Is iXBROKER a scam?

We assess the risk as high and rate it a likely scam at 70 percent. No regulator has published a warning about it, and it is not impersonating another firm, but it advertised FCA, CySEC and ASIC regulation it never held, its only licence cannot be confirmed on the issuing authority's register, it accepts cryptocurrency only, and a consistent group of clients reported that promotional payouts they had earned were never made.

We have not established fraud, and no court or regulator has made such a finding against this company. What we can document is misrepresentation: its own homepage claimed regulation by three tier-1 authorities in March 2025 while admitting in the same paragraph that it operates outside financial regulation. We assess the risk of fraud as high, but that is our assessment rather than a legal conclusion.

Only in the weakest possible sense. It claims a single International Brokerage Licence, BFX2025127, from the Mwali International Services Authority in the Comoros. MISA is an autonomous-island registrar rather than a working supervisor, and the Comoros central bank has publicly disavowed its licences. Its published brokerage register does not name iX Broker, so we could not confirm the licence at all.

No. There is no FCA authorisation, and there is no company registered at Companies House under iX Broker or iXBROKER in any spelling. The firm gave a London Mayfair headquarters address and two UK phone numbers on its site during 2025 and claimed FCA-regulated affiliates. Both the address and the claim have since been removed.

Some clients can and do. One long-standing reviewer reports more than ten completed withdrawals over a year. But withdrawals are paid in cryptocurrency only, identity checks kick in above 3,000 USD, and a cluster of clients reported that earned promotional payouts were refused after the conditions were reinterpreted. Treat access to your funds as uncertain, not guaranteed.

No, in the sense that matters. There is no compensation scheme, no ombudsman and no segregation guarantee we could verify. Because funding is cryptocurrency only, there is no card issuer or bank to reverse a payment. If the company stopped paying tomorrow, a client would have no regulator to turn to.

The site names iX Broker LTD, company number HT01025102, registered at Bonovo Road, Fomboni, on the island of Mohéli in the Comoros, with a working office in Istanbul. It does not name any director or shareholder, and the Mwali corporate registry is not publicly searchable, so the ownership cannot be independently established. A Persian-language publication has named an individual as the owner; we could not corroborate that from any official record and do not repeat it as fact.

The domain ixbroker.com was registered on 4 January 2024 and the first archived broker content dates from the same month, so the operation is roughly two years and eight months old. The licence is dated October 2025. Because the company itself could not be dated, that figure is an upper bound. It advertises no founding year, so there is no exaggerated history claim.

Very little. MISA issues registrations from the autonomous Comoran island of Mohéli, does not supervise trading conduct, holds no client-money rules you can enforce and operates no compensation scheme. The licences are cheap and quick to obtain. A MISA number tells you a company paid a fee, not that your deposit is protected.

No. We checked the brand, the domain and the licence number against the registers and found no evidence that iX Broker is using another company's identity, licence or registration. The entity it names is its own. That is one of the few clear points in its favour.

Because some are genuine and some are not. Trustpilot has withdrawn the rating on the ixbroker.com profile for a breach of its guidelines and says it removed a number of fake reviews. Alongside that, real clients do post positively about execution speed and support. A five-star flood is never proof a broker is safe; specific, dated complaints carry far more weight.

Because the dominant grievance is a no-deposit bonus campaign. Clients say they met the published conditions, then the requirements were restated and nothing was paid. One account names the campaign, the registration time and the excuse given. The company's position is that the bonus itself is not withdrawable and only part of the profit is. That is a policy dispute over free credit rather than seized savings, which is why we did not score it at the top of the scale.

Four things. Find the licence number on the regulator's own register, not on the broker's website. Confirm the company that holds the licence is the same one that takes your money. Check that at least one payment route can be reversed, such as a card. And search the domain, not the brand name, on more than one review platform, reading the dated one-star detail rather than the score.

Report it to the police or cybercrime unit where you live and to any regulator in your country, keeping every wallet address, transaction hash, screenshot and support message. Ask the exchange you sent the cryptocurrency from whether it can flag the receiving address. Ignore anyone who approaches you offering to recover the funds for an upfront fee; several one-star reviews on this brand's profiles are adverts for that second scam.