The Largest Investment Scam in Documented History.
We have spent years mapping a single fraud network – its shell companies, its receiving banks, its victims. What we found is bigger than any one case: an operation over two decades old, run across multiple continents, with an estimated $10 billion USD taken globally. This is what the scale actually looks like.
Why we’re doing this
Massive investment scams, made in Asia. Tens of thousands of victims worldwide. We became victims of one of the biggest investment scams of this century – and it is still live today. $10 billion USD lost. Over 150 of us funded the forensic research behind this site, and what it found is shocking: professional ex-brokers, fully licensed, selling fake listed stocks and mimicking real companies. Mainstream banks providing the mule accounts, with a complete disregard for AML compliance. Weak regulatory oversight. Powerless police.
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Two decades, two generations
This is not a one-off. Records we have traced put the origins of this specific network at more than 20 years ago, with losses estimated at roughly $10 billion USD once counted globally across that period.
Where the money went
Funds sent in to “invest” are instead routed through a rotating cast of shell companies – 340 identified so far, each typically used for two to three months before being abandoned for the next one.
Most of that money is laundered through Hong Kong, with HSBC Hong Kong the single largest conduit identified in our evidence. The 110 receiving banks holding these accounts operate across 27 different countries – this is not a local problem, it is a jurisdiction-hopping one, by design.
The banks that let it through
It is not only the receiving banks that failed. We have identified 79 separate banks – the victims’ own, everyday banks, across their home countries – that processed these outbound transfers without flagging them.
Card fraud gets blocked in seconds. A first-time wire transfer of tens of thousands of euros to a shell company nobody has heard of, in a jurisdiction the customer has never transacted with before, did not. Sending banks carry a duty of care to their own customers – and on this evidence, that duty was not met at scale.
The evidence, and who’s looking at it
Every figure on this page is drawn from the same 600-page forensic report – bank wires, shell company filings, transfer instructions, and victim testimony, cross-referenced and documented. It is not a summary; it is the case file.
This is not sitting untouched. The syndicate is under active investigation by the Australian Federal Police, US Homeland Security, and the Hong Kong Police.