Risk scorecard
Each area is scored 0 (clean) to 10 (worst). Higher means more risk.
Regulation
6/10 · HighSecurities Dealer licence SD149 confirmed in force on the Seychelles FSA's own register with entity, website and contacts all matching, but it is a low tier offshore permission with no compensation scheme.
Identity & transparency
6/10 · HighA real named company at a real Seychelles address on the register, offset by undisclosed ownership, three different versions of its address, privacy shielded domains and no working site today.
Withdrawals & conduct
4/10 · ModerateNo fund integrity or service complaints found anywhere, but with the platform offline there is also no evidence that withdrawals were ever honoured.
Reputation
6/10 · HighNot a bad reputation but an absent one: no Trustpilot page for either domain, nothing on ForexPeaceArmy or Reddit, one neutral comment in three years.
Website claims
8/10 · CriticalFalsely claimed to be the world's No.1 CFD provider, described itself as a trust company on a securities dealer licence, advertised another broker's platform, and showed a frozen price table as live market data.
Operational history
7/10 · HighOperation evidenced only from February 2023 on a repurposed aged domain, dark since August 2025, with its main address lost to a third party in January 2026.
Who they are
A quick desk file on the company behind the brand.
- Brand: Littlebee
- Legal entity: Littlebee Securities Limited (shown as Littlebee Securities Ltd on the regulator's register)
- Registered: CT House, Office 6A, Providence, Mahe, Seychelles, per the Seychelles FSA register. The firm's own pages gave Office 9A as the registered address and CT House, Providence Zone 18, Unit 6A, 2nd Floor as the business address.
- Website: littlebee.sc was the address on the licence record and littlebee.com carried an identical copy of the site. Neither serves a working platform now, and littlebee.sc has passed to a new owner.
- Only licence: Seychelles Financial Services Authority, Securities Dealer licence SD149, in force. There is no second licence.
- Offers: share CFDs, metal CFDs, global indices, forex, and a self built web and mobile platform. The site also marketed trust structures and crypto custody.
- Not accepted: residents of the United States, and anyone in a country where the service would break local law.
- Age claim: the firm never advertised a founding year. The operating history we can evidence runs from February 2023 to mid 2025.
Regulation
Who really oversees this broker, and what each licence is worth to you.
Proof of regulation on an official register: Yes
We confirmed this broker on a genuine regulator’s register.
Licences the broker publishes
The Seychelles Financial Services Authority
Why we reached this verdict
How the evidence adds up.
We rated this high risk rather than a scam because the regulatory paperwork checks out and nobody has reported losing money. What pushes the number up is that the business itself no longer exists in any usable form.
- The register match is clean. On 18 August 2026 the Seychelles FSA capital markets register listed Littlebee Securities Ltd as an authorised Securities Dealer, with the phone number, email and website littlebee.sc that the firm itself used. Name, domain and contacts all line up, so this is a genuine licensee and not somebody wearing another firm's credentials.
- But a Seychelles licence protects very little. It is a low tier offshore permission. There is no investor compensation scheme and no guarantee that client money is held apart from the company's own funds.
- The operation is discontinued. Archived copies show the site working from October 2023 until 8 July 2025, then failing to respond from 25 August 2025. The last working copy of littlebee.com dates from 23 June 2025. The iOS app listing no longer resolves.
- The licensed website is now in other hands. The registration record for littlebee.sc shows it was created on 5 January 2026 through a privacy service at Dynadot, long after the firm went quiet. Visiting it today forwards you straight to an unrelated broker comparison page carrying a referral tag. The regulator's own record still points consumers at that address, which is the single most practical danger here.
- The advertised history is not real. littlebee.com was first registered in March 2000, which is why some listings describe Littlebee as founded in 2000. The registration record shows the domain changed hands on 16 February 2023, and before that it forwarded to unrelated Chinese content. The operation is roughly three and a half years old, not twenty six. Because the Seychelles company registry is not open to public search we could not date the company itself, so this figure rests on domain records alone and should be read as an upper bound.
- The old site overstated itself badly. Its About page said more traders trust us with their money than anywhere else, making us the world's No.1 CFD provider. That is IG Group's revenue based claim, and it is plainly untrue of a Seychelles shell. The same page called Littlebee a trust company offering trust structures, but SD149 is a securities dealer licence and does not authorise trust or fiduciary business. The footer disclaimer is Interactive Brokers' standard wording and the downloads menu advertised Trader Workstation, which is Interactive Brokers' platform, not Littlebee's.
- The market data was fake. The homepage price table never moved. It still showed EUR/USD at 1.0973 and Tesla at 108.49, which are early 2023 levels, on a site that was live in 2025.
- Nothing adverse from any regulator. We searched the warning and alert lists and the Seychelles FSA enforcement pages and found no entry naming Littlebee, either domain or licence SD149.
- The community footprint is hollow. Trustpilot has no page for littlebee.sc or littlebee.com. We found no threads on ForexPeaceArmy or Reddit and one neutral comment on a third-party broker directory, posted in December 2023. For a firm that took deposits for two years that is close to no trace at all, and it means an absence of complaints cannot be read as a clean record.
Evidence ledger
Every finding, with its source and how strongly it points.
E1The Seychelles Financial Services Authority register lists Littlebee Securities Ltd as an authorised Securities Dealer, at CT House, Office 6A, Providence, Mahe, with phone +248 4377870 and website littlebee.sc. Entity name, domain and contacts all match the firm we investigated, so the licence is genuinely its own.
Hard proofSeychelles FSA, capital markets registerE2The firm's own footer stated that CFD accounts are provided by Littlebee Securities Limited, licensed to conduct investment business by the Financial Services Authority Seychelles, licence number SD149. The licensee name and number match the regulator's record exactly.
E3The registration record for littlebee.sc, the address printed on the firm's licence entry, shows the domain was created on 5 January 2026 through the Dynadot privacy service and expires in January 2027. The firm's own registration had lapsed, so the web address on the regulator's record is now controlled by an unrelated party.
E4Visiting littlebee.sc today does not reach Littlebee at all. It forwards permanently to an unrelated broker comparison page carrying a referral tag naming littlebee.sc. Anyone who checks the licence and clicks the listed website is delivered to a third party.
E5Archived copies show littlebee.sc serving the broker site from 3 October 2023 to 8 July 2025, then failing to respond from 25 August 2025 onward. The last working copy of the twin site at littlebee.com is dated 23 June 2025. The brokerage stopped operating in mid 2025.
E6littlebee.com was first registered on 22 March 2000 but its record shows it last changed hands on 16 February 2023, and archived copies show it forwarding to unrelated Chinese content in 2018. The 2000 date describes a previous owner, not this brokerage, whose own history begins in 2023.
E7The firm's About page claimed that more traders trust us with their money than anywhere else, making us the world's No.1 CFD provider. That revenue based claim belongs to IG Group and is untrue of a Seychelles licensee. The same page described Littlebee as a trust company offering trust structures, although licence SD149 authorises securities dealing and not trust or fiduciary business.
E8The firm's footer disclaimer reproduced Interactive Brokers' standard wording about supporting documentation for claims and statistical information, and its downloads menu advertised Trader Workstation, which is Interactive Brokers' platform and was never Littlebee's. The site's presentation was assembled from a major regulated broker's copy.
E9The homepage quote table was static. It still showed EUR/USD at 1.0973, Tesla at 108.49 and Apple at 167.50, which are early 2023 levels, on a site that was still live in 2025. The market data presented to visitors was not real.
E10The Seychelles FSA publishes no enforcement action, revocation or public statement naming Littlebee Securities, either of its domains, or licence SD149, and our sweep of the main international warning and alert lists returned no hit either. No regulator has moved against this firm.
E11A sweep across Trustpilot, ForexPeaceArmy, Reddit and general web search found no reviews of this broker at all: no page exists on Trustpilot for littlebee.sc or littlebee.com, no forum threads were located, and the only user comment anywhere was a single neutral post on a third-party broker directory in December 2023. There are no complaints, but equally no confirmation that any client was ever paid.
ModerateComplaint and review sweep across four platforms, 18 August 2026E12The firm gave its address three different ways: the regulator's record says CT House, Office 6A, Providence, Mahe, while its own pages gave Office 9A as the registered address and CT House, Providence Zone 18, Unit 6A, 2nd Floor, Victoria as the business address. The inconsistency is minor but was never explained.
The other side
The strongest case in this broker’s favour.
Here is the honest case in Littlebee's favour, and it is not empty.
- The licence is real and it is theirs. We checked the issuer's own register, not a third party summary. The entity name matches, the website on the record matches, and the Seychelles address and phone number match. Many firms we investigate fail exactly this test. Littlebee passes it.
- No client has publicly said they lost money. Across every platform we swept we found no withdrawal refusal, no frozen account, no demand for a fee before funds were released, and no accusation of theft. There is no complaint pattern here of any kind.
- No regulator has acted against it. No warning list entry, no alert, no enforcement notice, no revocation. The licence is still listed as current.
- The licence disclosure itself was accurate. The site named the correct licensee, quoted the correct number, and told readers to check the Seychelles FSA. Plenty of worse operations invent a regulator instead.
- Closing down is not fraud. Brokerages fail for ordinary commercial reasons. A quiet shutdown with no burst of complaints beforehand is the signature of a business that ran out of customers, not of an exit scam. We looked specifically for a spike in withdrawal complaints in the months before the site went dark and there was none.
- The lost domain may not be their doing. Letting a registration lapse is careless, but the party who picked it up in January 2026 appears to be an unrelated domain monetiser. That redirect is most likely not Littlebee's decision.
What would change this
What we would need to see to revise the verdict.
These are the specific things that would move this verdict in either direction.
- Towards a scam finding: any credible first hand account of a blocked withdrawal or a deleted balance at littlebee.sc or littlebee.com, especially from the months around the shutdown in mid 2025.
- Towards a scam finding: a demand for a tax, fee or verification payment before releasing funds. One specific, checkable instance of that would change our conclusion on its own.
- Towards a scam finding: a warning or enforcement notice from any regulator naming Littlebee Securities, either domain, or licence SD149.
- Towards a scam finding: evidence that the same operators relaunched the same book of clients under a new brand, or that client funds were moved out before the site closed.
- Towards a lower risk score: the firm bringing a working platform back at an address it controls, republishing its licence disclosure, and having the Seychelles FSA record updated to that address.
- Towards a lower risk score: documented evidence that clients were paid out in full when the service closed.
- Resolving the open questions: a Seychelles company registry extract giving Littlebee Securities Limited's incorporation date and directors, which would let us confirm the company's real age instead of inferring it from domain records. A statement clarifying whether the Hong Kong company trading under the LittleBee Trust name supplied this platform would also close a loose end. We could not tie that company to this licensee from any primary source.
Check it yourself
Official registers and warning lists. Verify every claim first-hand.
Seychelles FSA register, Securities Dealer list
The regulator's own list where Littlebee Securities Ltd appears with its licensed address, phone and website.
Seychelles FSA regulatory enforcement
Where the Seychelles regulator publishes action against licensees. No entry for Littlebee as of 18 August 2026.
Seychelles FSA press releases
Check here for any future revocation or public statement about this licence.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers about this broker’s safety.
Is Littlebee a scam?
We found no proof of theft, so we do not call it a scam. We rate it high risk. The Seychelles licence is genuine and still in force, but the brokerage itself stopped operating in mid 2025 and its main web address now belongs to somebody else. Do not send it money.
Is Littlebee regulated?
Yes, on paper. Littlebee Securities Ltd holds Securities Dealer licence SD149 from the Seychelles Financial Services Authority, and we confirmed the entry on the regulator's own register on 18 August 2026. The licence is real and current.
How much protection does that Seychelles licence give me?
Very little. Seychelles is a low tier offshore jurisdiction with light supervision. There is no investor compensation scheme, so if the firm cannot pay you there is no fund that will. There is also no guarantee client money is held separately from company money.
Can I withdraw my money from Littlebee?
There is no working platform to withdraw from. The website stopped responding in August 2025 and has not returned. If you hold a balance, contact the Seychelles Financial Services Authority quoting licence SD149 and keep all your records.
Is my money safe with Littlebee?
No. Even before it closed, an offshore licence of this kind offered no compensation scheme and no segregation guarantee. Now that the service is gone there is no route to your funds except through the regulator.
Who owns Littlebee?
The licensed company is Littlebee Securities Limited, registered in Seychelles at CT House, Providence, Mahe. Its owners and directors are not published anywhere we could find, and the Seychelles company registry is not open to public search. A Hong Kong company using the LittleBee Trust name markets a similar platform, but we could not tie it to this licensee from any primary source.
How old is Littlebee?
About three and a half years. Its .com address was first registered in 2000, which is why some listings say founded in 2000, but records show the domain changed hands in February 2023 and carried unrelated content before that. The earliest copies of the actual broker site date from 2023.
Is Littlebee a clone of another broker?
No. We ran the clone test and it passed. The regulator's record names the same company and the same website the firm used, so it was not wearing another firm's licence. It did however copy marketing text from IG Group and Interactive Brokers, which is a different problem.
Why does littlebee.sc send me to a different website?
Because the domain no longer belongs to the broker. The registration lapsed and the address was registered again on 5 January 2026 behind a privacy service. It now forwards visitors to an unrelated broker comparison page. Nothing there is connected to Littlebee.
Were there complaints about Littlebee?
Almost nothing. Trustpilot has no page for either of its addresses, and we found no threads on ForexPeaceArmy or Reddit. There was a single neutral comment on a third-party broker directory from December 2023. That silence is not reassuring, because it also means no client ever confirmed being paid.
Has any regulator warned about Littlebee?
No. We searched the main warning and alert lists and the Seychelles FSA enforcement and press pages and found no entry naming Littlebee, either of its domains, or licence SD149.
The site said Littlebee was the world's No.1 CFD provider. Was that true?
No. That claim, based on revenue, belongs to IG Group. Littlebee had no basis for it. The site also called itself a trust company, but licence SD149 only covers securities dealing and does not authorise trust business.
What should I check before depositing with any offshore broker?
Search the licence number on the regulator's own register, not on the broker's website, and confirm the register names the same company and the same web address you are using. Then check whether the site is genuinely trading now, and look for real client reports of completed withdrawals.
What do I do if I lost money with Littlebee?
Gather every statement, transfer receipt and email, then complain to the Seychelles Financial Services Authority quoting licence SD149 and the entity name Littlebee Securities Limited. If you paid by card or bank transfer, ask your provider about a chargeback or recall. Never pay anyone who offers to recover your funds for an upfront fee.
What we recommend
The practical takeaway from everything above.
Do not open an account and do not send money. Treat any site or message using this brand as unverified until the firm reappears at an address it controls.
- Do not deposit. There is no working platform. Any page currently inviting you to fund a Littlebee account is not the licensed firm.
- Ignore the website on the licence record. littlebee.sc no longer belongs to Littlebee. It forwards to a third party page, so nothing you find there tells you anything about this firm.
- If you still hold a balance, write to the Seychelles Financial Services Authority quoting licence SD149 and the entity name Littlebee Securities Limited, and keep every statement, transfer receipt and email. The FSA is the only body that can compel a licensee to answer.
- Be alert to recovery approaches. Clients of closed brokers are targeted by people offering to get the money back for an upfront fee. That is always a second fraud. Nobody legitimate asks for a payment before recovering funds.
- If you are contacted by someone using this brand, check the licence yourself on the Seychelles FSA register before replying, and be aware that a live licence entry does not mean the business is still trading.
This is an independent assessment of risk, not a legal ruling. Scores and verdicts follow the Wikilix broker-safety methodology and can change as new evidence appears. Review scores are treated with caution when a broker’s reviews look manipulated. Last reviewed August 18, 2026. If any detail here is out of date or incorrect, or you represent this broker, please contact us.