Is FIL a scam?
Wikilix independent safety report
Is FIL (fil-fx.cn) a scam? We could not confirm it either way. The website does not exist, and no independent record of it ever operating as a broker could be found, so it cannot be treated as safe.…
Risk scorecard · each area scored 0 (clean) to 10 (worst)
Broker Summary
What Wikilix has recorded about FIL: its history, the licences it holds, its trading conditions and its fees.
FIL Broker Overview
FIL is a retail forex brand that operated a Chinese language website at www.fil-fx.cn alongside a client registration portal at crm.fil-fx.cn. The business published almost nothing about itself: no trading conditions, no account tiers, no trading platform, no funding methods, no office address and no telephone number. The single contact point it gave was the email address info@fil-fx.cn. Both of its web addresses are no longer reachable, so the brand has no working public presence.
Is FIL Regulated?
No. No financial licence of any kind could be established for FIL in any jurisdiction, and the brand names no regulator and no licence number of its own. This is not a case of regulation that is claimed but unconfirmed; there is no licence claim to test. Money placed with the operation would therefore sit outside any supervisory framework and outside any investor compensation scheme.
FIL Investment Management (Australia) Limited
The company name attached to the FIL brand is FIL Investment Management (Australia) Limited. That name belongs to a real Australian public company, registered at ASIC under ACN 006 773 575 and recorded on the Australian Business Register under ABN 34 006 773 575, active from 7 March 2000, with FIDELITY INVESTMENTS AUSTRALIA LIMITED shown as an earlier trading name. The Global LEI record for the same company gives an entity creation date of 2 June 1987 and a registered office at Level 17, 60 Martin Place, Sydney.
Nothing links that Sydney company to the fil-fx.cn website. It is an Australian institutional investment manager of long standing, not the operator of a Chinese language retail forex site, and the FIL brand is separately presented as United Kingdom based, which matches neither. On the available evidence the operating company behind FIL is unidentified, and the Australian name on the listing should be read as borrowed rather than as a disclosure of ownership.
Is FIL Safe?
No, and the reasons are structural rather than a matter of degree. There is no licence, no identified operating company, no published address or telephone number, and no working website or client portal. A client holding a balance would have no regulator to complain to, no company to pursue and no channel through which to request a withdrawal. The appearance of a genuine Australian company name does not change this, because that company is a separate business with no established connection to the site.
FIL Review and Assessment
The whole verifiable footprint of FIL is a lapsed domain, one email address and the registered name of an unrelated Australian public company. The practical consequence is that there is nothing here to open or to fund, and if the site were to return, the absence of a licence and of an identifiable operator would remain. Anyone approached by someone trading on this brand, through a new domain or a messaging application, should treat the approach as unverified and should not send funds on the strength of the Australian company name it carries.
Regulatory Licenses
We have not confirmed any regulation for FIL. Money deposited with an unregulated broker is protected only by the company itself.
Trading with an unregulated broker puts your deposit at risk.
No regulation
We have not confirmed any regulation for FIL. An unregulated broker is not supervised by a financial authority, and money you deposit is protected only by the company itself.
What this means for you
- No compensation scheme covers your funds.
- No regulator to escalate a complaint to.
- No audit of how client money is held.
Corporate Network
One legal entity behind the FIL brand.
- FIL Investment Management (Australia) LimitedActiveAustraliaRegistration ACN 006 773 575 / ABN 34 006 773 575Established Jun 2, 1987Australian public company registered at ASIC under ACN 006 773 575 and active on the Australian Business Register since March 2000, with an entity creation date of 2 June 1987 and a registered office in Sydney. This is the registered name that appears on the FIL broker listing, but no evidence connects this Sydney investment management company to the fil-fx.cn trading site, and it should not be read as the operator of that site.
Company Registration
FIL names FIL Investment Management (Australia) Limited as the operating company. We could not confirm that registration on the registry.
- Legal entity
- FIL Investment Management (Australia) Limited
- Registration number
- ACN 006 773 575 / ABN 34 006 773 575
- Jurisdiction
- Australia
- Incorporated
- Jun 2, 1987
- Registry
- Australian Business Register (ABN Lookup), corroborated by GLEIF LEI 549300IEQ7T1V5YROD12. The entry belongs to an unrelated Sydney company and does not verify this operator.
- Registered address
- Level 17, 60 Martin Place, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about FIL
Stop sending any further funds immediately and start gathering records. Save your account statements, deposit receipts, payment references, the bank or wallet details you paid to, and all correspondence. Contact your bank or card issuer quickly, because a chargeback or payment recall is time limited, and report the matter to the financial regulator and police in your own country. Refuse any later offer to recover your money for an advance fee, as that is a common follow up to this kind of loss.
The only contact detail ever published for the brand is the email address info@fil-fx.cn, which sits on the same domain that no longer resolves. No telephone number, office address, live chat, support portal or social media account has been published. In practice there is no reliable way to reach the operation.
No country policy is available for FIL. The brand publishes no accepted country list and no restricted country list that can be consulted, and because its website and signup form are no longer reachable there is no onboarding country selector to check either. The absence of a published restriction list should not be read as meaning the operation served everyone.
No. Both the main website and the separate client registration portal at crm.fil-fx.cn no longer resolve, so there is no login page to reach. If someone offers you a replacement link or a new domain for the same brand, treat it as an unverified approach rather than as a restored service.
No deposit or withdrawal method is published for FIL, and there is currently no working channel through which a withdrawal could even be requested. The brand documents no cards, bank transfers, electronic wallets or cryptocurrency options, and states no fees, limits or processing times. Its client portal is offline.
None are published. FIL states no spread, no commission schedule, no maximum leverage, no execution model and no instrument counts. There is no pricing information of any kind available for this brand, so its cost of trading cannot be compared with any other broker.
None is published. No MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, cTrader, web terminal, mobile application or proprietary platform is documented for this brand, and no server name or download link exists for it. The absence of any identified trading software is itself unusual for a firm presenting as a broker.
No minimum deposit is published for FIL. The brand states no account opening amount, no account currency and no deposit terms anywhere that can be consulted, and its website is no longer reachable. Any figure quoted to you directly by a person representing this brand is unverifiable.
No. FIL Investment Management (Australia) Limited is a genuine Australian public company, registered at ASIC under ACN 006 773 575 and recorded on the Australian Business Register under ABN 34 006 773 575, with a registered office at Level 17, 60 Martin Place, Sydney and an entity creation date of 2 June 1987. It is an institutional investment manager. No evidence links it to the fil-fx.cn website, and its name appearing alongside this brand should not be read as ownership or endorsement.
The operating company is unidentified. The name presented with the brand is FIL Investment Management (Australia) Limited, but that is the registered name of a separate Sydney investment manager and nothing connects it to this forex site. No other legal entity, registration number, office address or named officer has been published for the operation itself.
FIL should be treated as a likely scam. It holds no licence, its operating company cannot be identified, and it presents itself under the registered name of an unrelated Australian investment company. Its website and client registration portal are both offline. None of that proves a specific fraud against a named client, but the combination is the pattern of an operation set up to borrow credibility it does not have.
No. No forex or financial services licence of any kind could be established for FIL in any jurisdiction, and the brand names no regulator and no licence number of its own. This is not a licence that is claimed but unconfirmed, because there is no claim to test. A client dealing with this operation would have no supervisory authority to complain to and no investor compensation scheme behind a deposit.
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