The Financial Conduct Authority warned about Pantera Prime investments on 9 March 2026. The notice records one address: “Soi Phatthana 5, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.” That is a Thai street name in an Indian city.
What the FCA published
A plain unauthorised-firm warning, published 9 March 2026 and not updated since. The wording is the FCA’s standard formula: “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.”
Three details are on the notice: the name Pantera Prime investments / www.panteraprime.com, the email support@panteraprime.com, and the address Soi Phatthana 5, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
The address does not exist, and it cannot
“Soi” is Thai. It is the standard word in Thai addresses for a side street or lane running off a main road — Bangkok is built on them, and they are numbered exactly like this: Soi followed by a name and a number. Phatthana is likewise a Thai word, not a Hindi or Urdu one.
Lucknow is in India, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, roughly 2,500 kilometres from Bangkok. Indian addresses do not use “Soi”. They use house and plot numbers, a locality, a city, a state, and a six-digit PIN code.
So the address is two countries’ conventions stapled together. There is no street number, no locality, no PIN code and no country line. It is not a real place badly written down — it is a placeholder assembled by somebody who needed the address field to look full.
That matters more than it sounds. An address is the one claim a financial firm makes that costs money to fake properly. A serviced office in London costs a few pounds a month and at least buys a real building. This operation did not even do that. Whoever filled in the form was not expecting anybody to read it.
Six months later there is nothing there
We checked panteraprime.com on 11 September 2026. It does not resolve. No DNS record of any kind — the browser returns DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN, the answer given for a domain registered to nobody.
Warned on 9 March, gone by September. Six months, start to finish.
That is not unusual, and it is worth understanding why. A domain costs about the price of a sandwich. A regulator’s warning takes months to arrive, because it depends on victims reporting first. By the time the notice is published, the people running the site have usually already registered the next name. Closing the old one is not a defeat for them; it is scheduled housekeeping.
It was not alone that day
The FCA published the Pantera Prime notice on 9 March 2026. It published a warning about SureTradeGroup and suretradeworld.com on exactly the same day. That one gave a London address shared by 835 registered companies. Its domain is also dead now.
Two notices, one day, two fabricated addresses, both domains gone within six months. The addresses differ in ambition — one bought the prestige of the City, the other did not bother — but the shape is identical. So is the shape of the platform that kept a second domain running after the first was burned.
What it means if you deposited
Because Pantera Prime was never authorised, nobody who dealt with it has recourse through the Financial Ombudsman Service, and nothing paid in is covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. There is no fund to claim against and no adjudicator to appeal to.
What remains is the payment route. Card payments may be reversible through chargeback; bank transfers depend on your bank’s fraud process and how fast the transfer is reported; crypto sent to a wallet is effectively gone. All of them run on timescales measured in days and weeks, which is why the date you report matters more than the amount involved.
Verified evidence — checked 11 September 2026
- FCA warning Pantera Prime investments / www.panteraprime.com, published 9 March 2026, not updated since. Plain unauthorised-firm warning, not a clone.
- Address recorded on the notice: Soi Phatthana 5, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Email support@panteraprime.com.
- “Soi” is the Thai term for a side street, standard in Thai addresses. Lucknow is in India — about 2,500km from Bangkok. Indian addresses use a six-digit PIN code, which the notice has none of, along with no street number and no country.
- panteraprime.com returns no DNS record (DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN) on 11 September 2026 — six months after the warning.
- The FCA published its SURETRADEGROUP / suretradeworld.com warning on the same day, 9 March 2026. That domain is also dead.
- Not authorised: no Financial Ombudsman Service access, no FSCS protection.
Our verdict
Read the address before you read the promises. It takes ten seconds and it does not require knowing anything about trading: does this address name a real street, in a real city, in a country whose address format it actually follows? Pantera Prime fails on the first clause.
A firm that cannot be bothered to invent a coherent address is telling you how long it intends to be reachable. Six months, as it turned out.
If you sent money to Pantera Prime, tell your bank today and report it to Action Fraud. The website disappearing does not close the matter — payment routes stay traceable long after a domain stops resolving.
Sources: FCA warning notice for Pantera Prime investments / www.panteraprime.com, published 9 March 2026, read directly at fca.org.uk on 11 September 2026; FCA warning notice for SURETRADEGROUP / suretradeworld.com, published 9 March 2026; panteraprime.com loaded and captured 11 September 2026; DNS lookup, 11 September 2026.
