I was going to post this in the "Scammers - Hall of Shame" thread but firstly, that thread is now 589 pages long and many scams have been buried deep within it. Many of the so called scams aren't even scams. A guru type tried to teach others how to trade and he failed and made enemies who claim it was a scam attempt and so on. On the other hand, the scam I am about to reveal really happened and it was by long time members of this forum who discussed the currency pairs and gold and other trading related issues at length. They were red flag members and had many followers as well.
It will be a shame if FF moves the thread to some isolated section somewhere because as I said, the scammer members frequented the "Trading Discussions" and the "Interactive Trading" quite a bit and it would be a shame if other traders who only frequent these forums missed this.
But before I start, I want you to know that I did this with the awareness that I would end up at the losing end of the deal. I was not uninformed or unsuspecting or generally naive. I decided to do this knowing the unsavory outcome and I considered the money that I blew as the ticket price to actually unveil a real scam. I don't recommend anyone to do this though. Once is enough. As such, I'm not going to like to read comments about how stupid I was to fall for this. I consider this a public exposure of things that go on around trading. It is a first hand look at emails, claims and the general mind set of scammers and how they set things up. If anyone wants to read this thread and feel really smart and superior that this is something that wouldn't happen to them, firstly, they should be happy that someone else went through all the trouble to expose this and secondly consider it an investigative project in FX journalism and yes, everything costs something nowadays and you are getting it free. If still feeling really high on the know it all department, I've got the "dislike" button handy.
Now, the story starts.
Around the time that I started "Trading for Cableguy" thread, RegisMexes wished me luck: https://www.forexfactory.com/showthr...0#post12373150
This is the trader we are talking about: https://www.forexfactory.com/regismexes
Then he PM'd me again and asked me to let him trade the money that Cableguy had raised trough GoFundMe. He said that I shouldn't hoard all that money and I should let him trade part of it. I told him that I had no access to his funds and I had no authority over what Cableguy want to do. He persisted that I contact Cableguy and tell him that RegisMexes was such a great trader and persuade him to let him trade the funds. Once again, I reminded him that I was unable to do that and he should contact Cableguy himself if he has something to say to him. After some more of that, he finally realized that I couldn't do this and he said that he would just directly help by donating some money. I am not sure if he did or not.
Meanwhile, RegisMexes started posting TE's about trading gold. His TE's were out of this world. 100%/day type of trades. 100% accuracy etc. The account was real and the prices of gold in and out seemed to jive. Quite impressive I must say. At the same time, another member Yareck1 https://www.forexfactory.com/yareck1 also started to post similar TE's. Keep in mind, Yareck has been a forum member since 2014 and has been posting sporadically since. His trades seemed real in a real account as well. It was not missed that both Yareck1 and RegisMexes were both using SGD, had the same broker and were using probably the same EA. I never had any contact with Yareck1 but my buddy, Fxsniper did.
Then suddenly, RegisMexes account and his TE were suspended. Not long after, his account was revoked. Practically minutes after his account was revoked, I received a PM from this guy: https://www.forexfactory.com/sasukestrike saying he was Regies and he wanted me to pass his personal email to an FF member which I did. He also said the reason he was revoked was because FF thought he was posting the TE's using a corporate account. I asked him if I could post that on FF and he said yes and asked me to post it on the "Daily Trading Ideas" thread https://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=858631 and I think GBPUSD thread where he frequented and had buddies. I did that as well.
Then I asked him about his gold trading method and if he was using an EA or doing trades manually. This is the resp;onse which is basically a vague sales pitch not about an EA but about collecting funds to trade:
First-off, before I begin, I would like to stress that while me and my team have been trading for a living for years, this is an experimental EA. Thus, there are more inherent risk involved and it will not ba wise to invest too much in it. If you remember, our initial deposit was only SGD 2,000. Due to this small capital, the EA was only set to trigger for Gold and Cable trades; but once a position is taken, no new position will be taken.
I have made many friends and trusted associates during my time on FF; thus finding it a pain to be revoked.
I have offered two possibilities of "wanting in":
1. To purchase the EA. A direct purchase obviously will give us more capital and the upside is that you have the EA forever. The downside however is that you will be stuck with that version of EA and my team will not update you of anything moving forth. The win-win scenario here should be pretty obvious. The "bad" thing about this is that we are pretty confident of this so we have a minimum sale price, but we will not say it. We leave it to the person to give us an offer. If it crosses the minimum sale price, we will say yes. The amount expected is a respectable price and not your typically USD25 EA you see on those fraud sites/groups.
2. To participate in it directly. Now we know many scams run on sending money over first etc and yes, this have you sending money to us. I'm not sure if I have spoken to you before, but here in Hong Kong, my team does account management services for a group of private clients as well. How this work will be that interested parties will skrill us their intended "in"/investment (sorry pun intended) amount. This amount will be added to the pool. The win-win scenario is that with the increased in capital, the EA will be able to trigger more trades on other pairs so as to allow to test the accuracy of the system across more pairs. For the investor, he/she will get profits.
We intend to run this experiment till October 14. On October 14, we will close all trades and declare to all investors their share of the pie. We will then make the relevant withdrawals and due to processing time, all clients can expect their money back (with profits if any) back within the week.
The upsides for this deal is that as we tweak the EA along the way and you spread the risk across more pairs. Upon completion of the project, assuming it is to expectations, we will also note that you have believed in us, and thus, you will be given a preferential price to the EA/some other goodies we are thinking of but haven't decided. The downside is that well, you're sending money to us.
Let me know.
And some more:
The reason why we don't put a price tag is because there will always be lowballers and we're tired of it. I don't know if you've seen the big accounts I have loaded up, but yeah, we can't be haggling over small amounts. You can call it weird or anything, but we simply tell our clients we have this, if you want it, give us an offer. That's it. I do not know if you follow the NBA, but when the Lakers wanted Davis, they went to the Pelicans with an offer and then negotiated. They did not go to the Pelicans and ask them what they wanted from their squad.
Obviously there is an EA. The pooled account is run on the EA as well. But like I mentioned time and before, it is still in experimental phase so we monitor it closely.
I asked all sorts of questions about how suspicious his 100% winrate looked like I got this:
I reckon you are sincere. I will cut you a special deal and do it your way instead. 140 euros. It's not a life-death decision, so I expect a reply soon. Thank you.
Meanwhile, my buddy, FXsniper approached Yareck1 and inquired about his EA. After some discussion, a price of I think $150 USD was asked for by Yareck1. FXsniper being smart as he is, saw through Yareck1 and backed out of the deal and put him on his ignore list. FXsniper and I discussed it and while he said he was out for good, he left it up to me to go ahead with the purchase through RegisMexes. Well, RegisMexes was pissed off. He sent me many emails about how mad at FXsniper he was:
No, it is a fully automated EA. It can be, in your words, plug and play. I'm aware there are many false accusations thrown at me, including the most recent one from your buddy Sniper. And you know what? I don't give a damn. Giving a damn about losers throwing wild accusations doesn't make me a single cent.
You can tell your buddy Sniper this: Yareck is a student of mine. Don't be a buffoon and try to suggest that is me. I know exactly what happened, Yareck told me. Your buddy Sniper is really illogical. Yareck showed me everything. Ask Sniper to think for a moment-if Yareck was a scammer, he would had taken the money from your buddy Sniper at the first chance he had, instead of asking your buddy Sniper to wait an hour for him to return to office. Or he would had taken the [COLOR=var(--themePrimary)]paypal[/color] option even though fees were higher.
Yareck's Midas EA is an abridged version of mine. Is it better? Or worse? It is up to preference. Since I am in the mood, I will tell you: his Midas EA (yes, it is a fully automated EA as well) can give higher returns but it has a slightly higher DD (still below 20% though). We have worked together on the EA from the beginning and branched out. Nonetheless, we have our agreement with regards to sale/use of both EAs, so we are cool here.
After this fiasco, Yareck will no longer contact or deal with Sniper. I will handle this entire thing from here. Sorry if you think I sound harsh. But I'm fed up with the idiots (not saying you or Sniper, I'm actually referring to some other idiots) on FF forums.
Here's the deal now:
1. Yareck's Midas EA made another 59% today. If Sniper wants to see it, sure, but we will use his FF account to load up the TE. Too bad, he reported Yareck as me and Twee being an idiot, revoked the membership. Their agreed price was USD 160. It is now USD 300.
2. If you are interested in my EA (if you really must know, I simply call it RegisMexes Experimental EA for now, I call all my experimental EA that; I only name them when they are fully complete), like I said, EUR 140. I will honor my price to you.
3. But here's the twist-you will only get to buy if Sniper honors his word and buys from Yareck.
4. You guys will deal with me directly, ie. both payments to me before I send the EAs to the relevant people.
5. Any queries, it will be through me as well. Sniper can email me. Or Skype me. I don't care. We can agree on a timing to all go on Skype and thrash things out. I'm game.
Sorry if this email is a little unpleasant.
RegisMexes.
He was obviously very angry at FXsniper. I told him that FX sniper was his own person and I had no control over him but kept going on...
Sniper made a deal with Yareck and I want him to honor it-Yareck needs the money for his education.
Since you guys are close, arrange a time on Skype and the 3 of us can talk.
Also, I have told you the price of my EA twice and you still have not answered if you are OK with it.
Once again I told him to leave FXsniper alone and then he said this:
You and him are obviously speaking, so I just want you to convey my message to him.
He does not have to decide anything right now.
We can arrange to talk on Skype at a timing, the 3 of us.
He insisted:
The flow of sequence suggests he did. Why don't we all get on Skype and talk things out like gentlemen?
NO, no, no...Fxsniper is not interested, I told him.
Fine, he's an idiot. Do you still want in? We have discussed long enough.
At this point, I decided to go ahead with the purchase because there was only one way to know if there is an EA. To pay. Yes, all you people could have deducted so far that this guy and Yareck1 (Some suggest they are one and the same person) was up to no good. Yes I know. I decided that I wasn't about to go belly up if I did this and the 140 EUR was the price of curiosity. Of course that was a bad idea but hey, you didn't have to pay and I paid so I can bring this to you. Right? I paid 140 and you paid nothing. So I am saving you the price of curiosity. Now, this idea comes up that fraudsters think the same way. they don't feel guilty about ripping people off because after all, their victims volunteered to dole out the money. They were greedy and their own greed got them. And if they didn't snatch the money, someone else would have and 140 isn't going to bankrupt anyone and the victims would have lost that money on trading anyways.......but nothing justifies a crime. Not even a good reason such as my boss is a jerk and a slave driver and that is why I steal from him. Basically committing a crime because someone else has committed a crime is no reason to justify one's criminal activity. So, if someone tries to convince themselves that what they did wasn't so wrong or it was someone else's fault, they are basically deceiving themselves.
Seems like our timezone difference is really huge, especially with you working.
Also, I want to help Yareck. So skrill him the money instead. His email is .......
Once done, drop me an email with the screenshot and I will verify with him.
Thanks.
So, yah, I did the deed and pulled the trigger and sent his the 140 EUR. Here is what happened next. Should I stop and leave you all hanging here? My buddy FXsniper said I shouldn't post this stuff because i will come across as a sore loser. Most victims don't say anything because of the shame involved in being a victim. They might get called stupid, they may lose respect and they may lose friends because no one wants to be associated with someone who got scammed since they were obviously stupid enough to fall for the obvious plot. BUT, I don't care. I did this with full understanding that I may get scammed. Even investigative reporters might have to pay for flights and accommodations chasing dead end leads. They may not even end up with anything reportable. Instead, you are getting the full story of what did not happen to you but it was as if it happened to you. Worth 140 Eur for this info? Especially that you paid nothing?
Okay, here is what happened next:
He didn't acknowledge that he had received the 140 EUR so I emailed him and he finally replied:
Bear with me, we can't login either.
Apparently he just couldn't login to confirm the pay:
Hi. Sorry we just ended our discussion. Not sure if you are aware, there are protests/riots here in Hong Kong and there's going to be some problems with our office.
Yareck and I are still both unable to login to Skrill. How did you get rid of that error message?
That was last Wedensday 07/17/2019 and on Thursday I got this:
Sorry for the late reply, got caught up with some police stuff here in Hong Kong. Anyway, yareck is still unable to login to Skrill. Apparently due to him selling his EA, there were quite a lot of transactions and Skrill locked him out. He will be sorting it out. I apologize for the delay. If you are upset about it, once Yareck is able to login, I will ask him to give you a full refund.
Thanks
Are you starting to puke by now or are you at the start of feeling sick only? I emailed again and questioned if there was really an EA and I asked him to take my Skrill receipt for proof that I had paid and on Friday 07/19/2019, I got this last email from RegisMexes and nothing since:
Google it, Hong Kong has been rioting since MArch.
And that is that. RegisMexes has gone silent. Yesterday i emailed him and told him that on the first week's anniversary of me sending payment, I will post all details about this on FF. No reply.
Both FF accounts belonging to RegisMexes were reinstated a day or two after being revoked but neither has posted or done any activity. I have a feeling that RegisMexes and Yareck1 have multiple accounts tyhat maybe current or several years old. They maybe reading this right now and maybe replying to threads with the kind of lingo that an experience trader uses or in case of Regis other account that he used to PM me, he is a newbie and wants to ask noob questions. I PM'd a couple of FF members and found a member (won't be named) who refused to pay $100 to RegisMexes for his EA and shockingly, I spoke via PM to a popular FF member (won't be named) who refused to sell their FF account to RegisMexes. I suspect he was attempting to buy the account and use the popularity and persona of the FF member to lure more customers.
There are many questions that remain to be answered like: How can a member post "real' trades in a real account TE that belongs apparently to a corporation and how come their accounts were reinstated and still on FF for those members to use?
Another question: Is Regismexes a real scammer who couldn't make it in FX trading and resolved to just join FF forums and use the lingo to come across as an experienced trader or is he real and Skrill really locked out his account and the protests in HK have really hindered the email communications and that is why he is not replying?
I much rather discuss the issue and I don't need getting flamed or flaming anyone. I already know that a sucker is born every day and the other nifty sayings so hold your thoughts. Remember not to attack the victim here especially if this victim is bringing you knowledge and entertainment they you didn't have to pay for.
It will be a shame if FF moves the thread to some isolated section somewhere because as I said, the scammer members frequented the "Trading Discussions" and the "Interactive Trading" quite a bit and it would be a shame if other traders who only frequent these forums missed this.
But before I start, I want you to know that I did this with the awareness that I would end up at the losing end of the deal. I was not uninformed or unsuspecting or generally naive. I decided to do this knowing the unsavory outcome and I considered the money that I blew as the ticket price to actually unveil a real scam. I don't recommend anyone to do this though. Once is enough. As such, I'm not going to like to read comments about how stupid I was to fall for this. I consider this a public exposure of things that go on around trading. It is a first hand look at emails, claims and the general mind set of scammers and how they set things up. If anyone wants to read this thread and feel really smart and superior that this is something that wouldn't happen to them, firstly, they should be happy that someone else went through all the trouble to expose this and secondly consider it an investigative project in FX journalism and yes, everything costs something nowadays and you are getting it free. If still feeling really high on the know it all department, I've got the "dislike" button handy.
Now, the story starts.
Around the time that I started "Trading for Cableguy" thread, RegisMexes wished me luck: https://www.forexfactory.com/showthr...0#post12373150
This is the trader we are talking about: https://www.forexfactory.com/regismexes
Then he PM'd me again and asked me to let him trade the money that Cableguy had raised trough GoFundMe. He said that I shouldn't hoard all that money and I should let him trade part of it. I told him that I had no access to his funds and I had no authority over what Cableguy want to do. He persisted that I contact Cableguy and tell him that RegisMexes was such a great trader and persuade him to let him trade the funds. Once again, I reminded him that I was unable to do that and he should contact Cableguy himself if he has something to say to him. After some more of that, he finally realized that I couldn't do this and he said that he would just directly help by donating some money. I am not sure if he did or not.
Meanwhile, RegisMexes started posting TE's about trading gold. His TE's were out of this world. 100%/day type of trades. 100% accuracy etc. The account was real and the prices of gold in and out seemed to jive. Quite impressive I must say. At the same time, another member Yareck1 https://www.forexfactory.com/yareck1 also started to post similar TE's. Keep in mind, Yareck has been a forum member since 2014 and has been posting sporadically since. His trades seemed real in a real account as well. It was not missed that both Yareck1 and RegisMexes were both using SGD, had the same broker and were using probably the same EA. I never had any contact with Yareck1 but my buddy, Fxsniper did.
Then suddenly, RegisMexes account and his TE were suspended. Not long after, his account was revoked. Practically minutes after his account was revoked, I received a PM from this guy: https://www.forexfactory.com/sasukestrike saying he was Regies and he wanted me to pass his personal email to an FF member which I did. He also said the reason he was revoked was because FF thought he was posting the TE's using a corporate account. I asked him if I could post that on FF and he said yes and asked me to post it on the "Daily Trading Ideas" thread https://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=858631 and I think GBPUSD thread where he frequented and had buddies. I did that as well.
Then I asked him about his gold trading method and if he was using an EA or doing trades manually. This is the resp;onse which is basically a vague sales pitch not about an EA but about collecting funds to trade:
First-off, before I begin, I would like to stress that while me and my team have been trading for a living for years, this is an experimental EA. Thus, there are more inherent risk involved and it will not ba wise to invest too much in it. If you remember, our initial deposit was only SGD 2,000. Due to this small capital, the EA was only set to trigger for Gold and Cable trades; but once a position is taken, no new position will be taken.
I have made many friends and trusted associates during my time on FF; thus finding it a pain to be revoked.
I have offered two possibilities of "wanting in":
1. To purchase the EA. A direct purchase obviously will give us more capital and the upside is that you have the EA forever. The downside however is that you will be stuck with that version of EA and my team will not update you of anything moving forth. The win-win scenario here should be pretty obvious. The "bad" thing about this is that we are pretty confident of this so we have a minimum sale price, but we will not say it. We leave it to the person to give us an offer. If it crosses the minimum sale price, we will say yes. The amount expected is a respectable price and not your typically USD25 EA you see on those fraud sites/groups.
2. To participate in it directly. Now we know many scams run on sending money over first etc and yes, this have you sending money to us. I'm not sure if I have spoken to you before, but here in Hong Kong, my team does account management services for a group of private clients as well. How this work will be that interested parties will skrill us their intended "in"/investment (sorry pun intended) amount. This amount will be added to the pool. The win-win scenario is that with the increased in capital, the EA will be able to trigger more trades on other pairs so as to allow to test the accuracy of the system across more pairs. For the investor, he/she will get profits.
We intend to run this experiment till October 14. On October 14, we will close all trades and declare to all investors their share of the pie. We will then make the relevant withdrawals and due to processing time, all clients can expect their money back (with profits if any) back within the week.
The upsides for this deal is that as we tweak the EA along the way and you spread the risk across more pairs. Upon completion of the project, assuming it is to expectations, we will also note that you have believed in us, and thus, you will be given a preferential price to the EA/some other goodies we are thinking of but haven't decided. The downside is that well, you're sending money to us.
Let me know.
And some more:
The reason why we don't put a price tag is because there will always be lowballers and we're tired of it. I don't know if you've seen the big accounts I have loaded up, but yeah, we can't be haggling over small amounts. You can call it weird or anything, but we simply tell our clients we have this, if you want it, give us an offer. That's it. I do not know if you follow the NBA, but when the Lakers wanted Davis, they went to the Pelicans with an offer and then negotiated. They did not go to the Pelicans and ask them what they wanted from their squad.
Obviously there is an EA. The pooled account is run on the EA as well. But like I mentioned time and before, it is still in experimental phase so we monitor it closely.
I asked all sorts of questions about how suspicious his 100% winrate looked like I got this:
I reckon you are sincere. I will cut you a special deal and do it your way instead. 140 euros. It's not a life-death decision, so I expect a reply soon. Thank you.
Meanwhile, my buddy, FXsniper approached Yareck1 and inquired about his EA. After some discussion, a price of I think $150 USD was asked for by Yareck1. FXsniper being smart as he is, saw through Yareck1 and backed out of the deal and put him on his ignore list. FXsniper and I discussed it and while he said he was out for good, he left it up to me to go ahead with the purchase through RegisMexes. Well, RegisMexes was pissed off. He sent me many emails about how mad at FXsniper he was:
No, it is a fully automated EA. It can be, in your words, plug and play. I'm aware there are many false accusations thrown at me, including the most recent one from your buddy Sniper. And you know what? I don't give a damn. Giving a damn about losers throwing wild accusations doesn't make me a single cent.
You can tell your buddy Sniper this: Yareck is a student of mine. Don't be a buffoon and try to suggest that is me. I know exactly what happened, Yareck told me. Your buddy Sniper is really illogical. Yareck showed me everything. Ask Sniper to think for a moment-if Yareck was a scammer, he would had taken the money from your buddy Sniper at the first chance he had, instead of asking your buddy Sniper to wait an hour for him to return to office. Or he would had taken the [COLOR=var(--themePrimary)]paypal[/color] option even though fees were higher.
Yareck's Midas EA is an abridged version of mine. Is it better? Or worse? It is up to preference. Since I am in the mood, I will tell you: his Midas EA (yes, it is a fully automated EA as well) can give higher returns but it has a slightly higher DD (still below 20% though). We have worked together on the EA from the beginning and branched out. Nonetheless, we have our agreement with regards to sale/use of both EAs, so we are cool here.
After this fiasco, Yareck will no longer contact or deal with Sniper. I will handle this entire thing from here. Sorry if you think I sound harsh. But I'm fed up with the idiots (not saying you or Sniper, I'm actually referring to some other idiots) on FF forums.
Here's the deal now:
1. Yareck's Midas EA made another 59% today. If Sniper wants to see it, sure, but we will use his FF account to load up the TE. Too bad, he reported Yareck as me and Twee being an idiot, revoked the membership. Their agreed price was USD 160. It is now USD 300.
2. If you are interested in my EA (if you really must know, I simply call it RegisMexes Experimental EA for now, I call all my experimental EA that; I only name them when they are fully complete), like I said, EUR 140. I will honor my price to you.
3. But here's the twist-you will only get to buy if Sniper honors his word and buys from Yareck.
4. You guys will deal with me directly, ie. both payments to me before I send the EAs to the relevant people.
5. Any queries, it will be through me as well. Sniper can email me. Or Skype me. I don't care. We can agree on a timing to all go on Skype and thrash things out. I'm game.
Sorry if this email is a little unpleasant.
RegisMexes.
He was obviously very angry at FXsniper. I told him that FX sniper was his own person and I had no control over him but kept going on...
Sniper made a deal with Yareck and I want him to honor it-Yareck needs the money for his education.
Since you guys are close, arrange a time on Skype and the 3 of us can talk.
Also, I have told you the price of my EA twice and you still have not answered if you are OK with it.
Once again I told him to leave FXsniper alone and then he said this:
You and him are obviously speaking, so I just want you to convey my message to him.
He does not have to decide anything right now.
We can arrange to talk on Skype at a timing, the 3 of us.
He insisted:
The flow of sequence suggests he did. Why don't we all get on Skype and talk things out like gentlemen?
NO, no, no...Fxsniper is not interested, I told him.
Fine, he's an idiot. Do you still want in? We have discussed long enough.
At this point, I decided to go ahead with the purchase because there was only one way to know if there is an EA. To pay. Yes, all you people could have deducted so far that this guy and Yareck1 (Some suggest they are one and the same person) was up to no good. Yes I know. I decided that I wasn't about to go belly up if I did this and the 140 EUR was the price of curiosity. Of course that was a bad idea but hey, you didn't have to pay and I paid so I can bring this to you. Right? I paid 140 and you paid nothing. So I am saving you the price of curiosity. Now, this idea comes up that fraudsters think the same way. they don't feel guilty about ripping people off because after all, their victims volunteered to dole out the money. They were greedy and their own greed got them. And if they didn't snatch the money, someone else would have and 140 isn't going to bankrupt anyone and the victims would have lost that money on trading anyways.......but nothing justifies a crime. Not even a good reason such as my boss is a jerk and a slave driver and that is why I steal from him. Basically committing a crime because someone else has committed a crime is no reason to justify one's criminal activity. So, if someone tries to convince themselves that what they did wasn't so wrong or it was someone else's fault, they are basically deceiving themselves.
Seems like our timezone difference is really huge, especially with you working.
Also, I want to help Yareck. So skrill him the money instead. His email is .......
Once done, drop me an email with the screenshot and I will verify with him.
Thanks.
So, yah, I did the deed and pulled the trigger and sent his the 140 EUR. Here is what happened next. Should I stop and leave you all hanging here? My buddy FXsniper said I shouldn't post this stuff because i will come across as a sore loser. Most victims don't say anything because of the shame involved in being a victim. They might get called stupid, they may lose respect and they may lose friends because no one wants to be associated with someone who got scammed since they were obviously stupid enough to fall for the obvious plot. BUT, I don't care. I did this with full understanding that I may get scammed. Even investigative reporters might have to pay for flights and accommodations chasing dead end leads. They may not even end up with anything reportable. Instead, you are getting the full story of what did not happen to you but it was as if it happened to you. Worth 140 Eur for this info? Especially that you paid nothing?
Okay, here is what happened next:
He didn't acknowledge that he had received the 140 EUR so I emailed him and he finally replied:
Bear with me, we can't login either.
Apparently he just couldn't login to confirm the pay:
Hi. Sorry we just ended our discussion. Not sure if you are aware, there are protests/riots here in Hong Kong and there's going to be some problems with our office.
Yareck and I are still both unable to login to Skrill. How did you get rid of that error message?
That was last Wedensday 07/17/2019 and on Thursday I got this:
Sorry for the late reply, got caught up with some police stuff here in Hong Kong. Anyway, yareck is still unable to login to Skrill. Apparently due to him selling his EA, there were quite a lot of transactions and Skrill locked him out. He will be sorting it out. I apologize for the delay. If you are upset about it, once Yareck is able to login, I will ask him to give you a full refund.
Thanks
Are you starting to puke by now or are you at the start of feeling sick only? I emailed again and questioned if there was really an EA and I asked him to take my Skrill receipt for proof that I had paid and on Friday 07/19/2019, I got this last email from RegisMexes and nothing since:
Google it, Hong Kong has been rioting since MArch.
And that is that. RegisMexes has gone silent. Yesterday i emailed him and told him that on the first week's anniversary of me sending payment, I will post all details about this on FF. No reply.
Both FF accounts belonging to RegisMexes were reinstated a day or two after being revoked but neither has posted or done any activity. I have a feeling that RegisMexes and Yareck1 have multiple accounts tyhat maybe current or several years old. They maybe reading this right now and maybe replying to threads with the kind of lingo that an experience trader uses or in case of Regis other account that he used to PM me, he is a newbie and wants to ask noob questions. I PM'd a couple of FF members and found a member (won't be named) who refused to pay $100 to RegisMexes for his EA and shockingly, I spoke via PM to a popular FF member (won't be named) who refused to sell their FF account to RegisMexes. I suspect he was attempting to buy the account and use the popularity and persona of the FF member to lure more customers.
There are many questions that remain to be answered like: How can a member post "real' trades in a real account TE that belongs apparently to a corporation and how come their accounts were reinstated and still on FF for those members to use?
Another question: Is Regismexes a real scammer who couldn't make it in FX trading and resolved to just join FF forums and use the lingo to come across as an experienced trader or is he real and Skrill really locked out his account and the protests in HK have really hindered the email communications and that is why he is not replying?
I much rather discuss the issue and I don't need getting flamed or flaming anyone. I already know that a sucker is born every day and the other nifty sayings so hold your thoughts. Remember not to attack the victim here especially if this victim is bringing you knowledge and entertainment they you didn't have to pay for.
