IroTradex

For a long time, a guy named David Górecki has been urging me to join the exchange. He recommended an analyst, Artur Zieliński—with a Russian accent. A certain Weronika Zielińska "operates" on another platform. I asked Artur about her and what connects them. Instead of answering, he asked me why I was asking about her. She also has an Eastern accent and speech. Thanks for the warnings. Regards.

I warn everyone against investing via the "IroTradex" platform, which, according to the Polish Financial Supervision Authority's warning, operates illegally in Poland because it has no local branch and there are reservations regarding its terms. After registering, you will be contacted by an advisor with a Polish name (e.g., Adam Kowalski) and a foreign accent, who will guide you through the mandatory client verification process. The company requires sending photos of a photo ID, e.g., passport, ID card, or driver's license, photos of both sides of a credit card (with the 6 middle digits and the 3-digit CVV covered), and any utility bill with an address. Then you have to transfer a minimum of 250 USD to the company's account as a deposit. "IroTradex" is likely based in Hong Kong, but your money will go to the account of a branch in Tallinn, Estonia. After paying the deposit, a financial advisor with a Polish name and an Eastern accent contacted me, informing me that I would get a 50% deposit bonus (125 USD) and that she would advise me on investing. I decided to invest via a server-operated algorithm called a "moneybot." For the first few days, buy and sell operations did not exceed 10 USD, yielding a positive result of approx. 5-10 USD a day. After three days, I learned about the KNF's warnings and demanded my deposit back. After long negotiations where the broker urged me to keep investing, I agreed to withdraw 50 USD and leave the rest for two weeks. The next day, the "moneybot" made minor operations within the set limit, until it ended the session with one failed purchase for the entire remaining deposit amount, i.e., -382 USD. Fortunately, the 50 USD refund reached my account a few days later. To sum up, don't be fooled by the promise of quick profit. The whole endeavor is geared towards draining clients' wallets. I suspect that even the screen with financial operations is just a simple animation that has little to do with a real exchange and is meant to encourage transferring money to the deposit account (e.g., gold and currency prices differed from local data). To make matters worse, "IroTradex" trades personal data, because immediately other platforms like "NitroTrade", "HandelPro", etc. contacted me. A final piece of advice: never send a photo of your passport or ID card during verification. Just in case, I sent a photo of my driver's license, because it's highly unlikely anyone can take a loan out on a driver's license.

Scam from every angle. After verification, I had an automatic deposit of 250 USD, but when I realized it wasn't what I wanted, I wrote a contract withdrawal (which I never received). I kept getting calls saying I had to trade to get my money back, and only when I earned 50 euros did I MAKE A WITHDRAWAL. I recovered half because they charged commissions for the rest. I was supposed to close those 3 windows, which I did with analyst Julia Imber, and that's it, but the account still exists, I don't know for what purpose. Because of this, I can't sleep and have health problems.

Scammers and crooks. They refuse to return the money. They also refuse to accept the withdrawal from the contract or delete my data. After sending various letters, nothing works on anything. Complete madness. Zero contact, unless you count silent phone calls.

Aside from trading, I train companies in sales techniques. During my first contact from IroTradex, the girl talked like an answering machine—exclusively using learned text templates, which immediately raised my concerns. I tried to block their contact with me—no reaction. They don't reply to emails, texts, or verbal requests to stop contacting me. They merely changed to a "contact boy" who, admittedly, was polite for the first 2 minutes until I started asking questions about the company to which I was supposed to entrust my personal data. Here, the politeness disappeared—guess that was off script from the telemarketer training :). I checked with the KNF (Polish FSA) as seller No. 2 suggested—the company does not exist and is not regulated. I WARN YOU! And for those eager to get rid of cash—it's a great fail! Listen, ask "meta-questions" to unpack the hidden goals of the speaker, weigh your decisions right from the start because apart from cash, we lose our lives on such "hustlers" preying on others' trust and faith in people around us. I don't know which is more valuable. Sergiusz.

The whole story begins with Google ads showing some guy in the TVP "Pytanie na śniadanie" morning show talking about how he started making big money online thanks to the Pattern Trader program. After clicking, the Pattern Trader website opens, encouraging investment, initially $250, and saying you get another $250 for free. When you proceed, you land on the IroTradex website. Once you register, they call you right away and urge you to deposit funds, preferably with a credit card. If you want to do it via a regular bank transfer, problems start, but I managed to get an email with the account and company name to make the transfer to. The transfer goes to the UK to the account of X RAY Solutions Ltd, address KEMP HOUSE, 160 CITY ROAD, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM. The company was registered in April 2020 by a Latvian citizen, Inna Jurcenko. I checked the Financial Conduct Authority database (the British equivalent of our KNF), and neither X Ray nor Ms. Jurcenko is registered there. For me personally, it's a SCAM, but let everyone think carefully, check for themselves, and decide what to do next.

IroTradex is a scam. At first, they guaranteed large profits and assured me that I would multiply my capital very quickly. I deposited $250 to start, and managed to increase the capital to $600. When I wanted to withdraw the funds, it turned out it wasn't that simple. Contact became increasingly difficult until it finally stopped completely.