Spectre.ai Review: Unlicensed Binary Options Platform

Savun Law & Consultancy · Updated 22 October 2026

Opening a trade with a one-second expiry and a promised return of up to four hundred per cent: the shop window of Spectre.ai was a classic binary options screen repackaged with "artificial intelligence" and "smart contract" decoration. Today the brand's domain no longer shows its own platform and redirects to a different page.

In short: Spectre.ai is not authorised in Türkiye by the Capital Markets Board (SPK); its operator is registered only as a company in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and holds no licence from any financial regulator. Claiming back money lost in a binary options scheme is legally possible.

What this article covers

The one-second contract screen
Company and domain records
Similar binary options platforms
The legal process
Spectre.ai FAQ

🚩 The One-Second Contract Screen

The platform offered "digital contracts" with expiries from one second to one day, EPIC contracts and reverse futures. The user only predicts a direction; the price feed that decides the result is under the platform's control. We described the details of this structure in our article on binary options scamsTR.

🔍 Company and Domain Records

Operator: Spectre Trading Ltd, registration no. 25113 IBC 2018, Kingstown
Licence: none; it is reported to be unsupervised in the United Kingdom and to no longer accept customers there
Domain: spectre.ai, registered on 16 December 2017
Current status: the address redirects to a research platform page with a different name; the connection of this page with the former platform has not been verified

SPK Decision No. 8/297 of 24.02.2017 treats intermediation in leveraged transactions from abroad as unauthorised activity in Türkiye.

🔗 Similar Binary Options Platforms

🧭 The Legal Process

With foreign platforms, the legal routes for refunds and the SPK review and criminal complaint processTR run together. For detailed information and legal support, you can contact Savun Law & Consultancy.

❓ Spectre.ai FAQ

Was Spectre.ai an exchange or a broker?

It presented itself as a "trading platform" without an intermediary; however, the party that set the price and the payout was still the platform itself.

Does the St. Vincent registration count as a licence?

No. The number 25113 IBC 2018 is only an international business company registration; it does not mean permission to provide financial services.

Why does a different site open when I visit spectre.ai?

The domain is now redirected to another page; former Spectre.ai accounts cannot be reached through this address.

What are the options for money lost on Spectre.ai?

For detailed information and legal support, you can contact Savun Law & Consultancy.

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This page is an English adaptation of our Turkish article Spectre.ai İkili Opsiyon Dolandırıcılığı.

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