VIRTUAL PAYOUT SCAMMING ONLINE BROKERAGE TRADING PLATFORM .........PLEASE READ DON'T GET SUCKED IN LIKE I DID! So just some insight into this fraudulent company and 2 parasites that call themselves MICHAEL DUNPHY AND JONATHAN KESSLER I don't usually do reviews, but this was warranted. 1 star is even too generous. I have been trying to close my account and withdraw my funds from these guys since the start of August, first of all it was I had to pay 28% capital gains on my profit and fill out the required W8 BEN form for the IRS, so did this, paid this into a company called Bluestar Exchange which is the entity they use and I had used before to fund my account. Was then informed that there would be a 30 day hold period in which my funds would be released to be on the 02nd September. I then made contact with them to them to make sure everything was on track to be informed that the person responsible for the payout and closure of my account was on maternity leave and the funds still hadn't been released. I then was informed that it would be all good to go in a couple of weeks. Heard from JONATHAN KESSLER Friday 08th September saying that everything is good to go and all I had to do was pay the exchange fee of 6% on my funds and once done no more delays and the funds would be transferred as early as this week. ( Yes I know RED FLAGS right here, should of gone with my gut but guess was holding onto the fact I would get my money back as it's a substantial amount) I then received a message from him the same morning after paying the exchange saying that they now require even more money as they well he stuffed up and needed more for the capital gains when we informed him we had paid the required amount he actually owes us money ( long story, let's just say that for someone that's meant in charge of closure accounts he didn't appreciate us pulling him up on all his mistakes) I refused to give them any more money and now they are completely uncontactable. So, as it stands, I still have all the money in my trading platform which I can assure you is actually not there and completely fabricated and is offshore by now and in their greedy pockets. If you receive a phone call or a request through SIGNAL from MICHAEL DUNPHY DO NOT accept it and if you do DO NOT let him convince you to invest, he definitely talks the talk sucked me in but the moment I wanted to close and withdraw my funds he cracked it then I was left to deal with JONATHAN KESSLER an American cowboy. Oh one more thing and don't let JONATHAN try to tell you that the reason we didn't get our money back we didn't pay all the required fees I can assure you we have. Just an update regarding my previous review with Virtual Payout after not hearing a thing from them and refusing to pay any more money to them, we then received a phone call on the 10/10/2023 from a lady who calls herself SARAH SANCHEZ who informed us that she would like to transfer our funds back to us and all we had to do was now pay a clearing fee of 5% and take down my previous review on Trustpilot. We have absolutely no intention of removing the review or handing over any more money to these scammers. However, we did want to share some very important information about this company. - Virtual Payout claims to be located at 25 Canada Square, London, E14 5LQ, In the United Kingdom. After researching further, we managed to discover That a building with shared offices is located at this address. This is a Common method used by scammers ‒ using shared-office spaces' Addresses as their own, making it extremely hard to confirm or deny whether The information is true or not. -Virtual Payout claims to be based and located in the United Kingdom. As per The United Kingdom law, all firms and individuals offering, promoting, or Selling financial services or products in the United Kingdom have to be Authorized or registered by the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). However, we did not find any results matching Virtual Payout on the FCA's official website. Therefore, Virtual Payout is not overseen by any regulator. - As an organization offering investment opportunities, Virtual Payout is required to have relevant licensing and regulations in place to legally provide these services in the countries in which its users are located. Virtual Payout does not have a licence and is not regulated. - Virtual Payouts website was created on the 09th January 2018. Although it was created in 2018 the domain was updated on the 02nd January 2023. This is a common tactic used by scammers - buying existing or parked domains and changing the domain name accordingly.