it's either a 1-man or 2-men job. all of them speak the same way. when you don't interact in the group, the so called customer service (and even some shoe polisher/konco accounts) will message you, follow up, etc

first, they will ask you to trade according to their methods (they will tell you when to buy and sell), which usually work with some profit

next, they will then tokok about stock "institutional account", saying something like trading behind a big corp. the moment you see that they can even place trades during break hours is a red flag already. beyond that some konco account will message you, saying he/she topup 50k lol. but all speak the same way. like chinaman trying to scam ppl with broken english.

i've observed them until i kena kick out because i did not topup to their so called 'institutional account' after their persuasion. back then the so called sifu name is a person calling himself "Alan Lau" with picture copied from linkedin (another real Alan Lau)

if you mean by close shop, not really. based on TS's description, they (or rather he) just changed names etc.

knew it was a scam from day 1 - did not even put a single cent. they're just like the IRS scammers, with horrible England.