Scammers may try to win your trust by saying they are regulated by an organisation that sounds legitimate. If they mention a 'fake regulator' featured on our list below, you know the offer is a scam.
The international organisations listed below are fake entities and no genuine government regulators exist under these names. Do not deal with them.
- Alliance Financial Regulatory Board
- American Futures and Options Exchange
- American Futures and Options Trading Commission (AFOTC)
- Beacon Commodities and Futures Exchange (BCFX)
- Beacon Hill Regulatory Trade Commission, The
- Belgium Commodities & Futures Exchange - www.bcfex.com (no longer works)
- Board of Securities Trading Commission
- Boston Mergers and Acquisitions Board
- Bureau of Financial Services Board
- Bureau of Financial Trading
- Bureau of Foreign Security Affairs
- Commission on Financial and Securities Compliance
- Committee of Regulation and Liquidation on Private Ventures
- Commodities Futures Trading Commission - www.cftc.org.au
(Please note that this fake regulator should not be confused with the legitimate US regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission which is http://www.cftc.gov) - Commonwealth Regulatory Board
- Department of Financial Trading
- Department of Foreign Investment Control
- Department of International Financial Trading
- Department of Securities Trading
- Digital Gold Exchange
- Deutsche Anstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (DAFIN) - www.dafin.org
- East West Financial & Securities Compliance
- Equities Trading Commission
- European Financial Services Conduct Authority
- European Futures Options Commission
- Federal Assurance Regulatory Commission
- Federal Mergers & Securities Board
- Financial Assurance Regulatory Board
- Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Belgium
- Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Frankfurt (FSRAF) - www.fsraf.org
- Foreign Shareholders Protection Department
- Forensic Financial Fraud Investigators
- Frankfurt Financial Supervisory Authority - www.ffsauthority.com
- Futures Trading Standards Commission
- Global Metal and Commodities Exchange
- Global Regulatory Authority
- Hong Kong Financial Services Authority
- Hong Kong Financial Trading Authority (HKFTA)
- Hong Kong Futures and Options Exchange (HKFOX)
- Integrated Financial Regulatory Board
- Inter-global Financial Regulatory Board
- International Association of Transfer Agents
- International Compliance Commission
- International Equity Commission
- International Exchange Regulatory Commission
- International Offshore Financial Markets Regulators (IOFMR) - http://iofmr.com
- International Organization of Securities Commission - www.iosc-us.com
- International Regulatory Commission
- International Securities Tax Commission
- International Shareholder Agency
- Japan Futures Trading Fund (JFTB) - www.jftb.org/eng/
- Japan Options and Futures Trading Board - www.joftb.org
- National Compliance Regulatory Board
- National Mergers and Acquisitions Board
- National Shareholder Protection Agency
- Office of Financial Affairs
- Offshore Commodity Futures Dealers Association (OCFDA)
- Offshore Futures Securities Association
- Offshore Investors Protection Association
- Options and Futures Trade Commission
- Overseas Holding Compensation Commission
- Plutus Private Equity LLC
- Prudential Regulatory Board
- Regional Regulatory Board
- Regulatory Association Of Offshore Investment Managers
- Regulatory Compliance Commission
- Securities Regulatory Commission
- Securities Regulatory and Investment Board
- Sicfex Swiss International Commodities Futures Exchange
- Swiss Commodities Futures Exchange
- Thompson Brennan Stanley
- Transfer Exchange Corporation
- The Futures Exchange Securities Regulator
- The International Board of Trade Commission
- The International Regulatory Panel of Trade
- United Kingdom Commodity Derivatives Association
- United Kingdom Managed Futures Association
- United States Trading Commission - no address or website
- US Securities Investigative Committee
- US Stock Regulators
- World Options Exchange - www.woptex.com
- World Trade Commodities Exchange
- Worldwide Securities Investment Comission - www.asic-capital.com
Check IOSCO lists and alerts
- IOSCO (International Organization of Securities Commissions) - lists the real overseas market regulators
- IOSCO's investor alerts - search for overseas companies that are not authorised to provide investments services in the country that has issued the alert