So let's talk about a binary options
scam. Today, I'm going to reveal
a very popular binary options
scam so that you
don't fall for it.
So let me tell you what this is all
about. You might have seen those
comments on YouTube videos where
somebody says that they started
investing with a person,
in this case, it is Anthony Vincent,
and then they started making a lot
of money. Here's an example.
This is what happens underneath
my videos.
You see in this example, Diddy says,
"Excellent video here, but I started
being successful in stock trading
ever since I invested with Mr.
Anthony Vincent's platform.
The strategy has really profited me
handsomely since he was recommended
to me here on YouTube." So
in this example, the trader is
promoting Mr. Anthony Vincent,
but the name doesn't really matter.
As you will see in just a few
moments, they're changing the name
quite frequently.
Now, I must admit
that this scam is pretty elaborate
because here's what happens after
somebody posts the first comment.
Immediately, you'll see
replies flying in from
other viewers
telling you that they use the same
guy and how he changed their
life. So take a look at this.
Right underneath it, Thompson Andrew
says, "Wow, it's so amazing to see
another investor of Mr. Vincent.
One fascinating fact I love about
him is consistency in generating
huge profits in a short time,
according to your plan." And then
another guy jumps in, Michael
Garcia, "How do I contact
this broker? I am on
the losing side." So, as you can
see, they're all different
names but all of these comments
come in at the same time.
Look at this.
It's here right now, 10:08,
10:08 as you can see.
So let me just show you another one,
because this is where you might be
fooled into believing that, oh, it
must be the real deal, because Lisa
right now is saying, "I must say,
I'm so impressed with the services
since Mr. Anthony delivers
value-priced trades and useful
analytical tools and
a well-designed software trading
platform." I don't even think that
Lisa knows what she's talking about
here. And then Diddy says, "Oh,
Michael Garcia, here's how you can
contact him at Official Vincent
Anthony." So here is
another e-mail, Brian, you see
10:11. All within minutes they are
flying in so I believe it's
the same person here.
So Brian says, "Mr.
Anthony is very legit." I hope
that you can read it here on the
screen. And Emma says, "Wow,
you guys also trade with Mr.
Anthony.
This is so unbelievable."
You get the idea.
Now, think about this way.
If somebody had a few losses
and now he's seeing all of these
great testimonials, can you see
how somebody might be inclined to
contact the guy?
Well, that's what
I did for you.
So I created a fake
email address because this guy's
anyhow fake and sent Mr.
Anthony an email.
Let me show you my email
to Mr. Anthony.
So now I'm Joe.
Can you help me become a successful
trader? Hi, I got your name and
e-mail from a YouTube comment.
It seems that you're helping a lot
of people to become successful
traders. Again, this is
me. Okay?
I'm Joe right now.
I'm saying, I've been trading for
two years now and I'm struggling to
make money with trading.
Can you help me?
Like you helped all the other
traders that are talking about
you. Hope to hear
from you soon.
Please help me.
I need to make money.
Now here's a cool thing.
25-minutes later, I got a response
from Anthony Vincent.
What do you know?
He's responding to me right away.
"Hello, Joe.
I would be happy to assist you.
I am sorry for your losses.
Basically, we gotta start
somewhere." Well, whenever you see,
"we gotta start somewhere," you know
that you're in good hands.
At least I knew that I was
in good hands. So should we proceed?
"Where are you from? Can we schedule
a call? If you're in the US?"
And I said, absolutely,
yeah. So I responded to him.
I said, oh my gosh thank
you so much for the quick response.
Today is a busy day for me because
it was a day where I did Coffee with
Markus.
Can we talk tomorrow, July 3rd?
I live in Texas.
Anytime between 10:00 a.m.
and 12:00 p.m.
would be good for me.
What is your phone number?
And he says, "This mine," again
with this perfect grammar
I knew that I was
in good hands.
So I made up
a little story and I called him.
And I'm going to play you the clip
right now of what happened when
I called him. Here we go.
"You have reached the voicemail Mr. [inaudible], I'm not able to reach my
phone right now,
please leave a message and I'll get
back to you."
Yeah, this is Joe.
Is this Anthony Vincent?
Because we exchanged a few emails
and you said that you can help me
trading binary options and finally
making some money with trading
because I already lost a lot.
So if this is Anthony
Vincent, I hope that I have the
right number.
Please call me back.
I think you see my number in the
display.
It's, well, you'll see
it and I'll talk to you very soon.
OK.
Thanks for your time.
Well, so interestingly enough,
apparently he's not Anthony
Vincent, but we already knew this,
right? Anyhow, so
he called me back a few
minutes later and
I recorded the call.
You want to see it? Here it is.
"Hello." Hello.
This is Joe.
"Hello, Joe, how are you doing?"
Good, is this Anthony?
"Yeah this is Mr. Anthony.
[inaudible]. Yeah, Mr.
Anthony, we have somehow an echo,
yeah, Mr. Anthony, we have somehow
an echo.
"Oh, I'm so sorry.
So sorry. I put it on the
loudspeaker because I'm walking and
kind of a little bit busy on my hands
right now." Oh, okay.
Do you want to connect later this
afternoon? "Hello?" Yes,
I can hear you.
"Oh yeah, let's connect this afternoon. I'm
going to text you before I call, you when I'm not busy. "
Perfect. Yes, just text me.
OK, thank you.
So, I mean, as you can see
it wasn't easy to get him on the
phone and he seems to
be quite swamped with work.
So let me just show you
what happened next.
So after the calls, I basically
said, Well, I tried to call you but
I only got a voicemail. So we played
phone tag for a little bit.
And then he said, "Well, I'm so
swamped with
a lotta work right
now." And so, okay,
I thought, this is here
not easy.
So we played phone tag
for a while.
And this is why after a while
I decided to just move
the communication to email.
And so I sent him an email and said,
Anthony, it seems that we are better
communicating by email than playing
phone tag. So let's stick to email.
I've been in touch with a few other
people who might be able to help me
make money with trading.
Here is my situation, again,
if you're just tuning in, this is
me, Joe Hicks, I pretend to
be Joe, right?
So I've lost more than $15,000
trying to trade stocks and options.
I've only $10,000 left.
Recently lost my job due to Covid
situation.
How can you help me?
Blah, blah, blah.
How does it work?
So let me know because I want to
make a decision by the end of the
week. Now here,
this is where it gets really, really
good. So I'm now
getting the following email from
him. So Anthony says,
"Yes, I will be trading under my
brokerage. Right now the signal
strength is 95% and it gives
5% profit." So here is how
it works.
So he says, "5% of $10,000
is $500." OK, I'm
still following you.
"500 times
7 days in a week
is $3,500
daily." OK, I'm
lost, if you get seven days
a week, ok, anyhow,
"$3,500 times 3 times a day
is $10,500
and that's a daily trade"
so...What?
I'm thoroughly
confused by this math,
but no worries,
Mr. Anthony is helping those
like me who are weak with math.
And here is if you'll take a look
at the e-mail where he clarifies
it for me and says, "OK, so long
story short, your profit is in
a week is $10,500,
starting with the signal of today."
Oh my gosh, I want to invest $10,000
and I'm making $10,500?
Anyhow so that the math is all over
the place. But basically he says,
"Don't worry about it, you'll
make a shit ton of money."
Okay. So here
is the end of the email,
as you can see here, "Kindly provide
the following information which is
needed to set up your trading
account." Now, as you know, when
somebody says "kindly provide,"
you know that you're in good hands
because that is the exact
language that brokers and money
managers are using.
Just kidding.
Of course not. Anyhow, I am
super excited about
making $10,500 a week.
Aren't you? Aren't you?
So I put together
a little Excel sheet because I want
to see what is happening.
So the initial capital is $10,000
as you can see, and
the weekly gain, as Mr. Anthony
said, will be
$10,500. That's 105%.
And based on Mr. Antony's e-mail,
the wins
seems to be compounding, which means
that the next week I can invest
$20,500, make 105% percent again,
which is now $21,525.
This is pretty good, don't you
think? So let's say what happens
by the end of week 2.
So I entered a little
formula here and wanted to see,
there we go. Oh my gosh, I
am now making $44,000.
Let's see what happens next week,
shall we?
Okay. Now I'm making
$90,000.
Holy moly!
Okay, let's keep going here.
Let's keep going and then we're
going to go back to back to Mr.
Anthony. At the end of seven
weeks
I am a millionaire!
In seven weeks!
Is that super exciting?
But wait. But wait, wait, wait,
wait.
There's more, let's just expand this
a few more rows right here.
Look at this, after 10 weeks,
I'm making more than 10
million dollars.
Wait. That can't be right, can it?
I mean, there must be
a problem. Well, you know what?
Let's ask Mr. Anthony.
So I'm sending an e-mail back.
But before we do this and I show
you the e-mail and what happens
next.
Let me ask you this, are you
enjoying this video thus far?
Do you want to know what happens
next? Because if so,
hit the like button right now.
Do me a favor.
Hit the like button if you want to
know what happens next, if you're
enjoying this. OK, let's go back.
So here is my email
to Mr. Anthony, because I wanted to
make sure that I got my math
right here.
So sending him another e-mail and
say, Hey, thanks so much for the
information.
Let me sure I understand it
correctly. It's an easy four-step
process, right? So I'm opening a
trading account with you, I'm
funding the account with $10,000.
You trade the account for me,
I can expect to make
$10,500 per week based on an initial
investment of $10,000.
So let me ask you this.
If I do leave the money in the
account, would you then trade
the $10,000 to
$10,500 in the next week?
If so, how much money can I expect
in the second week?
And so I also wanted to know, is
it possible to withdraw money
here?
So, okay.
Anyhow, because I want to make ten
million dollars.
And so Mr. Anthony
is responding to me and basically
says, "Yes, you got
it." So I know it.
Nothing wrong with my math.
Oh my gosh.
I will make ten million dollars in
ten weeks.
But wait, wait, wait.
Wait a minute.
How can I be sure
that this is not a scam?
Well, let's ask Mr. Anthony again,
shall we? So I'm asking Mr. Anthony,
and I say, OK, yeah, that makes
sense. Thank you so much for
clarifying. That sounds like a great
opportunity. Very exciting.
But I'm also a little bit skeptical.
This sounds almost too good
to be true, doesn't it?
So how do I know that you really
achieved these results?
I know that trading is not easy
after all I lost
$15,000.
So I ask him, Do you provide any
guarantees?
And of course, Mr.
Anthony can provide
proof and make sure
that all my doubts
are erased.
So he sends me another e-mail.
"This is a view of a trade platform
where the profit is written in
yellow." The total invested is
$2,000, and as you can see, there is
my $10,705.
Now, this is where I have to say,
OK, honestly, Mr. Anthony,
thank you providing proof that
works. This is undeniable
proof. You are the real deal.
Now I know that I can make millions
with you. I am in.
So I'm sending him my information.
Of course, this is completely fake,
name, address and date of birth.
Only my phone number is real because
I want to make sure that he's
calling me back that I can record it
for you. Are you having fun with
this? There's a few more e-mails,
because this gets
really, really, really good.
Okay, so just wait
for it. So do you need anything
else? Will I get login information
to the account and trading platform
after opening the account?
As you would with every
good broker.
Well, now we're getting to the good
stuff. Of course, he says, "Once
the account is open, it will be linked
my admin account for trading
purposes and you will have access to
the account, we'll be opening an
account for you right away.
Do you have a Bitcoin
wallet?
Because we make our payments in
Bitcoin." Of course.
Of course he's using bitcoin
since it's untraceable and once
he has the number, I'll never
get it back.
Well, Mr. Anthony, I don't
want to make it too easy for you.
No, no, no.
So here is my response
to this email.
Well, Anthony, I don't have a
Bitcoin wallet.
Whatever that is.
And I don't want to have one.
Let's just do a check or wire
transfer. That's what my current
broker does.
Just send me the log in information
and the wire instructions or the
address to mail a
check to.
Well, as you can imagine.
Now, Mr. Anthony
loses interest with me.
So I haven't heard back from him.
He said, "well we'll be getting you
the information," but I doubt
that I ever will. So, as you can
see, after 23
emails and several calls, this
is where it all ends.
Since Mr. Anthony will never
give me an address to send a check
to, or a wire transfer.
Because that will give me a way to
get my money back and expose
this scam, and I'm pretty sure
that this guy is not even
in the United States.
Anyhow, I did this video
for you so that you know what's
behind these scams and that you
don't fall for them.
And please, can you do me a favor?
Share this video with as
many people as you can so that these
scammers don't have
a chance.
You will see comments underneath
plenty of YouTube videos.
Probably my YouTube video here right
now with all sorts of different
names.
And it's always the same.
These scammers try to take advantage
of traders who lost money,
these traders who are desperate,
and these scammers will take
the last money away from these
traders.
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