Ed_Forex,
If you continue to attack fellow FPA members in an uncivilized fashion, I will have no choice but to ban you. Joneslds does not work for the FPA. He's just a member who sees that something is very wrong with how you and James C Connor are dealing with your claims.
I don't know if you and James are the same or not. James has used anonymous proxies to create his account and for his postings.
When I do mark a review as having come from a brokerage, it's because I have PROOF. You would be amazed at how many broker employees create a company representative forums account from the same location that they chose to spam from.
I usually don't know who is advertising. My login and the logins of my review moderators block all the advertisements. Companies with serious warnings on their review pages don't get ad contracts. When I add a serious warning to a review page, I notify the ad department. When a company asks about an ad contract, the ad department notifies me and I say Yes, No, or Short-term only. At that point, I don't follow through on the permitted ones to see if the contract was finalized or not.
On those few occasions where I do know a company has a contract and a borderline review comes in, I hold the advertisers to a higher standard, not a lower one.
You failed to provide evidence to show anything more than getting a margin call.
Your other claim is about getting more bonuses than one bonus program allowed. You did not present evidence which could help show if more than one bonus program was involved. Even if HotForex did violate their own terms by awarding you excessive bonuses, the awarding of excess bonuses does not qualify as a scam. This would be the same no matter what broker awarded the bonus. If you have a problem with that, you should have complained to HotForex the moment it happened instead of waiting until after you suffered an unrelated loss. If you still want to pursue an "excess bonus" issue, I suggest you file a complaint with HotForex's regulator or file a lawsuit.
If you decide to trade forex with any broker in the future, I recommend you decline all bonus offers.