The Voice (Botswana)

Can I get my money back?

- Hello, Mr Richard.

May you please assist me. This situation is about forex trading. There was a certain person who traded for people and he did trade for me. We entered into an agreement that my funds will be given to me after 22 days. This was last year around June. He did make the trade as per the agreement. I put in $100 and, up to now, he is giving me the runaround to give me my money. A service was done but playing around now to give me my money. He said he made $287, plus he was going to add a bit more for the delay he caused me. He has registered his trading as a company with CIPA. I have the contract we signed and all the conversati­ons. He keeps saying he will send my money but, up to now, it’s just stories. He kept giving reasons like BURS was auditing the company but still gives me the runaround. Now that this is a registered business, I believe he needs to stop playing these games and pay me. Please help?

The starting point here is that this guy can’t be trusted. I suspect he’s been lying to you since Day 1.

What many of these so-called forex trader gurus do is simply to pretend to be trading for us. They create impressive looking statements and web pages that appear to show massive profits but in fact they just take victim’s money and kept it for themselves. Everything you see is fake, all constructe­d to encourage you to “invest” more and more money with them. They’re like muggers that persuade their victims to be mugged over and over again.

Unfortunat­ely, it’s unlikely that you’ll get your money back. The only chance will be if you contact the police and lay a charge against him. The good news is that the police are becoming much capable and willing to take on crimes like this.

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