Illegal Broker G-IMFCH Is Showered in Investor Complaints

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Nowadays, illegal forex brokers are often exposed in news reports. From disconnecting trading server to causing serious slippage and negative balance through manipulation, the forex brokers keep coming up with new tricks to defraud investors’ assets, leaving them in heavy losses.

Exposure of illegal broker:
Complainant: Mr. Qiu
Illegal broker: G-IMFCH
Cause of complaint: the broker rejected withdrawal applications
Broker’s website: www.gppmarkets.co.nz

Mr. Qiu’s ID card

Over US$ 10,000 in Mr. Qiu’s account remains unavailable at press time

Mr. Qiu is an investor at G-IMFCH. His withdrawal application, submitted this August, was left unapproved by the broker, and although the customer service kept saying they have “sped up” processing of the issue, Mr. Qiu saw no progress in solving his withdrawal failure after waiting for more than a month. Having had enough of the broker, Mr. Qiu finally decided to file a real-name complaint at WikiFX in order to warn others against G-IMFCH.

Mr. Qiu’s conversation with WikiFX 

Mr. Qiu’s conversation with G-IMFCH’s customer service

Analysis
It turns out that the customer service’s so-called “expedited processing” of the application is only a lame excuse for the broker to postpone investor’s withdrawal. Meanwhile, the English introduction from the broker’s website is full of empty brag with little substantial information, and it’s hard to tell from these hypes how exactly is G-IMFCH an “award-winning” broker as it claims.

G-IMFCH brags about itself on the website

Moreover, G-IMFCH has also posted countless advertorials under titles such as “forex trading strategies” or “handy forex tips” on web-based forums and media portals, in order to gain more media exposure and appeal to more investors who may become its victims later on. This again reminds investors not to rely on a single source of information such as online advertisements and carefully check a broker’s credibility through various sources before investment. 

G-IMFCH posted many advertorials online

Summary
G-IMFCH claims itself to be holding a New Zealand’s FSP license with regulatory number FSP479826. However, Financial Markets Authority (FMA) requires all forex brokers offering in New Zealand to hold a derivatives license, and having FSP alone means the broker is unauthorized in forex brokerage. Many illegal brokers tend to fool investors from this aspect, claiming that they are compliant brokers under regulation, which is not true.

G-IMFCH claims to be regulated with FSP license

Conclusion
By checking the WikiFX App, we learn that both the FMA (New Zeland)’s license and FCA (UK)’s license that G-IMFCH claims to hold are suspected to be cloned. The broker, currently unregulated, uses white-label MT4/5 software with suspicious server IP and has a poor rating of 1.48 on the WikiFX App. In addition, WikiFX has received over 20 complaints against the broker in the past 3 months, suggesting high risks in the broker.

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G-IMFCH is rated at 1.48 on the WikiFX App