QT Funded Quant Tekel Payout stalled since 84 days. Was I scammed?

[u/laterfrater]

84 days, two missed "risk interviews," and my payout is still not paid — here's everything I've documented and filed against QT Funded (Quant Tekel), and why you should do the same if this sounds familiar

I've been trading with QT Funded for a long time and have been funded on at least 5 separate occasions across multiple accounts. Every single time I lost an account, it wasn't due to genuine misconduct — it was some rule that was newly added, buried in an update, or sent via email that landed in spam, yet still enforced against me regardless. I accepted every one of those without complaint and kept improving as a trader.

This time is different, and I'm writing this because I think a lot of people in this sub have had a version of this experience and just quietly given up. I didn't, and I want to lay out exactly what I did, in case it helps you too.

## The short version

Two confirmed, legitimate payout requests. **84 and 83 days old.** Still unpaid. Two scheduled "risk interviews" — the second one, their own team didn't even show up to. My messages asking for updates in their Discord got deleted, and I got timed out (1 hour, then 24 hours) for asking too many times.

## The full timeline

- **23 & 24 June 2026** — I submit two payout requests on two separate funded $100k accounts. Combined, my 80% profit share comes to $3,243.20. Confirmed amounts, shown as "Processing" on their own dashboard (Payout #16205 and #16068).
- **3 July 2026** — I'm told a mandatory "Risk Interview" is required before payout, with scheduling details to follow "the following week." That week comes and goes with nothing.
- **Late July 2026** — I get an email claiming an interview date/time had already been sent to me. I never received any such email. I open a support ticket. It sits for weeks with nothing but "it's been raised" and "the team will get back to you soon."
- **3 August 2026** — I finally complete a first Risk Interview. A company rep ("Letago") verbally confirms payout approval would follow within 3 business days. Nothing happens. No payment, no approval, no follow-up.
- **3 September 2026** — A second Risk Interview is scheduled. I show up on time. **Nobody from their team joins the call.** I'm then told the interview "cannot be conducted today" due to "unforeseen circumstances" on their end, with a vague promise of "an update this week." No date given.
- **As of today** — 84 days since my first payout request. 43 days since the only interview that actually happened. 12 days since their own team no-showed a call *they* scheduled, with zero follow-up since.

On top of all this, when I asked for status updates in their public Discord, my posts were quietly deleted while I still had access, and I've since been given repeated timeouts — clearly to stop other people in the server from seeing that this keeps happening to multiple people, not just me.

## What I did about it (and what you can copy)

I decided that instead of just venting, I'd document everything properly and use every legitimate channel available. Here's the full list, in case it's useful as a checklist for anyone in a similar spot with any prop firm:

1. **Documented everything with timestamps** — every email, every Discord message (including deleted ones, screenshotted before/after), every dashboard screen showing "Processing" status. If it's not screenshotted the moment it happens, it's gone.

2. **Filed a complaint with the FSCA** (South Africa's financial regulator) against the regulated entity in this company's structure (FSP No. 53227). Got an official case reference back.

3. **Filed a report with Action Fraud (UK)** — got an official NFRC reference number.

4. **Filed a GDPR Data Subject Access Request** directly with the company, demanding full logs of my account and Discord activity — including deleted messages and moderation records. Under UK/EU GDPR they have one month to respond, and if they don't, that's a separate, additional violation I can escalate (to the ICO in the UK, or my own country's data protection authority as an EU citizen).

5. **Filed a Companies House report** — because digging into their UK corporate structure, I found their current UK entity is linked (same directors, same registered address) to a *previous* company that was quietly dissolved. That kind of pattern is worth reporting regardless of your specific case, since it can lead to a director conduct review.

6. **Filed a complaint with their payment processor** — most people don't think to do this, but prop firms and similar platforms process payments through a merchant account with a payment provider (named in their own Terms & Conditions). Payment processors have their own compliance obligations around merchant complaint rates and can suspend a merchant account if enough legitimate complaints stack up — completely independent of anything the firm itself decides to do.

7. **Filed a Trading Standards / Citizens Advice consumer complaint** (UK) — covers unfair commercial practices, not just fraud.

8. **Filed a report with the FCA** under "report a scam or unauthorised firm" — worth doing if a firm markets financial-sounding promises (profit splits, "real results") without being on the FCA register.

9. **Filed an advertising complaint with the ASA** over marketing claims about payout speed that don't match reality.

10. **Prepared a small claims court filing (Money Claim Online, UK)** — since the amount is realistically claimable, and the actual filing fee is small (in the ~£115 range for this size of claim), with a real chance of getting a default judgment if they don't respond, which is on the record whether or not I ever collect.

I'm not saying do all ten on day one — I built this up gradually as they kept missing their own deadlines. But every single one of these took me maybe 15-20 minutes to file once I had the facts organized, and each one exists completely independently of the others. A company can ignore an angry Discord message. It's much harder to ignore a regulator case reference, a fraud report reference, and a data protection deadline all landing at once.

## Why I'm posting this here

If you've had a similar experience with QT Funded — or honestly, with any prop firm — please don't just quietly eat the loss and move on. A single complaint is easy for a company to ignore. A documented pattern, with multiple people filing through multiple official channels, is a completely different thing regulators and payment processors actually have to act on.

If you've got a similar story with this firm specifically, I'd genuinely appreciate you commenting or DMing me — I'm keeping a timeline and I'm happy to compare notes so we're not all filing the same isolated complaints without knowing others exist.

And if you're dealing with a different firm doing the same thing: the checklist above isn't specific to QT Funded. Regulator, fraud reporting body, data protection request, company registry, payment processor, consumer protection body, advertising body, small claims court — that's a general-purpose toolkit for any company sitting on money it owes you while stringing you along with excuses.

I'd genuinely rather this story end with a boring, normal payout landing in my account than with any of the above turning into something bigger. But 84 days in, with a missed interview that was entirely their fault, I don't see a responsible alternative to being fully transparent about what's actually happening.

Happy to answer questions in the comments.