There is plenty of opportunity for unscrupulous people to make money fraudulently by launching a forex trading scam. Unfortunately there are always people who will part with money too fast in the hope of making more. However, we cannot assume that a system has to make money for everybody using it in order to be genuine. So what are the signs of a real scam?

1. Unrealistic claims

All websites that are promoting a forex product or service will try to appeal to your wish to make money. That is what forex day trading is about, after all. But if a site promises to make you millions of dollars virtually overnight no matter who you are and without requiring any work on your part, stay clear.

2. Huge earnings on trading account screenshots

It is also common for sites to provide images of their own trading account results to convince you that their system makes money. This is common practice. A scammer will fake the screenshots using Photoshop, and it is pretty much impossible to tell.

So although having screenshots on the site is not in itself a problem, you shouldn’t pay much attention to them. Even if they are not faked, you don’t know that the person followed the exact system you are buying in order to obtain those results … and  even if the figures are 100% genuine, it certainly does not mean that you will achieve the same results.

3. No guarantee

There should be a money back guarantee on any product and you should not have to jump through hoops to get it. Look for a "no questions" guarantee rather than something that says you must have followed all instructions to the letter before you can qualify for a refund. Following the instructions may include investing more money than you have.

If you are buying a downloadable product such as an ebook or expert advisor, you can trust anything that is sold by Clickbank as far as refunds are concerned. Clickbank will always refund these items within 58 days of your purchase.

If you are looking at a membership site or a service, refunds on past payments may not be offered because of the time that the company will have put in to providing the service for you during the time that you were a member. However, you should check that you can cancel at any time without incurring further charges. Don't sign up for something that locks you in to a contract for 6 or 12 months.

4. Bad press in the forums

All products will show you recommendations and testimonials from satisfied customers. If you want to be sure you can ask for evidence that they are real, and a genuine business will usually find a way for you to contact the person if there is not already a link given along with the testimonial. 

But even the worst day trading system will have some users who were just lucky. What you want to know is what the un-satisfied customers are saying. There will be some for every product, no matter how good, and you need to find them and sift through their comments. Are they just unhappy because they didn't make a lot of money overnight, or was there a genuine problem with the product? Search for them in online forums to get a clear idea of which products are worthwhile and which ones might be a forex scam.

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The forex market is a niche that involves money, so you, as a trader, should be able to discern if what you’re looking at is one of those scams or not. This is a niche wherein deceitful people have a lot of opportunity to make money by using fraud as they launch a forex scam. This article will give you the hints in identifying a real scam.

Those unrealistic claims…

It is in the nature of websites promoting forex products or services to appeal to your wishes as a trader to make lots and lots of profits and money. There’s no question with that, but once they promise you that you can earn millions in just one night… then that’s a scam that you need to look out for!

The screenshots with big profits on trading accounts…

Websites promoting forex products commonly provide images of their own trading account results in order to convince the people of the ability of their system to make money. Those who make a scam will fake their screenshots with the help of graphics editing programs such as Photoshop, making it impossible to tell whether it's a fake or not. And even if what you see is authentic, make sure not to pay any attention to it, because you will never know what kind of system the person used… and those systems might not work for you as well.

There are no guarantees…

A genuine forex product always offers an easy to avail money-back guarantee. What you should be looking for is a no questions kind of guarantee instead of those that say that you have to follow a set of instructions before you qualify for one. For downloadable expert advisors and e-books, trust those that are sold by the vendor Clickbank for refunds, as they are the one who handles those transactions within 58 days of the purchase. Choose those membership sites or services that you can cancel anytime without taking any charges, and you should never sign up for a scam that binds you to a 6-month or 12-month contract.

Those that have bad press in the forums…

Forex products will show you the testimonials and recommendations that the satisfied customers has given them. In order to be sure that those claims are true, always ask for proof: a good and honest business would always find a way for you to contact those people who made the testimonials and recommendations. Also, look at what the unsatisfied customers are saying about the product (which is always present for any kind of product, no matter how good it is). Going through the customers' opinions (available on the online forums) will be able to help you judge the credibility of the product, whether it is a forex scam or not.

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So what are forex scams? For some it has to do with whether the software they bought makes them rich in less the 24 hours. They do not want to have to spend any time developing skills- they want a magic wand they can wave at their computer and sit back and do nothing. That’s clearly crazy. The whole world would be follow such a system if it existed … and when you look at that objectively, even if somebody discovered such system and sold it, its effectiveness would soon peeter out. This is how to look at forex trading software.

In reality the money you produce doesn’t materialise out of thin air. Advances in technology can improve the efficiency at which goods are produced so we can all own mobile phones and televisions and have a better standard of life compared to before. But industries without a tangible product such as trading or gambling rely solely on the flow of money and nothing else from one party to another and so someone wins and someone loses.

It is true that in currency exchange, some of the bad prices are taken by people or institutions who either do not know or do not care. Businesses who import or export goods rarely bother to try to schedule their payments for a moment when the currency rates are favorable. Overseas tourists don’t often cancel their vacations because a currency has slipped 100 pips. Nevertheless, as there is an increasing number of individuals and institutions who are involved in the “pure” forex game these days it is increasing unlikely that they can all turn a profit.

So the next time you are checking over a forex software product to and you come across some negative comments that indicate it might be a scam, it is useful to picture the situation happening in the real world, i.e. offline. Perhaps the comments where made by someone whose skill level was not high enough. Or perhaps it was the basics of forex that they didn’t really get.

Whatever the case check out the best forex trading software before you make any decisions about your trading future.

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