maplewellscanada.trade scam brokerage and investment company

[ovcijisir]

Recently I came across this website that advertises itself as investment company.

Code:

https://maplewellscanada.trade

Archived version: https://archive.is/RFi32


Their website looks pretty legitimate on first look, but after digging a little deeper I found a bunch of red flags and enough evidence for scam accusation.

First red flag was their references. They have bunch of high profile companies in their reference section, but no real references what service did they provided for them. This was just one thing that caught my attention and made me dig a little deeper.

Second red flag was their referral program, why on Earth would someone with so many high end references need referral program that looked like inviting people in ponzi pyramid. No reasons given why would someone join just "Bring friends. Make money."

Third red flag, after which I was almost certain this is a scam, was bunch of vaguely defined "services" such as "Stocks with Cryptocurrency Advantages", "AI-Powered Live Signals Benefits", "Cryptocurrency Real Estate Benefits" - what does these terms even mean?

Fourth red flag that confirmed my suspicions was the team. Bunch of stock images with names with no digital footprint. No LinkedIn profiles, no bios, no previous experiences, nothing.

Fifth red flag was inconsistencies in their webpage and whois lookup data. On their webpage they claim that they are founded in 2011. (it means that they traded crypto when Satoshi was still around?), but whois data says that the webpage was registered in 2025. Pretty weird for 14 year old business. Of course, registrant name and information is hidden and "Redacted for privacy".
https://whois.domaintools.com/maplewellscanada.trade

Sixth red flag is that their website address is:

Code:

https://maplewellscanada.trade

but their promo video on top on their webpage refers to webpage "maplewells.ca" which is defunct but it has horrible trustpilot reviews: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/maplewells.ca
A lot of people witnessed that they were scammed by them. Seems to me that people behind this are serial scammers and that they reused promo materials of their old website.



tldr. If you found this accusation during due diligence research - skip "investment" in this company it is scam.

This is link for reporting on Google safe browsing:
https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/

This is link for reporting to Microsoft security intelligence:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/support/report-unsafe-site-guest

[ovcijisir]

I did little more research on their company registration number ( 09647088 ) and found one reddit thread where a user complains that has funds freezed by investment company with same registration number but the webpage was "trustinvest.ca". So basically it seems that scammers open one webpage, collect "investments", close that webpage and open another. They use the same company number to give them "legitmacy" and to look more serious.

[albon]

Well done, OP. I can confirm that this platform is 100% scam.

All the red flags you mentioned prove this. It's clear that that after their previous .ca domain was shut down, they moved to this new .trade domain, which is only 4 months old.

Most scam platforms operate in this way: They claim to have been working in the crypto industry for a long time, show partnerships with well-known platforms, and promise exaggerated technology and huge profits just to attract investors. I'd also like to point out that this platform, with its new domain, received a 4.4-star rating on Trustpilot from 17 reviews, all positive, which are almost certainly fake. These fake positive reviews are used to further convince investors.. Therefore, it is strongly advised not to invest in this platform under any circumstances.


Source: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/maplewellscanada.trade

[ovcijisir]

Well done, OP. I can confirm that this platform is 100% scam.

All the red flags you mentioned prove this. It's clear that that after their previous .ca domain was shut down, they moved to this new .trade domain, which is only 4 months old.

Most scam platforms operate in this way: They claim to have been working in the crypto industry for a long time, show partnerships with well-known platforms, and promise exaggerated technology and huge profits just to attract investors. I'd also like to point out that this platform, with its new domain, received a 4.4-star rating on Trustpilot from 17 reviews, all positive, which are almost certainly fake. These fake positive reviews are used to further convince investors.. Therefore, it is strongly advised not to invest in this platform under any circumstances.

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Nice catch, these reviews certainly look fake. It seems that they were received in two batches - one batch started in August and second batch started few days ago... I wouldn't take these reviews as genuine as they look too generic and lack details.

BTW. I forgot to put a link for reddit thread that where users accuse their previous website for scam:
https://www.reddit.com/r/scammer/comments/1ec3uho/trustinvestca_is_this_website_legit_or_were_they/

This is quote from that reddit thread from user Ordinary-Shop-5338:

Yes run. If you do invest more they will show you a huge profit in a matter of days and tell you you need to cash out. Once you cash out they will tell you that you need to pay the taxes and fees before your your money can be sent.  I invested $10,000 and when I went to  withdraw $4000 after I had made $30,000 he told me that if I gave him a verbal consent that when my balance reaches $110,400, he would call me and I would cash out. I did and next day I got the call and cash out at$132,000. Too good to be true. YES!! IT IS.  Now I'm sent to financial department and says my funds are in a "blockchain smart contract " that can not be changed or cancelled. This contract is that as soon as I send $32,000 for fees and taxes"capital gains " to a wallet those funds will go to the CRA and $117,000 will go to a crypto wallet of mine. Won't provide any proof or confirmation of anything. Who would to that? So be warned, it is all a scam!! Don't fall for any of it. I'm warning you.