Im afraid i´ve been the victim of a scam

Yes, of course. I have been contacted by a person on the networks and after a long relationship she has convinced me to invest something in forex because she was doing very well. And I just followed your instructions.

Did you know this person? And was this an employee of the network or just a user/trader/investor like
you?

Don’t mean to sound like a jerk, but that sounds scammy already if you didn’t know the person.

They do have a email address:

[email protected]

It’s on the homepage. And contact form.

https://bigunclefx.com/en/contact

She claims to be just an iversor like me. And I don’t know her personally, but having spent so much time interacting on the networks, it really seemed to me that it couldn’t be a scam because of the amount of time invested until I decided to deposit some money. Maybe it’s real and tomorrow I can do my retreat, but honestly, it smells bad to me…

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They do have a email address:

ohhh thank you!!!
I’ll write to them and then I’ll tell them their answer. I do not want to defame without cause.

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Two signs that are not good in my opinion.

  1. No address listed on the website.
  2. They say they are a member of the US regulatory agency, the NFA. However, they are not listed on the NFA website as members. There are entries, but the entries specifically say they are not members.
  3. Their supposed NFA registration ID, listed on their website, is 1234567 (this looks really bad!)

https://www.nfa.futures.org/BasicNet/basic-search-results.aspx?rnd=3929.5563652635606

My gut is telling me you have been scammed.

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Could be nothing, but the age of the website domain is very young, less than 3 months old. This means the website was most likely created very recently. That alone doesn’t mean its a scam website, because the company could have done a rebranding and started a new website with a new URL. But, combined with the other things highlighted already, that’s not a good sign.

https://whois.domaintools.com/bigunclefx.com

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Thank you for your response and the work you have taken. I don’t smell it either, unfortunately I suppose that this also serves to learn

Did you deposit the money thru their website or give your funds to your contact? And how did you fund the account? Credit card? Bank transfer?

Hello, I never gave the money to my contact. Buy usdt through binance, and from binance I transferred to bigunclefx

Ah crypto transfer. I was thinking, if it was a bank or credit card, you could complain to them about fraud. But because it’s crypto there’s nobody to complain to about the transfer.

That sucks. Let’s see if they reply to your mail. Did you message your contact/friend? What did she say about all this?

Yes, she told me that it is normal that the withdrawal could be delayed 24 hours, and more at the end of the month when the companies are making balances and others

What seems strange to me, now that I can access the page from another place, is that there is a deposit of 1,100 dollars that appears unaudited, but I could count on that money to trade. And this deposit is dated 4-14, and it’s still unaudited. In the same way, my withdrawal today is also listed as unaudited but it does not go through.

Have you tried to withdraw a small amount instead of the whole amount?

A well regulated broker will return funds to the account from which they were deposited but they never commit to how long this will take. This is because they need to go through anti-money laundering processes before they send any money anywhere. They need to prove the client is who they say they are and that the funds deposited legally belonged to the client in the first place and that the client has not breached any other relevant T&C’s.

But a broker that is as well regulated as I have described above would be declaring their regulators’ details all over their website plus their own addresses and contact details. This isn’t happening here and its possible this firm is not even a broker, they’re just a front to attract deposits.

I suspect that they are fake.

They answered my email:

“Because your funds have not been audited, our audit will take time until May 1st, and we will give you a satisfactory answer.”

So you have to wait a few days.

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Do they actually explain what happens with an audit? How do they audit the deposit of crypto funds? Like what could they actually do?

I’m crossing my fingers that something good happens on May 1.

Don’t get desperate but its a really stinky situation. First of all I didn'tt heard for this broker till now. Second of all if you’re using crypto transfers your deposit and withdraws must be filled same day. That’s how my withdraws are filled with the same crypto way. Keep us in touch after all.

Any updates to share? It’s past May 1 now.Let us know!