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Entities that falsely claim to be registered, licensed, and/or located in the United States, to be regulators, or impersonate genuine firms.
The PAUSE Program lists entities that falsely claim to be registered, licensed, and/or located in the United States in their solicitation of investors. The PAUSE Program also lists entities that impersonate genuine U.S. registered securities firms as well as fictitious regulators, governmental agencies, or international organizations.
You should be aware that the PAUSE lists do not include all unregistered entities, impersonators of genuine firms, fake regulators, or entities that have been the subject of complaints received by the SEC. Also, you should understand that the inclusion of a name on these lists does not mean that the SEC has concluded that a violation of the US securities laws has occurred or that the SEC has made any judgment about the merits of the securities being offered by these entities.
You can view the official SEC release describing and providing more details about this list. If you have information, questions or comments about the entities on this list, submit a question or complaint to the SEC.
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| Publisher: | US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) (United States)
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| Collections: | in Warrants and Criminal Entities · OpenSanctions Default | ||||||
| Information: | www.sec.gov | ||||||
| Source data: | www.sec.gov · HTML | ||||||
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| Last checked: | · updated daily |
Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.
| File name | Export type | Size | |
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entities.ftm.json | FollowTheMoney entities | 1.72 MB | |
names.txt | Target names text file | 40.92 KB | |
senzing.json | Senzing entity format | 1.05 MB | |
statistics.json | Dataset statistics | 774 B | |
targets.nested.json | Targets as nested JSON | 1.75 MB | |
targets.simple.csv | Targets as simplified CSV | 524.11 KB |
Help: Using the data · format reference · get support · commercial licensing
You can query the data in this dataset via the application programming interface (API) endpoints below. Please read the introduction for documentation and terms of service.
| Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine: | |
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint: | |
For entity matching, use the /match endpoint: |
The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:
| Added | Name | Type | Countries |
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| Welborn Capital & Partners LLC, a.k.a. Welborn Capital (sic) LLC, a.k.a. Welborn Capital Partners Inc. | Company | ||
| United States Securities Regulatory Commission (sic) | Legal entity | ||
| SWFinvestguide Financial Services Inc. | Company | Switzerland | |
| Global Alliance Insurance Company | Company | ||
| Hot Binary247 | Company | ||
| 247Crypto Trade | Company | ||
| Pex Global Inc. | Company | ||
| Taylor Stuart Financial Inc. | Company | ||
| Hopewood and Company | Company | ||
| Glendale Management Group | Company | ||
| Mergers & Acquisitions Law Group | Company | ||
| Bit-Vaults Investments Ltd | Company | ||
| EztradeFX | Company | ||
| Transfer Securities Inc. | Company | ||
| TTBD Traders | Company |
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