Highmont Group: Scam Warning, Reviews and Recovery Guide

Issued by: CSA / OSC / AMF Quebec · Date: 2026-04-24 · Region: Ontario / Canada

Reviewed by: Thomas Becker · Last updated: 2026-08-24

Also known as: highmont-group.com, HighmontGroup, Highmont Investments, Highmont Capital

Overview: Is Highmont Group Legit?

Highmont Group is an unregistered investment operation warned against by both the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) and the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) in April 2026. The AMF of Quebec issued an independent warning on December 5, 2025. The platform is not registered in any Canadian province or territory to trade or advise on securities.

Highmont Group operates as part of the broader ramp-and-dump scam wave formally identified by the CSA in April 2026. In these schemes, fraudulent investment groups are promoted on social media where operators build trust with victims, invite them into private groups, and pressure them to buy specific stocks at artificially inflated prices before exiting their own positions at the victim's expense.

Key facts:
- OSC and CSA investor alerts confirmed April 24, 2026
- AMF Quebec issued a separate warning December 5, 2025
- Operates as a social media investment group, typical of ramp-and-dump fraud
- Not registered in Ontario, Quebec, or any other Canadian province
- Uses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Discord, and Telegram for recruitment
- Victims are pressured to buy specific stocks at inflated prices before operators exit

If Highmont Group has solicited you or you participated in their trading group, report to RecoverFunds.ca immediately.

How Highmont Group Operates

Highmont Group is a ramp-and-dump operation that uses social media investment groups to manipulate stock prices at the expense of its own members.

Recruitment:

  • Facebook and Instagram ads promoting an exclusive investment group with exceptional returns
  • Operators join WhatsApp, Discord, and Telegram to establish personal credibility
  • The group presents a leader with apparent trading expertise, fabricated track record
  • New members are shown screenshots of other members' gains to build confidence

The pump phase:

  • Group leaders identify a low-volume stock and instruct members to buy in before a price surge
  • Fake analysis reports are circulated justifying why the stock is about to rally
  • High-pressure tactics create urgency: buy now before the window closes
  • Members collectively buy in, which does temporarily inflate the price

The dump:

  • Group operators sell their own positions at the artificially inflated peak
  • Stock price collapses
  • Group leaders go quiet or the group disappears entirely
  • Victims are left holding worthless or near-worthless positions

Additional fraud layer:

  • Some victims are then approached about recovering their losses through a new investment group
  • This is a secondary fraud targeting the same victims

Red Flags in Highmont Group Reviews

  • OSC and CSA alerts April 2026, AMF Quebec December 2025, three separate regulatory warnings
  • Ramp-and-dump model manipulates stock prices at victim members expense
  • Exclusive group dynamic creates social pressure to follow group leader recommendations
  • Not registered in any Canadian jurisdiction to trade or advise on securities
  • Stock purchase pressure tactics create urgency to buy before liquidity allows analysis
  • Group disappears immediately after operators sell their positions at the peak
  • Secondary recovery fraud targets the same victims who lost money in the first round

What the Regulator Said

Highmont Group is not registered in Ontario to engage in the business of trading in securities. Investors should not deal with this entity. The CSA warns that ramp-and-dump scams using fraudulent investment groups are surging across Canada.

Official regulator source

What to Do if You Were Targeted by Highmont Group

If Highmont Group recruited you into a trading group or caused stock losses, regulators in multiple provinces can assist.

Action steps:

  1. Leave the group immediately and stop all further investments
  2. Report to RecoverFunds.ca with details of the stocks promoted and amounts invested
  3. Ontario residents: file with the OSC at osc.ca or 1-877-785-1555
  4. Quebec residents: file with the AMF at lautorite.qc.ca
  5. Report to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre and to the securities regulator for your province, the full process, with contact details for every province, is here
  6. Preserve all group chat logs, stock recommendations, and transaction records, these are critical evidence for regulators
  7. Do not pay anyone who offers to recover your money for an upfront fee — that is a second scam, and it deliberately targets people who have already lost money once

Highmont Group: Frequently Asked Questions

Is Highmont Group a scam?

CSA published an investor warning naming Highmont Group on April 24, 2026. A warning of that kind is issued when a firm is soliciting investment from residents it is not registered to deal with, which is not lawful and which leaves you outside the protections registration exists to provide.

Is Highmont Group legit, and is it registered in Canada?

Anyone selling securities or derivatives to Canadians has to be registered in the province where the client lives. Highmont Group drew a warning from CSA rather than appearing on that register. You can check any firm yourself, free, at aretheyregistered.ca — and a licence number displayed on a website proves nothing, because those are routinely copied from real firms.

Why can't I withdraw my money from Highmont Group?

Blocked withdrawals are the point at which most people discover there is a problem. The documented pattern is that a withdrawal request triggers a new demand — a tax, a compliance or insurance fee, an account upgrade, a "liquidity" top-up — and paying it produces another one. No fee releases the balance. On a platform operating this way the balance on the dashboard is a number in a database, not money being held for you. The steps that do help are here.

Why is my Highmont Group login not working?

Losing access to a Highmont Group account usually means one of two things. The account has been locked from the operator's side, which commonly happens shortly after a withdrawal request or an awkward question. Or the site itself has gone dark, which is what happens when an operation rebrands to a new domain after a warning is published. Neither is resolved by the account manager, and if you are asked to pay anything to restore access, that is the same pattern continuing.

Are Highmont Group reviews real?

Read reviews of Highmont Group carefully, and note where they sit. Operations like this seed favourable reviews on rating sites, YouTube and social media, and those tend to be the first results a search returns. The review that carries weight is the regulatory record: CSA published an investor warning on April 24, 2026. Positive reviews written before a warning, or by accounts with no other history, tell you very little.

Can I get my money back from Highmont Group?

That depends far more on how you paid than on who you contact, and we will not pretend otherwise. Card payments can sometimes be charged back. Wires can occasionally be recalled if you reach your bank's fraud team quickly. Crypto sent to an address a receiving exchange can freeze is sometimes reachable. Funds already moved through offshore accounts usually are not. Nobody can reverse a blockchain transaction, and anyone offering to recover your money for an upfront fee is running a second scam. The realistic routes are set out here.

Is highmont-group.com a safe website?

highmont-group.com is the domain associated with Highmont Group in the CSA investor warning on April 24, 2026. Treat it as unsafe to deposit with. Also be aware that operations under warning frequently reappear on a near-identical domain — a different extension, an added or dropped word — so a site that looks like the one you used may be the same operation rather than a legitimate alternative.

How do I report Highmont Group in Canada?

Three places, and they do different things: the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre at 1-888-495-8501, the securities regulator for the province you live in, and your local police for a file number. Contact your bank, card issuer or crypto exchange first though, because that is the only step where hours genuinely matter. The full process, with the contact details for every province, is here — or report your case to us and we will tell you which regulator has jurisdiction and what they will need.

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