FCM

76 days ago

The fraudster’s pals at First Class Metals forced into a death spiral on steroids

There are three reasons that First Class Metals (FCM) will struggle to do a conventional funding: piss poor early stage assets, a discredited management team and, above all, the massive overhand of shares eld by the administrators of the failed ponzi, the 79th Group. So today it has announced a vicious death spiral to keep the lights on and allow a token amount of drilling.

98 days ago

Does the FCA ever talk to the FCA: the 79th Group and First Class Metals debacle

The Times is today reporting that the FCA first reported its suspicions that the 79th Group was a ponzi fraud to law enforcement agencies eight months before it collapsed in May 2025 with a black hole of 200 million quid emerging. That means that by September or October last year it knew that the 79th was a con. However…

161 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: One of my detractors foiled by Wrexham Council and a couple of words for Catriona and her dad

I start with someone's cunning plan to cause me problems which has been foiled. Then to the 30 year gilt yield and what it means, then what, with hindsight, will be seen as what cracks the bitcoin in treasury bubble and I cover a few names notably London Bitcoin Company (BTC) and Vaultz Capital (V3TC) and finally to the woes of the fraudsters' buddies at First Class Metals (FCM).

238 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast No2: what's the difference between Hemogenyx and syphilis?

One is a disgusting disease and the other is a STI. Boom. Boom. I start with the latter and end with the former. In between I look in detail at the ludicrous AIM IPO of SundaeBar (SBAR) ,a £41m disgrace from Roland "Fatty" Cornish and the Bixby/Edwards gang, at MJ Gleeson (GLE) and the wider housebuilding sector and at First Class Metals (FCM) as it rapidly runs out of cash obtained from the proceeds of crime.

271 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Rowing with the school about poisoning the kids & how Totally is totally fecked

Good luck to all those involved i today's elections but especially to my pal the PR bruiser David Bick flying the Reform flag in Norfolk. Then it is onto a row with the headmistress of Jaya's school about how it is colluding with big food to poison the kids. The First Class Metals (FCM) which shareholders are in denial and Totally (TLY) which is totally fecked.I ponder the raft of suspensions today and consider why and I discuss why, pro tem, I am off the road.. 

272 days ago

BREAKING: 79th Group goes bust, administrators called in, First Class Metals in total denial, misleading investors

Late last night First Class Metals (FCM) snuck out its calendar 2024 results at no-one is watching O’Clock. Quite simply it was an exercise in denial regarding the ponzi fraud the 79th Group, its 41% shareholder. First Class opines:

277 days ago

A warning for 79th Group Investors, Buy 2 Let Cars Limited – the ponzi scheme huge scale of losses revealed

There are still folks out there, not least shareholders in First Class Metals (FCM) protesting that all will be well with the 79th Group ponzi fraud and that I know nothing about mini bonds and am talking out of my posterior. I think that if I go on Mastermind, mini bond ponzi frauds might just be my specialist subject if they do not allow questions on the life, loves and songs of Ms Cheryl Cole . One mini bond fraud that I exposed in October 2019 and where, natch, the FCA did SFA to protect investors was the Buy2Let cars, an £88 million fraud.

278 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Blur vs Oasis in 2025 and Alan Miller's first marital misfortune, my escape

I look back to the era of Britpop as I look at the Optibiotix (OPTI) vs Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX) split among you HERE. Then it is TekCapital (TEK), Microsalt (SALT), First Class Metals (FCM) and Eco Buildings (ECOB)

288 days ago

Jonnieboy does not like me but he loves First Class Metals and his impending poverty

https://shareprophets.com/views/79917/jonnieboy-does-not-like-me-but-he-loves-first-class-metals-and-his-impending-poverty

292 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Even Trustpilot has abandoned the 79th group fraudsters: the moral bankruptcy of James Knowles and Novum

Even Trustpilot (TRST) can see the game us up for the 709th Group fraudsters. You need a heart of stone not to weep at the last review which is below. But First Class Metals (FCM) and Novum do not give a FF about vulnerable old folks cleaned out and dying in misery and poverty thanks to 79th. 

302 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: If only there'd been a technical analyst on board to warn folks about a 95% share price collapse

That silly woman from Shares Magazine probably thinks it is racist to make that Zak Mir/Lift Global Ventures (LFT) joke again but it is good enough as the shares plunge to a new low to make it yet again. But seriously folks, I ten turn to Marechale Capital (MAC), the upper class twit of the year 2012-24 and Weardale Lithium, Ariana (AAU),.First Class Metals (FCM), Cirata (CRTA) and Aston Martin (AML)(, both of which are still shorts. I also look at gold stocks as gold hits a new high of $3,123 oz.

302 days ago

GOTCHA!: First Class Metals, bent chairman goes, funding crisis as ponzi 79th cannot back phase 2 placing

The amazing thing is that David Webster, the founder of ponzi fraud the 79th Group had been arrested as part of Operation Mold BEFORE he was appointed as chairman of First Class Metals (FCM), First’s board knew this as did scumbag advisor Novum but they went ahead anyway knowing that without the 79th taking its stake to 50% via a placing at 1.7p, First was bust. Today, after the weekend revelations, Webster has resigned with immediate effect.

304 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast No 2- surely heads must roll at First Class Metals, Novum and at the FCA after today's exposes

I am not sure that pleading incompetence is enough. First Class Metals (FCM) shares must now be suspended and heads must roll there at the scumbag advisor Novum and at the FCA after today's two exposes on this website about the 79th Group, Steven Knight and Gary Webster

304 days ago

79th Group and the Gibraltar Fraudsters looking after its “assets” how did the FCA and Novum miss this?

In allowing the mini bond fraudsters at the 79th Group to take a 50% stake in First Class Metals (FCM) the FCA approved a prospectus submitted by the scoundrels at Novum Securities. Both the FCA and Novum will have claimed to have done due diligence even though Stevie Wonder could see that the 79th was a ponzi. Well how did they miss that the 79th claimed assets had been looked after by a proven serial fraudster Steven Knight via Gibraltar regulated but UK operating Castle Trust & Management Services.

324 days ago

EXPOSE: Why bother with an RNS when you can lie to investors via social media?

If my company had just secured funding for high risk very early stage exploration activity and I discovered that the cash had come from financially naïve marks who thought that they were investing in a safe bond with capital guaranteed and paying 15% interest, I’d not be able to sleep at night. But James Knowles, MD of First Class Metals (FCM) is morally bankrupt. And he is now shown also to be a liar.

328 days ago

Fraudsters at 79th Group deny they are ponzi fraudsters: well they would wouldn’t they?

Is that Christine Keeler or Mandy Rice Davies? I can never remember. It makes no odds, 79th is going down big time. The City of London fuzz, who I’ve met and know well, do not launch a formal operation (Mold), raid homes and arrest four chaps without really good cause.

328 days ago

Video: Clownish CEO thinks one should take financial advice from Bulletin Board Morons and ignore TW who is just a "mud slinger"

Quoting someone making a comment on a Bulletin Board as a reason to buy shares in your company is quite remarkable. Perhaps this CEO does not realise that Bulletin Board Morons are not exactly qualified asset managers? But there is worse.

328 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast No1: the shares are collapsing and the silence is deafening, where are scumbag advisors Novum and the useless FCA?

Yes it is back to the mini bond ponzi fraud scandal the 79th Group and to First Class Metals (FCM). I explain why the 79th must collapse either soon or not quite so soon and why First must accept that, issue an RNS and brace itself for its own shares, already falling fast, to crash. .

330 days ago

SHOCKING EXPOSE: 79th Group – the hidden £43 million of UK trading losses, did nobody at the FCA, Novum or First Class do any due diligence?

The news broken HERE yesterday that the 79th Group appears to have been a scam might not have been such a surprise if the dubious quality advisers who persuaded their clients to lend them money if the advisers or their investees had done some research. The first major red flag is that 79th Grp isn’t registered with the UK regulator, the FCA. So it was conducting unauthorised investment business. How the feck did the FCA then approve a prospectus allowing to to seize control of First Class Metals (FCM). It gets worse.

330 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast No 1: First Class Metals now a near zero, this scandal is appalling, naming names

I will shortly be publishing a piece on the accounts of mini bond fraudsters 79th Group, now the subject of a Police investigation with arrests made. It now owns 50% of First Class Metals (FCM) and its boss is First's new chairman, appointed after the arrests were made public. I name the names of those who have fecked it up, the crooks and explain why First is now toast.

330 days ago

Photo article: Meet the muscle behind the 79th Group

The world of small cap mining exploration is used to scandal. Knaves abound as advisors, financiers and directors. But even grizzled veterans of this scene where shocked and aghast at the First Class Metals (FCM)/ 79th Group scandal exposed HERE last night. So who are the chaps who promise naive investors a safe bond yielding 15% and ten put the cash into shit like First Class? The Webster family own the business but meet the team…

330 days ago

BREAKING: First Class Metals PLC knowingly going under control of company under fraud investigation, arrests made

It takes a lot to shock me but events today at First Class Metals (FCM) on the main market are just so truly appalling that I cannot see h9w advisor Novum has allowed a shambles like this to occur. Where on earth is the FCA?