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No — London Stock Exchange Group is a real business. But the scam reports around it are under active investigation, and if you lost money to someone using its name, that is exactly what we investigate.
Send this to Forensics Source GroupLondon Stock Exchange Group is the owner-operator of the London Stock Exchange — a FTSE 100 company whose terrible Trustpilot score is mostly written by victims of fake “LSEG” crypto sites, not by customers of LSEG These are the facts that check out on public registers — the complaint record is what our review is still working through:
Checking out is not the same as closed: the complaints against London Stock Exchange Group are under active investigation, and none of the facts above protects you from a fake. Most 'london stock exchange group scam' searches trace to impersonators, not the platform itself — the ones that don't are the reason we investigate.
One more thing before you deposit: the complaints around London Stock Exchange Group are under investigation — by us, not by a regulator. The Trustpilot record (1.7–1.8/5, 17–18 reviews) is heavily contaminated: a large share of “LSEG” reviewers were defrauded by fake LSEG crypto platforms demanding release fees, and the same review space carries recovery-scam spam naming “vertel-wavẽ”, “CypherGuardIntel”, “BOLDON/WARES”. The defamation risk of reading that score as LSEG's own conduct is exactly why this page exists: most negative reviewers were scammed by impersonators, not by the company. If you were approached by a crypto “LSEG” platform with a VIP-upgrade withdrawal trap, you are an impersonation victim — report it to reportabuse@lseg.com and to the FCA, and treat every unsolicited “recovery” contact as the second scam.
Both feel identical from the inside. They are fixed by completely different routes — and the fastest way to tell them apart is to ask three questions.
If it is the real platform: your dispute runs through its formal complaints process, then the regulator or ombudsman. Slow, but it usually works. Under investigation is the honest state of the review record — LSEG's own warnings, plus the complaints above, are still being reconciled. This page is a triage note for impersonation victims, not a verdict on the Exchange.
If it was an impersonator: you were never a customer of London Stock Exchange Group at all. A clone site, a fake “account manager”, a lookalike domain — the money went to criminals, not to the platform. That is fraud, and speed decides what can be recovered.
The three questions: did you type the official domain yourself, or follow a link, advert or message? Did anyone contact you first? Were you asked to pay a personal account or a different domain? If any answer is wrong, treat it as impersonation — and start here.
No — London Stock Exchange Group is a real business: LSEG is a real, listed, systemically important financial-infrastructure group — the London Stock Exchange, Refinitiv, LCH and more; its legitimacy is not in question. The scam stories you see online usually trace to fakes borrowing its name — and the ones that don't are part of our active investigation. But read the note above first — the business is real, and so are the caveats.
LSEG is one of the most heavily regulated financial-infrastructure groups in the world — FCA-authorised across its UK entities, with group regulation in multiple jurisdictions. The regulatory question worth asking is never about LSEG; it is about whichever fake “LSEG” site approached you, which holds no licence at all.
Almost certainly not. Impersonators borrow the name, the logo, even the licence number. The real company knows nothing about it. Keep every message, receipt, URL and wallet address — that evidence is what an investigation builds on.
The domain you actually used, the date, and whether it was a card, a bank transfer, or crypto. Or the name of the person who told you to pay. Or one screenshot. Where the same payment shows up from other people, those files can sit together as a class action. The first look is free.
Type the official domain yourself — lseg.com — never follow a link from an advert, email or message. Then check the regulator's public register, which lists the firm's genuine website. If your domain differs by even one character, it was a fake.
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