I have been approached by a firm calling itself St James and Thatcher Associates and have been advised to buy IPO shares in Slipstream Video. Has anyone any knowledge of these firms? They both seem dodgy to me.

Stan, you leave my mother's name out of this!

...Well I never -):

I have been receiving a lot of calls form Bishopsgate Capital recently, although they have died down now.

They are NOT on the FSA list, but they come across as Essex used car salesmen, and if you ask a question you can easily catch them out.

City Equities haven't rung for about a month now either.