Verdict up front: Start Trading From Zero has passed 100,000 installs. Verified users say that on reaching the app’s $200 payout mark they were asked for their bank account details and SWIFT code — and then were never paid, with no withdrawal button and no support to contact. The address Google Play prints as the developer’s website is not a website at all.
Start Trading From Zero
SMART MOBILE APPS · com.proapp.trademaster
FLAGGED APP!
- Play installs
- 100,000+
- Rating
- 4.6 from 24,000
- Last updated
- 8 September 2024
- Status
- Live — still installable
What users say they handed over
Google Play marks every review below as verified, and both were found helpful by hundreds of readers.
“They raise your desire high after wasting your time and burning your data — you can’t make a withdraw. I submitted my account details including Swift Code as they requested but I haven’t been credited. I got $220 but nothing. No withdrawal button, no customer care and no way to reach them.”
wu, 21 December 2025 — 244 readers marked this helpful
“When you get to the set $200 threshold, you will not be able to withdraw, and then there is nothing like customer or user support system. I think it is a strategy for you not to contact them because they know that the withdrawal system on the app is fake.”
ISAIAH GALADIMA, 12 January 2025 — 197 readers marked this helpful
A SWIFT code is the identifier for an international bank transfer. Collected alongside an account number and a name, it is the set of details used to direct money to a bank account — and, in the wrong hands, a strong starting point for impersonating the account holder to that bank. Nobody needs it to run a practice trading game.
The website that is not a website
Every Play listing carries an App Support panel holding the developer’s own website, email and privacy policy. For this app, the developer’s website is given as a subdomain of app-ads-txt.com — a service that hosts the app-ads.txt file advertising networks read to confirm who may sell an app’s ad inventory.
It is a piece of ad-industry plumbing. It has no pages, no company details and nothing a customer could read. Whoever filled in the listing put their advertising configuration in the box marked website, which tells you which side of this business is the real one.
The contact is the Gmail address smartmobileapps.help@gmail.com, and the privacy policy sits on a free Blogspot. No company name. No registered address. No regulator, anywhere.
⚠ Verified evidence
- Start Trading From Zero (
com.proapp.trademaster): 100,000+ installs, 24,000 reviews, rated 4.6, contains ads, last updated 8 September 2024. - A verified reviewer reports submitting account details including a SWIFT code at the app’s request, reaching $220, and never being credited — with no withdrawal button and no support channel. 244 readers marked it helpful.
- A second verified reviewer reports the same $200 threshold, no withdrawal, and no support system. 197 readers marked it helpful.
- The developer website on the listing is a subdomain of
app-ads-txt.com— an advertising configuration host, not a company website. - The contact is a free Gmail address and the privacy policy sits on a free Blogspot.
- No company name, registered address or regulator appears anywhere on the listing.
- The same $200 figure is reported by users of at least three other unrelated developers’ trading apps on Google Play.
Did you give an app your bank or SWIFT details?
Tell us what happened. One email starts it — no form, no phone call, no fee.
Or write to us directly: support@reclaimdc.com
Include the app name, the balance it showed you, any details you entered, and screenshots if you have them. Never send passwords, private keys or seed phrases — nobody needs them to read your report.
If you already sent your bank details
Treat that account as exposed. Tell your bank exactly what you handed over and ask them to flag the account for attempted third-party access; if a card number went with it, ask for the card to be replaced rather than simply monitored. Change the password on the email address attached to the account, and turn on two-factor authentication there if it is not already on.
Then expect a second approach. Details gathered this way get reused, and the most common follow-up is somebody offering to recover what you are owed. Anyone who contacts you first, or wants a fee before they start, is the next stage of the same operation.
The verdict: we are not calling this developer a criminal enterprise, and no regulator we checked has issued a warning about it. What the public record shows is an app with 100,000 installs that asks users for international bank transfer details at a payout threshold hundreds of them say is never honoured, run from a Gmail address, with an advertising config file where its website should be. Whatever is being collected here, it is not deposits.
Sources: Google Play listing for com.proapp.trademaster, including its App Support panel and published reviews; the developer website, email and privacy policy linked from that panel. Install counts, review counts, dates and all quoted reviews are as published by Google Play. Checked 14 September 2026.
