{"id":6603,"date":"2018-08-29T08:22:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T12:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6603"},"modified":"2018-09-06T09:46:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T13:46:26","slug":"senior-citizens-in-florida-reportedly-scammed-into-investing-in-fake-fish-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/senior-citizens-in-florida-reportedly-scammed-into-investing-in-fake-fish-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Citizens in Florida Reportedly Scammed into Investing in Fake Fish Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6604 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Senior-Citizens-in-Florida-Reportedly-Scammed-into-Investing-in-Fake-Fish-Farm-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"Senior Citizens in Florida Reportedly Scammed into Investing in Fake Fish Farm on silverlaw.com\" width=\"331\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Senior-Citizens-in-Florida-Reportedly-Scammed-into-Investing-in-Fake-Fish-Farm-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Senior-Citizens-in-Florida-Reportedly-Scammed-into-Investing-in-Fake-Fish-Farm-768x392.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Senior-Citizens-in-Florida-Reportedly-Scammed-into-Investing-in-Fake-Fish-Farm-1024x523.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Senior-Citizens-in-Florida-Reportedly-Scammed-into-Investing-in-Fake-Fish-Farm-1000x511.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Senior-Citizens-in-Florida-Reportedly-Scammed-into-Investing-in-Fake-Fish-Farm-235x120.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Senior-Citizens-in-Florida-Reportedly-Scammed-into-Investing-in-Fake-Fish-Farm.jpg 1047w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/>Several older investors reportedly fell victim to the scam, including a former police officer<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From 2013 to 2014, several senior citizens living in South Florida invested over $400,000 in Blue Ocean Farm, a fish farm company. Three purported financial professionals reportedly solicited funds for the farm \u2013 Rebecca Gonzalez and Matthew Braun of Boca Raton and Michael Creamer of St. Petersburg. There was just one problem: the Florida Department of Law Enforcement says that the company was completely <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mypalmbeachpost.com\/news\/crime--law\/just-trio-bilked-elderly-investors-with-phony-fish-farm-scheme-fdle-says\/pDMN8StHeZoJEBlS0xzhMN\/\"  rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bogus<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The scheme was allegedly spearheaded by Gonzalez, and now she, Braun, and Creamer are facing several charges, including fraud, selling unregistered securities, and the sale of securities by an unregistered person. The trio reportedly targeted six older investors, all of which handed over thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/senior-citizens-in-florida-reportedly-scammed-into-investing-in-fake-fish-farm\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Senior Citizens in Florida Reportedly Scammed into Investing in Fake Fish Farm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several older investors reportedly fell victim to the scam, including a former police officer From 2013 to 2014, several senior citizens living in South Florida invested over $400,000 in Blue Ocean Farm, a fish farm company. Three purported financial professionals reportedly solicited funds for the farm \u2013 Rebecca Gonzalez and Matthew Braun of Boca Raton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[670,582,588,577,592,612,591,587,880],"tags":[1220],"class_list":["post-6603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-binary-options","category-elder-fraud","category-finra-arbitration","category-finra-disciplinary-actions","category-finra-investor-alert","category-forex-trading","category-misappropriation","category-mutual-funds","category-pension-fraud","tag-investing-in-fake-fish-farm"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Senior Citizens in Florida Reportedly Scammed into Investing in Fake Fish Farm &#8212; Securities Arbitration Lawyers Blog &#8212; 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