Scam broker & platform watchlist
This directory lists brokers, platforms, and “recovery” services reported to Seamus Manley Investigations or identified through our work on complex financial and cryptocurrency matters. Entries are for information only, and do not replace your own due diligence.
For many years, our Colorado Springs office was the center of everything we did. It supported early financial investigations, hundreds of client consultations, and the foundational crypto cases that shaped our modern workflow. But by 2022, it became…
View full reportBy 2021, scam networks were no longer operating from a handful of isolated wallet addresses. Instead, they were using large clusters of wallets, automated movement patterns, and chain-hopping sequences designed to conceal ownership and disrupt straightforward tracing. To…
View full reportBy 2020, one red flag became so consistent across fraudulent trading platforms that it often allowed us to identify a scam within minutes: the demand for a fee before releasing a withdrawal. These so-called verification fees appeared under…
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