Ronald Pope
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Ronald Pope is the founder and CEO of The Conversion Pros, Inc., a Nevada-incorporated technology company. He is a named defendant in a civil enforcement complaint filed by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on September 25, 2026, alleging his central role in a multilevel-marketing Ponzi scheme operating under the Cash FX Group brand that the CFTC alleges solicited over $950 million from more than 400,000 accounts globally. The complaint is a civil accusation; no criminal charges have been publicly filed against Pope and no court has entered a finding of liability as of the investigation date.
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Timeline(11 events)
1 November 2015
Ronald Pope founds The Conversion Pros, Inc., a cloud-based marketing tools platform, later incorporated in Nevada.
LinkedIn / Tracxn company profile1 May 2019
According to the CFTC complaint, Lopez recruits Pope to assist in building the Cash FX Group scheme's technical infrastructure.
BehindMLM: CFTC files suit against CashFX Group28 June 2019
CFTC complaint's alleged start date for the joint fraudulent scheme involving Pope, Lopez, The Conversion Pros, Cash FX Group, and Halladay.
CFTC Press Release 9304-261 August 2019
Pope allegedly travels from Nevada to Orlando, Florida to help plan the launch of Cash FX Group.
BehindMLM: CFTC files suit against CashFX Group1 December 2019
UK Financial Conduct Authority issues first fraud warning for Cash FX Group, stating it was not authorised to operate in the UK.
BehindMLM: CashFX Group under criminal investigation in UK28 September 2020
Pope allegedly records a YouTube video stating he has personally reviewed Cash FX trade reports and that the trades are real, a statement the CFTC alleges was false.
BehindMLM: CFTC files suit against CashFX Group1 November 2021
Dominican Republic issues a Cash FX Group fraud warning; Lopez allegedly disappears.
BehindMLM: Ron Pope running CashFX Group's CFX Legacy reboot?27 July 2023
CFX Legacy (cfxlegacy.com) launches, a rebranded portal built on The Conversion Pros' infrastructure, which BehindMLM alleges Pope was operating to serve residual Cash FX investors.
BehindMLM: Ron Pope running CashFX Group's CFX Legacy reboot?20 December 2023
CFTC complaint's alleged end date for the joint fraudulent scheme. UK abandons its criminal investigation without charges.
CFTC Press Release 9304-26 / BehindMLM reporting1 August 2024
UK FCA adds CFX Legacy to its existing Cash FX Group fraud warning.
BehindMLM: CFX Legacy added to UK's CashFX Group fraud warning25 September 2026
CFTC files civil enforcement complaint against Cash FX Group S.A., Huascar Jose Lopez Castillo, The Conversion Pros, Inc., Ronald Pope, and Justin Halladay in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, alleging a $950 million multilevel-marketing Ponzi scheme.
CFTC Press Release 9304-26Decision Log
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This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (1 event). 10 of 11 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
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generated: 10/1/2026, 11:02:53 PM
last updated: 10/1/2026, 11:09:15 PM
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