Tag: PocketOption

FinTelegram has already issued several warnings against the offshore broker PO Trade, which is included on our Red Compliance List. PO Trade and PocketOption are the trading names of this offshore broker scheme which has legal entities in various offshore jurisdictions such as Marshall Islands or St. Lucia. We recently published a report on fake reviews of PocketOption on Trustpilot. The Spanish CNMV issued a warning against PO Trade on April 8, 2024.

PocketOption is an offshore broker that has secured a spot on FinTelegram's Red Compliance List due to its dubious operations. Allegedly, PocketOption is managed by Infiniti Trade LLC, a firm with registration in Costa Rica. Similarly, PO Trade, closely linked with PocketOption, is run by PO Trad Ltd, which is based in St. Lucia. Trustpilot informs that it found fake reviews of PocketOption and deleted them. Stay far away.

We downgraded Russian-controlled offshore broker PocketOption to our black compliance list a few weeks ago in light of its numerous regulatory warnings. In recent months, PocketOption a/k/a PO Trade a/k/a PO has also addressed the Russian market, which is actually blocked by Western sanctions, through a network of new domains and websites and acquired retail traders. Here is an update on PocketOption.

We have warned several times in recent months about the offshore broker Pocket Option a/k/a PocketOption or PO Trade, which was previously on our Red Compliance list. One of our readers brought to our attention that there are warnings against PocketOption from regulators worldwide. The offshore broker scheme is on the warning lists from the U.S. over Brazil and Europe to Malaysia. We have therefore downgraded PocketOption and placed it on our black compliance list.

Most recently, the Belgian FSMA has placed the offshore broker scheme PocketOption a/k/a PO Trade on its blacklist. Over the past few years, several regulators have already warned against the unregulated broker. For a few weeks, PocketOption has been operated by Infiniti Trade LLC, a company registered in Costa Rica. Before that, it was Gembell Limited. We have added PocketOption to our Red Compliance list.

We have found the CheckoutFX payment platform dozens of times among the many broker scams we analyze. This is operated anonymously from Russia and/or Ukraine. Most recently, we found CheckoutFX in the PocketOption broker scheme PocketOption together with SettlePay, a supposedly exclusive Binance partner for the CIS countries, including Ukraine. Through CheckoutFX and SettlePay, deposits from PocketOption clients were misrepresented as food transactions. We would like to know more.

In December 2022, we brought our initial report on the offshore broker PocketOption, allegedly operated by the offshore entity Gembell Limited in the Marshall Islands. PocketOption is connected to PO Trade, operated by PO Trade Ltd. The Russian Evgenii Kalashnikov controls the schemes. According to the latest Similarweb statistics, PockeOption acquired almost 18% of its clients in the U.S. Deposits are possible with credit/debit cards, Jeton, Perfect Money, Webmoney, Advcash, or via crypto. Stay far away and protect your financial health.

The offshore broker PocketOption is allegedly operated by the offshore entity Gembell Limited in the Marshall Islands. We found that PocketOption is connected to PO Trade and controlled by the Russian Evgenii Kalashnikov. Both offshore schemes supposedly do not accept clients from the U.S. or EEA, however, it was no problem to register as a resident of these regulatory regimes. Deposits are possible with credit/debit cards, Jeton, Perfect Money, Webmoney, Advcash, or via crypto. Stay far away and protect your financial health.

We have received information from victims that LedgerOptions is currently active and hunting for victims via fraudulent marketing campaigns. In our brief review, we were able to determine that LedgerOptions is a typical white-label scam allegedly operated by Marshall Islands-registered Ledgeroptions Limited. Payments of victims are processed by Tifiya Group in the EU. Do not fall for this scam; stay far away from these scams.