Os lobos de Tel Aviv: Israel8217s vastas e amorais opções de opções binárias expostas Relatos Relacionados Quando Dan Guralnek imigrou da Austrália para Israel em 2012, ele não antecipou se envolver em uma fraude na Internet internacional. Sempre quis mover-me para Israel, diz Guralnek, que frequentou uma escola do dia judeu em Sydney. Ele estava trabalhando na administração de uma fábrica na Austrália quando seu chefe morreu de repente e, aos 28 anos, percebeu que era um bom momento para ele se mudar para Israel. Eu pensei, estou livre, sem limitações, posso ir. Guralnek se matriculou em Jerusalém Ulpan Etzion para aprender hebraico, depois mudou-se para a vibrante e movimentada cidade de Tel Aviv, onde conseguiu uma série de empregos de salário mínimo para NIS 25 (um pouco mais de 6) por hora: cortar vegetais em um restaurante, Dirigindo uma pessoa com deficiência, trabalhando no turno da noite em um carrinho de hot-dog. Mas em uma cidade com aluguéis altos e um custo de vida em relação aos salários (PDF) em segundo lugar apenas para o Japão, Guralnek não poderia sobreviver. Ele ouviu que os empregos em uma indústria chamavam de opções binárias pagas duas vezes o que ele estava ganhando, além de comissão. 8216It8217s apostas e we8217re um bookie8217 8212 vendedor ex-binário de opções Assim que comecei a procurar um emprego, eu estava recebendo chamadas de empresas de opções binárias todos os dias, ele lembra. Eles dominam o espaço do anúncio de trabalho. Nem Guralnek teve dificuldade em conseguir um emprego. Você entra e eles fazem um grande show como eles estão avaliando se eles querem ou não você. Mas eles querem você. No dia em que Guralnek entrou nos luxuosos escritórios de seu novo empregador na cidade costeira de Herzliya Pituah, ele sabia que ele havia chegado. Vista de prédios de escritórios de alta tecnologia em Herzliya Pituah. 12 de dezembro de 2015. (Nati ShohatFlash 90) Havia café grátis, comida grátis, diz Guralnek. Meu salário foi de 7.500 shekels (1.900) por mês, mais comissão. Guralnek sentou-se em um call center com cerca de 50 outros funcionários, muitos dos quais eram novos imigrantes com fluência em uma variedade de idiomas. Seu trabalho era chamar as pessoas ao redor do mundo e convencê-las em 8220invest8221 em um produto financeiro ostensivo chamado opções binárias. Os clientes seriam encorajados a fazer um depósito 8212 para enviar dinheiro para sua empresa 8212 e depois usar esse dinheiro para fazer 8220trades8221: Os clientes tentariam avaliar se uma moeda ou commodity iria subir ou descer nos mercados internacionais dentro de um certo, curto período de tempo. Se eles predisseram corretamente, eles ganharam dinheiro, entre 30 e 80 por cento da soma que eles derrubaram. Se eles estavam errados, eles perderam todo o dinheiro que colocaram naquele mercado.8221 Guralnek logo viu que quanto mais negociações um cliente fez, mais perto eles perderam a totalidade de seu depósito inicial. Ele tinha sido instruído a apresentar a opção binária como um investimento e ele próprio como corretor, mesmo sabendo que eles provavelmente perderiam todo o dinheiro. O cliente não está realmente comprando nada. O que a compra da He8217s é uma promessa da nossa empresa de que o pagaremos. O jogo de apostas e o livro é um bookmaker, ele diz agora. Antes de começar o trabalho, a empresa deu a Guralnek um curso de vendas de uma semana em que ele recebeu ensinamentos de conhecimento financeiro suficiente para parecer bom para um cliente que sabia menos do que ele. Ele também foi instruído em táticas de vendas de alta pressão. Eles nos ensinaram como fazer as pessoas incomodadas, como responder objeções, como mantê-las no telefone. A sessão de treino era conhecida como um curso de conversão e o objetivo era aprender a transformar uma ligação telefônica em um cliente tomando seu primeiro depósito. Em sua empresa, os vendedores não podiam tomar um depósito de menos de 250. Durante o curso de vendas, a administração da empresa deu aos conselhos de Guralnek que o perseguiram mais tarde. Eles nos disseram para deixar nossa consciência na porta. Isto é legal À medida que as semanas passaram, mais e mais perguntas formadas na mente de Guralneks 8212 questões que sublinharam o bizarre mundo financeiro que ele havia entrado. Por que ele não conhecia os sobrenomes de seus gerentes Por que os trabalhadores eram proibidos de falar em hebraico ou de trazer celulares para o call center Quem era o CEO da empresa Por que estava certo que a equipe árabe-israelense da empresa vendesse opções binárias em lugares como a Arábia Saudita, enquanto outros Países, como Israel, Estados Unidos e Irã estavam fora de limites. Pior ainda, Guralnek começou a suspeitar que, além das fracas probabilidades, os clientes tinham de ganhar algum dinheiro e além das táticas agressivas de vendas, o que a empresa estava fazendo era francamente ilegal. Por exemplo, cada vendedor foi convidado a inventar um nome e biografia falsos. O call center usou a tecnologia Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), que exibiu um número de telefone local para clientes em qualquer lugar do mundo. O site da empresa listou um endereço em Chipre. Foi-me dito para dizer às pessoas que eu tinha anos de experiência no mercado, que eu tinha estudado em Oxford e trabalhei para o Bank of Scotland. Guralnek diz que foi dito para se apresentar como um corretor que fez uma comissão sobre os negócios e enfatizar quanto dinheiro o cliente poderia fazer enquanto minimizava o risco. Na verdade, ao invés de ajudar os clientes a fazer negócios inteligentes, o verdadeiro interesse de 8220 robert82178221 era fazer previsões mal sucedidas e perder seu dinheiro. Guralnek diz que também estava cada vez mais preocupado com o que aconteceu quando os clientes tentaram sair. Naquela época, quando lhes pedirem muito papelada. Nós dirijamos: Você deseja retirar OK. Precisamos verificar sua identidade antes de poder liberar os fundos. Você precisa nos enviar um fotocópio de sua conta de utilidade, sua licença de motorista, seu passaporte, seus requisitos de cartão de crédito 8212, não é preciso dizer, que não havia sido mencionado quando o cliente colocou dinheiro. Enquanto o cliente estava reunindo e enviando esta documentação, um agente de retenção os chamaria e passaria por seus negócios, supostamente descobrindo o que deu errado e convencendo-os para continuar a negociar. Podemos atrasar essa retirada por um longo período de tempo. 8216Por que eu deveria ser culpado por vender algo a pessoas estúpidas Se alguém tem mais de 18 anos e quer álcool, cigarros, faca, uma conta de opção binária, é sua própria responsabilidade8217 8212 Postagem no Facebook Se um cliente era persistente, diz Guralnek, muitas vezes a empresa Deixaria de atender suas chamadas ou enviou-lhes um e-mail dizendo que suspeitamos de fraude e congelamos todos os seus fundos. Como o cliente não sabia o nome real ou a localização de seu vendedor, eles não tinham para onde voltar a recuperar seu dinheiro, explica Guralnek. Mas a parte mais impressionante do trabalho para o jovem imigrante era pedir dinheiro a pessoas que pareciam pobres e abatidas. Eles acreditam que estão fazendo algo bom: eles estão fazendo um investimento, fazendo algo responsável. E eles não estão. Toda história está triste. Todo mundo tinha gente dependendo deles. Muitas pessoas estão finalmente recuperando seus pés depois de um problema de drogas ou algo assim. O pior foi quando um cliente lhe disse, I8217m no hospital. Quando alguém diz que I8217m no hospital e eu temos câncer, nós deveríamos ainda vendê-los. Mas eu jogaria a venda toda vez. Eu não poderia fazer isso. Uma indústria vasta e desonrosa Se você digitar as palavras opções binárias ou forex em grupos do Facebook que atendem a novos olim (imigrantes para Israel), você encontrará grandes discussões de trocas aquecidas. Algum de vocês que está envolvido em opções de ForexBinary percebe que este é um negócio altamente desregulado que está solicitando jogos de azar a pessoas mal informadas ou não educadas lê uma dessas postagens no popular grupo de Seguros de Tel Aviv. Por que eu deveria ser culpado por vender algo às pessoas estúpidas que uma mulher responde. Se alguém tem mais de 18 anos e quer álcool, cigarros, uma faca, uma conta de opção binária, é sua própria responsabilidade. Você venderia para a sua avó os fogos de cartazes originais de volta. No grupo Keep Olim in Israel Movement Facebook, uma mulher escreve, Oi tudo, alguém pode me explicar o que são trabalhos binários e Forex e por que as pessoas estão tão anti-trabalhando nestas indústrias em Israel. Este campo é desonroso, lê uma resposta. Acabei de fazê-lo e não senti nada além de vergonha e auto-aversão por assediar pessoas que nunca pediram essa ligação e tentando tirar dinheiro com elas que provavelmente não voltarão. Se você não gosta, não faça isso, lê outro. Trabalhe o que você sente é um trabalho honesto, faça seus 6.000 shekels (aproximadamente 1.500) por mês levá-lo, gastar metade da renda e viver como um roedor com o resto. Ele continua: Enquanto a indústria Binária e Forex e eu pagamos 50 impostos sobre nossos salários para pagar seus cuidados de saúde, segurança social e segurança, eu posso falar por todos nós, não precisamos ser julgados. Ninguém parece saber exatamente quão grande são as opções binárias e as indústrias cambiais em Israel. Nem mesmo a Autoridade de Valores de Israel, que, quando colocou a pergunta, respondeu via mensagem de texto. Como a indústria ainda não está regulamentada, não temos a imagem completa. Mas as estimativas conservadoras colocam o número de pessoas empregadas na indústria em vários milhares, principalmente em Tel Aviv e seus subúrbios, como Herzliya e Ramat Gan, enquanto a receita anual poderia ser de centenas de milhões para mais de US $ bilhões. Globalmente, o termo forex normalmente se refere ao comércio legítimo em moeda estrangeira, enquanto opções binárias é o nome de um instrumento financeiro. Na linguagem popular israelense, no entanto, as opções binárias e as divisas são muitas vezes agrupadas como parte da mesma indústria: quando os israelenses se referem a empresas de forex, muitas vezes significam empresas que comercializam as opções binárias em moedas. Às vezes, os termos Forex e opções binárias são usados indistintamente para se referir a negociações rápidas, tudo ou nada, em uma variedade de ativos. Em algumas empresas de opções binárias, a plataforma on-line é manipulada para fornecer resultados falsos que garantem que o cliente perca. O processo 8220trading8221 pode funcionar da seguinte forma: The Times of Israel foi informado. Tendo transferido seu primeiro depósito financeiro para a empresa, os clientes efetuaram o login em uma plataforma de negociação on-line, de acordo com a direção dos vendedores da empresa8217s, e colocam dinheiro em uma previsão de que o preço de uma moeda ou commodity irá subir ou diminuir nos mercados internacionais, Digamos, nos próximos cinco minutos. Se o cliente prevê corretamente, ele faz um lucro de uma certa porcentagem e a empresa perde dinheiro. Se o cliente estiver errado, ele perde todo o dinheiro que ele colocou no comércio, e a empresa o mantém. Os comerciantes de opções profissionais consultados pelo The Times of Israel disseram que mesmo um gênio financeiro não pode prever com confiança o que, digamos, o preço do ouro fará nos próximos cinco minutos, em vez de um investimento, a transação não é mais do que uma aposta. A falsa representação do jogo como investimento responsável seria bastante ruim. O que é pior, porém, e flagrantemente corrupto, o Times de Israel foi informado, é que, em algumas empresas, a casa está dobrada. Uma variedade de rodízios são usados. O pagamento potencial para uma previsão correta é complexo, opaco e calculado para minimizar a perda da empresa8217s. Se um bem estiver se comportando de uma forma previsível, digamos, o preço do cobre começa a subir após um terremoto no Chile 8212, a empresa tirará esse recurso da plataforma online. Em algumas empresas de opções binárias, a plataforma on-line é manipulada para fornecer resultados falsos que garantem que o cliente perca. As estimativas do número de opções binárias e de empresas estrangeiras em Israel variam de 20 para várias centenas. O IVC Research Center, uma empresa que fornece informações sobre o setor de tecnologia de Israel, estimou em seu anuário de 2015 que existem 100 empresas comerciais em linha em Israel, cuja esmagadora maioria se enquadra nas categorias de opções forex e binárias. A IVC estima que essas empresas empregam mais de 2.800 pessoas em Israel. No entanto, afirma o anuário, é difícil avaliar o tamanho real do setor de comércio financeiro on-line em Israel, em parte porque a indústria é discreta e seu nexo de Israel é muitas vezes subestimado. O lobby da TheTime Startup Incubator em Tel Aviv (Foto de Eytan Bruckerliftoff. co. il) Um relatório de 2014 sobre a indústria de Internet israelense pela incubadora de arranque TheTime diz que das 90 empresas de Internet israelenses ganham receita de 10 milhões ou mais por ano, 15 Eram plataformas de negociação on-line, muitas delas negociando forex e opções binárias. Três deles, de acordo com o relatório, foram avaliados com receita de pelo menos 100 milhões por ano. Algumas outras empresas da lista incluíram iForex, bForex, AnyOption, 4XPlace, Optionbit e Banc de Binary. Com base nessas avaliações, a indústria israelense de forex e opções binárias tem faturamento anual em centenas de milhões, possivelmente até bilhões, de dólares. Quantos são fraudulentos, é o que adivinha qual a porcentagem de empresas comerciais financeiras on-line que se envolvem em práticas anti-ilegais, ilegais ou fraudulentas. Uma distinção que muitas pessoas entrevistadas para este artigo desenhou foi entre empresas não regulamentadas e regulamentadas. Várias empresas grandes e mais conhecidas com fundadores israelenses ou grandes operações de vendas e marketing em Israel estão regulamentadas em Chipre, o que lhes dá licença para vender produtos financeiros em países da UE, mesmo que não estejam regulados nesses países. Muitas empresas de opções forex e binárias que operam em Israel, no entanto, estão desreguladas. Sam C., um imigrante recente para Israel dos Estados Unidos, descreve sua experiência trabalhando em uma empresa de opções binárias não regulamentadas no verão passado. Muitos clientes clicaram em um anúncio que procurava ganhar dinheiro em casa. 8216Eles realmente acreditam que eles vão se tornar um milionário apenas fazendo isso 8217 8212 ex-funcionário do serviço de atendimento ao cliente em uma empresa de opções binárias. Eles tornam extremamente, extremamente difícil para os clientes retirarem seu dinheiro, diz Sam, que trabalhou no serviço ao cliente e quem perguntou isso Seu nome verdadeiro não é usado. Você deve encontrar uma cópia da licença do driver8217s, uma cópia da sua conta de serviços públicos e há tantas regras e requisitos. Metade das chamadas que eu tinha que lidar eram apenas pessoas reclamando, dizendo que foram meses e eu preciso do meu dinheiro agora. Preciso pagar por isso ou aquilo. Praticamente a empresa simplesmente se recusa a desistir. Na verdade, Sam diz que não pode confirmar que nenhum cliente recebeu pagamento ou retirou seu dinheiro durante os poucos meses que trabalhou na empresa. As pessoas iriam ligar e ligar de volta. E, eventualmente, às vezes um dos meus gerentes diria, Don8217t leva essas conversas de pessoa a mais e fechar sua conta. Eles diriam que We8217re terminou com ele e todo o dinheiro não importa. Já não faça mais chamadas dele. A maioria dos clientes da empresa Sams era dos Estados Unidos, embora seja contra a lei norte-americana que as empresas vendam opções binárias aos cidadãos dos EUA dessa maneira. Clientes adicionais eram da África, Qatar e Arábia Saudita. Muitos clicaram em um anúncio de maneiras de ganhar dinheiro em casa ou assistiram a um vídeo que afirmava revelar estratégias de investimento secretas. A maioria parecia ser a pessoa estúpida e estúpida, lembra Sam. Você não percebeu que pessoas como essas existem fora dos filmes. Eles realmente acreditam que eles vão se tornar um milionário apenas fazendo isso. E é quase triste. Perguntado sobre seus gerentes, Sam disse que eram jovens israelenses que pareciam pensar que era legal arrancar pessoas. Leonardo DiCaprio como Jordan Belfort em uma cena de 20138217s 8216O Lobo de Wall Street.8217 (Paramount Pictures e Red Granite Pictures, Mary Cybulski) Eles pareciam ter assistido o The Wolf of Wall Street e queria imitar os personagens. A brincadeira que eles teriam seria, oh, sim, eu posso acreditar que ele se apaixonou por isso, eu não posso acreditar que você conseguiu investir 300. Sam diz que um dos seus gerentes citaria literalmente os lançamentos de vendas de Leonardo DiCaprios no texto do filme pelo telefone Ao tentar vender opções binárias. 82208216Hello, John. Como você está fazendo hoje Você enviou minha empresa algumas semanas para trás, solicitando informações sobre um investimento que tinha enorme potencial de vantagem com muito poucos riscos negativos, 8217 ele citaria de memória. 8216Does que tocam um bell8221 Eu pensei que era um pouco patético, para ser sincero, 8221 lembra Sam. Manipulação de software Em 2013, os Estados Unidos proibiram a comercialização de opções binárias para seus cidadãos, exceto em um punhado de trocas reguladas. Em seu site, a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), uma agência independente do governo dos EUA, alerta os investidores em esquemas fraudulentos envolvendo opções binárias e suas plataformas de negociação. Esses esquemas alegadamente incluem a recusa de creditar contas de clientes, negando o reembolso do fundo, roubo de identidade e manipulação de software para gerar trocas perdidas. Opções de negociação binária podem ser uma proposição extremamente arriscada, adverte outra agência reguladora baseada nos EUA, a Autoridade Reguladora da Indústria Financeira (FINRA), em seu site. Ao contrário de outros tipos de contratos de opções, 8221 diz que o FINRA, um SRO que regula empresas de corretagem e mercados de câmbio, 8220 opções binárias são proposições de tudo ou nada. Quando uma opção binária expira, ele faz uma quantidade de dinheiro pré-especificada, ou nada, caso em que o investidor perde seu investimento inteiro. A troca de opções binárias é ainda mais arriscada por esquemas fraudulentos, muitos dos quais são originários dos Estados Unidos. Em Israel, muitas das chamadas empresas forex estão realmente vendendo opções binárias, o que significa que um cliente aposta se uma moeda vai subir ou descer, ao invés de comprar a moeda, Jared K. um ex-corretor de Wall Street explica o The Times of Israel . Forex tradicional é a compra em 3.50, eu vendo às 3.60. Forex binário (isto é, forex no mundo das opções binárias) está dizendo se vai para 3.60 eu ganho dinheiro, let8217s dizem 20 mais do que eu aposto, mas se ele for 3.50 ou inferior, eu perco. As opções binárias de negociação são feitas ainda mais arriscadas por esquemas fraudulentos, muitos dos quais se originam fora do governo dos Estados Unidos 8212, alertando Graham P., que atualmente trabalha em marketing para uma grande empresa de opções binárias com sede em Tel Aviv, afirmou que conhece os esforços Para manipular o software conforme descrito pela interdição cínica da CFTC 8212 por empresas de opções binárias para garantir que eles ganham, o equivalente da indústria de uma roda de roleta manipulada em um cassino. Falei com um cara com o qual eu potencialmente iria trabalhar e ele realmente havia desenvolvido uma plataforma de opções binárias. Ele disse que todos os que conheceu que estavam interessados em comprar a plataforma (para começar sua própria empresa) queriam que ele criasse uma porta traseira. Na porta dos fundos, Graham significa que as empresas querem manipular um 8220trade8221 no último minuto se um cliente ou grupo de clientes parece estar ganhando demais. Digamos que 70 por cento dos comerciantes são, por algum motivo, apostando que o petróleo vai subir. Então, as empresas dizem, gee, se ganharmos apenas 30% de ganhos, poderemos manter muito mais dinheiro. E o algoritmo faz isso. É muito fácil dizer ao cliente, oh, a linha ficou um pouco abaixo da sua posição.8221 Se o cliente provar que o preço do petróleo realmente subiu para onde eles predisseram, a empresa irá apontá-los para a multa Impressão, que afirma que a empresa possui seus próprios algoritmos que podem ser diferentes do tempo real. 8220 As taxas de tarifação atribuídas aos ativos em nosso site são aquelas em que nossa empresa está disposta a vender opções binárias aos seus clientes no ponto de venda, 8221 lê uma declaração típica sobre muitos sites de opções binárias. 8220Então, eles podem não corresponder diretamente aos níveis de mercado em tempo real no momento em que ocorre a venda de opções.8221 Graham, cuja empresa está regulamentada em Chipre, disse que, em sua opinião, toda a indústria de opções binárias é fraudulenta. Se assim for, isso representa uma corrupção cínica e sistemática em grande escala 8212 que aniquila escândalos tão prejudiciais como o falcão ilegal de produtos do Mar Morto por israelenses em quiosques em shoppings em todo o mundo 8212, que pode ser devidamente cultivado, com graves repercussões para Israel. Por algum motivo louco é legal na Europa. Nações européias individuais estão deixando as opções binárias voarem. Enquanto países como os Estados Unidos cheiravam a besteira há muito tempo e tornaram ilegal. Graham disse que em um nível intestino, ele gostaria de ver a indústria desligar, mas ele está preocupado. Há tanto dinheiro que derrama na cidade, é, literalmente, uma indústria aqui 8212 eu estou incluindo forex também. It8217s provavelmente está pagando pelo sistema de metrô we8217re instalação. Você pode imaginar milhares de pessoas em Tel Aviv fora do trabalho Visão geral de Tel Aviv em 27 de dezembro de 2010. (Abir SultanFlash 90) Uma má reputação Chaya Berkowitz, uma veterana de oito anos de empresas estrangeiras em Israel, conta o Times of Israel Que sua própria experiência na indústria tem sido boa. I8217m não é altivez. I8217 estou ciente de que tem uma reputação muito ruim. Não penso que seja justificado por 100%. Berkowitz afirma que existem empresas legítimas na indústria, e chata os nomes de FXCM, Alpari e FXPro, nenhum deles com sede em Israel. Se você tem dez empresas forex, provavelmente seis ou sete delas têm má reputação que dão aos outros um nome ruim. É infeliz porque os outros tomam seus negócios a sério e se importam com seus clientes, ela diz. Perguntado se esses seis ou sete são culpados de fraude, Berkowitz avers, eu não diria que eles estão cometendo fraude. Eles têm a reputação de mentir para seus clientes e publicidade enganosa. Isso definitivamente existe, mas aí é uma razão que algumas das grandes corretoras ainda estão por perto. É porque eles costumam jogar pelo livro 8212, caso contrário eles não são muito longos. Berkowitz estima que em empresas de forex legítimas, dois ou três dos 10 clientes ganham lucros e podem retirar facilmente o dinheiro deles. Perguntei como saber se uma empresa é legítima, ela diz, eu procuraria uma regulamentação mais difícil, e não uma empresa regulamentada em alguma ilha em algum lugar, mas regulamentada no Reino Unido, nos Estados Unidos ou na Austrália. Chipre, ela afirma, tornou-se mais rigorosa nos últimos anos. Está se tornando uma agência reguladora mais reconhecida. Eu também pediria amigos ou outros investidores. Palavra de boca pessoal é enorme. Eu faria minha lição de casa. Olhe em linha para ver quem tem uma boa reputação. Eu faria perguntas ao pesquisar um corretor. Eu tenho acesso fácil ao meu dinheiro Você oferece educação Reeling os clientes em Depois de obter seu mestrado em Israel e se casar com um israelense, Lynne R. um nativo californiano, começou a procurar um emprego, mas ficou desapontado com o que estava lá fora. Foi realmente chocante para mim, uma vez que comecei a ir às empresas, para descobrir quão baixos os salários eram. Eu queria encontrar algo mais competitivo, mais parecido com o que eu estava ganhando nos Estados Unidos. As pessoas continuavam mencionando a Lynne que as opções de opções binárias pagavam bem. Ela postou o fato de que ela estava olhando para alguns sites de trabalho no Facebook, e provavelmente eu tinha 25 a 30 pessoas para configurar entrevistas. Lynne fez cinco ou seis entrevistas, onde aprendeu que era elegível para dois tipos de empregos. Ramat Gan8217s Moshe Aviv Tower, o prédio mais alto de Israel8217s, abriga muitas empresas de opções binárias (Simona WeinglassTimes of Israel) There8217s conversão e retenção. Para os trabalhos de conversão eles estavam me dizendo que eu faria cerca de 15.000 shekels (3.850) por mês e para empregos de retenção eles me disseram que eu poderia fazer 30.000 a 40.000 (7.700 a 10.250) por mês. Em cada entrevista, Lynne avaliou amplamente a natureza do trabalho. Cada empresa tem seus próprios métodos de marketing, muitas vezes envolvendo vídeos que contam a história de uma pessoa que aprendeu um método secreto de extração de dinheiro do mercado, diz ela. Uma empresa disse que atraiu clientes com um 8220robot8221: eles disseram, basicamente, usamos um programa, que chamamos de robô. Nós o comercializamos para as pessoas e nós dizemos que pode fazer pequenos negócios para você, como 100 ou 200, e um programa da Internet que você fará, você sabe, algo de magia e faz você algumas centenas de dólares extras por mês. O trabalho de Lynne8217 seria chamar pessoas que pagaram 200 para usar o robô e persuadi-las a aprofundar seu envolvimento. 8220Você ligou para eles e você diz, bem, você tem este robô, mas na verdade não é tão grande de um programa que lhe foi vendido por um afiliado nosso. Se você quiser ganhar dinheiro, você precisa começar a negociar, e podemos dizer-lhe como. We8217re comerciantes especializados. Tudo o que você precisa fazer é fazer um depósito maior e you8217ll obter uma conta personalizada conosco e um comerciante pessoal. Tudo o que você precisa fazer é fazer um depósito de 500 e we8217ll começar você. Lynne foi eventualmente oferecido um trabalho de retenção e foi matriculado em um curso de treinamento de duas semanas. A primeira coisa que lhe foi dita era nunca revelar que estava ligando de Israel. Todos os funcionários de retenção foram convidados a se posicionar como intermediários treinados trabalhando em um escritório de Londres. Eles foram obrigados a escovar os dias em Londres, bem como o que estava acontecendo nas notícias. Você teve que fazer uma biografia. Você precisava pensar em uma escola de negócios e dizer que você foi lá. Você precisava dizer que você era comerciante, que trabalhou para um banco de investimento ou em Wall Street. Se você for uma mulher, eles encorajam você a dizer que você é solteiro porque os garotos provavelmente depositarão com você. Se você é um cara, você quer ter uma esposa e dois filhos, porque isso faz você se relacionar. A empresa, disse ela, estava regulamentada em Chipre. A indústria é certificada para a Europa, mas you8217re não está fortemente regulamentado. É uma forma de ser credenciado pela UE sem muita supervisão. (Finanças Magnates, uma publicação comercial da indústria de comércio financeiro online de Israel8217s, escreveu no passado que Chipre tem uma reputação de regulamentação relaxada.) 8216 Quando oferecemos treinamento para eles, nós compartilhamos sua área de trabalho e passamos pelo site. Foi-nos dito para olhar em torno de sua área de trabalho para pornografia ou slots online ou outros sinais de comportamento compulsivo, porque isso significa que eles são mais propensos a fazer um depósito 8217 8212 ex-agente de retenção de opções binárias Lynne diz que o ponto de venda de sua empresa, que se gabava, era isso Era mais ético do que outras empresas de opções binárias. Se alguém pedisse retirar seu dinheiro, nós o damos no prazo de 48 horas, diz ela. Quando Lynne começou a brincar com a plataforma de opções binárias da empresa, percebeu que era divertido e viciante, quase como um jogo de apostas. Havia muita adrenalina. Se você colocar dinheiro em sua conta de investimento hoje, pode dar retornos de 3 a 6%. Em binário, você vê 70% chegando imediatamente. Se os agentes de conversão deveriam obter um cliente para fazer seu primeiro depósito, os agentes de retenção como Lynne foram encarregados de trazer o grande dinheiro. O primeiro passo foi dimensionar o cliente. Eles nos disseram para procurar as casas das pessoas no Google Maps para ver o quão rico elas pareciam e verificar suas informações de cartão de crédito para ver se elas tinham status de ouro ou platina. Além disso, quando oferecemos treinamento para eles, nós compartilharíamos sua área de trabalho e passá-los pelo site. Foi-nos dito para abusar desse acesso e olhar ao redor de sua área de trabalho para pornografia ou slots online ou outros sinais de comportamento compulsivo, porque isso significa que eles são mais propensos a fazer um depósito. Você chama alguém e você diz a eles que meu nome é Jane Smith, I8217m chamando de Londres, onde I8217m é um banqueiro de investimentos para esta incrível empresa. I8217m chamando para falar com você sobre o quanto você realmente quer fazer. Nós vemos que você investiu 300, mas nós dois sabemos que 300 não vai fazer você nada. Então, o que você realmente quer fazer em um ano? Então, as pessoas diriam, eu quero fazer 100 mil. Eu quero comprar uma casa ou eu quero viajar.8221 Eles lhe dizem algo que eles querem e então você diz, então provavelmente levará 6-8 meses para conseguir isso. Se você quiser alcançá-lo, você precisa trocar todos os dias. I8217m vai trabalhar com você. I8217m vai lhe dar informações sobre quais escolhas fazer todos os dias. Lynne disse que o corretor faria check-in regularmente com os clientes, encorajando-os, ensinando-os sobre o mercado e oferecendo dicas. Quando o corretor escolheu um estoque para apostar, o estoque normalmente funcionaria como prometido. Quando eles entraram na plataforma e fizeram suas próprias escolhas, eles começaram a perder. Então o corretor voltaria e os ajudaria a fazer boas chamadas, e eles ganhariam novamente. Então, basicamente, você se parece com esse comerciante realmente ótimo, mas, na realidade, você está apenas tentando fazer o volume de negócios ser o mais alto possível. O próximo passo, lembra Lynne, foi pedir um depósito de 10.000. Os clientes costumam se negar e dizer There8217s de jeito que eu quero depositar 10.000. Então você os pressiona e diz Se você não é realmente sério sobre ganhar dinheiro, então por que estamos falando agora. Os comerciantes tentam tudo. Alguns são realmente doces, alguns tentam se identificar com eles, alguns tentam fazê-los sentir-se incômodos 8212, independentemente da técnica, é que os deposita. A técnica favorita é dizer, se você depositar 5.000, eu lhe darei um bônus de 5.000. Os clientes ouvem isso e eles dizem que That8217s está louco. Vou depositar. Mas o bônus, explica Lynne, é uma armadilha. Você não pode retirar o seu dinheiro até que você use esse dinheiro de bônus algo como 30 a 40 vezes. Let8217s dizem que eu dou-lhe um bônus de mil. Você precisaria negociar isso até que você tire pelo menos 30 mil lucros, e então você pode retirar seu dinheiro. Mas você nunca chegará a esse valor. Let8217s dizem que você faz 10.000 fora dele e você diz que deseja retirar, no contrato, vai dizer que você pode retirar. Você pode tirar o seu dinheiro original, mas você pode aceitar o bônus ou o dinheiro que ganhou com o bônus. Então, os clientes ficam presos no sistema, porque eles não querem perder todo o seu dinheiro e, quando trocam 30 vezes o valor do bônus, eles perderam tudo. Quanto mais tempo você comercializar, mais dinheiro você perde, diz Lynne. Você pode ir tão longe tipicamente e ter sucesso. No entanto, Lynne diz novamente, com sua empresa, se você resistiu à tentação de receber o bônus, e se você enviar um pedido, a empresa enviaria seu dinheiro. Eles realmente se gabavam do fato de que eles eram bons em dar às pessoas seu dinheiro imediatamente. Na verdade, eles encorajaram as pessoas a retirar pequenas retiradas. Se um cliente tivesse 10.000, eles diriam, por que você não leva 2.000 e leva sua esposa em uma pequena viagem. It8217s muito calculado com o quanto eles estão dando e quanto tempo é para tentar dar aos clientes. Lynne deixou seu trabalho de opções binárias logo após o curso de treinamento, porque ela disse que não poderia gastar as economias de professores e motoristas de caminhão. Perguntado sobre se ela pensava que o que tinha sido designado para fazer era antiético ou ilegal, ela responde: certamente não era ético. Quando digo às pessoas sobre esse trabalho, estão chocadas. Eles dizem que isso nunca poderia ser legal, não havia como Israel jamais permitiria isso. Terrorismo econômico Em novembro de 2014, um homem com o nome de Ariel Marom, que se descreveu como ex-empregado de várias empresas na indústria forex, enviou uma carta fortemente redigida aos comitês de Finanças e Ética do Knesset, conforme relatado em Israels Globais financeiros diários. O Parlamento de Israel8217s, o Knesset, 19 de janeiro de 2016. (Foto de Yonatan SindelFlash90) Estou a pedir ao regulador encarregado dos serviços bancários e ao Comitê de Finanças do Knesset que tome medidas imediatas para impedir a onda de pilhagem, roubo, fraude, lavagem de dinheiro , and crime on an international scale that is managed and operated in Israel that is hurting thousands of customers around the world. Marom described the forex industry as economic terrorism targeting the citizens of many countries. When this information becomes public knowledge through investigative reports by the media, which is bound to happen sooner or later, Israels status in the world will be damaged and it will unleash a wave of hatred toward the Jewish people and Israel, causing tremendous damage. 8216When this information becomes public knowledge through investigative reports by the media8230 Israels status in the world will be damaged and it will unleash a wave of hatred toward the Jewish people and Israel, causing tremendous damage8217 8212 letter sent to Knesset committees Marom said in the letter that he had been searching for a job in recent months and as a Russian speaker had interviewed with forex companies that operate in Israel and target customers abroad. He said he was surprised at the sheer magnitude of the fast-growing industry. There are hundreds of jobs currently available to Arabic, Russian, English, Spanish and French speakers as these companies seek new workers for their expanding departments. Marom added that after years in the traditional banking industry, he was shocked at the practices he witnessed in several forex companies. In the absence of any regulation, they are simply robbing customers. Many people compare forex to a casino, but its worse than a casino. A casino hands you your winnings immediately. Forex companies 8212 and Im talking about most of them 8212 simply do not allow people to withdraw money. Marom goes on: Many forex customers have no idea that the company operates from Israel, especially when were talking about the Arabic-speaking desks. Their complaints never reach our justice system and so the industry is not exposed. How is it possible that this has been happening for years, with no local regulation What happens when thousands of Turks, Russians, Spaniards, Italians and French figure out that the scam they fell for was carried out from here, in Israel Are our regulators waiting for synagogues to start blowing up all over the world to shut this thing down It is not clear what the Knesset Finance Committee did in response to Maroms letter. The Times of Israel tried to track Marom down, but the CEO of FeeX, a high-tech startup he used to blog for, said he had not heard from Marom for a few years and had no contact information. Maroms LinkedIn profile placed him at a high-tech company in Brazil where no one who answered the phone seemed to speak English. A phone call to an Ariel Marom listed near Haifa was answered by a woman who said her husband is an astronomer, not a finance professional. Youre the third journalist who has called looking for Ariel Marom in the last two weeks, she said. Now Im curious. The Times of Israel asked for the help of SixGill, a cybersecurity high-tech firm that specializes in the dark web, to track down Marom, but after a brief automated search, Tommy Ben-avi, a senior analyst at Sixgill, concluded that either Ariel Marom is not his real name or he doesnt want to be found.8221 The cyber intelligence company did, however, make some interesting observations about the forex and binary options industries. Ben-avi mentioned several companies known to be operating from Israel. This industry is a bit shady. Its hard to get to the owners and CEOs of some of these companies. Most of the time, when you have a company that large, you can see the owner, you can see the shareholders. Ben-avi conducted an automatic search with a system that scours hundreds of thousands of sites and closed dark web forums. It seems like they8217re trying to hide their identity. Maybe a few companies have the same owner, and they want to hide that fact,8221 he mused. 8220Or maybe their business is not 100 percent legitimate. How its done on Wall Street Jared K. a licensed stockbroker from the United States who now lives in Tel Aviv, says that he sees several problems with the local forex and binary options industries. On Wall Street, brokers are regulated, transactions are regulated, the money is regulated. Where is it coming from and where is it going There are rules as to how someone can access money in a claim. 8216I am shocked that Israel hasn8217t shut this down8217 8212 US-licensed stockbroker who lives in Tel Aviv Furthermore, says Jared, in the United States, a license to sell securities or handle client investments would require a person to meet certain ethical standards. If they dont look out for the best interest of their clients investments, it is a criminal offense. On Wall Street I can8217t put someone in an investment that doesn8217t fit them. That is fraudulent. If I called up your parents and said put money in this investment and they lost it all, in theory I could be arrested and go to jail. 8220Binary doesnt have that, there are no repercussions. What happens if someone loses money Nothing. I am shocked that Israel hasn8217t shut this down, he sums up. A product that invites fraud Yaron Zelekha, Israels former accountant-general, became known as the countrys foremost whistle-blower in 2007 when he exposed the financial improprieties of a sitting prime minister, Ehud Olmert. 8216I personally would not advise any Israeli to trade with any of these companies8217 8212 Yaron Zelekha, Israel8217s former accountant-general Zelekha told The Times of Israel that he doesnt want to tar all its players with the same brush, but that binary options and some instruments related to forex are designed in a way that creates a strong incentive for fraud. There is a very wide information gap between the public and these players, and they are exploiting it to their advantage. The broker is not giving you a service like in a bank he is personally betting against you. This is a flagrant conflict of interest, because youre betting on something, and the person reporting the outcome wants you to lose. Such circumstances invite fraud, says Zelekha, and there is no small number of companies that simply defraud the customer. Sometimes that fraud is very sophisticated. Israeli economist Yaron Zelekha, (Yossi ZeligerFLASH90) Asked whether the entire industry should be shut down, Zelekha responds, There is no need to throw out the baby with the bathwater, although I personally would not advise any Israeli to trade with any of these companies. What the industry does need, he says, is real-time regulation. He says there is software that can now do real-time monitoring of a companys transactions. The Israel Securities Authority (ISA) must have real-time access to these companies computer systems. Zelekha says the ISA has fought a long battle to regulate the online financial trading industry. They deserve credit for their efforts, although the regulation wont be effective if it isnt done in real time. ISA: We probably wont allow binary options The Israel Securities Authority is housed in a 1920s Eclectic-style building in one of Tel Avivs loveliest neighborhoods, near the stock exchange. Itzik Shurki, director of the ISA8217S Exchange and Trading Platforms Supervision, is a soft-spoken man, but he has harsh words for binary options. Shurki says a new law to regulate online financial trading industries went into effect in May 2015. The companies that wanted to continue to offer their products to Israeli customers had to request a license from the ISA. Twenty-one companies requested licenses. One was disqualified, because its controlling shareholder, Aviv Talmor, had fled to Cyprus to escape arrest for alleged financial misdeeds. Talmor has since returned to Israel and is currently under house arrest. Two other companies withdrew their applications, leaving 18. Of these, four are primarily binary options companies, while the others seek to offer other types of CFDs, or contracts for differences, as well. 8216With binary options we8217ve already informed the companies that our intention is probably not to approve this product8217 8212 Itzik Shurki of the Israel Securities Authority Almost a year later, none of the applicants has been approved. Shurki says that the industry is currently in a transition period while the ISA reviews the applicants. During this period, the 18 companies have permission to continue to operate. If we decide yes, they will become fully regulated companies if we decide no, they will have to stop their operations. Which way is the ISA leaning With binary options we8217ve already informed the companies that our intention is probably not to approve this product. Its basis is problematic. Because ultimately 8212 I don8217t want to use the word 8216gambling8217 because it is a financial product 8212 but in the way it is offered and in the short time frame, and with all its complexity, in our view it brings it closer to a guessing game than a financial product where you can evaluate its worth. Itzik Shurki of the ISA (Courtesy) CFDs, or contracts for differences, a high-risk financial instrument that is also banned in the United States except on registered security exchanges, will be allowed in Israel, says Shurki. However, Shurki says CFDs will be regulated in real-time and aggressive or deceptive sales tactics will be rendered illegal. The ISA will monitor the prices of every product offered to make sure they are transparent and fair traders will need to be licensed and traders will also be prohibited from offering advice or tips to their customers. 8220You can8217t be in a position to give advice when their earnings are your loss,8221 Shurki explains. This all sounds quite impressive. Once the ISA makes it decision, one might be forgiven for thinking, the binary options fraudsters will be out of business. But theres a catch 8212 a great big catch that potentially excludes the overwhelming proportion of binary options trading from effective supervision in Israel: The new regulations apply only to companies that target Israeli customers. If a binary options or forex company targets customers abroad exclusively, it will not be regulated by the ISA. Thus, to ensure that the new law not apply to them, companies need only exclude Israeli clients. A quick visit to the websites of several binary options firms does indeed prompt messages saying the service is not available to Israelis. Shurki says he is aware that the new regulations will not solve the problem of call centers that are defrauding people abroad, but says that such activity is not under the ISAs jurisdiction, in the same way that the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) only protects British citizens and the CFTC only protects Americans. If an American company tried to sell securities to Israelis, it would be our job to protect our citizens, not the Americans responsibility, he explains, although he adds that the ISA does have very good information exchanges with its foreign counterparts. Yes, but when an Israeli company steals from people in another country, is that not a crime It is a crime, says Shurki, but it8217s not a crime for his authority to investigate. Theres no such thing as a vacuum of authority. If an Israeli commits fraud or misrepresentation, thats the purview of the Israel Police. The French connection Perhaps nowhere is the hand-wringing and acrimony over Israel-based forex and binary options trading more anguished than in the community of French Jews living in Israel. In January of this year, a cover story of the French-language Israel Magazine , a monthly glossy magazine and website serving the French-speaking community in Israel and the Diaspora, was titled, Forex, is it kosher 8216A generation of young people is in the process of perverting themselves into worshipers of the golden calf8217 8212 journalist in a piece warning about Forex In the introduction to the piece, journalist Andre Darmon writes, The point of this article is not to point a finger at some of our fellow citizens or co-religionists, because the phenomenon is global, but to raise awareness that a generation of young people is in the process of perverting themselves into worshipers of the golden calf. And that earning a living does not mean everything is permissible These call centers hire lost young souls, writes journalist Ilana Mazouz in Alliance, a French-Jewish Internet magazine, many who do not speak Hebrew or English, and for a short time provide the illusion of a normal life in Israel. Some rabbis have forbidden people from working in the industry, calling it theft, while rabbinic lectures on the Internet in French bear titles like Forex, dirty work and Amalek. Again, numbers are hard to come by for how many young French speakers are employed in the industry. Didier F. a French-Jewish businessman, told The Times of Israel that after he graduated from the IDC-Herzliya, many of his fellow students were recruited by forex and binary options companies. Didier asserts that many owners of forex websites are members of a French-Jewish community of conmen who are hiding from French law enforcement in Israel, where the police, he alleges, dont bother them over-much. As previously reported in The Times of Israel, about 10 recent immigrants from France were charged last year with cyber crimes and telephone scams, while France has reportedly sent Israel 70 additional formal requests for judicial assistance for cases of suspected fraud. A movie was recently made in France about one of these alleged fraudsters. The movie is called 8220Je Compte sur Vous, French for 8220I8217m counting on you.8221 I love when they say French aliyah has increased so much now it8217s 7,000 people, says Didier. It8217s great, I8217m happy about it. But then you see that many of them are working in the forex industry or binary options industry. You go to Tel Aviv today, when you say to someone in the French community, I work in finance, they immediately think that you work in this shit. Adds Didier: Even if its a small amount of money, theyre stealing money from poor people. Its destroying families. Some people have killed themselves. According to a report in Le Nouvel Observateur, a French news weekly, lAutorite des Marches Financiers, the French securities authority, received a staggering 4,500-plus complaints about forex and binary options fraud in 2014. Those forex and binary options complaints constituted 37 percent of all complaints about securities fraud received by the authority in that year. The majority of the forex transactions that prompted those complaints originated in Israel, the article claims. What does Google have to do with this There is yet another piece of the binary options empire, and it relates to the way Israeli firms manage to reassure customers of their ostensible integrity, via Google. Lets say you are a potential binary options customer. A company has approached you about making a deposit, but you are not sure, so you decide to do your homework. You Google, Are binary options legitimate You will get a list of results, one or two of which may be fraud warnings from the US regulatory body, the CFTC. The first few pages of search results, however, are dominated by sites that purport to warn you away from scam binary options sites and steer you toward legitimate ones. Upon closer examination, however, many of these 8220helpful8221 sites themselves turn out to be affiliates of the binary options companies. Next, you might Google, Are binary options legal in the United States Once again, many of the top results turn out to be websites affiliated with the industry itself, rather than an objective source of information. Some of these sites offer misleading statements and half-truths like There are at this moment no laws both on the federal and state level that forbid US citizens from trading binary options online. US law banning binary options is directed at the companies that market them, not the customers who buy them, so there is some truth in that statement. However, the SEC and CFTC clearly warn investors that they may not have the full safeguards of the federal securities and commodities laws if they purchase unregistered binary options that are not subject to the oversight of U. S. regulators. Aerial view of the coastal city of Herzliya Pituah, July 21, 2010. (Moshe ShaiFLASH90) Many countries, including Canada, publish updated lists of unregistered binary options companies that solicit customers in Canada in violation of the law. A recent Canadian list is here. The list features 37 companies. The Times of Israel went to the website of each company on this list. Some were no longer in operation. Others blocked users from Israel (presumably to avoid trouble with the Israel Securities Authority). One now hosts a porn site. Most were hard to pin down to a geographic location. However, based on first - and secondhand sources, The Times of Israel suspects that more than half of these companies, if not the overwhelming majority, operate from Israel. Investing with offshore companies operating outside of Canada can be risky and is a common red flag of investment fraud, the Canadian Securities Authority warns. Yet if you Google Canada, binary options, blacklist, once again, many of the top search results appear to be industry-affiliated sites, some of which recommend as legitimate the very same sites that are on the Canadian government8217s blacklist. Bryan Seely, a Seattle-based cybersecurity expert, tells The Times of Israel he is not surprised to hear of these Google search results, which, he explains, show Google8217s search engine being manipulated. Bryan Seely (Facebook) Google doesnt make a point of censoring stuff you can find drugs, you can find steroids, you dont have to go to the Silk Road. Google indexes the Internet and ranks things where it ranks them. Asked why, if this industry allegedly has so many victims, their voices dont show up higher in Google rankings, Seely says, the victims aren8217t as good at promoting what happened to them as the people in the binary options industry are at promoting the stuff they8217re selling. The victims aren8217t all going to each other8217s pages 8212 so each victim8217s page would typically have only a low Google ranking. Seely, who has been battling to raise public awareness of massive search engine manipulation in the locksmith industry 8212 another area, incidentally, where systemic fraud in the United States, with large-scale Israeli involvement, has caused scandal in recent years 8212 adds, here8217s the underlying issue: Is Google safe to use Or Bing What he8217s really asking, when it comes to the binary options industry, is whether searching Google will lead a potential investor who fears being defrauded to the independent, credible and accurate information he is seeking. The answer, it would appear, is no. Search engine optimization and the secret of success Over the last decade, Israel earned the nickname 8220start-up8221 nation for its high-tech prowess. But not many people are aware that the country is also a global leader in online marketing and search engine optimization (SEO), an expertise it acquired in the 8220shadow industries8221 of porn, online gambling and binary options, according to TheTime8217s 2014 report on the Israeli Internet industry. That expertise has plainly been applied by fraudulent binary options firms, whose affiliated sites show up high in Google searches 8212 sending unsuspecting and naive clients their way. Yoni S. an Israeli high-tech entrepreneur and SEO consultant, explains that without effective SEO, a fraudulent local player remains local, defrauding perhaps a few hundred victims in his vicinity. But with the power of Internet marketing, the scammer8217s reach can go global. The Times of Israel sent Google a request for an interview about the manipulation of its search platform by allegedly fraudulent businesses in the binary options industry, but Google did not respond. What do the police have to say The Times of Israel contacted the Israel Police repeatedly to ask them about alleged fraud in the forex and binary options industries. Their answers underlined how law enforcement is struggling to grapple with the soaring, fast-moving challenge of Internet crime. If there are investigations going on into fraud, etc. I don8217t have information on this. If someone has filed a complaint to the police, then let me know, Israel Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld replied. A second police spokesperson, Luba Samri, told The Times of Israel, We got lost in your question. Please focus it more. Who filed a complaint against whom Finally, The Times of Israel called a third spokesperson, Merav Lapidot, and asked her what the police are doing about suspected fraud on a vast scale in the forex and binary options industries in Israel. Israel Police spokeswoman Merav Lapidot, November 28, 2007. (Moshe ShaiFLASH90) This is something you8217re claiming. If no one has complained about it, there is no issue. You want us to check every company in Israel and see if by chance they are committing crimes8221 Told that people who worked inside the industry have described widespread potentially fraudulent behavior on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars, affecting tens of thousands of people, Lapidot replied: But no one has complained. I don8217t know what happens in every company. That8217s not our job. You could start a business tomorrow selling jewelry over the Internet. Will the police come to investigate your business To the suggestion that there may be thousands of victims abroad, Lapidot said, If there is someone who complained, we need to check that specific complaint. We8217re not going to check a whole issue. Is it possible that an entire industry, much of it allegedly corrupt, is slipping through the cracks between Shurki8217s Israel Securities Authority, which doesn8217t handle crimes hatched in Israel whose victims are abroad, and the police, which won8217t act unless specific complaints are filed with them Zvika Rubins, a PR consultant for the Israel Securities Authority, says the law simply hasn8217t caught up with the dubious and crooked methods people have devised to make money on the Internet. When you talk about bits and bytes, its not that simple. Was there a crime Where did it take place For instance, lets say you have a company and its incorporated in the British Virgin Islands and its servers are in India and it has a trading room in Israel. Is it an Israeli company I dont know. Rubins, who stresses that he is not an expert on criminal law, muses that if someone in Israel commits a crime against someone in, say, France, over the Internet, then it might be the responsibility of the French to open an investigation, trace the crime to Israel, and approach the Israeli police about it. Zvika Rubins (Facebook) Yoni S. the SEO expert, is outraged by this approach. In Israel its against the law to murder, but if I establish a company in Israel that murders people through the Internet in Malaysia, that8217s okay Seely sees the problem as extremely serious and growing: We8217re becoming a global culture and global economy, and physical borders don8217t exist on the Internet. It8217s become easier to scam people all over the world. We have no protections in place to prevent it and it8217s getting worse. Its a jungle out there, says Yoni, referring to the fact that people do all sorts of things on the Internet that would be illegal within their own borders. The Internet came in, no one has passed any regulation yet, and now there is an opportunity to make tons of money in the jungle.8221 A response from inside the industry Tali Yaron-Eldar, Israel8217s income tax commissioner from 2002 to 2004, in 2007 founded eTrader, a binary options firm that targets Israelis, along with Shay Ben-Asulin. who also co-founded AnyOption, one of Israel8217s largest binary options companies with revenues in the tens of millions of dollars. In 2011, Ben-Asulin was indicted by the United States for securities fraud, and last month he was convicted of fraud by an Israeli court for helping an Israeli credit card company, ICC-CAL, illegally clear billions of shekels of charges from porn, binary options and gambling websites, as well as conceal the number of canceled transactions. For his crimes, Ben-Asulin will do five months of community service and pay a fine of less than 1 million. Tali Yaron-Eldar (Screenshot Channel 10) In a 2014 interview (Hebrew) with Israel8217s Channel 10 news, when asked if she was discomfited by the fact of young demobilized soldiers and old pensioners losing all their money trading binary options, Yaron-Eldar responded: 8220Ask the people who invested and lost their money. All of them knew they were entering something risky.8221 The Times of Israel contacted Yaron-Eldar to ask her about alleged fraud within the binary options industry. To the extent that this is true, she said, it applies to unregulated companies. 8220The companies with a license are very careful,8221 she says. 8220AnyOption a company she is associated with has a Cypriot license. It is very careful to follow the law. It is being watched all the time.8221 In Yaron-Eldar8217s view, and contrary to the opinions of other people interviewed for this article, Cypriot regulation is very tough, on a par with the UK8217s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Asked about the fact that the Canadian government has included AnyOption on a list of companies illegally soliciting Canadian citizens, Yaron-Eldar replies, 8220Not that I am aware of.8221 In fact, Yaron-Eldar insists that AnyOption is not an Israeli company at all. 8220AnyOption does not have offices in Tel Aviv. It8217s a company that operates from Cyprus.8221 Indeed, a perusal of anyoption reveals no references to Israel. Nevertheless, it is no secret that hundreds of employees go to work each day at AnyOption8217s offices at 38 Habarzel Street in Tel Aviv8217s Ramat Hachayal neighborhood. How does she explain this discrepancy 8220They8217re not working for the same company,8221 she says. 8220They8217re working for AnyOption Israel, not AnyOption Cyprus. The company they work for is a service provider to the company in Cyprus.8221 In other words, AnyOption (like many other binary options companies with similar corporate structures) is not in fact an Israeli company, according to Yaron-Eldar8217s reasoning. This means that it, and many others like it, is subject to Cypriot law and regulation, not Israeli law. Since much of the regulated part of the binary options industry is subject to Cypriot regulation, the honesty or dishonesty of those firms may hinge on the strength and honesty of Cypriot law enforcement. Where are the victims The Times of Israel contacted the FBI to see if anyone had complained about forex or binary options call centers in Israel, but the agency did not respond. ASIC, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, replied in an email, We don8217t comment on operational matters, this includes confirming or denying if we have received complaints about a particular matter or not. A French government spokeswoman, however, confirmed that France has been having problems with forex fraud emanating from Israel. Yes, there are some cases of fraud, as you say,8221 she said. 8220Forex is not per se a fraud but it can be used for fraudulent objectives. We have had some cases between France and Israel, and we are in touch with the Israeli authorities about this. There is a very good cooperation between the two countries and the two services on this issue.8221 Back to Australia Ariel Marom, the mysteriously disappeared former forex employee who wrote that anguished 2014 letter to the Knesset, warned of the fallout when the extent of the corruption in the binary options industry in Israel is exposed. 8220What happens when thousands of Turks, Russians, Spaniards, Italians and French figure out that the scam they fell for was carried out from here, in Israel8221 he asked in his letter. 8220Are our regulators waiting for synagogues to start blowing up all over the world to shut this thing down Dan Guralnek, the Australian immigrant, has drawn his own conclusions. 8220This amount of dishonesty would never be allowed to exist in Australia,8221 he says. 8220They would shut down the industry overnight.8221 Guralnek recently became engaged to an Israeli woman. But he hopes to persuade her to move back to Australia with him, in part because of the high cost of living that drove him to work in binary options in the first place, and in part because of the corruption he has encountered. Now I see corruption everywhere I look,8221 he says. 8220Anywhere where there8217s no light shining on the corruption in this country, it feels like its growing.8221 CoursTorah, the website of a Francophone synagogue near Tel Aviv8217s Hamedina Square, has a page on its website warning against the binary options industry, headlined 8220Stop the Scam8221 8220Many people you know work directly or indirectly for these scam websites,8221 reads the page, warning that binary options and the majority of forex companies operating from Israel are fraudulent. It advises congregants to 8220run away from these companies8221 And it issues an evidently all too necessary reminder: 8220Let us remember the eighth commandment, 8216Thou shalt not steal.8221You cant read an investment blog without coming across posts about binary options. Theres a lot of money in binary options - for users, brokers, and advertisers - so this wont change overnight. Binary options trading is legitimate, but incredibly risky. Youve got to understand the the industry and the risks involved - and you might be better served staying away entirely. Dont believe reviewers who pitch binary options as a quick fix for your financial problems. In reality, nothing can be farther from the truth. How does Binary Options Trading work Binary options traders invest in the future movement of certain assets. such as gold, stocks, markets, etc. Simply put, binary traders try to predict whether the value of such assets will increase or decrease during a certain time frame. If your prediction comes true, you will win and earn a commission on your investment. If the value doesnt change as you predicted, you will lose all the money invested to lock in your prediction. Presented this way it becomes obvious that binary options trading is more like sports betting than real investing. Binary options is nothing more than betting on financial assets, much like you would bet on the outcome of a sports game. So, is it a scam This doesnt make binary options a scam. Its just not an investment. The majority of binary options brokers are legit businesses. As legitimate brokerage houses, your money will not be stolen and you wont be defrauded. The problem is that the majority of brokers promise unrealistic expectations . As you can see on the list of binary options companies advertised on this site, most of them advertise enormous payouts. The average user does not get results like these. The most common way binary brokers attract new traders is to show them cases where simple people managed to win huge amounts of money by just trading low amounts on gold and other popular assets. Sure, cases like that do exist, but they are the exception not the rule . The same way some sports gamblers manage to win extremely large sums, skilledlucky binary options traders occasionally make bank. However, this happens extremely rarely. Not knowing this, a lot of people sign up with binary options brokers that offer unrealistic winning promises. In the end, lots of people end up losing all of the money they put into the system. But can you really win The biggest factor in winning at binary options is LUCK. But yes, you can really win. The thing brokers will not tell you is that you will have to put in a lot of effort and research if you want to win consistently. And even then, luck is the most powerful variable. Like in sports betting, if you want to win you will have to have a great knowledge about the sport in question and about the teams that are playing. You will have to understand the game, the strengths and weaknesses of the teams, and the skills of the players. You will have to know about historical performance, fitness levels, injuries, and dozens of other variables. Even then, things might not go your way. If you factor in all these variables then you probably will win in the long run. Its exactly the same in binary options trading. There are countless variables and risks that you will have to consider in order to accurately predict the future development of an asset. Issues like time of the year, state of the economy, political developments, economic performance of key market makers, recent business news and events are constantly influencing the movement of stock prices and commodities. In order to be able to accurately predict the movement of an asset, you will have to be up to date with all of this info. Also, in order to be successful you will have to understand a variety of technical data as well, such as being able to read charts, use technical indicators. understand statistic calculations, and much more. As you can see, binary options is much more than just investing 100 on gold and then getting 300 back 10 minutes later. If this is your approach, then you will lose 100 of your investment sooner than later. But that sounds hard Yes indeed Thats exactly what solid binary trading requires. I know most entities advertising binary options make a lot of bold promises, but in reality its much more complicated. In order to really make money you will have to invest significant amounts of time in market research and learning about the technical aspects of this business. No matter what anyone promises, you will never be able to make easy money by placing random bets here and there. Brokers count on you doing exactly this because they know that this way, you will be paying the price of becoming a losing trader (meaning brokers will be making money off of you). So, this is the truth behind the binary option business. There isnt anything inherently wrong with this form of online trading (or, better said, betting), except that brokers are artificially hyped up and are dishonestly presented as something theyre not. So one more time, is Binary Options Trading a Scam Binary Options trading isnt a scam, but its financial gambling that will only work well in the long term for the most devoted and knowledgeable users. 2017 Update: Binary Options Industry Changes If you read our thoughts from 2014, you know that binary options is legit, but extremely risky and difficult to take part in profitably. But that was back in 2014. Things have changed quite a bit since then. As mentioned above, there is still no easy shortcut to binary options trading success you will still need to learn the basics of this trading form and do lots of market research to make real money. That said, some new developments have appeared in the industry which might make it easier for you to make a living through binary options trading. More Welcoming To New Traders For one, social trading has finally become a major aspect of binary options trading. Newbies who would like to start making money without having to fight against a gnarly learning curve can look to the practices of seasoned veterans. Some brokers even offer in-house social trading platforms that let you profit from the trading experience of highly successful binary option traders within the company. Of course, there is the risk that the trader is going to fail, in which case you risk losing money just the same. So, you will have to choose your signal providers very carefully to avoid disappointment. We now have binary options robots as well, which purport to automate winning trades for users. Unfortunately, many of these bots are scams. which is why you would be better off avoiding them altogether (unless in cases where your broker is offering their own auto trading services). Even then, you cannot really count on a broker to give you a highly profitable automated trading tool. Why would a broker give you the tools to take their money You will have to do your own research first to see if the auto trading system is worth its salt. And should you choose to use an independent binary trading robot company, you will have to be extra vigilant to avoid getting scammed. More Tools For Advanced Traders It is easier to access quality financial information needed to make intelligent trading decisions than it was two years ago. Premium binary option brokers now have great platforms that provide excellent data for comprehensive technical analysis on the assets you are trading, helping you to make better trades. Additionally, there have been cases of brokers introducing robots that scour financial newswires, giving you the latest events so you can anticipate market fluctuations. All these advancements make binary options trading easier (for people willing to put in the time to learn the system inside and out). Still Legit Yes, binary options is legit, and growing. But you will still have to jump through lots of hoops to make it in the industry as a beginner. There are also plenty of scams to take advantage of helpless new binary options traders who dont know how the industry works. At the same time, we now have a broader selection of trustworthy brokers and signal providers than we had a few years ago. Furthermore, better information and technical analysis makes the industry more lucrative for dedicated users. Even so, you will have to be a lot more watchful of who you get into bed with when entering the industry to keep your money from falling into the wrong hands. If you are willing to put in the work, learn through trial and error, and develop better methods than the average binary options trader, you can actually make money with binary options in 2017. php snippet11 paramstock Photo Source The Truth About Binary Options Legit Trading or Scam The Starving Artist Canada (blerghhh) June 26, 2014 at 6:25 am - Reply Brokers generally charge a fixed fee per trade, so they don8217t care if you win or lose. Generally they prefer that you trade more so they make more. So encouraging customers to join up, trade foolishly, and flame-out isn8217t exactly a winning strategy for the brokerage either. They generally want their customers to succeed, but most laws generally prohibit brokerages from offering advice of any kind. Binary options trading could be as legit as any other investment channel but the snake-oil salesman approach by advertisers amp affiliates has changed the perception. Claims of multiplying investments in minutes et al have people flocking to these online brokers without spending some time learning the fundamentals even. Done right and with patience, binary options trading can definitely be a viable option I8217m not sure about binary options. Everything I read about it sounds like gambling to me. Maybe I just don8217t know enough about it, but I8217ll stay away from it for now. Wow, I actually hadn8217t looked into binary options too much because I didn8217t understand them. Thanks for the post, but I still think I8217ll stay away8230 sheesh, I have to focus on socking away some money in my Roth before I even get to think about anything else Zee Work To Not Work June 26, 2014 at 7:37 pm - Reply I8217ve never invested in binary options, but I have invested in a pharmaceutical company that had an upcoming binary event. Basically if their drug was approved by the FDA I was golden, and if it wasn8217t then it would tank. Either way, on a specific day the stock swung heavily one way or the other. But like you said, you have to do your research. I knew the companies history, I knew about their drug and how it was progressing. It had failed in the past and I knew they were covering it8217s shortcomings from the previous attempt so those weren8217t going to be an issue anymore and wouldn8217t be denied for the same reasons. But it was still a huge gamble it felt like. The day before it went down 40, then the day after it was approved it went up 80. It was a roller coaster and it taught me my risk tolerance. It8217s not for the weak of stomach and it8217s not for those who don8217t do their research. Share Investor Malaysia June 29, 2014 at 2:32 am - Reply Binary Options sounds like gambling. In Binary Options, they took casino 101 business plan and change the 8216Betting8217 to 8216Trading8217. They pay back 75 cents for each 1. You can get better odds at Las Vegas. Fernando September 25, 2014 at 6:20 pm - Reply I have to say thank you. In a web-world completely stuck with useless golden promises about this binary gambling (well, it8217s not actually, actually gambling, as you can control de odds in a much better way 8211 again, doing the research you refer to 8211 than you would in the roulette, for instance, where the odds for success increase as much as your profit expectation decreases 8211 by betting in a lot numbers it8217s more likely you8217ll win than if you bet in just a couple of them, but then the percentage of profit will also be logically much smaller, while here the risk is always the same, let8217s say 50, and the profit can be enormous, if you did your homework, which is something just impossible in most pure gambling. I don8217t see, for instance, sports betting as pure gambling as, although the factor luck is there, there8217s also a strong component of study and controlling the odds, lets say. Anyway, enough confusion in my comment. What I mean is that you have the rare capacity of explaining somet hing quite complex in a way that even myself 8211 completely ignorant on which concerns investment and markets 8211 could understand it without the need to re-read thank you very much, once again. After all those pop-up ads where a guy starts talking, literally, about how rich he is and how rich he8217s going to make you (without any profit kept for himself, which is not only commendable, but above all we8217re almost talking here about the phenomenon guy-deserving-to-be-promoted-to-some-sort-of-saintish-entity), it8217s refreshing and money-saving to have someone with clear-headed thinking they can actually put my feet on the ground and slap me back to reality while saying 8220you live in a real world and all of this is fantasy8221. Mais uma vez, obrigado. People like you are the reason I8217m still allowed a bank account in every country I8217ve lived in so far. Also, if it wasn8217t for this kind of down to earth advice, I8217d probably be looking now at an empty fridge, an empty bank statement and a very rich list of binary transactions deadly gone wrong8230 Thank you, for he 3rd time. Best regards, Fernando Yes, it is hard to make money. Banc de Binary is one of those who likes to see you loose. Their advisers are all scammers. When you lose, they will pretend to fire their advisors but in fact they rotate them to other clients and then ask to top up money and promise to make back for you. of course the loser is you. Don8217t use them Phil binaryoptionsinvestor November 12, 2014 at 12:21 pm - Reply I think the problem is that most people fall for the online marketing and lure of high profits and riches. The truth is that these contracts are really wagers, much like those used in sports. You can 8216trade8217 them and make money, but you need to go into it with your eyes wide opened and realize that trading is not as simple as it is often made to look. Binary options definitely takes work, like most things in life if you want to make money you have to but in effort If you understand the assets and why they move, play with a few strategies that work for you and never deposit more than you can afford 8211 one can make money with this type of trading. It just takes time and effort. Good luck Is Binary Option a Scam January 9, 2015 at 3:32 am - Reply It is a problem that binary options industry has become a shady place with so many brokers and information products like robots, systems, etc. One should definitely make their own research before investing real money into it. Just a handful of brokers allow demo accounts. Charles Barker January 20, 2015 at 3:45 am - Reply I have quit my day job a year ago and Ive been making a living online ever since. One biggest source of my income is online trading (binary amp forex). I can attest that binary options really work. Of course, is NOT a quick rich scheme You just have to learn the right strategy in order to work. pete ancich February 6, 2015 at 6:02 am - Reply I have been doing research on binary options and am about to start an account. Do you have any tips for a first timer. I too also demo a Forex account. Would love some advice 8220I can attest that binary options really work.8221 LOL That is a nonsensical statement 8211 define 8220really work.8221 But if you will actually 8220attest8221 to it, then post your binary options brokerage statements so we can see how they 8220really work,8221 or simply post your strategy. kyle the don February 18, 2016 at 4:14 pm - Reply lmao. trying reverse psychology to get his strategy. he put in work and so have i as i am successful as well. stop coming on here for answers and put in the work yourself I find the gamble plays a large role in the type of binary options traders are trading. Those that trade short term options like 60 second trades are gambling because there is never enough qualitative data to actually predict market movements minute to minute. Longer trades, like 30 minutes to 1 hour can be effectively predicted using classic Foreign exchange trading strategies and basic price action or fundamental analysis. It may be possible to put such systems to the test prior to spending any money. The best case scenario would be to take advantage of a free trial offer and then test the suggested trades while using a free demo account. Thanks for this great review. Indeed you are right. Binary options trading involve much more than just investing some money and expecting a quick return. Traders need to keep in touch with latest economic and political news. I would also advise new traders to read about the brokers before undertaking any transaction. Some are real scams while others are honest in their dealings. I was contacted by a broker who was sure i could make some easy money from the crisis in Gasa and Ukraine. I8217ve put 5K on oil going up for couple days and won around 3.5K. The trick was that he matched my 5k with another 5k and i had to multiply that by 25 or 100, i don8217t remember. So basically they make you win once or twice and then just make you lose, getting back there money. I contacted the bank and said i was scammed, that8217s how i got my 5k back. There is no such thing as easy money. The site was binary goals8230 In my experience there are two types of binary options trading. Firstly you get the typical offshore-brokerages which offer what you have above. For every 1 8220invested8221 you either get the amount back plus 0.75 or you lose the full 1. Anyone that has formally studied derivatives and options pricing theory would know that this is ridiculous. Basically what you should pay for entering a binary options contract is the discounted expected value of the future payoffs based on the underlying asset. This is simply saying that it you can either gain 1 or 0 then with a 5050 odds you should pay the price of 0.5 for the contract. Now even if you have a guaranteed 100 of winning, the most you would have to pay for the binary options offering 0.75 or 0 payouts is exactly 0.75. Thus by paying 1 you are being stupid. Paying more than the expected value is an example of risk seeking and you will lose in the long term. Moreover, you can usually sell the option back to the platform but the rates offered are laughable. I have not seen one platform that offers any selling price where you would profit, even if the option is in the money. Secondly there is a better and more structured way to trade binary options which correspond much more to what binary options really are. You can google Nadex (North America Derivatives Exchange) or Cantor Exchange Limited or CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange). Here you trade REAL binary options where the price for buying or selling the options is always between 0 and 100. NOTE: The price you buy or sell at is what the market thinks is going to happen and how it values the true probability of the option expiring in or out of the money. Example, given an expiry in an hour on EURUSD with strike gt1.06500, meaning that the binary option has a fixed strike rate, you can buy the option if you believe it is true (i. e. that the price in an hour will be strictly above or 1.06500) or you can sell the option. Buying and selling takes place using a bid offer spread and a small commission charged. So let us say that the current quote is 3441 meaning you can buy the options at 41 or sell it at 34. If you buy the option at 41 and in an hour it expires above 1.06500 you will get 100-41 59 in profit PLUS your original 41 (less exchange fees of course, which is normally around 0.9 per trade). Clearly you made 5941 143 on the investment. Incidentally it is possible that during the hour the price offered changes to 7584 and thus you can SELL EARLY at the price of 75. Thus your profit would be 75-41 34 (i. e. 91). Of course you can buy at 84 and make a profit of 16 as well (which is technically a safe bet, but you are still risking 84) I would rather sell at this price. Of course there are other features such as GTC orders where you can fix the price you would be prepared to buysell at in the market and hope that your price is filled. You are trading against other traders and thus there is no conflict of interest with the exchange or price manipulation etc. In my personal experience, I have been hit very hard and lost a lot of money on the offshore brokers and their silly payout schemes. It took me a while to finally realize how I was cheated8230 My honest advice to anyone wanting to trade binary options is to consult one of the three exchanges I have listed (they are only ones in the market). You benefit from a regulatory system that is much better than the regulation offered by Cysec regulated firms. Of course you must decide for yourself. Jack Knorler December 9, 2015 at 7:37 am - Reply HI, Great article. The main thing here is to have the possibility to differentiate regulated and trusted brokers with brokers with no regulation that only want to scam new investors. There are a lot of experienced traders making great profits but most of the people is losing money, thats the sad reality. If you know how to minimize the risk and take advantage of the market trends, you can have success in your trading Most brokers take advantage with customers funds because they fill these customers dont know how to get their funds back. But trust me there are hidden ways you can get your lost funds back from the broker. I was able to withdraw my 94000 from the two brokers i signed up with while trading. If you have lost funds to broker that is more than 5000 please kindly let me know so i can tell you how you can get your money back. Kelvin Fleming April 7, 2016 at 9:09 pm - Reply Hi Sarah. I lost over 200K with the broke Option. fm in the space of about a week. I had a feeling the behaviour of the account manager I was dealing with was strange and reckless. I have a fledgling account with Banc De Binary and the people I have spoken to there said the same things. Simply unreal that he could lose so much so quickly. The word 8216hubris8217 springs to mind. Having thought about it afterwards, I had the feeling that they were making money regardless of the outcome. To all traders respectively, trading binary options is not all about setting up a trading account and deposit in it then run around for strategies. You have to know some strategies don8217t work on some account types. So you should be careful of the kind of strategy or Robot you use to trade or even the signals too. Before I could be making 15,000 every week, I found out this 4 years ago after losing an amount worth my house. The things you feel are nothing are the things making you lose every time you trade. You should be able to know the platform that suits your kinds of trades. Kelvin Fleming April 7, 2016 at 8:59 pm - Reply I joined Option FM and was quickly encouraged to plunge a large amount of money in 8211 actually 8216bullied8217 is the word I8217d use. I wish to Hell I8217d read this page before I did. It looked to be doing well and then in the space of a week, I lost the entire investment of around AU240,000 (About US180,00). I was just gobsmacked at the outcome. The account manage calling himself 8216Ben Wilson8217 (they all use aliases I noticed), responded as if I was being offensive. The whole thing was done so much like a scam I felt. I was completely mislead as the article says. In the end it8217s just gambling, and they don8217t have the special knowledge and analysts they claim to. Once you8217ve joined one broker, they all start ringing. Because the money I invested was actually a housing investment loan, I now have a mortgage to pay the bank. The promises and antics of these companies are completely reckless, amoral and close to criminal in my opinion. Well, first of all before investing a dime to any broker one has to do his homework on the brokers, because due to large number of new brokers joining the industry every day as 12,500 is all it takes to become a binary option broker. Therefore choosing a binary options broker with an established background and reputation plays a vital role in trading. 2. Binary Options trading carries significant risk. Nunca invoque mais do que você pode perder. Any statements about profits or income, expressed or implied, do not represent a guarantee. Sua negociação real pode resultar em perdas, pois nenhum sistema de negociação é garantido. O desempenho passado de qualquer sistema ou metodologia comercial não é necessariamente indicativo de resultados futuros. Do these phrases sound familiar Any broker has its disclaimer about the binary options trading risks, atleast you have been warned. Again Never invest more than you can afford to lose. Now, binary trading is not gambling if you have worked out your trading strategy, money management and control your emotions before placing a trade. If 8220done right and with patience, binary options trading can definitely be a viable option8221 8211 as it was commented above. Neo2 is without a doubt a scam, by association with known scammer and common crook Michael Freeman, who, having failed to scam people with his own dud software have resorted to team up with other aspiring scammers to con people out of their hard-earned money, first with a couple of pseudo Russian scientists to flog their joint-venture scam Gold Digger, and now with this weatherman. So I am duty-bound to warn traders of this new scam. Beware Beware of anything associated with this common thief and thug, Michael Freeman New alert on Neo2, the latest scam concocted by the low-life scammer and thief Michael Freeman: After an unsuccessful career as a fake watchdog, a dud signals provider and a vender of a variety of dirty scams, this common crook had decided to bolster his faltering fortunes by joining force with more successful scammers. First he recruited two fake Russian scientists who own the Gold Digger scam, and now he has added to his team a weatherman, Jack Piers, who claims to be able to predict movements in the currency market with software for weather forecast, what a bad joke To reinforce my suspicions about this motley mob of crooks and villains, it has just come under my notice that the recommended brokers used by these scoundrels are mostly notorious scam brokers, in particular, UK Options, led by a shameless liar and conman, Sean Park. As the old saying goes, birds of the same feather flock together. So here you have it, a gang of unscrupulous thieves and crooks putting their filthy heads together to work out ways to deceive the public, corrupt the industry and rip off those hard-working people who can least afford it. Most brokers take advantage of their customers funds because they feel these customers don8217t know how to get their funds back, But trust me there are hidden ways you can get your lost funds back from the broker. I was able to withdraw my 94000 from the two brokers I signed up with while trading. If you have lost funds to broker that is more than 5000 please kindly let me know so I can tell you how you can get your money back. Seriously guys, would you put 200k into an online bank with a fancy website No So why trust a broker Before investing in anything do some research. I know it8217s a bit late now but for anyone else reading please, please do some research. Anything that seems too good to be true probably is. With respect to binary options I always thought they were a scam. I then gave them a go with CMC markets UK and I8217ve had some good results so far. My issue with traditional trading was getting stopped out after getting the initial move correct. With binaries you have fixed odds so you know exactly how much you will make (or lose) and you pick the time frame. Make no mistake, if you don8217t know what you are doing and have no rules you WILL lose everything. I8217ve been there and done it 3 times. Oups. Demo trade then Start with small amounts of capital. Do not ever throw money at people to trade for you. Take the time to educate yourself and rely on your own knowledge to become successful. Always check who the broker is regulated with then check their license with the relevant authority. I hate seeing people getting scammed so don8217t let it happen You can succeed if you have the commitment. Hi Thea, I have read your comment, and I feel I have been Scammed as well. I signed up with a company called Cbinary I invested 6.500 they were always contacting me and liasing with me but since the 20th June there has been nothingI have phoned and phoned my account manager and also cant get onto the websiteHow do I get my money back I feel like a foolI would love your helpRegards Tracey Hussain, there are two ways brokers make money trading binary options. From what I understand they will just take the 8216bet8217. If they lose they pay out your profit of 80 and your initial investment, if you lose they take 100 of the bet. So if you risk 100 they will pay you out 180. If you lose they will take the 100. Most people will lose so odds are they will always make money. Secondly, they match your trade with another traders trade. Lets say you go long Eurusd for 100. Another trader goes short at the same time for 100. One of you will lose. So the broker will take the 100 off of the loser, pay you 80 and keep 20 thus making profit. That is a very simplified example, in real terms they will 8216pools8217 of money which is constantly filling up, paying out, banking profit etc. I assume thats how they would balance their books in relation to Binaries. They can8217t really hedge the risk as far as I am aware. If you are in the UK check out IG or CMC. Although the binaries are regulated under the gambling commission, the companies themselves are regulated under the FCA so there is no issues in relation to withdrawing money etc. I don8217t work for a broker but I have had some success with binary options to date so I have done quite a bit of research on them. Withdrawal ProblemsLost Funds: There are many binary options companies which are not regulated all around. Most of these offshore companies are not supervised, connected or affiliated with any of the regulatory agencies such as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), National Futures Association (NFA), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Many of these brokers misappropriate traders money thinking these traders will not act. Godwin Scott August 5, 2016 at 4:29 pm - Reply trading is for everyone because when you use the right strategy, you can get up to 5000 a week. I am a professional binaryforex trader, i enjoy seeing my student make profit from my strategies, trading binary has been my thing, at for the last five years have been a golden years for me. the market has grown phenomenally and traders are joining in the trade in multiples, The binary option have expanded and the systems have become more sophisticated and more accurate. especially with the advent of automated systems. profit have risen and good numbers of traders have made impressive profit from it over times within the same period of times. franklinbolton August 5, 2016 at 4:36 pm - Reply Doing Trade is extremely profitable when using the right techniques and strategies and also frustrating for those without better system to trade and signal provider. If you need an assistance in doing a beneficiary trade and you are losing out all your investment instead of gaining, there is still a big hope for you. You havent listed UBOCapital there one of the biggest thieving scammers around UBO Capital continues on with its Rip off scam. They locked away my funds in an unauthorized Long term trade and refuse to release the funds. But claim that I cant withdraw until I reach their Withdrawal limit. How can I reach the withdrawal limit when I cant trade my own funds and their so called Professional Broker Samantha Novac wont trade them either. Suggesting that she doesnt make enough on these piddley little accounts. of 2 grand She didnt like it when I made more money then she did and so she locked away my funds. Very professional. I have submitted 4 complaints to their management and they just refuse to reply or comment. As they have not provided the professional services that they offered I should be able to withdraw from their service as they have broken the business accord of not providing a true representation of what they are selling. Nada. But it just goes to show what a professional scam they are running Stay away and avoid like the plague
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