person My account home Investment Trust Centre search Menu menu Home Investor Risk Warning  We use cookies to help improve your online experience. By using this site, you agree that we may store and access cookies on your device. You can change your cookie settings at any time.  Be alert to share fraud and boiler room scams We have been contacted by investors informing us that they have received telephone calls from people who have offered to buy their investment company shares, purporting to work for abrdn or third party firms. These may be scams which attempt to gain your personal information with which to commit identity fraud or could be ‘boiler room’ scams where a payment from you is required to release the supposed payment for your shares. These callers do not work for abrdn and any third party making such offers has no link with abrdn. abrdn never makes these types of offers and does not ‘cold-call’ investors in this way. If you have any doubt over the veracity of a person purporting to work for abrdn , do not offer any personal information, end the call and contact our investor services centre using the details on our Contact Us page. The Financial Conduct Authority provides advice with respect to share fraud and boiler room scams: www.fca.org.uk/consumers/scams. Warning 1: Arden Asset Management We have been contacted by investors informing us that they have received telephone calls from individuals purporting to work for Arden Asset Management Limited (a company acquired by Aberdeen in 2015). These individuals are contacting victims of a previously successful boiler room scam and promising that they can recover the money lost. The caller may ask for personal information, bank details, or ask for a payment in order to facilitate returning the money. Please be aware that this is a scam and in no way connected with or affiliated to abrdn. abrdn and Arden do not does not offer such arrangements and does not contact individuals in this way. The Financial Conduct Authority provides advice with respect to share fraud and boiler room scams: https://www.fca.org.uk/news/warnings/arden-asset-management-limited. Warning 2: Carbon Credit We have become aware of a scam affecting the owners of Carbon Credits. Individuals purporting to represent either abrdn or Arden Asset Management (a company acquired by Aberdeen in 2015) are contacting investors with Carbon Credits stating that in order to facilitate an enforced sale of their investment they are required to open and pay money into a bond run by Arden Asset Management. As part of this, you are asked to provide personal information and bank details in order to facilitate the sale. You may also receive accompanying paperwork via post and call backs where you are asked to provide further information, including your bank details. Please be aware that this is a scam and in no way connected with or affiliated to abrdn. abrdn does not offer such arrangements and does not contact individuals in this way. Warning 3: ‘Aberdeen Trust’ We have been contacted by investors informing us that they have received telephone calls from individuals purporting to work for a company called ‘Aberdeen Trust’. This company has offered to buy investors existing shareholdings or invest money on their behalf which would offer guaranteed returns. These may be scams which attempt to gain your personal information with which to commit identity fraud or could be ‘boiler room’ scams where a payment from you is required either to release the supposed payment for your shares or to invest. These callers do not work for abrdn and any third party making such offers has no link with abrdn. The Financial Conduct Authority provides advice with respect to share fraud and boiler room scams: www.fca.org.uk/news/warnings/aberdeen-trust. Warning 4: LinkedIn We have become aware of an individual offering false lease agreements through email using the name and logo of abrdn. This individual is also using a profile on the website LinkedIn which suggests he is an abrdn member of staff to lend credibility to his approach. abrdn does not offer such agreements and will not contact the public in this way to offer such. Please also note that although our staff will use LinkedIn for networking purposes they never make contact with prospective clients or offer unsolicited business proposals via the site.  Risk warning The value of investments and the income from them can go down as well as up and you may get back less than the amount invested. Please refer to the relevant Key Information Document (KID) prior to making an investment decision. Please be aware of scams that can affect investors. © abrdn Read the detailed risk warning Legal notice Cookie policy Privacy Security Legal and regulatory information Accessibility Contact us Legal Notice NMPI Status The Company currently conducts its affairs so that securities issued by UK Commercial Property REIT Limited can be recommended by financial advisers to ordinary retail investors in accordance with the FCA’s rules in relation to non-mainstream pooled investment products (NMPIs) and intends to continue to do so for the foreseeable future. The Company's securities are excluded from the FCA's restrictions which apply to non-mainstream investment products because the company would qualify as an investment trust if the company were based in the UK. Pre-investment Disclosure Document (PIDD) The Alternative Investment Fund Manager Directive ("AIFMD") requires Aberdeen Standard Fund Managers Limited, as the alternative investment fund manager of UK Commercial Property REIT, to make available to investors certain information prior to such investors' investment in the Company. The AIFMD is intended to offer increased protection to investors in investment products that do not fall under the existing European Union regime for regulation of investment products known as "UCITS". Read the PIDD for UK Commerical Property REIT Aberdeen Asset Managers Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom. The information contained in this website does not constitute an offer of, or an invitation to apply for securities in any jurisdiction where such an offer or invitation is unlawful, or in which the person making such an offer is not qualified to do so. Aberdeen Asset Managers accepts no responsibility for the content of any external web sites. ABERDEEN ASSET MANAGERS LIMITED: 10 Queens Terrace, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, AB10 1XL Company No. SC108419