Phoenix Offshore Financial Services Review

This story is about a new type of Scam. Scam on Bussiness Loans.
I have been a victim of a new SCAM scheme in August 2022. And this is my story.
My name is Artem and I’m 32 years old, a Trader from Ukraine. My business is making money on my personal wealth and money management of my clients’ wealth. It was going pretty well before 2022 and at some point in time, I start to think about investment loans to increase my business, increase my wealth under management.
Suddenly in begging of August 2022 somebody contacts me on Linkedin and propose a financial relationship. They gave the option to take a business loan from the UAE bank. They call it Investment Loan, a bit of a new abbreviation for me, but who knows what financial sphere could create? We agreed on the conditions and everything was fine, amount of the loan was 10 000 000 USD, with no collateral and an Interest rate of 5% a year. Very nice conditions for me. All looked perfect, except for one small detail, before getting a loan, I need to open SPV company in UAE, with the exact SPV provider which they chose. And it cost 150 000 USD. I will not deep dive into this case, as I decided to not pay this money, as it was too high for this kind of service, without any guarantee that a loan will really happen.
But it made me think that this kind of investment loan is reals and I need to just find another company, a credit broker which could help me with that.
So I started to search on the internet and find http://www.clbrokerage.com very, very talented scammers, which I didn’t know at that time!!!
I contacted http://www.clbrokerage.com and ask for help in taking a loan for my business. They told me sure, we could help. They asked me for some regular documents about business, about myself, and so on, and after a few days wrote that they could connect me with lenders for 10 000 000 USD loan from UK and Switzerland with a 5% Interest Rate. They want only 2% of the loan for the service. Again for me looks very nice.
They sent me a contract with information about lenders and all terms and conditions, and it seemed very professional, a normal contract, with signatures and everything, in the same time I did a small search on the internet for this website http://www.clbrokerage.com and again, the website was real, exist almost 2 years, no bad reviews.
After I signed a contract they told me that I need to open a bank account at http://www.pofs.ch This account should be used for loan providing. And again, I did a check, and there were no scam red alerts. Actually, there was no information about both http://www.clbrokerage.com and http://www.pofs.ch and it seemed to me ok.
These people http://www.pofs.ch positioned themselves as Phenix Offshore Financial Service. And there are a lot of companies with similar names, so I thought it was fine. Also, there was an option to open debit Visa or Mastercard cards on the website. I don’t know if it really possible, but it made me fill that this website is legit. They also asked me to add 50 USD in BTC to activate my account. I added. So I opened an account with 50 USD on it and thought that it all goes fine. Again I sent all documents which they requested as normal bank account opening.
After I opened an account at http://www.pofs.ch, these guys http://www.clbrokerage.com contacted me and wrote that all is good, we are almost there just need to add 1000 USD to my account to give my lender understanding that I will use this account further. Sounds a bit stupid now, but at that moment I was in the middle of something and didn’t think a lot, so Ok 1000 USD was not that big money, so I added it to my account.
On the next day, http://www.clbrokerage.com wrote me again, that all is good and I’m one step from the loan, but the lender asked me for some documents from the insurance company or any other company that can prove that I will return the loan, some kind of Colletoral Certificate, and they recommend me to contact http://www.jbcbrokerage.com for it.
I contacted this new firm http://www.jbcbrokerage.com about the documents and they also played them part perfectly. They wrote that they will give me a Guarantor Certificate for Mezzanine Capital Financing and it will cost only 4000 USD. Again even this part didn’t look to me strange, I know that I need to pay for everything so it’s normal to pay for this kind of service also.
I wrote ok, and ask for options to pay it. And after they provided me with options, finally, I started to suspect something. They wrote me that I could pay this 4000 USD in two ways:
First is from any UK copmany to them UK company oficialy.
And second with transfer money from my http://www.pofs.ch account to them http://www.pofs.ch account.
I get back to my http://www.pofs.ch account and checked that there is no option to add money there except BTC, and no option to withdraw money from there in BTC only Wire, with some strange fields, no IBAN but only account number.
I thought ok, it’s risky, and ok I can afford this risk. But I need to ask for at least some documents from http://www.jbcbrokerage.com that they will provide me with this certificate, or at least what to do if the loan will not be provided. And here all the scheme start crashing.
When I asked about the agreement before payment, http://www.jbcbrokerage.com wrote me that, they are so known and well respected that they do not sign any agreement for this service. Very professional:) Then I wrote I want to pay with the first option from one UK company to another, and I can’t do it without agreement. They wrote if you can’t then pay from http://www.pofs.ch account.
And for me, it was a big red flag. But ok, could be that http://www.jbcbrokerage.com scammers but not http://www.clbrokerage.com So I wrote to http://www.clbrokerage.com and asked to recommend me some other company which could provide a certificate. The reply was that we have no time and we could use only http://www.jbcbrokerage.com otherwise the loan will not happen.
I started to ask more questions, and propose other options, but all comes to one thing. Pay in BTC. Which automatically means, no chargeback. So not refundable money.
In the end, I wrote to all these 3 structures, which actually one big SCAM team, to return my money, but nothing happen.
Now is September, so one month passed but not http://www.pofs.ch, not http://www.jbcbrokerage.com, not http://www.clbrokerage.com don’t reply to my emails, and my 1050 USD is still there.
I wrote to reviews and scam alert websites and to http://www.finma.ch which is Switzerland’s financial regulator and http://www.pofs.ch registered there, but nothing happened. So I hope everybody who will read it will save money and never deposit or even contact these SCAMMERS.
If you need more details about the case or you have more information, or you want to be a part of the group that was scammed and will work to stop it please write to my email artemprokopenkoua@gmail.com
Thank you and God Bless you