Tag: Lacari Group

Recently, we have issued warnings against the broker scams FX-Capitalize (www.fxcapitalize.com) and FXQuote247 (www.fxquote247.com). Lacari Group Ltd, registered in St. Vincent & the Grenadines, allegedly operates these scams. This offshore entity also operated the vanished scam proFXCredit (www.profxcredit.com). The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued an investor warning against the FXQuote247 scam and states the address of a Bulgarian boiler room.

Monday is the Consob day. This Monday, the Italian regulator ordered the blackout of seven new websites that abusively offer financial services. Five of these websites act as financial intermediation; two sites offer financial products without the required prospectus. Unfortunately, Consob is currently the only EU regulator to take this effective measure. However, it would be desirable if more member states would create a legal basis for blocking illegal or fraudulent websites.

We have already warned several times about the broker scam 27ProQuote (a/k/a ProQuote27). This was active until a few weeks ago and has defrauded many victims of probably several million euros. Deposits of the customer-victims were also processed via the Maltese ApcoPay (see FinTelegram report here). We have received information that the same scammers are now operating the proFXCredit scam under the domain www.profxcredit.com via a Lacari Group Ltd. Currently, we are still investigating but warn all investors against proFXCredit.