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These guys are INSISTENT.  I'm in the UK and they phone me every couple of months. For some reason they don't disable Call ID, so I see them coming. On the earliest occasions, when I did answer, they were so desperate to keep me on the line it was like talking to a drowning man.  Tough!

I live mostly in the UK and was called by these people on my cellphone number, pushing the "hot tip" as below. I never deal with firms without getting something in writing (=email) and got the following extraordinary claim, which as a former financial journalist makes no sense to me. I therefore replied asking why I just don't deal with them from their alleged London office, to which I received no written reply, but I have received two or three calls at inconvenient times which I have not answered. I have since searced the UK's Financial Conduct Authority registry of UK firms and do come up with a Laidlaw & Company International at 41 Dover Street, London, W1S 4NS
Phone: +44 20 7399 3390
[email protected]
www.laidlawltd.com

Their email to me read:
Laidlaw & Company
Member FINRA, SIPC
Office of Thomas Suarez
201 Old Country Rd, Suite 101
Melville, NY 11747

Dear Sir

Thank you for the reply back. We are a London based firm with a U.S. clearing agent. When you establish your account here you'll receive a W8 which will preclude you from paying withholding taxes here in the U.S.. As per your request I've attached some articles regarding the company TIVO (TIVO) we had discussed that I think you might find interesting. Please review at your earliest convenience.

Get at least one call per week on my cell phone after lunch time.

A person identifying himself as Alex Quogan tried to call just now but my PA was smart enough to not pass him through.
I have had a very negative experience with these guys and their predecessors over the years. Absolutely none of their recommendations have been even remotely worthwhile. As one other commentator mentioned, they are persistent - they discovered my new number (from Linkedin I suspect since I saw someone from Laidlaw had been checking my profile) and I am in Brazil!

sadly the do not call list NEVER worked. don't think it was ever intended to work.