Investor Who Lost More Than $700,000 Warns Public Against Investment Promoter Phil Wilkinson

An investor who says schemes promoted by Phil Wilkinson cost him more than $700,000 has issued a blunt public warning, describing Mr Wilkinson as a deceitful, short-tempered operator who pushed him into one fraudulent opportunity after another.

The investor dealt with Mr Wilkinson directly between 2022 and 2024. He says the losses came from a string of investment “opportunities” that Mr Wilkinson sourced, vouched for and handled personally. He is not the only one. A second investor has separately confirmed losing more than $300,000 through opportunities Mr Wilkinson provided.

His advice to anyone Mr Wilkinson approaches is short. Cut ties straight away, before you lose more.

Who Phil Wilkinson claims to be

Mr Wilkinson trades as P Wilkinson International and presents himself as a well-connected financial intermediary with, in his own words, access to “pretty much anything financial.” He has operated from a Jersey address and moved between the United Kingdom, Dubai and Thailand over the period the investor knew him.

In conversations he drew a sharp line between “regulated” and “unregulated” firms and pushed both, name-dropping funds, ultra-high-net-worth contacts and, on one occasion, “the Saudi public fund.” According to the investor, the relaxed, matey manner was itself the pitch. The investor says Mr Wilkinson holds no genuine financial qualifications he was ever able to verify.

On his own LinkedIn profile Mr Wilkinson lists himself in St Helier, Jersey, and describes himself not as a regulated financial adviser but as a “sales professional” in oil and gas, agriculture and trading. It was through that same LinkedIn profile, the Jersey regulator later said, that he was offering investment opportunities he was never authorised to provide.

The schemes that wiped out the money

Over roughly two years Mr Wilkinson moved the investor through a series of investment deals that he presented as credible, well-sourced and backed by people he personally vouched for. He handled the introductions, the paperwork and the communications. Several of those deals have left the investor unable to recover his money.

The largest loss is now a legal matter

The investor’s single biggest loss went into an overseas gold-mining venture that Mr Wilkinson promoted harder than anything else. The investor now regards that investment as misrepresentation. Because the matter is in the hands of lawyers, it is not detailed further here.

A gold deal with a man later convicted of fraud

In October 2023 Mr Wilkinson introduced the investor to Roberto Divkovic and a gold-financing scheme run through Mr Divkovic’s company, which traded as “Infinite Precious Metals.” Mr Wilkinson vouched for Mr Divkovic as “very transparent and trustworthy” and pressed the investor to put money into the scheme in cryptocurrency.

When the investor stopped, Wilkinson turned on him

In March 2025, after the investor had refused further deals, Mr Wilkinson emailed to say he could recover the lost gold-deal money, but only if the investor first paid a fee he would not explain or evidence. He would not put in writing who he had supposedly spoken to, or what had been recovered.

“The €14000 fee is for the collection of your €100k … Pay the £10k and you receive €100k or nothing … you come from a silver spoon, I come from the streets. Just try me, I dare you.

Fraud investigators have a name for this. It is an advance-fee scam, where a target is told to pay money up front to release funds that are already gone, with no proof of recovery and, here, a threat at the end. The investor did not pay.

The investor’s warning

Asked what he would say to the next person Mr Wilkinson contacts, the investor did not hesitate.

“Do not invest in any of Phil Wilkinson’s schemes. They are most likely fraudulent and you will lose all your money. He is a liar, he is deceitful, and the moment you question him his temper comes out. He will push you to invest as fast as possible. Cut ties with him straight away, before you lose more.

Financial authorities are now after him

The investor’s account is not the only warning on the record. The Jersey Financial Services Commission, the financial regulator for Jersey, has publicly named Mr Wilkinson and issued a public warning against dealing with him or P Wilkinson International. The Commission has asked anyone who has had dealings with Mr Wilkinson, or who holds information about him, to come forward and contact its enforcement team directly.

What to do if Phil Wilkinson approaches you

The investor’s message is the same one the documents point to. Do not invest. Do not send money, and never send cryptocurrency on his word. If he is already in your contacts, cut ties now rather than waiting for the next “opportunity.”

Anyone who has already handed money to Mr Wilkinson or P Wilkinson International should speak to their own lawyer and report it to the police, and can also contact the Jersey Financial Services Commission, which has asked to hear from anyone who has dealt with him. Before trusting any promoter, check whether they are actually authorised on the relevant regulator’s public register. Mr Wilkinson never was.

This article is based on the first-hand account of an investor who dealt with Phil Wilkinson directly, supported by his own correspondence and other documents, and on the Jersey Financial Services Commission’s public statement of 13 March 2026. The Vienna fraud proceedings against Roberto Divkovic are a matter of court record. Characterisations of Mr Wilkinson’s conduct reflect the investors’ own testimony and opinion.