Investment Fraud & Fake Brokerage Investigation
Unmasking unregulated brokerages, boiler rooms, and fraudulent trading platforms by tracing payment processors, corporate shells, and server infrastructure.
⚖️ Investigation Disclaimer
Restitution Group is a private investigation agency that specializes in finding and collecting evidence. The company never guarantees the successful recovery of victims' lost funds in an investment scam. Recovery is determined by judicial court orders, asset freezes, and legal processes. Our role is to deliver the empirical evidence necessary to pursue those actions.
How Fraudulent Investment Platforms Deceive Victims
Modern investment fraud operates with corporate-level sophistication. Syndicates establish polished websites featuring real-time market feeds, counterfeit regulatory seals (e.g., falsely claiming FCA, CySEC, or SEC registration), and dedicated "account managers."
Victims are initially allowed to withdraw nominal sums to build trust. Once substantial capital is committed, the platform simulates trading losses or demands extortionate "advance tax payments" and "AML compliance fees" to unlock withdrawals.
In reality, no trades were ever executed on real market exchanges. The client's deposits were immediately siphoned into offshore merchant accounts or converted into cryptocurrency.
Classic Signs of Investment Fraud
- ⚠️ Guaranteed High Returns: Promises of 10% to 30% monthly profits with "zero downside risk."
- ⚠️ Aggressive Account Managers: Constant pressure via phone or WhatsApp to deposit larger sums before market deadlines.
- ⚠️ Fake Regulatory Credentials: Claiming registration numbers belonging to real, unrelated financial firms.
- ⚠️ Withdrawal Extortion: Requiring new deposits before allowing access to existing account balances.
Our Investment Fraud Investigative Tactics
We deploy specialized financial intelligence tools to pierce the corporate veil and track where victim deposits actually flowed.
🏢 Shell Company Unmasking
Scammers register front companies in lax jurisdictions (Marshall Islands, St. Vincent, Seychelles, Vanuatu). We audit corporate registries, ultimate beneficial owners (UBO), and director nominee networks.
💳 Merchant Gateway Identification
Credit card and bank transfer deposits often route through intermediary high-risk payment service providers (PSPs). We uncover the Merchant ID (MID) and acquiring banks to arm attorneys with subpoena targets.
🌐 Digital Infrastructure Tracing
We conduct forensic analysis of DNS hosting history, shared IP clusters, CRM backends, and server geolocation to link disparate scam websites to a single underlying boiler room syndicate.
📑 Securities Regulatory Filing Pack
We prepare formalized evidentiary documentation structured for submission to national financial authorities (SEC, CFTC, FINRA, FCA, ASIC, BaFin) to trigger regulatory enforcement.
Evidence You Should Preserve For Our Investigators
If you have fallen victim to an investment scam, preserve these critical records immediately before contacting our team:
SWIFT MT103 forms, beneficiary account numbers, and receiving bank IBANs.
Dashboard balances, deposit history records, and simulated trading account numbers.
Exported WhatsApp/Telegram chats, emails, and phone numbers of the account manager.
Transaction hashes (TXIDs) if any funds were transferred via cryptocurrency.