DT Trading/Data Technology Trading

October 31, 2023 ENFORCEMENT AND INVESTOR PROTECTION DEPARTMENT SEC ADVISORY This is to inform the public that DT TRADING/DATA TECHNOLOGY TRADING is NOT AUTHORIZED TO SOLICIT INVESTMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC. This ADVISORY is prompted by reports and information gathered by the Commission that individuals or group of persons are enticing the public, through social media platform to invest in DT TRADING/DATA TECHNOLOGY TRADING . TIADCc As posted online, DT TRADING/DATA TECHNOLOGY TRADING claims that it is a group of professional traders that will help the investor learn the safest way to trade to the best of their ability. They will also help in passing "signals" and reading patterns to make sure investors' trades are safe. There are two (2) options on how to earn in DT Application. The first one is trading every night that will be sent to the Group via Telegram every 8:00 in the evening. The second one is by building your own team to earn a salary of up to Php400-8,000 pesos per day depending on the number of members in your team. You only need to follow the instruction and go to your DT application and make trades afterwards. Trading applications are valid for 5 minutes or every 8:00 am to 8:05 pm and once a day. DT TRADING/DATA TECHNOLOGY TRADING is offering investments to the public with a minimal amount of Php3,000.00 up to Php100,000.00 . Investors may earn 10% everyday . DT TRADING/DATA TECHNOLOGY TRADING allegedly earns through trading such as forex and crypto trading. In this regard, the public is made aware that an "investment contract," a kind of security, exists when there is an investment or placement of money in a common enterprise with a reasonable expectation of profits to be derived from the efforts of others which is prominent in the scheme of DT TRADING/DATA TECHNOLOGY TRADING. As such, the Securities Regulation Code (SRC) requires that said offer and/or sale of securities must be duly registered with the Commission and that the concerned entity and/or its agents should have the appropriate registration and/or license to sell such securities to the public. Based on the Commission's database, DT TRADING/DATA TECHNOLOGY TRADING, is NOT REGISTERED as a corporation or partnership and OPERATES WITHOUT THE NECESSARY LICENSE AND/OR AUTHORITY to solicit, accept or take investments/placements from the public nor to issue investment contracts and other forms of securities defined under Section 3 of the Securities Regulation Code (SRC) . Further, the scheme employed by DT TRADING/DATA TECHNOLOGY TRADING has the characteristics of a "Ponzi Scheme" where money from new investors are used in paying "fake profits" to prior investors and is designed mainly to favor its top recruiters and prior risk takers and is detrimental to subsequent members in case of scarcity of new investors. The offering and selling of securities in the form of investment contracts using the "Ponzi Scheme" which is fraudulent and unsustainable, is NOT a registrable security. The Commission will not issue a License to Sell Securities to the Public to persons or entities that are engaged in this business or scheme. Moreover, R.A. No. 11765 or the Financial Products and Services Consumer Protection Act (FCPA) prohibits the commission of "Investment fraud," defined as any form of deceptive solicitation of investments from the public which includes Ponzi schemes and such other schemes involving the promise or offer of profits or returns sourced from the investments or contributions made by the investors themselves and the offering or selling of investment schemes to the public without a license or permit from the SEC. ETHIDa In view thereof, the public is hereby advised NOT TO INVEST or to STOP INVESTING in the investment scheme being offered by DT TRADING/DATA TECHNOLOGY TRADING as well as to any other entities having the same or similar schemes and to exercise caution in dealing with any individuals or group of persons soliciting investments or recruiting investors for and on behalf of DT TRADING/DATA TECHNOLOGY TRADING . Those who act as salesmen, brokers, dealers or agents, representatives, promoters, uplines, recruiters, influencers, endorsers and enablers of DT TRADING/DATA TECHNOLOGY TRADING , in selling or convincing people to invest in the investment scheme being offered by the said entity including soliciting investments or recruiting investors through the internet may be held criminally liable under Section 11 of the Financial Products and Services Consumer Protection Act (FCPA) and Section 28 of the SRC and penalized separately with a maximum fine of Five Million Pesos (Php5,000,000.00) or imprisonment of Twenty One (21) years or both pursuant to Section 73 of the SRC (SEC vs. Oudine Santos, G.R. No. 195542, 19 March 2014) . Furthermore, the names of all those involved will be reported to the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) so that the appropriate penalties and/or taxes be correspondingly assessed. Should you have any information regarding any investment solicitation by any individual or group of individuals on behalf of DT TRADING/DATA TECHNOLOGY TRADING, please send your report through email at [emailprotected] . For the information and guidance of the public. Makati City, October 31, 2023. ATICcS