The US Securities and Exchange Commission has warned the public about a number of unregulated soliciting entities and fake regulators.
The SEC maintains a so-called PAUSE list with unregistered entities that have been the subject of investors complaints. It is highly recommendable to avoid all dealings with these entities.
Soliciting unregistered entities
- 247 Options Trade
- Binary Market Arbitration Refund
- Cadwell Capital Partners
- Crawford Stanley Advisors
- Kingsley Capital Partners
- Law Experts of New York
- Levine & Levine Law Specialist
- Maxwell Financial Service
- Mendelson & Associates
- Miller & Cohen
- Morgan Consultancy Group
- New York Law Specialist
- Thomas, Lloyd, Cohen & Anderson LLP
- Total International CPA
- Transfer Securities
- United Tax Consulting
Fake / Bogus regulators
- Department of Financial Regulators
- Financial Protection Intelligence Unit
- Global Financial Protection Commission
- International Financial & Regulatory Commission
- New York Regulatory Division
- Overseas Financial Authority
- U.S. Board of Merger & Acquistion
- United States Bureau of Securities Registration
- US Registration Authority