I have a friend who signed up with Eclipse Finance and Top Binary Signals. After background investigation into these companies I am pretty confident it is a total SCAM! I would advise anyone to stay clear of these so called companies.
Ah! I just wrote a huge response to this but this forum flagged it as spam - probably because I had too many weblinks or something?
I will try again but without the links. If a moderator can please contact me so I can upload all my findings that would be great.
In summary:
A friend was telling me about his investment with TBS and Eclipse finance and how he was making good profits and was encouraged to upgrade his account. To me the amounts given seemed too good to be true so I started looking into these websites. I have worked in IT for the last 12 years so have a good eye for suspect looking things on websites.
Here are some Red Flags that appeared from my searches:
1. The TBS website shows a list of so called "team members" (
http://top-binary-signals.com/team) and some info on CEO "Otto Ebersbach". Straight away the pictures of all the staff looked too generic. So doing a reverse google image search on the CEOs photo I found that it was indeed a generic shutterstock type business image.
See here where all the photos of so called "Mr Ebersbach" appear. (these are just a tiny sample, the google search reveals many more!):
http://usadatabases.com/product/ceo-8909996-email-list-database/
2. All the reviews on the facebook pages for both companies all come from fake profiles.
3. The TBS website says that the company has been trading since 2010, however the domain name for both TBS and eclipse were first registered in 2014.
4. None of the so called "awards" either company claim to have been given can be confirmed anywhere online.
5. According to the UK Business registration website:
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09818512/ Eclipse finance were only incorporated 9 Oct 2015. clicking on the listed "Officers" of the company -
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09818512/officers gives 2 results. The first one is for "NORTHWESTERN MANAGEMENT SERVICES LIMITED" with a Correspondence address of 145-157, St John Street, London, United Kingdom, EC1V 4PW. A search on this address took me to this website:
http://interfraud.org/ni_british_connection.htm which states "
The UK address. 145-157 St John Street, London, EC1V 4PY. According to a BBC report, this is the address used by a company which sells its use as a registered office address. Because there does not seem to be an obligation to check that users of the service are legitimate companies, criminals are attracted to it. According to the BBC, the address is in common use among fake companies operating "boiler room" fake share scams."
6. There are a bunch of bizarre websites associated with Eclipse finance that made no sense and had domains created around the same time as both TBS and Eclipse. All have privacy settings so you can't see who created them:
So basically it doesn't add up well. I'm pretty sure my friend will never see his money again.