Is Pruton Capital a scam?

The desk file on this operation.

• Brand: Pruton Capital, also traded as PTFX.
• Legal entity: a group, not one company. The broker's own company profile named PT Pruton Mega Berjangka, PT Pruton Mega Global, PT Pruton Mega Futures Limited and PTFX. The licensed one was PT Pruton Mega Berjangka.
• Registered: Menara Standard Chartered, 32nd floor, Jl. Prof. DR. Satrio Kav. 164, Jakarta 12930, Indonesia, as recorded by BAPPEBTI.
• Website: prutoncapital.com and pruton-futures.com. Both are dead and now parked by third parties.
• Only licence: BAPPEBTI 12/BAPPEBTI/SI/02/2013, issued February 2013, since revoked.
• Offers: forex, gold and silver, energy, indices and share CFDs on MetaTrader 4, plus a managed account product called Mirror Trade and a scheme sold as the Hybrid Secured Fund.
• Not accepted: it had no permission to solicit clients in Malaysia, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Thailand or Pakistan, yet advertised offices in all of them.
• Age claim: the site said established in 2006. The licence dates from 2013 and the website first appears in 2016.

Four findings decide this, and each one comes from a primary record we opened.

• The licence is dead, at the regulator's own hand. We searched BAPPEBTI's register of futures brokers whose licence has been withdrawn. PT Pruton Mega Berjangka is on it, with licence number 12/BAPPEBTI/SI/02/2013 and the Jakarta address above. That is the exact number the broker printed on its own company profile page. A regulator does not withdraw a brokerage licence for paperwork.
• Three regulators warned the public about this group. Bank Negara Malaysia added Pruton Mega Holding Limited to its Financial Consumer Alert List on 24 February 2017. The Securities Commission Malaysia lists the same entity together with Pruton FX and Pruton Investment Holding Limited. The Monetary Authority of Singapore's investor alert names Pruton Capital and the address prutoncapital.com directly.
• The money did not come back, and clients were asked to pay more first. In the Traders Court case against prutoncapital.com, Malaysian investors describe depositing 50,000, 30,000, 15,000 and 10,000 US dollars into a Standard Chartered account in Singapore held by Pruton Mega Holding Limited. Invoices were dressed up as software purchases to get around Malaysian currency rules. When the nine-month term matured, they were told to add another 5,000 dollars per account before anything would be paid. Some paid 3,000. Weeks later, on 9 August 2016, a pair of trades in one illiquid stock CFD stopped out every account and left them all negative. Nobody answered the emails. Police reports were filed. The panel voted guilty 78 to nil.
• It happened again, the same way. On 19 December 2019 every mirror trade account was wiped to a negative balance and the company said it had been hacked. Complaints from that window are specific: a 10,000 dollar withdrawal requested in October and never paid, withdrawals stalled three months and blamed on a third-party check, support unreachable. Same failure, same mechanism, three years apart.

Against that, the marketing said the opposite. The homepage promised immediate withdrawal whenever you request it, and called itself a leading regulated broker while its footer named no regulator, no licence number and no legal entity at all. The claim of business since 2006 is seven years older than the licence and ten years older than the website.

One limit worth stating plainly. We could not date the incorporation of the Indonesian company, and neither domain's original registration can be recovered because both lapsed and were re-registered by domain parking firms, prutoncapital.com as recently as 12 August 2026. So the operating span we can evidence, roughly 2013 to 2020, rests on the licence and the archived site rather than on registry records.