Help - some random person gave me money to trade??

[Charlton]

Never take candy from a stranger

Hold on. As an adult I know how to avoid scams. Scams as in those people asking YOU to wire them money and such. But I was NOT aware of any scams going on when other people offer you their money.. like why not?

He sends me money ( legal )
I trade using real money ( legal )

Where is the ilegal part?

 

[barfluther]

Well, that incident is not new anymore. All sorts of scams and illegal transactions are here. The lesson with it , is not to trust on anybody especially if money is involved. We should be aware of what's legit or not.

 

[zaysev36]

I really don't understand what's the big deal here. Just withdraw the money, close the account, forget about this and live on. If you were not ignorant enough to put your personal data anywhere in free access that is.

 

[EnlightenedJoe]

Sounds legit. I'd trade it and make money. Tell him I am looking for free money too.

But the risk to beginners is to do with you could lose more money than in your account. So after losing the money, you will owe them legally. Then you become their legal b*tch.

 

[zaysev36]

Tell him I am looking for free money too.

Yeah, drop my contacts to him too

Not sure what do you mean by owing money to them legally. They haven't made any formal agreement, no papers, so at most they could demand to return that same amount of money they've sent you. And that's only if they could prove they've sent it to you by mistake, which would bring them to light, which they'd probably not want to happen.

 

[EnlightenedJoe]

Yeah, drop my contacts to him too

Not sure what do you mean by owing money to them legally. They haven't made any formal agreement, no papers, so at most they could demand to return that same amount of money they've sent you. And that's only if they could prove they've sent it to you by mistake, which would bring them to light, which they'd probably not want to happen.

The terms of the bonus would have locked him in. I presume he has to do so and so many trades in so and so many days at so and so size. After a trade or two he will become their legal b*tch.

 

[radex78]

Well, that incident is not new anymore. All sorts of scams and illegal transactions are here. The lesson with it , is not to trust on anybody especially if money is involved. We should be aware of what's legit or not.

If already about real money of course as investor should be careful with their investment, faced with scamm people and company maybe will making regret eventually, but we also will never know if never try, first seeking information about company before invested

 

[hatemypips]

Hello everyone, I have a bit of an issue and I'm hoping some of the people here will help me clarify it
I joined * in order to get some no-deposit bonus as I have never traded before. Some guy named "Simon" pops up in the "Chat with us" window and after we talk a little he asks for my Skype and I give it to him.
On Skype he tells me to deposit and if I lose my funds he will give me my money back (refund) from his own poket, I tell him that my cards are max out already and my bank won't let me deposit more. He says he will look into it and hook me up with some cash.

3 DAYS LATER
I text him on Skype something like " Hey Simon did you managed to hook me up with something?" he asks for my Skrill email and my currency. Then he SENDS me $205 and tells me to deposit it on eToro. I do that and then he asks for a screenshot of the deposit ( for the fiance departament he says ), I do that too.

After that he tells me the rules are simple. I ask him if it's legal and he replies:

"Simon: Yes it is, like I said do NOT tell eToro its us who gave you money
Simon: Its like if it was your decision to trade you know, not so they think you were forced etc etc
Simon: 3 simple rules:

#1 Trade ... Obviously hehe
#2 No withdrawals (ask me first and we will look into it)
#3 No words to eToro that you got money to trade from us."


What do I do? Do I do what he says? Is this legal? Please someone help me

I think you'd better to withdraw your money because it was pretty safe scam I would even say weird. Just keep in mind there is no get rich quick schemes, trading is hard, tedious and often wearisome job because it is competition in its finest sense.

 

[rossored]

Congrats to both of you for trying to revive a 4yr old thread