GUILTY Case# 2016-156 | vethan vs option500.com

Based on the available evidence, do you believe that Option500.com is Guilty?

  • Guilty

    Votes: 87 100.0%
  • Not guilty

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    87
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vethan

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Original FPA Traders Court Submission:

I am submitting the case against: www.option500.com

My Case is: I would like to lodge the complaint on illicit broker option 500, OPTION SOLUTION
Group Limited- 3rd Floor, C&H Tower, Corner of Great Marlborough And Great George Street, PO Box 2320, Roseau, 00152, Commonwealth Of Dominica. who had scammed my money of total usd18,700.

The complaints are as follows;

Option500 approached me through my handphone on 21st September 2015 from the number +44 2036958189 for opening a trading account of Binary options with them to make income of money. They initially asked me to pay 500USD then forced me to pay another 1500USD. Then a broker from option500 named Carl Ericssion called me from the same number and promised me that they will not play with my real money and help me to make more money through the investments I made and also he insisted me to invest further for big trading’s. So I paid again USD1200+USD500. Option500 promised me that even If I lose my money through trading I could able to take out all the money at any time that I have invested.
Unfortunately in the subsequent days I lost all the money in trading. On 24th september 2015 again Carl called me and said he will help me to retrieve all the lost money and for that I have to invest further 10000USD and I paid that amount as he said. Suddenly My account was locked for two days and not knowing what were went on, so I sent an email about that to them on 2nd October to return all of my deposited money of 13,700USD.
On 3rd October 2015 Carl again called me and promised to make profit out of my invested money and from that profit I could take out of the invested money. For that he asked me to authorize Option500 to make trading on behalf of me, with his promise, I had gave them the authorization to trade. When I saw the way of trading done by them, I was not comfortable, so I sent an email to them on 3rd October 2015 to return all of my Deposited money 13,700 USD, there was no response to it.
I reminded them again about that request of returning the money on 6th October 2015, but without responding to my email and without informing me they did trading and lost 90% of my money. I did called them on October 7th 2015 to stop further trading and to return my money. They didn't listen to me at any time and purposefully vanished my money and replied me that I have lost my principal amount. In addition carl tried to rip off my money from credit card without my knowledge and fortunately at last moment I did stopped his fraudulent act .

Firstly they did not even informed me that managed system Robot will play on behalf of me and how much they are going to trade. I made again a big complaint to their customer service team to resolve the issue, but there is no proper response from them and they keep insisted me to invest me further. They didn’t admit their mistake at any time and provide proper response to my requests/queries/complaints. I lodged a complaint to Action fraud Police Uk & CYSEC, Subsequently Carl Ericcson Option 500 Scam Broker called me on 23rd Novemeber and asked my details of credit card to return the deposited money, I gave the card number only and got alerted that he was trying to rip off money when he asked for the expiry date and CVV number of credit card. So I did not gave those details. However he managed to deduct USD 5000, with out my consent. At the same time Alan Jones of Option500 compliance manager made a forgery document showing that I had agreed to deduct USD 5000 dollar from my credit card and Acknowledging the same with my signature. I again made complaint to Credit card fraud handling department , Action fraud UK and CYSEC. So far I lost huge amount and did not get any positive result to my complaints made.
I have the following complaints on them:
1. Option500 broker obviously made an illegal trading on my account without my knowledge,
2. Option500 refused to return my money when I requested
3. Option 500 ripped off money from my credit card with out my consent
4. Option 500 given empty promises to rip off more and more money
5. The online software is designed and manipulated such way that the traders will only lose the money all-time. The value shown on the system is not matching at any period with real time market value.


CYSEC is unable to take any action as Option500 is not a regulated broker.

The charge-back case filed through the credit card bank was also lost, due to my signature appears in the receipt of transaction.The e-receipt was generated from my email id with my e-signature.

During my communications with Option500 broker , they asked me to share my PC screen through Teamviewer and I suspect they would have stolen my personal details and passwords during that PC sharing session. Also suspecting they might have installed some malware software during that period in my PC to take the data continuously from my PC. That's how they managed to login in to my email ID and generated the e-receipt with my e-signature.
As option500 had the receipt with my signature that generated from my email ID., the case raised by me through credit card bank for charge back against Option500 was lost.
This is a big crime made by Option500 and eventually it leads to me to lost huge money and affects mentally my life too.


In recent days , When I communicated with Option 500 for returning atleast my USD 5000 that they had charged from credit card , they said after the credit card charge back case closed, they will refund it to me. but now even after the case closed with credit card bank, they are not returning my money and the Balance in my Trading account still shows USD5000.
Please help me to retrieve my money of USD18,700.00 from Bogus Broker Option500.

New thread in the Scam Alerts Folder:

Review is submitted by vethan on 08/20/16

The company was first contacted about the issue on 07/07/16 the last contact was on 07/18/16

Details: No reply from the company

Company representatives' emails: alan stone <alan.s@option500.com>
carlericcsion <carl.e@option500.com>
support <support@option500.com>

 

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You should file an appeal with your bank. You aren't disputing the charges because they are unauthorized. You are disputing the charges because of what appears to be fraudulent behavior on the part of the broker.

I'm mailing the formal FPA invitation to Option500 now. Please leave an update in this thread and in your Scam Alerts thread next week to let me know if you've heard anything from them.
 
Earlier I did made a complaint to the bank with all evidences and they took 6 months for investigation.
Since the broker had receipts for the payment with my signature, the case was failed and the bank asked me to deal it with broker directly.
The main issue is , the broker managed to generate a receipt with my signature form my personal email. I suspect Option500 had stolen my personal data while sharing my screen with them using teamviewer software.
Until today I am not getting any response from Optio500.
 
Vethan, I think you need to have a chat with WinChargeback. They've been able to help FPA members who have lost the first round or two of a DIY chargeback.

Yo AsstMod, I think this one needs to go to Open Cases soon.
 
I would also like to file a court case against Option500. I have a very similar situation to vethan with the EXACT same trader called Carl Ericsson. I have lost $22,000 so far
 

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u think if at all that company is guilty it's for withdrawing money from that account without authorization but for the refund of principal amount we all know no company can refund that non the less they are guilty
 
Carl Erickson from Option 500 is a common thief and should be in jail. He stole $6000 USD from my credit card unorthorised while I was on a cruise. I was not aware of this till the fraud department from my credit card provider contacted me on my return. I got in touch with him to return the money. As the credit card he stole from was cancelled he required my new card details to return the $6000 but instead he stole another $6000. I filed a case for chargeback with credit card provider it took more than 6 months but they got it back.
I find most binary options brokers to be untrustworthy and will not trade binary ever again. ( They will take your money but you will never see it again They have quite a few tricks up their sleeves.)
Rod Taylor
 
@taylorrt18 I cannot believe this. I am talking to the same effing person called Carl Ericsson. every time I ask him to let me withdraw money from the "available cash" tab he says some BS like "oh but it would affect the trades" and he just loses the money on purpose so that I won't be able to take money out.
 
Carl Erickson from Option 500 is a common thief and should be in jail. He stole $6000 USD from my credit card unorthorised while I was on a cruise. I was not aware of this till the fraud department from my credit card provider contacted me on my return. I got in touch with him to return the money. As the credit card he stole from was cancelled he required my new card details to return the $6000 but instead he stole another $6000. I filed a case for chargeback with credit card provider it took more than 6 months but they got it back.
I find most binary options brokers to be untrustworthy and will not trade binary ever again. ( They will take your money but you will never see it again They have quite a few tricks up their sleeves.)
Rod Taylor
You can contact your authorities and see how they can help you. Try to pressure them into returning all your money, some people have managed to do it in the past but the problem is most people get too discouraged and don't try anything.
 
You can contact your authorities and see how they can help you. Try to pressure them into returning all your money, some people have managed to do it in the past but the problem is most people get too discouraged and don't try anything.
Try to get the authorities to BACK you up and then go to your credit card company to file a complaint against Option500. Send them emails saying that you will take legal action against them if they do not return your money through the chargeback.
 
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