Boiler room scam netted £100m selling fake shares

摘要

A British man who last month admitted running an alleged £100 million scam selling fake shares to gullible investors in the UK from his base in the US could go to jail for 20 years. Richard Pope, 53; was behind an international criminal gang that successfully targeted more than 2,300 victims after stealing the identities of dormant US companies and selling them their non-existent shares.