Metatarget Growth tells visitors it invests in the extraction of “jade stone, Californium, Painite, Crude”. Californium cannot be extracted. It does not occur in nature anywhere on earth — every atom of it that has ever existed was built inside a nuclear reactor.
The claim, in its own words
The homepage describes what the firm puts your money into. Alongside real estate and digital assets it lists the “extraction of some expensive/valuable raw material commodities like jade stone, Californium, Painite, Crude and so on”, adding that these are “some very rare and precious gemstones and raw substances in the world”.
Jade and crude oil are extracted. Painite is a genuine mineral, spectacularly rare, found in Myanmar. Then there is Californium, and it does not belong on that list at all.
Why Californium gives the game away
Californium is synthetic. It is element 98, and it does not occur naturally — not in rock, not in soil, not in seawater. It is manufactured by bombarding curium with neutrons inside a high-flux reactor, a process taking months. Only a handful of facilities in the world can do it, principally Oak Ridge in the United States and a reactor institute in Russia.
Global production is measured in milligrams. Total annual output has typically been under a single gram. Californium-252 is routinely described as among the most expensive substances ever made, quoted in the tens of millions of dollars per gram — and that is precisely why it appears on a page like this. Somebody searched for “most expensive material in the world”, found Californium, and pasted it in beside jade without reading the next sentence.
There is no Californium mine. There is no Californium market. A firm claiming to profit from extracting it is telling you, in a single word, that nobody involved checked what it was.
What the FCA published
A plain unauthorised-firm warning, published 9 March 2026 and not updated since: “This firm may be providing or promoting financial services or products without our permission. You should avoid dealing with this firm and beware of scams.”
The notice records the name MetaTargetGrowth / metatargetgrowth.com, the email admin@metatargetgrowth.com, and an address at 95 Wilton Road, London — with no postcode and no unit number.
Two things about that address. There is no company called MetaTargetGrowth on the Companies House register, at that address or any other. And the address itself appears nowhere on the website — the site gives no address at all, only an email. The one location the operation ever supplied is the one it gave to the regulator, and it is incomplete.
The site is a shell
The navigation bar offers Home, About Us, Investment Plans, FAQs, Terms of Service, Contact Us, Login and Register. We checked where those links go on 11 September 2026. Every one of them is a dead link — coded as javascript:void(0), which means “do nothing”. The only working link on the page is the email address.
The browser tab reads “Metatarget Growth | Certified Broker Institution”. Certified by whom is never stated. We searched the page for the words a regulated firm puts in its own footer — authorised, regulated, licence, licence number, company number, registration number, FCA, ASIC, CySEC. The only one that appears anywhere is “certified”, in a title claiming itself.
Underneath sits this: “It is the responsibility of the client to ascertain whether they are permitted to use the services of the metatargetgrowth.com brand based on the legal requirements in their country of residence.” A regulated firm establishes whether it may serve you. This one tells you to work it out yourself.
Still live, six months on
We loaded metatargetgrowth.com on 11 September 2026. It resolves and serves a full page. That sets it apart from the rest of that day’s batch: the FCA published warnings about Pantera Prime and SureTradeGroup on the same date, 9 March 2026, and both of those domains are now dead.
This one is still up, still collecting registrations, still describing a mining operation that physics does not permit.
Verified evidence — checked 11 September 2026
- FCA warning MetaTargetGrowth / metatargetgrowth.com, published 9 March 2026, not updated since. Plain unauthorised-firm warning, not a clone.
- Details on the notice: 95 Wilton Road, London (no postcode) · admin@metatargetgrowth.com
- No company named MetaTargetGrowth exists on the Companies House register.
- The Wilton Road address appears nowhere on the website; the site gives no address at all.
- Homepage text: invests in “extraction of some expensive/valuable raw material commodities like jade stone, Californium, Painite, Crude”.
- Californium does not occur in nature. It is made by neutron-bombarding curium in a high-flux reactor; only a few facilities worldwide produce it; global output is measured in milligrams. It cannot be extracted or mined.
- Every navigation link on the homepage is javascript:void(0) — a dead link. Only the email address works.
- Page title claims “Certified Broker Institution”; no certifying body, regulator, licence or company number appears anywhere on the site.
- metatargetgrowth.com is still live on 11 Sep 2026 — unlike Pantera Prime and SureTradeGroup, warned the same day, both now dead.
- Not authorised: no Financial Ombudsman Service access, no FSCS protection.
Our verdict
Most fake brokers are caught out by something dull — an address that does not exist, a phone number in the wrong country, a licence number that belongs to someone else. This one is caught out by chemistry.
It is a useful reminder that you do not need to understand markets to spot a fraud. You need to read what the firm says it does and ask whether it is possible. A company that claims to mine an element made only in reactors has not made a marketing error; it has revealed that the investment described does not exist, because nobody writing the page expected a reader to check.
If you have sent money to Metatarget Growth, tell your bank today and report it to Action Fraud. The site being live and polished is not evidence that anyone will pay you back — it is evidence that it is still open to the next person.
Sources: FCA warning notice for MetaTargetGrowth / metatargetgrowth.com, published 9 March 2026, read directly at fca.org.uk on 11 September 2026; metatargetgrowth.com loaded, read and captured 11 September 2026; Companies House company search for “metatargetgrowth”, find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk, 11 September 2026; FCA warning notices for Pantera Prime investments and SURETRADEGROUP, both published 9 March 2026.
