This morning I clicked on a pleasant-looking ad for working from home, claiming you can make $65 an hour without selling. It took me to a sales page for Online Wealth Markets trading, listing huge payout details in the thousands and ‘real user’ comments. It had a clever little ‘phone-shaped’ opt-in form to take credit card details and $5 ($7 Aus). Even though all the warning signs were there, I thought “let’s follow this white rabbit and see where it goes”. It might help somebody.
Inside is a bit about ‘members’ binary options trading with James Ulrich. Googled his picture; just a stock photo. Googled James Ulrich; not much on him except a SEC record for insider trading in 2007 — however, due to legal ramifications I must state that this trading record may not be for the same person we are talking about.
In case you weren’t aware, binary options trading is where bots make options trades on your behalf. Options ‘calls’ and ‘puts’ use your money as an option over the shares or currency and leverages up to 90% for a fixed time period and you (or the robot) predicts whether the option/currency is going to end up or down. (This is the non-technical explanation as I see it and I’m a non-professional). It can go crazy amounts up… or crazy amounts down… so it’s a bit like gambling. Using a bot doesn’t make it less like gambling really.
! Note, the pressure to invest more funds will come along with your ‘trading advisor’, so do not bow to pressure, no matter which trading system you are trialling.
The initial members area of Online Wealth Markets (pre-trading) is all very simple, with four steps. They assure us that Banc de Binary is the best binary options broker. Tony Hetherington from ThisMoney.co.uk, a professional journalist, filed this report on Banc de Binary and one man’s loss of around $3,000.
As to the website itself, I got a report from automated site “ScamInsider.com” which mentioned it is masking its origin (stating from the UK but not). I also noticed there was no little lock up in the top left, so it’s an UNSECURED site. Naturally I rang up my bank and cancelled my credit card so that they will never be able to take any further funds. When you pay via a Visa of any kind you are protected against fraudulent online transactions, except the nice man explained, it will take two months to get your scammed money back. Ouch!
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i already typed my debit card numbers and details, till i had a second thought of go further survey about being scam or legit of this Onlinewealthmarkets.
Very tricky to post untrue stories about housewife in Dubai! This owner fraud should be caught quickly so no more single cents to be stolen from people globally. Ridiculous instead of working hard they sit and earn money for no efforts tsk tsk tsk
Don’t take the risk. The account mgr from Online Wealth Market or Banc de Binary from Cyprus talked to me for 1-1/2 trying to convince me to put up USD 250.00 first on my visa or MC. I said I would do my research first but he insisted often that my opportunity happened only once. Finally he hung up on me. Do not be fooled by a scam artist.
This is a real scam! You pay a small amount in the beginning for u to be robbed of a big amount!!!! Real thieves!!!
Thanks for this. I’ll make sure not to lose any money to these scammers.