me I will now be reporting him to the tax man/office.

I knew it what a [***], do you know who is responsible for paying the tax? can it come back and bite me or will it be down to this con artist?

OMG just seen all this.... Steve Shelly is a tosser, staff go after him for their money and then he reports one them to the police, hiding behind them, failing to realise he ripped them off and obviously they want their money as they didnt go to work 8 till 8 all week for free. Will make my day when I hear they catch up with him.

There was several complaints when I spent a regretable short time in this scam, targeting old people and their life savings for worthless investments. DONT LIE STEVE SHELLEY.

Steve Shelly now works for yet another company as a junior account opener LMAO, friend of my works there and has already told me he is lying to investors on the phone again to create the account. The [***] has not even ever been regulated to give advise certainly shouldn't be running company's no surprise investors and employees got ripped off Guy now just bounces from company to company pissing people off, he brings a lot of bad attention to every firm he works for. BELLEND.

Steve Shelly the con artist works at another company called Templeton Securities which will more than likely be a spank shop, No genuine company would take on the guy. He is a lier and hasnt done any exams to give advice and has never been regulated to do so.

Shelly claims to be head of Equitys to people in the pub, however his not even regulated! I will be reporting him to the FCA.

The guy is a fake, thief and mental, seems to think its ok to rip people off then call the police on them and put harrassement orders out. He thinks his got away with ripping me off. I'm also going to assist the liquidators in his fraud linked with Eco Global Markets so his assets will be frozen.

Templeton Securities- Steve Shelly!

I heard that Steve Shelly was arrested for rape in London does anyone know about this? I hear he is working at Templeton Securities is this true? I would really like to know how I can get all of the money he owes me!

This guy Steve just offered our company one of the TS brokers client base. We declined. I can only assume it's the Mr Shelley.

No wonder these firms get a bad name employing rogue dishonest staff like this.

A successful City trader who demanded £7,500 to drop assault charges against two business rivals was spared jail today (MON) after a judge heard he is now living on benefits with his mum. Daniel Smith, 33, was beaten and repeatedly stamped on by Ian Bellis and Perry Bliss in a row over stolen clients. CCTV footage caught the two attackers brutally attacking Smith in broad daylight in April last year when he confronted them over £68,000 in alleged lost earnings. Four months later, Smith, who was an equity trader at Park Caledonia Associates, sent the two men a text message offering to drop the charges if they paid him compensation for lost earnings. - See more at: http://courtnewsuk.co.uk/newsgallery/?public_id=41725#sthash.DbcEnnF0.dpuf

Friend of mine said Steve shelley has been sacked by Templeton securities. They Found him to be dishonest and deluded apparently people where calling the company daily for him.

I worked with Dan a popular good guy in the city well known by worthy people, upset and annoyed by crooks, I to have experience with Steve shelly and cost me dearly I heard these to fell out Dan went after him for none payment.  Who would go to work pay a train fair and not be angry, Shelly then called the police. Dan got out at the right time with smaller damage the other brokers that were ripped off 10,000s while investors left ripped off seriouse amounts of money. This included shelly laughing taking down an old guy he left work to walk down the bank. I heard this but lets be honesty no smoke without fire. I think the internet speaks for itself. Everything about him I know is true and probably not safe in the sq mile or healthy to employ.

steve shelly now at Daniel stewart a decent firm WTF!