An Encounter with MIA/FintechFX RepresentativeMet a representative from MIA491.com today along with a few friends. Being a Trader myself who trades with FCA and ASIC regulated brokers, I tend to stay on facts and got curious when an opportunity to meet a MIA representative came by today. So the story goes...
Misleading Information and Confusing RepliesI raised a question on why does FintechFX (
https://fintechfx.com/) mislead its clients that they are allowed to do Forex Brokering even though ASIC did not approve My Group Fintech Co Pty Ltd for Forex activities. The replies from the rep were consistently the same: "FintechFX is regulated by ASIC, you don't believe you can check." My reply was that I have checked and done my due diligence and that he should be the one who should be checking. For the convenience of all the good folks in this thread, I have extracted the ASIC report on My Group Fintech Co Pty Ltd (FintechFX), can be found in the PDF attachment.
Account Funding Via 3rd Party Money ChangerI asked about the funding options for trading account with FintechFX. He said there are various channels, however, credit card and bank transfer to FintechFX will be blocked by Bank Negara Malaysia and he advised me against those methods. Funding can take up to 2 weeks and it is slow and tedious. He further suggested that I can transfer money to a 'Money Changer' designated by MIA as it is a more secure method and short in turnover. I also asked him "Does that mean my account withdrawals will be from this 'Money Changer' as well? How can I trust my money with a Money Changer?". His reply was idiotically stupid "there are thousands of members who use this money changer and Bank Negara Malaysia only allow mass funds to move around if it's through a money changer.
MT4 Account Shows Past Entries ONLYThe rep proudly showed me the MT4 account which reflects it's a real account but when I did not see any live floating trades and all i see were past trade records. Any offshore Brokers can easily modify trade entries/records.
Does he really think I am that SOHAI?FintechFX Office is a Terrace House??Being a busybody, I went on to search on My Group Fintech Co Pty Ltd's principal business address and got a shock of my life when the address is a terrace house, a residence. I have never in my life know that ASIC would allow a Forex broker to operate their business from a terrace house, LOL!!!
You can see from this screenshot (from ASIC portal) for their principal business address:
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This is how the address looks like (true story):
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I guess by now it doesn't take a
rocket scientist to figure out that
MONKEY BUSINESS is going on within the MIA and My Group Fintech Co Pty Ltd company. At the point of writing this... I wish this post further reinforce your decision to withdraw/pullout from this obvious-scam pyramid selling. If you truly wish to help your friends and loved ones, don't refer them to join MIA. Let's see if ASIC would renew My Group Fintech Co Pty Ltd's Australian Financial Services Licensee in 16th Oct 2018 (referenced to the PDF attachment).
What is the pdf file about? The address has typo hargrace and hargrave.
Also, that house picture can be any picture in the past...