Fake reviews and clone sites can bury a brokerage that played it straight.
We challenge fake and defamatory reviews on WikiFX and Forex Peace Army, and take down clone sites impersonating your brokerage — on lawful grounds, counsel-led. We do not remove genuine regulator warnings.
Request a 48-hour confidential auditSigned by Ihor Makushinsky. NDA-first. No call required to start.
A clone firm misuses your name — and the warning lands on you.
For a licensed forex or CFD broker, two distinct attacks do the damage. First, fake or defamatory reviews on WikiFX and Forex Peace Army — and "[broker] scam" posts — dominate your brand search. Second, a clone site impersonates your brand to defraud traders, and when a regulator issues a clone warning, confused clients attribute it to you.
Generic ORM agencies treat this as marketing — paid removal, soft requests, brand-management theatre. Big-law treats it as litigation — billed by the hour, scaled for court, not for volume. Both are wrong tools.
What works is fast, lawful, documented action under named statute — defamation law where reviews are false, DMCA §512 and trademark against clone sites, GDPR Article 17 for EU data subjects. Filed by counsel. Reviewed before submission. That is the whole of our practice.
Two hard lines, stated at intake: we do not remove genuine, accurate customer reviews, and we do not remove or suppress legitimate regulator warnings (FCA, CySEC, ASIC and equivalents). Our clone-firm work is about a fraudster misusing your brand — never about a warning that legitimately concerns you.
Three constraints, held together.
Six-day median to removal.
From authorised takedown notice to confirmed delisting. Active matters reviewed daily. Volume operations scale weekly.
Every removal under named statute.
Berne, EU 2019/790, DMCA Title 17 §512, GDPR Article 17. We do not pay for removal. We do not threaten. We file.
Counsel-signed engagements.
Communications encrypted. NDA-first standard. No marketing material includes your name unless you explicitly authorise it.
Lawyerd is a partner in Cloudflare's Brand Protection programme with API-level access for takedown operations on Cloudflare-protected domains. This is not a public-tier integration — it is a controlled-access channel for verified enforcement practitioners.
Every engagement reviewed and signed by counsel.
Eight years as in-house IP specialist at Plarium (the studio behind RAID: Shadow Legends), then founded Lawyerd in 2021 to scale enforcement work. Mentor at Techstars; Entrepreneur in Residence at Temple University.
→ Full counsel profileThe clone, the warning, and the review wall.
The recurring shape: a clone site copies your brand and licence number to defraud traders; a regulator (FCA, CySEC, ASIC) publishes a "clone firm" warning naming your brand; and a wave of WikiFX / Forex Peace Army reviews and "scam broker" posts follows. We act on the unlawful parts — taking the clone down via DMCA §512, trademark and registrar escalation, and challenging fake or defamatory reviews under named statute — and help you surface the regulator's own "this is a clone, not the licensed firm" clarification. We do not, and cannot, remove a legitimate warning that genuinely concerns your firm.
Three shapes the practice takes.
Reactive standing capacity.
Routine media monitoring and reactive removal work. Monthly retainer. Suitable for brokers with steady operations and occasional media exposure.
Continuous engagement.
For brokers with ongoing media exposure across multiple jurisdictions. Direct counsel access. Bi-weekly reporting.
Surge capacity.
For an active media incident or regulator inquiry. Daily reporting. Time-bounded engagement.
Request a 48-hour confidential audit.
We will surface 3–5 live attacks against your brand, signed by counsel, without obligation.