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sharecreditsecuritieslimited.com is a scam: the clone of an authorised firm

14 November 2026 · Avvocato Penalista H24

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We have already handled this case and we can help people who have fallen into the same trap. sharecreditsecuritieslimited.com is a scam, and its mechanism deserves explaining in full, because it contains two different deceptions, one inside the other.

The first deception: the clone of an authorised firm

The name used by sharecreditsecuritieslimited.com is not invented. It is the name of a genuinely authorised firm, registered with the British supervisory authority. That is the whole point: anyone searching the name finds a real firm, with a real registration number, and is reassured.

The site sharecreditsecuritieslimited.com, however, has nothing to do with that firm. It is what the authorities call a clone: you take the name, the registration number and sometimes the address of an authorised operator, and you build your own site and your own contact details around it. In this story the authorised firm is as much an injured party as the investors: its name is used without its knowledge.

And there is one fact that hurts to read. The British Financial Conduct Authority published a warning about this clone on 14 July 2022, naming exactly the site www.sharecreditsecuritieslimited.com and two contact numbers, 02087369773 and +447494137698. Four years of public warning, in a register anyone can consult free of charge. And the money is still moving today.

Today the domain is not even registered any more

We checked the technical data of sharecreditsecuritieslimited.com in November 2026, and the result is clear-cut: the domain is no longer registered. It has no addresses, no nameservers, and it does not appear in the .com registry. The link going round leads nowhere.

That is both a confirmation and a warning. The confirmation is that the site was shut down, as always happens. The warning concerns evidence: when a domain is deleted, there is nothing left to look at. You cannot photograph a page that does not exist. All that remains are the screenshots somebody had the foresight to save, and the messages they kept. Anyone wondering today whether to keep or delete those images should know they are the only thing left.

The second deception: "your capital has been traced"

It is the part of the sharecreditsecuritieslimited.com story we found most carefully built, and we set out its essential elements so that anyone can recognise it.

After the loss on sharecreditsecuritieslimited.com a message arrives. It announces that the capital has been traced and is available to be transferred. The sender presents himself as a professional handling debt recovery and uses a disarming line: you will not have to pay anything in advance, no payment before the money is in your bank; only once the file is closed, a fee of ten per cent on the sum recovered.

So far it sounds like the most serious thing in the world. The deception comes immediately afterwards, in a single line: you will, however, bear the conversion costs of 2.9% to move the sum to your cryptocurrency account. The first transfer, he writes, will be 89,210.04 dollars, equal to 1.43 bitcoin; the 2.9% to be paid first is 2,565.79 euro, equal to 0.051 bitcoin, to a wallet he supplies.

It is an advance payment. In the sharecreditsecuritieslimited.com story it is called a conversion cost, but it remains an advance, demanded by the very person who has just promised he would ask for none. Nobody will ever pay the ten per cent at the end, because there will be no end: there will be another cost, and then another.

The message also carries a British number, +447882335723, with office hours, and a link to the corporate biography page of a senior executive at a large British bank — a real person, wholly unconnected to any of this, whose name and career are used to lend weight to a message that has nothing to do with him. It is a detail that says a great deal about the method: everything public and verifiable is recycled to make credible what is not.

The proof that proves nothing

In the message the sender invites you to verify the sum on a public blockchain explorer, with a link to a specific bitcoin address. The invitation works, and that is exactly why it needs explaining.

The explorer is a legitimate service and the data it shows is real: that address exists, that balance is there. What the explorer does not say — and cannot say — is whose that address is. Anyone can paste the address of a full wallet into a message and invite you to check it. Seeing a balance does not mean having access to it: access lies in the private key, which stays with whoever controls the wallet. The balance shown in the sharecreditsecuritieslimited.com case is real, it is not yours, and it never will be.

The most important warning in this whole article

There is something we see happening with a frequency we did not expect, and we are writing it plainly because it can change someone's life.

When the sum demanded is large, a person who has been defrauded sometimes tries to raise it by asking other people for money — relatives, friends, acquaintances, sometimes presenting the operation to them as an investment. Do not do it. Ever.

It is not a matter of financial prudence: it is a criminal-law matter. Anyone who collects money from third parties and passes it to the people who defrauded them risks being charged with fraud against those people, and seeing their own account caught up in anti-money-laundering checks. We have already defended someone in exactly that position, who went from injured party to suspect without earning a single euro. If the sum they are asking for is more than you have, that is one more proof that you must not pay it.

The checks you can run in a minute

They are free and public, and in the case of sharecreditsecuritieslimited.com they would have stopped everything.

The British supervisory authority's register is freely searchable and publishes, in the same section, the list of warnings about clones: you search the name and see whether there is a warning. For Italy, the list of firms authorised to provide investment services is published by Consob, which also keeps the list of blocked websites. If a name is not there, or is there with a warning beside it, you have finished assessing.

And one practical rule: do not compare the name with what the site tells you. Compare it with the register. Clones exist precisely because a name, on its own, proves nothing.

The offence

What happens on sharecreditsecuritieslimited.com amounts to fraud under article 640 of the Italian criminal code and, at the same time, impersonation under article 494: using the name and registration number of an authorised firm means falsely attributing a capacity to yourself, and it does so in the gravest way, because that capacity is precisely what induces payment.

To that is added unauthorised financial activity under article 166 of the Consolidated Law on Finance: offering investment services to people in Italy without authorisation is an offence in itself, and the cloned firm's licence does not extend to the clone.

The second fraud, the fake recovery, is an autonomous fact and must not be treated as an appendix to the first: it has its own date, its own message, its own wallet. It must be reported as such, because it is the only one with recent payments still traceable.

What to do now

Do not pay the conversion fee. There is no sharecreditsecuritieslimited.com capital waiting to be transferred.

Save everything, in original form. The complete messages, the files exactly as you received them, the wallet addresses, the telephone numbers, the names used. The sharecreditsecuritieslimited.com domain has already vanished: your copy is the evidence.

Ask your bank for the full payment trail of what you already paid: destination IBAN and account holder, receiving bank, date and time. Where money went through an exchange, ask for the transaction references too.

Do not call the numbers used by sharecreditsecuritieslimited.com. A phone call only serves them: it tells them how much you are willing to hope.

Stop talking to them and do not announce the complaint.

Similar cases we have handled

The sharecreditsecuritieslimited.com pattern repeats under different names:

A warning that concerns us directly

We are aware that someone is telephoning defrauded people using our firm's name. We never call on our own initiative, we do not telephone in the evening or at night, we do not use foreign numbers and we never ask for money by telephone. If you receive a call like that, hang up and write to us through the form on this site.

If this happened to you, write to us

If you invested through sharecreditsecuritieslimited.com, or you received a message announcing the recovery of your capital with a fee to be paid first, fill in the form at the bottom of this page. Give the dates, the amounts, how you paid and the wallet addresses you were given. If you have already paid something to the fake recovery, say so at once: those payments can still be worked on.

We read every request and we answer. And if you are reading before paying the fee, you have just avoided the second fraud.

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