On March 02, 2023, Brendon-Jackson: Jones and Anthony Dewayne Curtis called investor with what they stated were investment opportunities related to PAMM accounts and trading in the Foreign Exchange markets. They mentioned they were connected with traders who were seeing profits of 1-3% daily sometimes 20-25% monthly on investments. When asking the investor about financial goals, they mentioned they had a safe program they thought the investor should consider that just required opening and funding a PAMM trading account with the brokerage Trader's Domain. As part of them now knowing the investor's financial goals, they stated they thought this would be a great opportunity for the investor as a diversification strategy. A month or two prior, the two sent the investor contacts through their network of affiliates to gain access to funding, but the investor decided to use his own capital. The investor decided to follow their suggestion based on financial goals of investing $20,000.00.
Within the next couple days, the investor joined a Zoom call with Anthony Curtis where he presented historical data in excel format and pdf. decks (see SOLICITATION DOCUMENTS page) where the traders with the Trader's Domain had significant wins in the FOREX markets. Brendon had mentioned on the initial phone call that he was able to put his mom into the same program and she was able to fully supplement her W-2 income and was able to leave her job working a 9 to 5 from the profit generation of a 50k investment.
On March 08, 2023, the investor made the decision to invest into trading on the Foreign Exchange via PAMM account in the amount of $20,000.00 and signed a transfer agreement with Brendon, Masters' Business Alliance Trust, the investor, and Anthony as a witness from Business Makeover, LLC. After signing the agreement, the investor wired the $20k to Masters' Business Alliance Trust's business bank account. According to the agreement, the monies were to be wired from the investor's checking account to the Masters' Business Alliance Trust account, then into a master brokerage account where finally an internal transfer would be conducted from Brendon's master brokerage account into the investor's sub account on the Trader's Domain brokerage.
On March 08, 2023, Brendon-Jackson: Jones claims he made a request to transfer the $20,000 internally from his master brokerage account into the investor's sub account but stated due to a backlog and slowness on the administrative operations of the Trader's Domain platform, it could take up to five days. After 14 days passed, the internal transfer of $20,000.00 had still not occurred. The investor reached out to Brendon, and he stated the brokerage was being sold, the company's platform no longer existed, and that the investor would need to wait until it was back up to receive the internal transfer of funds. After 3 months of waiting, the investor requested via email to terminate the transfer agreement and for Brendon to return the principal amount of $20k. Brendon did not reply to the email; however, within minutes responded to the investor via text message stating that while he may terminate the agreement with him, it does not entitle him to a refund as the funds are no longer in his custody. Brendon was then asked to provide proof that he transferred the $20k from his trust account into the brokerage account on the Trader's Domain platform. He then stated he could not prove it for two reasons. Number one, he could not access his Trader's Domain account and number two because his Masters' Business Alliance Trust bank account had been frozen for some unknown reason by Wells Fargo Bank. The investor still insisted that Brendon return the $20k and he began being evasive and speaking in a manner to absolve himself from the responsibility of returning the funds. On a call with Anthony, Brendon called in on another line and was heard by the investor on speaker with a slight laughter in his voice saying, "if they want their money back, then let them sue, they can't sue my trust."
Brendon remained firm insisting the funds remained in the master account of the Trader's Domain brokerage. When asked if he would be able to provide proof once his trust account with Wells Fargo Bank was reinstated, he said no because he had co-mingled the funds with other investor's money and had also converted the $20k sent to him into cryptocurrency. The investor argued that this was not part of the agreement and Brendon stated that he was not obligated to tell the investor exactly how his $20k would be transferred into the master brokerage account. He ensured once the Trader’s Domain platform was back operational, and all money and information had been migrated over to the new brokerage that the $20k would be transferred into the investors sub account.
When the investor attempted to ask Brendon questions about signing a new agreement that would hold him accountable for returning the $20k he made excuses of being sick with food poisoning, being overseas and hadn't gotten time to review the agreement and altogether evasiveness. He never executed a new agreement to hold himself accountable for returning the funds.
The Trader's Domain brokerage was later acquired by TruBlueFx around September of 2023. After many intense calls with both Brendon and Anthony, Anthony advised the investor in a one-on-one call that Brendon informed him that he used the investors funds to pay off another investor named Mindy. Anthony goes further to state that Brendon tells him upon the investor's initial discussions surrounding the investment that he had a separate verbal agreement with the investor and that it was agreed to allow him to hold onto the funds to pay off another investor. This was untrue and never had this conversation occurred outside of the written agreement.
After long battles over emails, phone conversations, threatening with lawsuits, and the many false promises from both Brendon and Anthony, the investor has attempted to recover the funds but has not been successful thus far.
After the investor spoke with Anthony about the matter on several occasions, he stated he wanted to indemnify the matter once and for all since he introduced Brendon and the investor and engaged another business associate named Shannon Steel who stated she knew the owners of TruBlueFx and Trader’s Domain. Shannon stated she could potentially have the owner transfer $20k from Brendon’s brokerage account to the investor's and make it available for withdrawal even though withdrawals were not made available on the platform at the moment. The investor informed her that he did not want to go this route as he did not want to deal with the brokerage, or anything related to it any longer.
On September 12, 2023, according to Anthony, Shannon reaches out to the owner of TruBlue and states she is able to arrange for $20k to be transferred into an account on the Meta Trader 5 platform. They provided the investor with credentials connecting to a brokerage named Ares Global LLC. The investor was able to login to an account on the Meta Trader 5 platform and could see a $20,000 balance but when asking Anthony if it was tied to his TruBlue account Anthony said yes but it could take 24-48 hours to sync. After waiting 48 hours, September 14, 2023, the funds were not available for withdrawal, and when asking Anthony about it again, he states he will find out from Shannon how to withdraw the funds. He never provided any guidance to the investor to withdraw these funds. For those who know MT5, it does not have a feature to directly withdraw funds from the account. It has to be linked with a brokerage account that has withdrawal capabilities to actually make a withdrawal.
The investor reached out to TruBlue Support to see if they had any record of the account in question and they stated they had no record of this account. It appears that the investor was setup with a MT5 account displaying a $20,000 balance that simulates trades and account details and able to initiate a withdrawal on TruBlue's web portal but the withdrawal is never fulfilled. The investor received his money back from Brendon for the $20k investment after the ASC concluded its investigation and ordered Brendon to return the money. Both Brendon and Anthony used deceptive strategies as unlicensed personnel to solicit an investor into a fraudulent investment scheme. Again, these men presented themselves to the investor as professionals from Business Makeover, LLC and Masters' Business Alliance Trust yet acted with the business acumen of financial fraudster criminals.
If you have been the victim of financial investment or securities fraud related to Brendon Jackson Jones, Business Makeover, LLC, Masters' Business Alliance Trust, or any of their affiliate companies, you may contact your local police/sheriff's department to file a police report. You may file a complaint with the Texas State Securities Board, with your state's security commission and the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, your state Attorney General, the Texas and California Attorney General, and FTC. Additionally, you may open a TCR (Tips, Complaints, Referrals) complaint with the SEC, and express your matter with the Better Business Bureau.
In an effort to recover lost funds due to securities or financially fraudulent transactions with Brendon Jackson Jones or Masters' Business Alliance Trust, you may contact a civil attorney and file a lawsuit.