So very obviously GUILTY. Very few of these scammers are registered with a regulator at all. Even the ones who are pay little or no attention to the rules, and the regulators themselves do little to nothing to actually regulate. As you are well aware, you have been scammed big time and can give up any hope of getting your money back from these bandits. If you funded your account using credit or debit cards and are still inside their time limit to claim a chargeback you could be successful by claiming goods or services not received as you were denied access to your account and they traded without your consent. However, I fear time restraints may be against you. Their rules and regulations are probably not binding as they are unreasonable, but you will have to go to court to claim that. Winchargeback may be able to help but before you commit a penny or sign anything, make sure you fully understand how they are going to achieve the recovery, or you may loose even more money. The Australian banks are in many ways complicit in these scams as they are aware they exist but do not prevent or caution customers from falling victim to the fraud. I wish you good luck with you efforts to get at least some recovery.