Problem Please help! Am I being Scammed? (gomltd.com)

[Shalirad]

This is a serious approach, so they came from afar, just with informal communication with the girl. It looks suspicious, at least. I don't think you've done anything illegal, but there's no need to continue. Actually, they were weird about it, and their license is kind of questionable. A friend of mine had a similar situation, though they wrote him right on the forum, but he quickly cut off the conversation.

 

[palmukgomltdscam]

A friend of mine had a similar situation, though they wrote him right on the forum, but he quickly cut off the conversation.

Do you have a link to that forum post?

 

[Painskin]

Wow, I've never heard of anything like this. It is necessary as all thought and how they gradually rubbed into trust, I'm sure that if you were directly approached with a request for cooperation or something like that, you would be if there is no interest, just immediately refused and forgot about it, and then such a game. It's just an extraordinary manipulation!

 

[palmukgomltdscam]

Wow, I've never heard of anything like this. It is necessary as all thought and how they gradually rubbed into trust, I'm sure that if you were directly approached with a request for cooperation or something like that, you would be if there is no interest, just immediately refused and forgot about it, and then such a game. It's just an extraordinary manipulation!

Very well said. I fell for this too and I never fell for anything like this ever before. I chatted with this girl for 2 months, so they're not in a rush and know their game very well.

I would ask anybody who's been scammed to report this to authorities, like FBI via their IC3 website.

 

[greenlizard]

Very well said. I fell for this too and I never fell for anything like this ever before. I chatted with this girl for 2 months, so they're not in a rush and know their game very well.

I would ask anybody who's been scammed to report this to authorities, like FBI via their IC3 website.

To which bank in which country did they make you wire money? Maybe there is chance to recover some funds through the banks. Also I think criminal reports should be made in the countries of the receiving banks

 

[palmukgomltdscam]

To which bank in which country did they make you wire money? Maybe there is chance to recover some funds through the banks. Also I think criminal reports should be made in the countries of the receiving banks

Every time it was a different bank, overall they gave me coordinates for 5 different bank accounts over time, in US and Hong Kong. I have already reported this to authorities, both local and of one of the foreign countries involved.

 

[greenlizard]

Every time it was a different bank, overall they gave me coordinates for 5 different bank accounts over time, in US and Hong Kong. I have already reported this to authorities, both local and of one of the foreign countries involved.

If US banks are involved you should consider reporting to CFTC (if you havn't done so already). Palmuk is the same scamming ring I am dealing with. I have collected some material and I learned quite a bit about the procedures in HK. If you are interested feel free to send me a private message.

 

[FXOpen_AU]

Official Brokers would never attract clients this way. No matter how you got in touch with a "manager", you would better go to the website and check the details you need to know from their Support Desk or any other officials.

 

[ahkiet99]

I know NOTHING about trading and I need some people who DO know about it to PLEASE help me see if I am or not, or maybe being scammed…please read on...


Sorry for the wall of text!


About a month ago I matched with a girl on Tinder.

After a few days we started chatting, moved to using WeChat, and it turns out that she lives in Hong Kong and works in financial management audit, for a company there.


After about a week, whilst chatting she sends me a screenshot of a financial exchange graph (which I now know was from MetaTrader4) and she asks me: "Can you read this?"

Screenshot 1:




I noticed that it had BTCUSD in there and I said something about Bitcoin which I had got 0.3 of back in 2011 lol, but I have virtually no more experience with that stuff. so we chatted about that for a bit.


Over the next week, we chat like normal and the subject comes up every now and again, quite gently about how much she's making (she sent me 2 screenshots of deals she made on the days we were chatting, with dates, both with over $20,000 profit) and how I could make money too, quite easily.

Screenshot 2:



Screenshot 3:




So, after a week of this type of talk (approximately 2 weeks after we first started chatting)

I ask her what website she uses to trade and tells me to get MetaTrader4 on my phone, so I do, and she says she'll help me learn how to trade.


To get a demo account up and running she lets me use the login details for her old demo account that her broker gave her.

***Please note the Image where she shows me how to open a new account seems to show that she herself is using a demo account (but I'm not sure, do you know?) - despite showing screenshots of her amazing profits over the previous week. But again, I'm not sure.***

Screenshot 4:




The demo account was loaded with $50,000USD to play with


Later that night she gives me a brief tutorial and after a few laughs I'm ready to try trading. We go through the deal flow and I lose $168 haha.


So in the days following this development, she contacts me almost every weekday with word from her analyst that there is a good deal opportunity coming usually in the next hour or so.


She'd send me messages like "Forecast upside target 5305, buy"

So after a slip up or two, roughly in my FIRST WEEK I made profits like $311, $6,273 $21,720, $12,230 etc etc


Even while this is all happening we chat regularly about many things and seem to get on really well.


She suggests that I open a real account but even though I am making these pretend profits I still don't really know what I am doing in terms of Stop Loss, Take Profit, Units, How to read the Graphs etc etc, so most of my deals feel like good luck so I mention this to her that I need to learn more….


So then she tells me she's gonna ring the MT4 manager at her broker and that she'll put me in contact with her. Which she does via WeChat.


During deals over 3-4 days this Mt4 manger broker person tutors me very briefly about some of the things I'm not sure about and I make a couple great deals and good profits around the $10,000 - $20,000 range.

This screen shot is my full deal history:

Screenshot 6:




By now my feeling of "this is too good to be true" is ringing hard.

The MT4 manger asks if I'm still keen to open a real account and I go along with it and say yes so she sends me an application to fill in.

I say "I'll get back to you in a few days"



At that point I google their website. it looks kinda dodgy but says it is regulated by the NFA but I don't know what that means and the website is only about 6 months old.


By this time I'm even more suspicious, and worried that I 'll sign up and invest only to have my luck suddenly (or slowly) change and lose all my money and the original girl I met will unexplainably disappear.


So now, I am at a place where I don't know how to find out if this is real or these people are just trying to fleece me and others of my hard earned money.


I don't really know what questions I can ask you or them.


It seems to good to be true, but maybe its just a good opportunity uniquely timed with bitcoins recent upturn (we started chatting just before it took off again.)


Can a broker manipulate data on a demo account to make me think this is a sure thing? i.e. set the rise and fall, give me a forecast then i close when they say and it looks real?


What can I do to determine if this is a scam or a real opportunity?


What questions should I ask?


Should I email the broker and ask them something?


What would you do?


Remember, I know nothing of trading.


Thanks in advance for reading this far and any advice or experience you can offer!
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dude 100% scam , dont be another victims.

 

[greenlizard]

It is scam for sure.
I would be helpful if you share the names of the broker / website, of the girl and the account manager and analyst.
If you want to check yourself, just send an email to NFA (National Futures Association) and ask about this broker. Most likely they will tell you that the broker has an exemption number but is not regulated at all.