Reporter
Leila Farouk
Reporter, investment and crypto fraud
Leila reports on how investment fraud is sold: the ad, the landing page, the call, the fake dashboard. She spent four years on a City newswire covering fund launches before moving to consumer reporting, and now tracks unauthorised promotions from the first advert to the eventual warning notice. She builds timelines showing how long a scheme ran before any regulator named it.
- Beat
- Unauthorised investment promotions, crypto schemes and boiler-room operations
- Based in
- London
- Years reporting
- 9
- Joined The Fraud Center
- February 2026
- Reports in
- English, Arabic, French
Areas of expertise
- Investment fraud
- Cryptoasset promotions
- Boiler rooms
- Financial promotions rules
Training and background
- NCTJ Diploma in Journalism
- MSc Economics, University of Warwick
How this journalist works
Leila archives every promotion she writes about before it disappears, dates the capture, and keeps the original alongside the story. She does not open links from readers on any device connected to newsroom systems.
Published work
No published stories yet under this byline.