Operator on file: Trade Market Cup — see the full IntelliCtech scam-broker dossier.
A retired teacher in the US Midwest came to us after six weeks of daily phone calls from a “senior broker” at Trade Market Cup. The dashboard showed steady gains; the withdrawals never came.
How it unfolded
The first deposits were small and by debit card. A modest early withdrawal was paid back — the confidence trick — and after that every call pushed a larger top-up to reach the next “tier.” By week five the screen showed a balance near six figures. When he tried to withdraw, the platform demanded a “liquidity fee,” then a “tax,” then a final crypto deposit to “unlock” the account.
What we did
We split the loss into its two rails. The card deposits were challenged through the networks with a documented misrepresentation case — call logs, the fake dashboard, the withdrawal refusals. The final crypto tranche was traced on-chain to a deposit address at an identifiable exchange and submitted with his fraud report for a freeze.
The outcome
Most of the card deposits were recovered through successful chargebacks; a portion of the crypto tranche was frozen before it dispersed. The total returned came to roughly 58% — an honest, partial result, and far better than the zero he expected.
“He called me every morning like a friend. I genuinely believed the money was there. Getting even part of it back, and finally understanding what happened, gave me my footing again.”
— Verified client, retired educator, US Midwest
Client details are anonymised at the client’s request; the broker is documented in our public directory.
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