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Cambridge Financial Advisors LLC

Walter Dunning Larrick III

ReportedAug 23, 2023
LocationCorpus Christi, TX
Amount$3,600,000

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Company / entity
Cambridge Financial Advisors LLC
Industry
Commodity pool (futures and options on futures)
How investors were recruited
Cold calls to prospects from Costa Rican call centers whose callers posed as sales associates or traders, backed by the cambridgefinancials.com website and marketing materials; one caller posed as an SEC representative
Pitch & red flags
claimed "20 years in business" and a "profitable returns history"; hedging strategy profitable regardless of price direction; discounted "block" purchases of natural gas, oil and gold; withdraw anytime

Pitch phrases from this case

Source

CFTC official

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