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Old 24th Feb 2015, 17:26
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The Famous Mark Lamb

A company director who was charged by Lincolnshire Police with fraud offenses totaling more than £5 million has appeared at Lincoln Crown Court.
Alan Chandler spoke only to confirm his name during a preliminary hearing which lasted just five minutes.
The court heard Chandler previously used the name Mark Lamb, but changed his identity by deed poll.
Chandler, 40, was charged in January after an investigation by the Economic Crime Unit of Lincolnshire Police.
He is charged is charged with six offenses of fraud by false representation, two charges of using a false instrument with intent it be accepted as genuine, one charge of fraud by abuse of position and one charge of theft by employee.
Lincolnshire Police said the charges concerned Mr Chandler’s alleged conduct as a director of Soleil Holdings Ltd and associated companies.
All of the alleged offences happened in Stamford between August 1, 2008 and February 13, 2013.
No pleas were entered and Chandler, of Torrance Drive, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, was granted unconditional bail.
He will next appear at Lincoln Crown Court for a plea and case management hearing on May 29.
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Old 24th Feb 2015, 20:58
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If you want Mark Lamb look at my post his address is there. If you want the man dealing with the case contact me
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was Mark Lamb in the U.S.???

Can anyone confirm if this Mark Lamb, AKA Alan Chandler was in the U.S.? maybe Louisiana and Texas and possibly the North East?

From reading this thread he most certainly sounds like the chap I met in Houston Texas around the Spring of 2009. He was working for a friend of mine at a small flight school as an instructor... Tallish Lanky guy with dark hair.

First time I met him was when my friend who owned the company invited him along to a bar when I was in town... Apparently when I first said his name I didn't quite use the correct "English" accent (not surprising as i'm from the U.S) for his name and proceeded to publicly correct my pronunciation of his name in a more "English" accent. My friend and I still joke about that incident so many years later.

About 2 months later my friend asked me what I thought about him... I told her that he seemed very evasive about his background... and I also told her that I didn't think he had a legal work permit and most certainly wasn't a citizen of the U.S. She mentioned that he'd become quite demanding and seemed to want to take more control of her company.

I took a little closer look into him and his work with her company, About 2 weeks later I caught him red handed stealing from her company. Kinda sad after all that she'd done for him.
I told her to directly ask him about his immigration status...

Mark hightailed it out of Texas and the last anyone had heard he was somewhere up in the North East.

It might not be the same Mark... but chances are... English guy named Mark, flies helicopters and (was also good at IT, one of the reasons he also got hired at my friends company) is a Con man...

Incidentally, I actually think he was using a different last name when he was in the U.S. However, after discussing it with my friend she came to the conclusion that it was a fake last name...

Wonder who he's conning right now.
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Old 4th Mar 2015, 15:13
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I always wanted to get into the fabulous Apache, and Zap a few baddies, well this guy just might have shown me the way.

I'll send a post card, from somewhere, or any were or where ever any one who will give me the keys, ..never thought it would be so easy.
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Old 15th May 2016, 20:01
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Mark Lamb

Just a quick reply to one of the posts here. Mark lamb was in no way a partner or had anything to do with Group 3 Aviation in LA. He is a fraud and a crook. He was actually arrested by Los Angeles Police at Group 3 Aviation back in 1999. He was actually handcuffed in front of a lot of people and escorted out to the LAPD Van Nuys station in a black and white patrol car. Some of the people who were there that day included all his Virgin Atlantic buddies who he had also scammed into thinking he was the owner of Group 3 Aviation. He managed to humiliate them by association when LAPD detained them all as well. He actually tried to embezzle money from Group 3 but was caught by the owner. He also lied about owning the Group 3 owner's home. Group 3 was contacted by Lincoln UK police about Mark Lamb. He has scammed so many people. He has hurt a lot of people. Stay clear of this guy - he will charm his way into your bank account and you will be left sorry. BTW he was not tall and not skinny. He is British and he was overweight and unhealthy looking.
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hmmmm

Just checked an old email address and saw a PM related to this subject sent to me a couple of months ago digging about the story.

@cee_ell: I actually met him for the first time on VS flt to LA when I was going out to visit my ex. Whatever he was doing out there, it took him to LA 3 or 4 times a year so whenever we were in town together we would take an R44 out from Group 3. His story was that he was big mukkas with Peter Lowry and had a residency permit for the US based on having made a major investment in G3 as a "silent partner". the fact that his name didn't appear anywhere on their website wasn't a major drama if he was a silent partner, so I let it pass.

On one occasion (I can't remember if this was either Dec 1999 or Dec 2000 - so are you sure about the alleged arrest date?) he arranged for us, and some friends from the UK to take an R44 from Group 3 out to Catalena, but it was short lived because we got as far as LAX and had to put down for 3 hours waiting for a Wx system to pass. In the end we didn't have the time to get there and back so returned to Van Nuys where Peter took him to one side and half an hour later Mark left the room looking quite red faced. We ended up going back to the VS crew hotel where he was staying - and that seemed to be how he knew a few of the crews because he knew all of the VS layover hotels and seemed to find ways to get invited back to the rooms where the hotel put on the crew buffet for the incoming/outgoing crews to get something to eat on the change over. his line was he knew them from having done a lot of flying with the pilots, but he seemed to know more cabin crew than anything else.

He also claimed at various points to have been involved in various Virgin businesses. I know he was doing some IT contracting for Virgin Energy as a start up, but also claimed to be involved in "Virgin Helicopters" - not that I had ever come across such a venture.

In 2004 I was back in LA for the final time and called in at G3 to have a chat with them about doing some hour building/training and mentioned I knew Mark and got cold shouldered, but without explanation.

As for appearance: he is/was about 5'8", stocky with fair hair. He also blinks a lot.

@air-bender: About 2005 I had word that he had gone out to Dubai to sell luxury yachts. I hadn't heard from him in about 3 years (he came and went a bit after 2001 when he flew his girlfriend out to Dubai and proposed and she turned him down - it was kind of odd that for all the money he flashed as an IT contractor they were living in her 2 bed terrace in Luton while his mother had a reasonably large pad and a bit of land in Witney, but that in itself didn't say much, though on a couple of occasions when I found myself hanging around for him on a pre-arranged meet to fly I'd call the house number explain to her I was waiting for him to turn up at Redhill to take the EC120 -GECZZ if anyone ever came across it, and she'd hang up on me. The last time it happened I was set to fly out to Paris with him and it fell through at the last moment and she got the hump about him "talking bollocks" - I suppose my antennae should have been up at that point, but he was a mate so I gave him the benefit of the doubt)and tried to look him up. I tried again a few years later which turned up this thread after I googled him and the only Mark Lamb I could find alongside this thread was an article about a UK pilot who had gone out to the US to train as a pilot and who won an award from his flight school for the highest marks/course performance so presumed on the basis of him not likely to be able to fly again in the UK on a licence that he had rehabilitated himself in the US.

His IT background was pretty solid. he spent about a year working for the UK law firm Simmons and Simmons as their main IT guy, then a firm in Milton Keynes called Workplace Systems (we took the EC120 out to MK so he could give some of his colleagues a jolly around MK then flew it up to Lutterworth and parked it on the golf course) before he went to Virgin Energy in Covent Garden. If any of that rings true then it's the same guy.

I never parted with any money with him, and the worst of it was probably flying in a way that exceeded both of our licence privileges thinking he had an ATPL(H) which he didn't and perhaps being made to look a bit gullible/foolish with people who had actually sussed him out. Fair enough, I'll take that criticism, but then who hasn't done things they later think was ill-advised for a friend?
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Old 6th Jul 2017, 17:57
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mark lamb (aka alan chandler) got his rewards today at crown court case number
T20150079. he got sentenced to 7 year for this . "A company director has appeared in court facing fraud allegations totalling more than £5m.
Alan Chandler is charged with six offences of fraud by false representation, two of using a false instrument with intent it be accepted as genuine, one of fraud by abuse of position and one of theft by employee."
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Old 13th Feb 2022, 15:34
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MARK LAMB

This man is dangerous. Hopefully anyone that comes across this man has the sense to google him & have a read. He is a con man & will never change. Despite prison he still spends his life ruining others. He will ruin yours too. He pretends to be your friend, he will creep into every section of your life until you can’t cut him out. By the time you notice it’s too late. This man is cancer, a con man, a thief and pure evil. He can’t breathe unless he is scamming someone. Stay clear. Prison has only made him think he’s smarter and become more deceiving.
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