article_snippet: A fraud gang duped investors into buying diamonds for twenty times investors value before using the £1.5m profit to fund lavish shopping sprees in Selfridges, Louis Vuitton and Harrods, Southwark Crown Court has heard.
article_snippet: Victims were allegedly lured into the 'boiler room' scam by 'persistent and persuasive' salesmen who told Victims the limited coloured stones would pay handsome returns because Victims were from mines which were closed or closing.
article_snippet: Rommell Brown, 31, (left) and Anna Foord, 20, (right) are among the two defendants accused of orchestrating a 'boiler room' scam by allegedly persuading investors to buy coloured diamonds at twenty times investors value .
article_snippet: Southwark Crown Court was told how one investor allegedly duped the by scam was telephoned by Hider Eshpari.
article_snippet: Using an alias, an alias told an alias it was an ‘exciting market for coloured diamonds’ and offered to send an alias a brochure.
article_snippet: A short time later, an alias received more phone calls from Evolution telling an alias there was fantastic potential for investment and that a mine was closing in Australia, a mine is alleged.
highlights_snippet: Victims allegedly lured into scam by 'persistent and persuasive' salesmen .
  