As posted on the EVG website by a member.
This is apparently a response from GFM
Mr. xxxx,
First of all, we are not digging any holes for ourself. Senen made up alot of very blatant lies and instructed people to complain directly to us rather than to him and it literally blew up our email and phone lines with people that are not even customers of ours and we are not obligated to even speak to them. This is the reason for any delays in getting back to you. We have been doing our best to reply as quickly as possible but he did this on purpose tocreate alot of extra work for us. You are not a customer of ours, you are a customer of Investment intelligence Corp, DBA Prophetmax as they are your introducing broker.
As far as the LPOA that you signed, the LPOA always gets made out to the Introducing broker and not the individual trader or traders that may be trading your account. For example, An IB may have 10 different people trading your account, the LPOA still gets made out to the IB. The IB is responsible to oversee anyone that may be trading your account. If there are ever any so called unauthorized trades placed, they are supposed to immediately report this to the clearing firm which is IB capital. No unauthorized trades were ever reported until well after the losing trading days at the end when we stopped trading on our own. Does that seem strange at all to you?
We have no control over any statements, guarantees, implied guarantees, etc. that Prophetmax may have told you. You need to discuss that with them directly as they were your introducing broker. We can not and are not going to discuss anything about your account since you are not our customer.
What I will tell you is that if you have not already done so, I suggest that you withdraw any remaining funds out of your account. From what I hear, Senen is telling people not to withdraw their funds and that is just more poor advice by him. If you do not like any specific wording at the bottom of the withdrawal form then just cross it out. I am pretty sure that will be ok with IB capital. They just need people to fill out the withdrawal form so that they have the correct banking info to wire the customer funds to as far as what I have been told by them.
Now also, From what I have heard, Senen is being investigated by the Australian Securities regulators (ASIC) for taking excessive upfront fees for giving investment advice and he was not licenced to do so. This again has nothing to do with us, but I would hate to see your funds frozen while Senen gets investigated by ASIC. I am not sure if this can happen, but I am also not sure that it can not happen. If I was you, I would get my money out of there as soon as possible.
The truth is, we were working with Senen amicably to try and figure out a legal solution to his problems with (ASIC) and out of nowhere, most likely due to some very poor advice from his attorney, he completely turned on us out of nowhere and tried to point the blame on us as well as everyone else he could think of EXCEPT him. We are not concerned with this because we know the truth and the truth will come out in time. Senen on the other hand has alot to worry about in my opinion, but I guess time will tell.
If I was you, I would also try and find a way to recover the membership fee that you have paid to Senen as well. Maybe a chargeback if you paid by credit card? Thats your call, but thats what I would do if it was me.
Senen is pointing the finger at everyone else in order to attempt to take the focus off of himself. In my opinion, he is a conman and a complete scumbag as far as our dealings with him. If Senen has you brainwashed like some of his members I have corresponded with, I really do feel bad for you and I sincerely hope that this email will help you to reconsider things.
I heard through the grapevine that Senen said that he lost alot of money in his trading account as well. Another blatant lie. Now, just to set the record straight, Senen never had a trading account himself or through any company that he owns, the only account he ever had was his account where he collected his percentage of the performance fees, and no there was never any agreement that his portion of the performance fees would go to charity, that was another blatant lie that he told everyone. Not just a lie, a very shameful lie at that. Don’t believe a word that he tells you otherwise.
Feel free to share this email if you are involved in any forums or any areas where people are discussing Senen, Investment Intelligence Corp and/or their registered trademark ” Prophetmax” about what happened. It seems as though there is alot of mis information floating around on the internet. There is alot of discussion on the website
Trade2Win if you go to that website and do a search for Senen Pousa.
Now please don’t misunderstand me, we do feel very bad about any losses that you may have taken. We are currently looking for another clearing firm to work with and doing alot of testing. We want to make sure that we have systems in place where losses like this can not happen again and we will not begin trading again until we are comfortable with that. Once we find a suitable option, we will let everyone know. If people want us to trade their account then that is fine, if they don’t, that is fine as well. The purpose of this detailed reply was just to set the record straight with regards to Senen and the lies he is telling everyone in order to take the focus away from him.
Best Regards,
Global
> Att: Kevin Clarke