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You click an Instagram ad: “Trade like a pro with AstraQuotient.com – start with $250, turn it into $10K in weeks.” The landing page loads fast — clean charts, professional dashboard mockup, “regulated & secure” badge, live chat bubble blinking. You sign up, deposit crypto or card, see balance appear, place a few trades (or think you do). Balance climbs. You request withdrawal.

That’s usually the exact moment the story changes from “exciting opportunity” to “endless compliance delays.”

AstraQuotient.com — which brands itself as Capstone Investico on many pages — has been flagged by multiple independent evaluators as high-risk or outright fraudulent. Gridinsoft security scanner assigns it a 1/100 trust score and labels it a potential financial scam. Scamadviser calls it “very likely unsafe.” Trustpilot shows only 6–8 reviews (averaging ~3.2/5), with positives being short and generic (“good platform”) while negatives describe the classic pattern: small initial wins shown in dashboard, then payout request → “additional verification fee/tax/compliance charge” → send more money → silence or account lock.

This is not a misunderstood startup. This is a polished advance-fee fraud operation disguised as a modern CFD/crypto broker.

Why It Looks Legit at First Glance (And Why That’s Deliberate)

• Professional-looking website with real-time chart widgets (often pulled from TradingView embed)
• Login portal, “live account” dashboard demo, blog posts with generic market analysis
• Claims of “bank-level security,” “24/7 support,” “tight spreads,” “leverage up to 1:500”
• Fake regulatory badges or vague “international regulation” statements (no license number, no regulator link)

But none of it holds up to basic checks:

• No FCA, CySEC, ASIC, CFTC, or any tier-1/2 regulator authorization
• Domain registered recently with full privacy protection (standard for disposable scam sites)
• Shared hosting + low security signals flagged by multiple scanners
• Support team name (“AstraQuotient Support”) reused across several scam-labeled brokers

The Classic Withdrawal Wall Pattern

From aggregated complaints (Trustpilot + broker blacklists + forum threads):

1. Deposit is easy and fast (crypto preferred — harder to reverse).
2. Small “profits” appear quickly in the dashboard to build confidence.
3. Payout request → “Your account is under compliance review.”
4. They request more documents (passport, utility bill, selfie with ID, source of funds proof).
5. You send → “Additional compliance fee / tax / processing fee required.”
6. You send that → “Further verification needed” or total silence / account frozen.
7. If you push hard → threats of “legal action for incomplete KYC” or just ghosting.

This is textbook advance-fee fraud: they keep inventing reasons to extract more money before disappearing. The platform itself is usually just a front-end skin over a basic trading simulator — no real market execution happens.

What the Numbers & Warnings Actually Say

• Gridinsoft: 1/100 trust score – “financial scam detected”
• Scamadviser: “Very likely unsafe” – multiple red flags raised
• Trustpilot: 6–8 reviews, ~3.2/5 average – positives are short/identical, negatives describe fee traps
• Independent broker blacklists (e.g., Fincapital Reviews, BrokerChooser warnings): explicitly listed as scam/clone/fraud
• No Myfxbook, no verified trading results, no third-party audit, no public financial statements

If You’ve Already Deposited – Immediate Action Steps

1. Stop sending any more money — no “compliance fee” will ever release funds.
2. Document everything: screenshots of dashboard, chats, emails, transaction IDs, wallet addresses.
3. Initiate chargeback with your card issuer (120-day window for most) or open dispute with crypto processor if used.
4. Report to:
   • Action Fraud (UK)
   • IC3 (US FBI)
   • Jayen-consulting.com
   • Your local cybercrime unit
   • The payment method provider
5. Freeze credit reports if passport/ID was shared.

Bottom Line – No Gray Area Here

AstraQuotient.com (Capstone Investico) is not a misunderstood new broker. It is a deliberate advance-fee scam built to collect deposits and personal documents using the promise of easy trading profits.

There is no evidence of real trading execution, no regulation, no verifiable payout history, and a consistent pattern of inventing fees to keep extracting money.

Walk away. There are hundreds of genuinely regulated brokers with proven track records. This is not one of them.

External dofollow resources for verification & reporting

• Gridinsoft security scan for astraquotient.com
• Scamadviser full domain check
• Trustpilot – AstraQuotient / Capstone Investico reviews
• FCA Warning List – how to spot clone brokers
• IC3.gov – report investment fraud (US)