In today's financial market, you may not be unfamiliar, and you can even tell a little story about your own investment in foreign exchange, or other people's investment in foreign exchange, some foreign exchange speculation earned a lot of money, and some foreign exchange speculation was cheated. But generally speaking, in the foreign exchange market in the black heart scam routine things are common, so as an ordinary investor, how should we distinguish the foreign exchange scam, to avoid being pit? Today, Tianye Jun listed several common foreign exchange scams for you, and I hope you can collect them and check them repeatedly.
1. The broker persuades the client to go to the website he provides to verify their authenticity.
In this case, be sure to visit the real regulator's official website on the Internet and search for the broker's name and regulatory number to see if it is real. Do not easily trust any website link given by a broker, as it may be a fake website developed by them internally.
2. Fake or unregulated brokers
Such brokers often falsely promise high profits or even make guaranteed returns, zero spreads, or other unrealistic promises. To induce traders to enter gold under these conditions, fraud companies often package themselves as very formal, and even pretend to be regular companies, which has reached a fake. Therefore, before signing any agreement, be sure to conduct a strict review of the broker through the regulatory website of Forex Eye to see whether it is a fraud.
We mainly look at whether they are regulated by a reputable regulator. In countries such as the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, brokers must list their license number and company status on their home page.
3, set of card companies
In some cases, the licensing company is registered on the regulator's website and provides the correct registration number, but a closer look reveals that they are almost identical to the real regulated broker, except for a slightly different spelling, logo or font distortion.
The "set of license companies" is to copy the basic information and regulatory information of overseas regular retail foreign exchange companies, and the purpose is to achieve the "fake and real" in the domestic foreign exchange market and implement the purpose of circle money. From this can be seen that the customer's funds are extremely unsafe, and the card company is likely to roll money and run away.
4. Deceptive forex signals to sell
As the heat of the EA market climbs, this forex signal seller has a lot of experience and professional knowledge, technical analysis ability of people set up, claiming that the information is 100% correct, in the name of quick and easy profit to help you profit. But often the indicators that mislead you into trading, or even give you signals after the price changes to enter or exit later, so that they can profit from it.
Even formal forex signal providers are not guaranteed to make you 100 percent money, the best forex signal companies are registered with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and other agencies, and hold its license, so you need the help of Forex signal sellers, please confirm his authenticity.
5. High-yield investment plans
This is a financial scam with funds, a financial pyramid scheme. Packaging themselves in the guise of foreign exchange documentary and financial investment transactions, committing fraud and promising investors excess profits at maturity.
This kind of scam is to use the funds of new investors to pay the profits of old investors, and over and over again, the old investors will make a lot of profits, and the new investors are almost always huge losses. The fund itself will not increase in value, and when it reaches a certain point, it will collapse directly, and the scammers will run away.
6. Trading robot sellers
Automated systems are all the rage these days, and the makers of fake forex trading robots claim that their robotic trading systems are perfect and can help you make money out of strategies. The foreign exchange market is ever-changing, there are many factors affecting volatility, and the robot has certain limitations, which leads to a great increase in the probability of your loss.
Some of the most common scams summarized above, I hope you can keep in mind and avoid risks.