Equitrade Capital Forex Broker

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Taiwan

My original post exposed the official website equitradecl.com (now unreachable). I've recently found it's been changed to equitradecg.com, where they continue to scam by misusing the logo of a genuine exchange, Quantfury. Their FCA regulation number 577611 has also been modified, confirming without a doubt that this is a rebranding scam.

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Taiwan

Scam Case Part One: Towards the end of 2024, I met a female netizen, 'Chen Chen', on MonChats. Her photos and voice clips on the platform seemed authentic and she seemed engaged in cryptocurrency which made me let my guard down a bit against online scams. Eventually, we exchanged Line accounts to discuss about cryptocurrency. When Trump won the presidential election on 20th January 2025, Chen Chen had already predicted the Bitcoin price will surge over 100,000. She advised me to get some Bitcoin, so I gave it a shot by investing $1000 into Bitcoin which turned out be profitable! In gratitude, I bought her a dining gift coupon as a thank you through Line gift. This was when her real setup began. Initially, she denied the gift saying that she didn't do much and asked me to save my money. Later, she introduced me to the 'Onion Ring Cryptocurrency' community, hinting people in the group were very welcoming and loved sharing their investment strategies. Trusting her, I joined the group and started interacting with others. After a while, Chen Chen suggested me to buy EC platform's dual currency financing product during Bitcoin's downtrend. I thought about her advice and ended up financing from a bank. After calculating the possible returns on my loan investment in the dual currency product with her, I proceeded. Little did I knew, this was just the beginning of my nightmare. She then suggested me to sell my U.S. equity ETF on eToro, exchange for Bitcoin and use it to purchase the second dual financing product. Seeing a possible scam, I asked for an exchange of ID cards to assure I could find her if I was scammed. She was upset because I didn't trust her, but eventually exchanged her ID. Due to our past experiences, I believed her again. The third dual currency financing product was bought under an EC platform campaign offering 3% rebate. After comparing loan benefits from several banks, I chose to loan against my insurance policy from my university days and invested again. The fourth and fifth installments were similar, involving investment in EC's financial products to avail rebate benefits. But things started to go south in early May 2025 when someone contacted me saying they couldn't withdraw from EC. I thought he was joking until I tried to contact EC's customer service and the admins but got accused of being a scammer. At that point, I grew suspicious and when I tried to withdraw from EC, the service read but didn't reply. In total, I lost over a million new Taiwanese dollars. I'm just a regular guy, I lost my savings and incurred over a million dollars of debt. This incident was a lesson for me that you can't always trust your pals who joke and squabble with you. I hope my story can be a cautionary tale, trust your own judgment when investing, not others'. 'Chen Chen', if you're reading this, I want to say, I'm really disappointed. I remembered that we promised to have a BBQ together, but I never thought it would end up like this.

FX1349230732

Taiwan

1. On 113.11.26, I met a woman through a social app, referred to as L. During our conversations, there was no mention of any investment with high returns, financial schemes, depositing into a specific account, or meeting in person to trade anything. She only recommended the LINE community "Onion Circle Cryptocurrency." This community belongs to EC Capital (Equitrade Capital, abbreviated as EC) officially, accessed through the EC website (https://equitradecl.com/). 2. Within the Onion Circle Cryptocurrency community, EC frequently introduces its platform and product categories, while advocating for anti-fraud measures. There is no inducement for investment, profit guarantees, or reports. To understand the products, one must contact EC customer service privately on LINE. For deposits, one can choose to do so within the EC official website system or directly contact EC customer service. 3. My initial deposit date was 114.03.03. Before that, I had been observing if EC had any suspicion of fraud. During this time, I also bought coins at a physical exchange and transferred them to my Binance wallet. From Binance, I deposited 15000 USDT to the address provided by EC customer service (TBA2JozKGZQBihVjX4Jq81tKiWatFRFQwb). The financial project was EC's liquidity pool activity. After the activity ended on 03.31, I decided to only withdraw the bonus interest to my Bitopro wallet. I requested the principal to be transferred directly to the dual currency BTC/USDT fixed deposit activity on EC, with a contract from 04.01 to 04.30. EC claimed to have applied to the system for the interest from the previous activity. From 04.01 onwards, I have been inquiring with EC about the withdrawal of the bonus interest. Throughout the process, they claimed system congestion and internal multi-signature wallet issues. Until 04.21, EC customer service stopped reading and replying to my messages, and there has been no response since. It seems like I have been blocked. In essence, I have not withdrawn a single cent, and my principal is stuck with EC and cannot be withdrawn. 4. As shown in the image: Conversation records (including with friends and EC officials), deposit notifications for activities, deposit transaction details.