Investments in commodities and precious metals can be made
indirectly through stocks, mutual funds, ETFs, or derivatives or people can
directly buy or sell the commodity or precious metal itself. Commodities may
include crude oil, coal, sugar, coffee beans, wheat and other goods. Precious metals are gold, silver or
platinum. Interest in precious metals
has increased in recent years as the price of gold and silver has reached
all-time highs.
These commodities and gold are bought by investors primarily
to hedge against inflation, economic uncertainty, and foreign exchange risk, in
the belief that these metals, particularly gold, are repositories of absolute
value, whereas paper currencies and securities dominated in such currencies
have relative value and are vulnerable to loss.
The high value of gold and commodities lead to easy money for scammers. It attracts more vigorously of fraudulent
activity.
There are many types of common tricks that are actually
uncommon to ordinary people:
a.
Cash for gold
b.
High-yield investment programs
c.
Advance fee fraud
d.
Gold dust sellers
e.
Counterfeit gold coins
f.
Gold Party Scam
New report shows an increase in investment fraud
scheme. If someone asks you to engage in big investments and big payment
up-front and you are unsure of their identity, be very cautious. Be extra
careful to those people promising you a 20-25% result. More often than
not most promising deals are created just to attract potential victims.

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