Barrister Roy (Philip) Markson
Complaint 74866 Details

Attorney(Barrister) Philip Markson contacted me by email telling me his late client, Alan Bourn, had died having no heirs to leave is estate to and wanted Barrister Markson to give his estate worth several hundred thousand dollars to someone who had the same last name. the banking establishment needed a fee to release the funds and I told Markson to use the inheritance monies to pay the fee. He told me that is not the way the banking system works in the UK and if I could not come up with the money he could find an investor who could transfer money into my account to cover the cost of the fees. They sent a check instead and my credit union in Hawaii had to put a hold on it for a couple of weeks to verify the funds. A couple of weeks later the funds were verified and released to me. When this happened I contacted the barrister for further instructions. He had me direct deposit the funds into a bank in China and when I asked about it being a China bank he told me it is one of their trading banks and not to worry. Four months later of course after the money is gone I find out that the check was a fraud and I would be responsible for repayment. I then contacted the barrister and again he reassured me that all was fine and when I got the money from the estate we could easily repay and since we still had not quite enough money a different investor would direct deposit money into my account and I had returned to the mainland and the deposit was scheduled to be wire-transferred into my Oregon credit union. Instead of the direct transfer I was expecting, a check was issued to my account. Note here that I did not sign this check. Once again I had to wait for the check to clear... having the previous problem I asked the investor if I was going to have the same type of experience as previously happened and he assured me that this is not the case...much to my distress I found that he lied as had all the others and now I owe $51,000 plus interest. I have been unemployed and immobilized by this mountain of debt and no inheritance to cover the investments.