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Operating status: SCAM

Website: https://monetio.io/; https://www.monetio.io/

Broker violations and abnormal records
  • 2024-08-14 The FCA adds Monetio to its warning list

    On 15 Aug, 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued a warning against Monetio, believing this company might be providing financial services or products without proper authorization in the UK. https://www.fca.org.uk/news/warnings/monetio-https-monetioio

    On 15 Aug, 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued a warning against Monetio, believing this company might be providing financial services or products without proper authorization in the UK. https://www.fca.org.uk/news/warnings/monetio-https-monetioio
  • 2024-08-18 BrokersView has reviewed that Monetio is an unregulated broker

    According to its website, it is regulated by Interworld Brokerage Group, but after searching, there is no relevant information showing that the agency has the authority to regulate foreign exchange. In addition, it is located in Comoros. Upon investigation, no matching information was found in the MWALI INTERNATIONAL SERVICES AUTHORITY (MISA).

    What's more, we found that the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued a warning against Monetio, believing this company might be providing financial services or products without proper authorization in the UK. 

    In essence, Monetio is not regulated by any governing body. Entrusting it with investors' funds is highly risky, as there are no legal protections in place to safeguard the funds.

    Monetio appears to be a scam.

    According to its website, it is regulated by Interworld Brokerage Group, but after searching, there is no relevant information showing that the agency has the authority to regulate foreign exchange. In addition, it is located in Comoros. Upon investigation, no matching information was found in the MWALI INTERNATIONAL SERVICES AUTHORITY (MISA).What's more, we found that the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued a warning against Monetio, believing this company might be providing financial services or products without proper authorization in the UK. In essence, Monetio is not regulated by any governing body. Entrusting it with investors' funds is highly risky, as there are no legal protections in place to safeguard the funds.Monetio appears to be a scam.
  • 2024-09-24 FCA updates its warning against Monetio

    Since Monetio is still in business to steal money from unsuspecting investors, FCA updates its warning against the platform with more details about the unauthorized firm and cautions the public to stay away from it once again. You may visit: https://www.fca.org.uk/news/warnings/monetio-https-monetioio

    Since Monetio is still in business to steal money from unsuspecting investors, FCA updates its warning against the platform with more details about the unauthorized firm and cautions the public to stay away from it once again. You may visit: https://www.fca.org.uk/news/warnings/monetio-https-monetioio

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zygmunt iwaniec
Monetio – Deals/Offers and Operating ModelWhen you start trading clients have minimal investments, so in order to trade effectively clients would normally invest to make that possible ($20 -$30k for example). The problem is that clients find that each time they invest they are offered better trading terms e.g. Reduced SWAPS, lower trading charges etc. Nothing wrong with that, except for the fact that each time the client starts with a new deal, at first it goes well and then suddenly their account finds itself under pressure , as in the account margin falls to say less than 200%.Yes, the client can make poor investment decisions, but the pattern is the same each time you invest, namely:a) You are advised to make trades by your Success Manager, opening trade with high margin exposures (5 lots on Forex, 3 lots on Gold etc). The client trusts the Success Manager and so places the trades, even though they don’t quite make sense e.g. Gold is having a major rally and your advised to sell. Need-less-to say, your profit and loss heads towards being negative and your margin level approach 200% or less.b) The client is vulnerable at this point, so Monetio then hit the client with punitive SPREADS e.g. Gold had a SPREAD of 50c and suddenly becomes $16 (meaning the trading price needs to raise or fall by $15.5 before the client makes any money). That’s over 3000% increase in your trading costs or around $1,700 loss before you make any money.c) Just for good measure they will then hit your account with punitive SWAPS e.g. just now my daily SWAP costs are $ 670 per day on Gold.d) The above actions are all designed increase the trading risk on your account and make you susceptible to options that appear to give you the chance of saving your account.In this position you can’t trade your way out of this, so your account is basically paralysed. Your Success Manager will propose another deal that will save you account, improve your trading terms and lead to believe it will all be much better this time round.It never is better (though it usually is for a few weeks and maybe a month) because the same scenario will just repeat. At some point when things are going well the client will ask to withdraw some funds and this is where you find out you are tied to a contract or T&Cs that you are not aware of. Your angry at this point because what they are saying, effectively, is that you will never trade enough to make money or get back anything you’ve invested. This brings us to the end game. Your Success Manager will sympathize with your predicament and propose a deal that will free you from any constraints (Trading Volume Targets etc), that your allegedly subject to and that you will have full access to your funds and can make withdrawals, as and when you wish. To get the deal you’ll need to pay another $10 - $20k. As this is at least, the chance to make some money and possibly get your money back. This acts as a strong incentive and your Success Manager knows it.Don’t, they will renege on the deal and as soon as you make a withdrawal request it will be rejected. At this point your Success Manager will vanish, they won’t talk to you, deal with any issues you’ve raised with Customer Support. This is essentially extorting money under false pretences, otherwise known as fraud.
2025-03-01
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zygmunt iwaniec
Monetio Trading – Operational ModelSuccess Manager - Primary ObjectiveTo persuade clients to regularly deposit additional funds to your client account. They will use the 7.6% interest per month on funds within your deposit account to encourage the client to regularly move funds from your trading account to their deposit account. Naturally, clients will try to maximise their interest returns with the view of compounding interest on a monthly basis. The interest income also acts as a deterrent to clients making any withdrawals from their accounts, in the early stages of trading.1) Initial InteractionDepositing funds – the majority of the funds deposited within the client’s account are done by bank transfers, but not directly to the company account. They are usually done by bank transfers to spoofed accounts under the names of various legitimate companies. On receipt by the spoofed account, they are then transferred on to Monetio via one or more transfers. Third parties that provide fund transfers are also used to deposit the money from clients. These transfers are not legal and are designed to make it difficult for banks to track the money flows and potentially get the money back.Hidden contracts and Terms and conditions (T&Cs). You must make sure your Success Manager gives you in writing any Contracts or Terms and Conditions that you maybe by tied to. Your Success Manager will not give you these unless you ask for them straight away, and you will be severely constrained by them later. Ideally, you need to know what these are before you deposit any major funds. The constraints that are imposed on the client are usually ‘Trading Volume’ targets, which if not achieved, precludes the client from withdrawing funds. These targets run into billions of dollars, which you as the client would find impossible to achieve.You as the client, should try to make a withdrawal as soon as you have enough in you accounts to do so, and these should be for at least $10,000. As mentioned above your Success Manger’s primary objective is to make commission on your deposits and the trades that you do. Minimisation of any withdrawals leaving your account is also one of their objectives. Do not accept $1/2k as this is a tactic, to make it appear as though you can access your profits. Interest payments are made monthly and can be seen as Credits in your deposit account. Again, once you have $10,000, ask your Success Manager to withdraw that sum. When your try to make a reasonable sized withdrawal, your request will be rejected. If your withdrawal request is rejected (and you have a good balance) your Success Manager will then tell you that you have a contract or T&Cs where, most likely, you have to achieve some unreasonable target e.g. Trading Volumes. It is very likely, that you never signed such a contract or were given any specific Terms and Conditions, with any targets. Beware, conditions are applied to interest payments as well. As the adage goes, “If it’s sounds too good to be true” it is and you won’t get it.Remember, your Success Manager is your primary contact with the company and it is their responsibility to advise their clients about every aspect of trading, including any restrictions that apply to you and your account. However, they are very selective about what they tell their clients when it comes Contracts, T&Cs and withdrawal constraints.
2025-02-02
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Tonina Tammaro
I hope people do their research on Monetio io. I didn't sadly and it cost me alot of money and my health. These people are narcissistic sociopaths.
2025-01-09
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Tonina Tammaro
Heath Ross grooms you to gain his trust, then for no reason, or excuses you get passed to Samuel Dahlman, he forced me to take out two loans to the value of 30k. I told him i could not afford them. He told me he would send me the monthly cost of the loans from my trade account. I asked him when he would be sending the loan payments. He lied to me saying he never said he had promised to cover the loans. I received a message off WhatsApp from him, [11.10.2024], 'Aim to have at lest 9-10 open' this was on Nat Gas. I knew the Nat Gas was declining and didnt want to lose. Later he called me and was very aggressive, forcing me to open 10 Nat Gas trades, I lost 100s of thousands. I asked for my 60k as there was still 261000 in my account. He wouldn't pay me my 60k back unless I put more money in and continued to trade. Clearly this made no sense as the funds I still had were plenty.Action fraud are looking into this company and believe it's a push scam. Please avoid this company as they are unprofessional in every sense of the word. They are criminals in a major concern. Why do you say you can't post my review. It is 100% fact. Action Fraud are involved now......Samuel Dahlman is a narcissistic sociopath, he begs,and steals off decent innocent people. Infact, the whole company are in the same category.WARNING SAMUEL DAHLMAN HAS PUT 3 FAKE REVIEWS ON HERE USING MY ID....CLEARLY THEY CAN WRITE THEIR OWN REVIEWS ON HERE PRETENDING THAT THEY HAVE GOOD REVIEWS. YOU WILL NEVER GET YOUR MONEY BACK OFF THIS SCAM COMPANY! TAKE THIS MESSAGE SERIOUSLY PLEASE.Now the scam letters asking for more information. As if, I haven't given enough detail. Samuel stop writing these stupid letters and stop calling me. A real company would want to investigate their staff, for being unprofessional, not telling the truth and not paying their customers when they have promised to. The letters are written by the criminals themselves and the good reviews too. Please learn from my mistakes. I wrote a true and honest review on Samuel Dalhman. Basically he is a liar 100%. Samuel was bragging about his 4 million house and many other houses in other countries. Our money has paid for his opulent life style. He is very abrasive and a liar through and through. Due to me being scammed by him, I now have heart problems. This is what he said to me [19/12, 19:45] Sam: Toni, calm down, your blood sugar might go up[19/12, 19:47] Sam: If some of the fraud agents want to invest, let me know please. I can make a portfolio for them. I can say that my colleague heard you willingly opening trades by yourself. If you think you can fix that your own way with authorities, good luck.His words from WhatsApp: [19/12, 19:38] Sam: I also have 13 rental apartments spread around the city center, all worth roughly about 500k each[19/12, 19:39] Sam: Also have a small boutique house in Sweden as well as one in Tenerife, Spain. House I live in is currently a bit about CHF4,000,000 in the outskirts of Zurich.I've lost about $30k on poker today, it was quite funBasically he scams hard working honest people out of thousands to provide his luxurious life style.As you can see on the WhatsApp messages below. Sam asking for more money, when there is so much money in the account and yet he is refusing to pay my 60k back.[12/12, 13:25] Sam: Please, ask somebody to lend you 5000[12/12, 13:26] Sam: You have 3000 right now, ask somebody for 2000 so we can send 5 and save the account, Toni, please[12/12, 13:26] Sam: We're talking about $345,000[12/12, 13:27] Sam: It's £271,000 we're talking about.The arrogance of this disgraceful bully is all written on WhatsApp. [19.10.24] Sam: Money is the route of all evil is something only poor people say.MONETIO IO ARE PROFESSIONAL SCAMMERS WHO LIVE OFF HONEST HARDWORKING PEOPLE.....PARASITES!!!
2025-01-08
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2025-01-09
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Tonina Tammaro
Stay away from this scam company. They steal all your money with lies. You will never get your money back
2024-12-26
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