All Questions
20 questions
-2
votes
2
answers
635
views
A fee of 1000$ is requested to get refunded from Blockchain
Good Morning all,
I hope to get an answer to this question.
I have been scammed from cryptocurrency platform. I have received many calls of people who wants to help me recover my money.
Recently, I ...
- 19
-5
votes
1
answer
382
views
I was asked to pay $412 just chanje from transferring my earnings from bank to Bitcoin wallet after I requested to withdraw my earnings
Someone called himself Mr Franklin Gordons told me to invest on his company website called bluegatefx.com from $300 I'll get $2900 in 4 of which I did then 2 days of trading then my investment just ...
1
vote
2
answers
471
views
What is the type of scam where a con artist sells different advice to two groups of people?
On this site, I often see posts that mention a type scam where a con artist sells an investment newsletter containing a particular advice to a group of people, while selling the exact opposite advice ...
- 17.2k
3
votes
1
answer
461
views
In the movie "The Wizard of Lies" Madoff was raising money for an exclusive fund. What investment reason would there be for making a fund exclusive?
The movie "The Wizard of Lies" is a movie about Bernie Madoff's story running his Ponzi scheme. There is a scene where he realizes that he is low on money, so he tries to convince an ...
- 365
1
vote
1
answer
18k
views
Scammed by Boiler Room & Now Fake German Law Firm
Late last year I invested heavily in what is now apparently a "Boiler Room". After trying to find any way to get my money back I came across a law firm. I found nothing about the lawyer ...
47
votes
12
answers
13k
views
How can there exist a profession consisting of investing others' money?
How can there be a profession where some person sits at a desk and trades or invests for somebody else? If they are so smart and can predict the market so well, would they not long ago have invested ...
- 465
3
votes
3
answers
625
views
Is this partnership offer for a property I am selling a scam?
I have published an advertisement on a classified website to sell undeveloped land I own in Sri Lanka.
Through this, someone contacted me by email saying he wants to "invest" in the property....
- 31
8
votes
4
answers
5k
views
Educating others that they may be investing in a scam
I’m not sure if this should be here or at interpersonal skills but there is currently a company in the Philippines asking people to invest and to me, in my opinion it smells like a Ponzi scheme.
...
- 231
66
votes
10
answers
29k
views
What would prevent me from taking advantage of scammers?
Inspired by 20% monthly mining vs 5% monthly trading
What would prevent me from investing $1,000 for a month, pulling out, investing with a different scammer, rinse & repeat?
This question is ...
- 8,623
24
votes
10
answers
11k
views
Boutique Investment firm cold called me offering me the chance to purchase stock in a private placement. Legit or scam?
A week ago I got a cold call from someone doing "research about investment experience" which ended with "we might call you if a investment opportunity comes up". A couple of days ago a person from a "...
- 379
11
votes
3
answers
3k
views
Detangle this potential scam?
My cousin [we'll call him Chuck] has gotten involved with an investment "tutor" [we'll call him Tim] that has "hired" Chuck to make investments for Tim. From what I understand, Tim allows Chuck to ...
- 285
-3
votes
1
answer
210
views
What are my options if an investment that is too good to be true goes bad?
I am pondering on whether I should pursue this investment. I have a guy who wants me to invest only $1,000 dollars with a contract that I'm guaranteed 600% ($6,000) the same year, no questions asked.
...
user53184
4
votes
4
answers
684
views
Are marijuana based investments promising, or just another scam?
I have seen countless websites, ads, and have had people trying to sell the idea of investing money in to so-called "lucrative" Cannabis/marijuana stocks. The idea here is that marijuana is a growing ...
user53161
1
vote
4
answers
3k
views
Invest money and get 120% back - a site says
Recently I've been coming across many on-line resources that propose people to pay them in order to to get seemingly gigantic profits.
This is what the 'About us' page of such sites normally says:
...
- 159
26
votes
1
answer
8k
views
If Bernie Madoff had invested in Berkshire Hathaway, would the ponzi actually have succeeded? [closed]
Bernie Madoff operated the largest known Ponzi scam in history, defrauding people of an estimated $20B for almost 3 decades. From Wikipedia:
Rather than offer high returns to all comers, Madoff ...
- 367