I've been waiting for awhile before making an announcement. Websites can go down for awhile and then come back up again. In this case, I'm getting more and more sure that I can confidently state that:
PRIME4X IS DEAD
The website has been down for a couple of weeks. Domaintools.com shows the domain name as being suspended. My congratulations to all who participated in shutting down these scammers. This shows how powerful your actions can be when you work together.
The good news is that it looks like Omari and his friends probably won't be using that website to scam any more traders. The bad news is that this will make it harder to get your money back if you already had an account with them.
Don't give up hope.
There are still ways to pursue the people behind Prime4x.
If you wired money to Prime4x at any time or if you got a bank wire from them, post their banking information (their bank info, not yours) in this thread.
If you have
any information on
Abdel Rahman El Omari,
Amr Hendawi,
Robert Cris, or
Andri Kimpensky/Kampinsky or anyone else who was involved in managing or owning Prime 4x, post the info in this thread. Names, pictures, passport information, cell phone numbers, and anything else you have on them may end up being the key to finding these people and bringing them to court.
For people from
all countries, go to the
E-Consumer and file a complaint. If you've already done that, leave a followup letting them know that you can't access the P4X website and that it looks like they've grabbed all the money and run off. If anyone at Prime4x ever sent you a fake TT copy for a wire transfer, show that to your bank and include a copy with any official complaints you file.
If you are in the USA, go to the
CFTC's contact page and file a complaint.Do the same thing at
IC3, the Internet Crime Complaint Center. If you've already done these, go back and leave a followup.
If you are anywhere outside the USA, ask your local bank where to best file a complaint with your government about international financial fraud. Ask your local police the same thing. Most importantly, if you do find out how to file a complaint with your government, do not keep the information to yourself. Post it here to make it quicker and easier for more victims to file complaints. The more legitimate complaints, the more likely one or more government agencies will do something.
If you see people in other forums who have accounts with Prime, tell them to put all the information they can find in this thread. Make this thread the place where all victims and government investigations can find information needed to track down the scammers behind Prime 4x and bring them to justice.
Don't work together and Omari and his buddies will very likely pop up under new names at a new brokerage and will do the same thing again and again and again. Giving up or not sharing information is exactly what Omari and the rest of these scammers want you to do.
Work together in this way with all the victims and there is some chance of getting some of your money back. There's also a good chance of sending some or even all of the people behind Prime4x to jail for a very long time.