Fraud alerts
This page sets out the tactics currently being used against investors, how to recognise them, and the latest official action taken against fraudulent firms.
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The FCA added Nosinasset to its Warning List on 21 October 2026. The entry gives a website and a location in Hirwaun, near Aberdare, but no street address, telephone number or email address.
The FCA warns that fraudsters using the name GoTempCover Limited are posing as Accelerant Insurance UK Limited, an authorised insurer. The impersonators use the websites gotempcover.com and drivewisely.app.
The FCA added Forex-gpt.com to its Warning List on 20 October 2026. The entry gives a website, a Facebook profile and an Instagram account, and no postal address, telephone number or email address.
The FCA warns that fraudsters are using the names Arbion Assets and Arbion Assets Management to pose as Arbion Limited, an authorised firm. The clone uses two .com websites and a UK mobile number.
The FCA added Weinvesta to its Warning List on 19 October 2026. The entry gives a website, a support email address on the same domain, a telephone number and an address on Plashet Grove in London E6.
The FCA first warned about Smart-ISA on 3 August 2026 and updated the entry on 15 October 2026. It lists two websites, four email addresses and two mobile numbers, and no postal address.
The FCA warns that fraudsters are using the website callassists.com, and two email addresses on that domain, to pose as Call Assist Limited, an authorised firm in Colchester whose own website is call-assist.co.uk.
The FCA warns that the website claimmydisrepair.co.uk is being used to pose as Fountain Finances Limited, an authorised claims management firm based in Stretford, Manchester.
The FCA added Pilotrade AI to its Warning List on 12 October 2026. The entry records one website and no email address, telephone number or postal address.
The FCA added Hope Fund Bank to its Warning List on 12 October 2026. The entry gives a website and a support email address on the same domain, and no telephone number or address.
The FCA warns that fraudsters are using the website quorumcapitalltd.com to pose as Quorum Capital Limited, an authorised firm whose own website ends in .co.uk.
The FCA added Eha Markets to its Warning List on 14 October 2026. The telephone number and Canary Wharf address on its record also appear on two FCA warnings published on 2 October.
The FCA added TRUSTEDFXTRADES to its Warning List on 9 October 2026. The entry gives a location in East Finchley, London, a website and an email address, and no telephone number.
The FCA warns that fraudsters are using the name VFM Leasing to pose as Venus Fleet Management Limited, an authorised firm. The clone uses a .com website and a Liverpool telephone number.
The FCA added Shellnovatrade to its Warning List on 8 October 2026. The entry gives an office address in Miami, Florida, one email address and no telephone number.
The FCA added Selleypillar to its Warning List on 7 October 2026. The entry records a website, an email address and a telephone number with the +1 international code, and no address.
The FCA added Wyseforte Bank to its Warning List on 6 October 2026. The entry gives a London W1 address and four email addresses on wyseforte.co.uk, among them one for savings and one for complaints.
The FCA added Prestige Savings Group to its Warning List on 7 October 2026. The entry records a website, one email address and a telephone number beginning with +1.
The FCA added flowwealth.us to its Warning List on 2 October 2026. The telephone number on its record also appears on the FCA's entry for disbull.org, published the same day.
The FCA added disbull.org to its Warning List on 2 October 2026. Its record shares a telephone number and an address with flowwealth.us, warned against the same day.
The FCA lists Mymoneyclaim.org on its Warning List as an unauthorised firm, in an entry dated 7 September 2026. Its record gives a website on one domain and an email address on another.
The FCA added fliptradxnow.com to its Warning List on 2 October 2026. Its record pairs a London address with a telephone number carrying the United States dialling code.
The FCA added glassertradecap.com to its Warning List on 30 September 2026. The firm holds no UK authorisation, and its published identity amounts to a domain and a single email address.
The FCA added verdantam.com to its Warning List on 1 October 2026. It cites addresses in New York and Canary Wharf, yet holds no UK authorisation to provide or promote financial services.
The FCA added deepearmining.com to its Warning List on 28 September 2026. The firm holds no UK authorisation, and its published record consists of a website and one email address.
Savers are being contacted out of the blue and persuaded to transfer their pension into a new scheme, often one invested in an unregulated or fictitious asset. Many lose the money, and an early withdrawal can also be taxed by HMRC at up to 55%.
Investors are cold-called by confident, well-rehearsed sales staff offering shares in a company said to be about to list or expand rapidly. The shares are often worthless, unsellable, or in a company that does not exist.
A scheme promises a fixed, guaranteed return well above anything a genuine investment can offer. Early investors are paid from the money of those who join later, until new money stops arriving and the scheme collapses.
A website or app is built to resemble a well-known cryptoasset exchange closely enough to pass a quick glance, and is used to take deposits that are never credited to any genuine account.
A scheme sells carbon credits or a stake in a green energy installation using the name of a real, registered project, without the seller holding any genuine right to the credits or the asset itself.
Fraudsters are impersonating genuine FCA-authorised firms to sell fixed-rate bonds, ISAs and savings accounts that do not exist, using the real firm's name and reference number.
Investors are being recruited into WhatsApp and Telegram groups run by people posing as wealth managers, then directed to trading platforms that display profits which do not exist.
People who have already lost money are being contacted by fraudsters posing as solicitors, law enforcement, regulators or recovery specialists who promise to recover the funds for an upfront fee.
Official enforcement updates
Recent announcements from UK enforcement bodies about investment schemes that have been shut down, investigated or prosecuted. Updated automatically from GOV.UK.
The Financial Conduct Authority publishes its own list of unauthorised firms and clones.
Search the FCA Warning ListFormer directors sentenced for defrauding 3,000 people.
Company wound up following Insolvency Service investigations
Insolvency Service takes action to shut down unauthorised crypto investment firm
Director disqualified until 2031
Investigators uncover additional funds relating to £8.2m investment fraud.
Michael Thomson jailed after restrained asset breaches.
On 27 September 2018, a winding-up order was made against Essex and London Properties Limited (Company number 05426323) and the court appointed the Official Receiver as Liquidator.
Husband-and-wife banned as company directors for combined 23 years
Three former directors of Ethical Forestry Limited plead guilty following a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation into a £70 million investment scheme fraud.
Former Axiom Legal Financing Fund manager ordered to repay millions to investors.
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) launches first major cryptocurrency investigation into suspected fraud.
On 2 July 2025, a winding-up order was made against Social Housing Holdings Limited (company number 12634526) and the court appointed the Official Receiver as Liquidator.
Store First Limited and three related companies were wound up in the High Court on 30 April.
The SFO has today secured the conviction of former investment manager David Kennedy for his part in a £100 million investment fraud.
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