Garrett Knight Associates Exposed

Strategies

STRATEGIES  (Up to date as of 5 July, 2019)

 

From my unfortunate experience with GKA I have identified a number of strategies that their operatives used in getting me to liquidate my investments and thereafter trick me in borrowing to the maximum to buy their fictitious ‘shares’ – even to the point where I almost lost my house.


If you are already one of their ‘clients’ (suckers) you will already be able to identify with a few of these strategies, or perhaps most, depending on how long they have been milking you:


Following is a summary of GKA strategies:


Strategy 1 :  GKA promise, or pretend, very good profits – so you eagerly send them more money to buy the next batch of ‘shares’. (More on this in Strategy 12). They know that if they do not show consistent profits you may ask for your ‘shares’ to be cashed in and the ‘money’ repatriated.


Strategy 2 :  GKA buy new ‘shares’ immediately after selling your existing shares - so there is no cash in your  account to repatriate!


Strategy 3 :  Frequently when GKA do a ‘sell’ and simultaneously ‘buy’ for you, as reflected in the ‘Trade Confirmation’, the money from the ‘sell’ is insufficient for the ‘buy’, so you have to do a top-up. (They will explain that there was a block of excellent shares but they had to take the whole block – so you have to send them more money, often amounting to many thousands of dollars!)


Strategy 4 :  On other occasions GKA will ‘sell’ your shares at a nice profit (Strategy 1) and ‘buy’ other shares simultaneously (Strategy 2), but in this instance the ‘sell’ is enough to pay for the ‘buy’ – costing you nothing extra. On paper your wealth has just been increase by perhaps 20%, 30%, 40% - you are ecstatic, especially as you did not have to send them more of your money. Then after a few days you get a notification that the latest batch of shares they ‘bought’ for you, unbeknown to them and unbeknown to you, had ‘warrants’ attached to them that must be ‘exercised’ (bought) before the shares they bought can be sold. So you have to send them   more money to buy the warrants. But you don’t mind too much, because invariably the ‘warrant’, according to the ‘Trade Confirmation’, can be bought at about half the price of the share that it is attached to. Then once you ‘buy’ the warrant, not only is your share free to be sold, but the warrant can also be sold at the same price as the share – so typically you can double the money used to buy the warrants! This is why the GKA operatives will tell you that a ‘warrant’ is good news!  [But this is just another of their schemes to get you to send more of your money – money that you will never see again - read Strategy 12].


Strategy 5 : GKA will promise speedy repatriation – especially to encourage a ‘dry’ client to start borrowing money to buy more shares – using Strategy 3 or Strategy 4, or Strategy 17!


Strategy 6 : Only in very rare and exceptional circumstances will GKA repatriate even a portion of your money. (Only if they know you have a lot more to ‘invest’, but are beginning to get suspicious, might they repatriate some of your investment – and then come back at you later with some or other irresistible ‘investment’ having gained your trust). But generally they do not repatriate! Yes, they will promise to, but only after you make the next investment!  Then when you make it, there is some reason why you have to make yet another, until they have sucked you dry. (GKA know they would soon go insolvent if they repatriated the huge profits that they pretended to have made for you and many others. And, anyway, why should they repatriate? They know they are untraceable).


Strategy 7 : GKA will threaten to take punitive steps against you if you seem not to be able to come up with additional funds for buying additional shares or warrants (see Strategy 3 and Strategy 4). So, for example, they may freeze your account, or cancel a ‘margin’ – the idea is to scare you to ‘borrow, beg or steal’. Where the money comes from means nothing to GKA – all that matters is that they get more and more out of you!


Strategy 8 : GKA will suck you dry of every last penny you have including all your savings, even your pension, even your house.


Strategy 9 : A GKA operative will hand you over to a colleague at GKA if you are not responding or cooperating. The idea is that a new name, or new voice, or new strategy may bring in more of your money.


In chronological order I had dealings with no less than 10 operatives, and repeat dealings with two of them, as per the list below. This is surely unusual and undesirable in the world of investment! Those marked in red handed me over as a result of not getting any further results out of me.


David Morgan   Chief Trader

Ryan Smith   Client Services Support

Christopher James  Accounts Receivable

Daniel Rosenthal  Director of Institutional Trading

Adam Manning   Assistant to Daniel Rosenthal

Robert Knight   Director of International Development

Ian Feldman   Senior Portfolio Manager

Mike Gordon   Senior Portfolio Fund Manager

Adam Manning (again)  HNW Accounts

Richard Scott   Senior Asset Manager

Daniel Rosenthal (again) Director of Institutional Trading

Mark Baker

 

Strategy 10 : GKA will stop communications with you only when they can see they are not succeeding in getting more of your money. Clearly they do not want to waste any time on someone who is either truly dry or has come to realize what they are up to. They then leave you and go after some other sucker!


Strategy 11 : GKA take a 1% commission on the ‘sells’, which is fine, but they also take every dollar you send them, never to be returned. In effect they take 101% of your ‘investment’. 1% of a $10000 investment is a mere $100. Their operatives would have to do a lot of ‘sells’ to survive on that – but $100 plus $10 000 – just two or three of those in a month and the ‘broker’ would be doing very well!


Strategy 12 : There is one all important strategy that GKA will try to conceal at all costs – and that is that you should never realize that no shares were ever bought or sold! They want you to think that the ‘Trade Confirmations’ they sent you represent actual shares. In reality these confirmations are worthless. And while the ticker symbols that appear on the ‘Trade Confirmations’ do represent real companies, the corresponding ‘buys’ and ‘sells’ are purely fictitious. After all, why would GKA go to the expense of buying real shares? Shares cost money, and they are so unpredictable! They go up and down so why take the risk! No, it’s so much easier for them to click their way through the NASDAQ or NYSE charts and find a share on the rise, pretend to buy a block of them at some bargain price, and then ‘sell’ these shares some days later at a huge profit. They then apply Strategy 3 or Strategy 4. Often you are not consulted, but instead of being angry, you are grateful, as it appears that they have grown your portfolio spectacularly. In fact you are so impressed that you are prepared to liquidate every investment and asset you have, and even borrow to the point of insolvency from friends and family, from banks and even loan sharks. The GKA operatives have no conscience. After all, they tell themselves, it’s not personal – it’s just your money they want!


Strategy 13 : GKA have a website that has the appearance of being genuine. And true enough, if you investigate you will find that it has been up for over ten years! Clearly the management team at GKA has gone to some trouble to create a website that will convince you, and many others, that they are a bona-fide firm of stock brokers trading on the NASDAQ and NYSE. But what you probably do not realize is that in reality their website is nothing more than a thinly veiled lie, consisting of a simple collection of generalities and platitudes, but with no depth or substance. You probably will not realize that their CEO (Charles Gunn) and their Managing director (David Crabshaw) (both are mentioned on the ‘about us’ page of the website) are pure fabrications with no verifiable presence on Google or any other search engine. They are hoping that you will think that because their website is older than 10 years that they are a genuine firm of stock brokers. They don’t want you to realize that nowhere on this website is there a verifiable company registration number. Nor do they want you to know that they do not even operate from the address they give for their company on their ‘contact’ page. (They are banking that you will not fly to Tokyo to check on this). They also do not want you to realize that the telephone number on the ‘contact us’ page is just a forwarding exchange. In reality the GKA operatives may be operating from the US, Canada, UK, Australia, or even South Africa – not in Tokyo.


Strategy 14 : GKA’s registration process is also part of the deception process. The forms you have to sign before your first trade is all about making them appear to be a bona-fide firm of stock brokers.


Strategy 15 : Anonymity and untraceability: Generally people are very trusting and naïve. They automatically will assume the names of the persons on the other side of the phone are the real names of the persons they are talking to. They won’t think to ask for a copy of their social security numbers or passports to confirm their true identities. But the truth is they will never give you their real names nor let you see their real faces, which is why they will not send you a copy of their passports or Skype with you.


Strategy 16 : GKA operatives know that eventually you will try and get at least some of your ‘shares’ cashed in and repatriated. They also know that the chances of you giving up are quite good once you realize you have been conned and that GKA operatives can’t be traced. They also know that the chance of you giving up is more likely if they can make you think it’s all your fault for not coming up with the money for the warrants (after you had been sucked dry) or for transferring the funds too late after signing a ‘Trade Confirmation’ – there are endless ways for them to make it look like you defaulted and hence your money is in effect forfeited!


Strategy 17 : GKA have many more tricks up their sleeves than those mentioned in Strategy 1 through 16. Some of these were tried on me later on, but I never took the bait, as by that time I realized what I was up against. These many other methods are limited only by the extent of their twisted imaginations, and have two things in common; (a) they are presented as both plausible and extremely profitable, and (b) they all require you to send yet more money!




DOES ALL THIS SOUND POSSIBLE? COULD ANY ORGANIZATION BE THIS EVIL?


PLEASE DO NOT TAKE MY WORD FOR IT! RATHER, THERE IS A SIMPLE TEST WHICH YOU MUST DO FOR YOUR OWN GOOD, AS PER BELOW.


Simple Test: Send an email to your GKA ‘broker’ who is currently working you over, and tell him not to buy any further shares under any circumstances. Then tell him to liquidate all your ‘shares’, and repatriate the money. That’s how shares work, you can sell them when you want to, right? When your ‘broker’ asks for an explanation just tell him you have some concerns, and this is an ‘honesty/integrity’ test for GKA. Tell him that if he (representing GKA) passes the test you may reinvest even more with GKA!


Actually you do not even owe GKA an explanation. It’s your money, and the profits that they claim to have made are your profits!


BUT DO NOT SEND THEM ONE MORE DOLLAR – NOT TO EXERCISE ‘WARRANTS’, NOT TO PAY FOR A PENDING ‘BUY’ THAT REQUIRES MORE OF YOUR MONEY, NOT FOR A HUNDRED OTHER CLEVER SCHEMES THAT THEY HAVE TO GET YOUR MONEY  – NOT FOR ANYTHING. IT’S ALL LIES! YOU WILL NEVER GET YOUR MONEY BACK. CUT YOUR LOSSES NOW!


AND FIGHT BACK! PUT UP A WEBSITE LIKE MINE TO WARN OTHERS! GOD WILL HELP YOU TO DO THIS, AND HE WILL BLESS YOU FOR IT! EVENTUALLY THE GKA OPERATIVES WILL BE EXPOSED FOR WHAT THEY ARE AND PEOPLE WILL STOP ‘INVESTING’ WITH THEM. THEY WILL THEN GO BROKE. THEY MAY, IN THE JUSTICE OF A HOLY GOD, EVEN GO TO JAIL!