I see adverts for this crap every time I open a news article in an incognito window. It seems pretty rife.
Lots of them use AI art, usually a curly red haired young woman, as shown in the picture below (obvious flaws in the picture such as the barrels shows it’s AI)
Or other questionable artwork. This guy rolling the barrel looks the same in both pics which don’t look like they’re taken in the same place. Same haircut, same clothes. Very sus.
And this stuff is everywhere.
>She put her home in Brighton on the market so she could make investments to provide long-term security for her loved ones.
I mean surely keeping the home would have been the better choice for long term security.
I’ve found calling distilleries direct has been the best way to enquire about investing in casks.
Treat Internet ads the same way you do door to door sales people. With a healthy dose of skepticism.
Own your own barrel of whisky.
Become a Scottish Lord.
Own your own Star.
Be a part owner in XYZ fine art, and watch the value sky rocket.
Get a fucking grip.
Makes me think of that shite Bevi advert.
Seems that me there’s no checks on Directors who’ve been disqualified. If I want to open a credit card there’s all sorts of validation that needs done. Seems like the system is broken.
People are worried about retirement, it’s tough if you don’t have enough in the pot, and relying on government pension payouts is not enough, so people are desperate, and by nature are gullible and too trusting. These folks have stolen these people’s future, punishment should fit the crime.
Obviously this is bad, but the weird mixed metaphor quote at the end is hilarious.
>And they’re selling somebody a piece of paper, for a cask that just never existed.
>The sharks are circling. They know there’s blood. They can smell it.
>And unfortunately, in this particular case, the blood is whisky.
Labour introduced new measures yesterday to target investment scammers. The problem is that, as we seem to be at serious risk of Japanese style stagflation, people will be more attracted to investments that offer even modest returns that beat inflation no matter how dodgy they look.
This one time I was scammed into buying a HD-DVD adapter for the Xbox 360.
It never occurred to me to look into the studios supporting the format or the market share of the competition. I didn’t even know the competition existed.
Then I went horse racing and was scammed when I bet on a sure thing with 3:5 odds when the 50:1 won.
Next I brought bitcoin at the height of the market! I was told it’d only ever go up. Why would people lie to me?
My Avon business also never really took off.
The amazing thing is that after all the scandals of the past 40 years, people still willingly invest in unregulated investments. It boggles the mind really. No recourse if you lose your money either.
Remember if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is.
Mad aye. I seen a GP yesterday lost 200k in a crypto scam, when I see these things, I initially think “they didn’t grow up with the internet, maybe they don’t fully understand it” then I realise, I’m 43 and I didn’t grow up with the internet, and I don’t act like a money hungry idiot the minute I see an advert with a pretty Scottish girl advertising whisky, or “Sara Cox” saying how she made so much from crypto.
These folk are idiots, pure and simple. I have little sympathy for them. They see a “get rich quick scheme” and lose their head. If you don’t do your research when investing huge amounts of money, you deserve to get scammed quite frankly.
Always do your homework especially when it comes to handing over huge sums of money to someone-company you don’t know. You have to feel for these poor souls they could be our parents.
Invest in sp500 that gives roughly 10% annual return with isa up to 20k a year tax free? Naaaahhhh…. I will go and send 100k to random company that I have not even read about or researched and they will buy me a barrel and keep it that will make me rich one day….
I guess if you are that thick you deserve to be scammed… How you even managed to save so much money with intellect like that.
Some people surprises me too much. Why you going into something you have no clue about? Especially giving all your remaining money. I get it, being scammed for few hundred, it happens, but all your life savings?
The real money will be in the financialisation of financialisation scams.
I’m telling you now the value of lost investments is only going to go **UP AND UP**. Invest now with me for as little as £10k and it *could* be worth up to £150,000 in your retirement.
*Click here to listen to my shit podcast*
**BUY my 10-step guide on being the sort of wanker that really just markets AI written 10-step guides to idiots like you**
Hundreds of idiots.
You can invest in whisky barrels, and you can get good payoffs.
But like every investment in existence, more reward means more risk. And whisky casks are particularly risky.
You could end up opening the cask in 12 years to find it’s a shit barrel and you’ve got nothing.
The massive payoffs come from getting a particularly good batch. And the distiller isn’t going to be selling as many barrels when they have a good season for the grains or whatever.
You aren’t going to be able to beat the distillers in whisky. If it’s good they won’t give it up.
You’d fair better investing all your money in copper or something
It’s sad to see this come around again. I remember “Invest in whisky casks” being a common scam about 20 years ago.
It’s not even as if the pitch makes sense, when you think about it. Even if the whisky actually exists, how are you expected to get your money back at the end of the maturation period? Big distillers aren’t going to buy casks off of random people to make their product, they’ve got the rest of the warehouse full of the stuff. So to get any return, you’re going to have to get it bottled, labelled and marketed yourself before you see any cash from “your” cask.
Just as bad as those rare coin scams: feel sorry for the victims.
Couple of years ago I saw these ads online to buy casks. I had a bit of money then and I was seriously considering it. Every time I scrolled on instagram or Reddit I’d see these ads pop up. One day I decided I’d submit an online form for a call back.
This guy was intense, he just kept on going and going and going. My rule with spending large sums of money is to at least get 3 quotes. I kept on telling him I’m only inquiring. He left me along for a few weeks and then randomly out of the blue calls again. This time I had worn out of the idea and my focus shifted. So thankful I didn’t fall for it.
Because the ads for these barrels were everywhere.
Terrible thing go happen, but I do struggle to have sympathy for anyone who invests all their savings in one thing. Have these people never heard the saying about not having all your eggs in one basket?
Sadly, this does not surprise me. I bought a legitimate investment in Springbank many years ago, and it did very well (we sold it recently), so I started looking into the possibility of re-investment into other whiskies, but all of the brokers I talked to seemed dodgy as fuck and refused to answer the sort of questions which a legitimate regulated investment business would be willing to answer.
As a general rule, if an ad uses AI imagery or advertises in those bottom of local news sites ad areas then don’t touch them at all.
Caveat emptor, especially when it concerns nest egg funds, sadly.
“Old School” sentencing has its merits as regards these serial hucksters.
Whisky barrel scams are trendy every ten years or so as people forget about the last one, she’s old enough to know better. I even worked on one [James Devereaux | Scotch Whisky](https://scotchwhisky.com/whiskypedia/3058/james-devereaux/) though they failed to mention why it was wound up, like selling barrels that did not exist.
oh my god i remember these adverts, the ai generated pictures were on a willy experience level
I always get these ads on reddit…
I don’t really have sympathy for people that fall for these scams. If it sounds too good …
Scammers should have the book thrown at them though.
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I see adverts for this crap every time I open a news article in an incognito window. It seems pretty rife.
Lots of them use AI art, usually a curly red haired young woman, as shown in the picture below (obvious flaws in the picture such as the barrels shows it’s AI)
https://preview.redd.it/lbb2seevc6re1.png?width=648&format=png&auto=webp&s=4457d2ea26d9030f000e80894aa6049e3b5b367a
Or other questionable artwork. This guy rolling the barrel looks the same in both pics which don’t look like they’re taken in the same place. Same haircut, same clothes. Very sus.
And this stuff is everywhere.
>She put her home in Brighton on the market so she could make investments to provide long-term security for her loved ones.
I mean surely keeping the home would have been the better choice for long term security.
I’ve found calling distilleries direct has been the best way to enquire about investing in casks.
Treat Internet ads the same way you do door to door sales people. With a healthy dose of skepticism.
Own your own barrel of whisky.
Become a Scottish Lord.
Own your own Star.
Be a part owner in XYZ fine art, and watch the value sky rocket.
Get a fucking grip.
Makes me think of that shite Bevi advert.
Seems that me there’s no checks on Directors who’ve been disqualified. If I want to open a credit card there’s all sorts of validation that needs done. Seems like the system is broken.
People are worried about retirement, it’s tough if you don’t have enough in the pot, and relying on government pension payouts is not enough, so people are desperate, and by nature are gullible and too trusting. These folks have stolen these people’s future, punishment should fit the crime.
Obviously this is bad, but the weird mixed metaphor quote at the end is hilarious.
>And they’re selling somebody a piece of paper, for a cask that just never existed.
>The sharks are circling. They know there’s blood. They can smell it.
>And unfortunately, in this particular case, the blood is whisky.
Labour introduced new measures yesterday to target investment scammers. The problem is that, as we seem to be at serious risk of Japanese style stagflation, people will be more attracted to investments that offer even modest returns that beat inflation no matter how dodgy they look.
This one time I was scammed into buying a HD-DVD adapter for the Xbox 360.
It never occurred to me to look into the studios supporting the format or the market share of the competition. I didn’t even know the competition existed.
Then I went horse racing and was scammed when I bet on a sure thing with 3:5 odds when the 50:1 won.
Next I brought bitcoin at the height of the market! I was told it’d only ever go up. Why would people lie to me?
My Avon business also never really took off.
The amazing thing is that after all the scandals of the past 40 years, people still willingly invest in unregulated investments. It boggles the mind really. No recourse if you lose your money either.
Remember if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is.
Mad aye. I seen a GP yesterday lost 200k in a crypto scam, when I see these things, I initially think “they didn’t grow up with the internet, maybe they don’t fully understand it” then I realise, I’m 43 and I didn’t grow up with the internet, and I don’t act like a money hungry idiot the minute I see an advert with a pretty Scottish girl advertising whisky, or “Sara Cox” saying how she made so much from crypto.
These folk are idiots, pure and simple. I have little sympathy for them. They see a “get rich quick scheme” and lose their head. If you don’t do your research when investing huge amounts of money, you deserve to get scammed quite frankly.
Always do your homework especially when it comes to handing over huge sums of money to someone-company you don’t know. You have to feel for these poor souls they could be our parents.
Invest in sp500 that gives roughly 10% annual return with isa up to 20k a year tax free? Naaaahhhh…. I will go and send 100k to random company that I have not even read about or researched and they will buy me a barrel and keep it that will make me rich one day….
I guess if you are that thick you deserve to be scammed… How you even managed to save so much money with intellect like that.
Some people surprises me too much. Why you going into something you have no clue about? Especially giving all your remaining money. I get it, being scammed for few hundred, it happens, but all your life savings?
The real money will be in the financialisation of financialisation scams.
I’m telling you now the value of lost investments is only going to go **UP AND UP**. Invest now with me for as little as £10k and it *could* be worth up to £150,000 in your retirement.
*Click here to listen to my shit podcast*
**BUY my 10-step guide on being the sort of wanker that really just markets AI written 10-step guides to idiots like you**
Hundreds of idiots.
You can invest in whisky barrels, and you can get good payoffs.
But like every investment in existence, more reward means more risk. And whisky casks are particularly risky.
You could end up opening the cask in 12 years to find it’s a shit barrel and you’ve got nothing.
The massive payoffs come from getting a particularly good batch. And the distiller isn’t going to be selling as many barrels when they have a good season for the grains or whatever.
You aren’t going to be able to beat the distillers in whisky. If it’s good they won’t give it up.
You’d fair better investing all your money in copper or something
It’s sad to see this come around again. I remember “Invest in whisky casks” being a common scam about 20 years ago.
It’s not even as if the pitch makes sense, when you think about it. Even if the whisky actually exists, how are you expected to get your money back at the end of the maturation period? Big distillers aren’t going to buy casks off of random people to make their product, they’ve got the rest of the warehouse full of the stuff. So to get any return, you’re going to have to get it bottled, labelled and marketed yourself before you see any cash from “your” cask.
Just as bad as those rare coin scams: feel sorry for the victims.
Couple of years ago I saw these ads online to buy casks. I had a bit of money then and I was seriously considering it. Every time I scrolled on instagram or Reddit I’d see these ads pop up. One day I decided I’d submit an online form for a call back.
This guy was intense, he just kept on going and going and going. My rule with spending large sums of money is to at least get 3 quotes. I kept on telling him I’m only inquiring. He left me along for a few weeks and then randomly out of the blue calls again. This time I had worn out of the idea and my focus shifted. So thankful I didn’t fall for it.
Because the ads for these barrels were everywhere.
Terrible thing go happen, but I do struggle to have sympathy for anyone who invests all their savings in one thing. Have these people never heard the saying about not having all your eggs in one basket?
Sadly, this does not surprise me. I bought a legitimate investment in Springbank many years ago, and it did very well (we sold it recently), so I started looking into the possibility of re-investment into other whiskies, but all of the brokers I talked to seemed dodgy as fuck and refused to answer the sort of questions which a legitimate regulated investment business would be willing to answer.
As a general rule, if an ad uses AI imagery or advertises in those bottom of local news sites ad areas then don’t touch them at all.
Caveat emptor, especially when it concerns nest egg funds, sadly.
“Old School” sentencing has its merits as regards these serial hucksters.
Whisky barrel scams are trendy every ten years or so as people forget about the last one, she’s old enough to know better. I even worked on one [James Devereaux | Scotch Whisky](https://scotchwhisky.com/whiskypedia/3058/james-devereaux/) though they failed to mention why it was wound up, like selling barrels that did not exist.
oh my god i remember these adverts, the ai generated pictures were on a willy experience level
I always get these ads on reddit…
I don’t really have sympathy for people that fall for these scams. If it sounds too good …
Scammers should have the book thrown at them though.
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