Finance Monthly fabricated an interview with me

Earlier this week, Finance Monthly published an article presented as an interview with me. No such interview took place. I was not contacted. I did not answer questions. The claim that Finance Monthly “spoke with” me is false.

The piece reads like generic AI/large-language-model output: heavy use of em dashes, and lots of vague grand-sounding generalisations. The other interviews found⚠️ on the website look similar – I don’t know if the interviews are real (but written up with AI) or entirely fake, like mine.

Finance Monthly was previously best known for issuing fake awards for cash. In 2017, a reporter from RollOnFriday nominated a fake Cypriot water taxi business for a “Finance Monthly Game Changers” award. It won, and was offered a £2,495 “winners’ package”. The following year, RollOnFriday submitted a fake Nigerian firm; it also won after Finance Monthly’s “research department” claimed to have conducted “extensive reviews”.

Finance Monthly now seems to have diversified – as well as fake interviews, it carries promotion for dubious cryptocurrency providers. One of of these appears to be an investment fraud. Supposedly it’s “cloud-based cryptocurrency mining”, but the figures are impossible. Cryptocurrency mining is a low margin commodity business. This doesn’t stop the Finance Monthly article from promising a return of 74% in 38 days, which equates to a 200x return over a year – pure fantasy. The editors of Finance Monthly either didn’t read this or don’t understand the basics of finance and investment.

I emailed Finance Monthly asking why they published a fake interview with me. They did not respond. Shortly before this article was published, the page was removed without explanation.

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