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Cases / Trading, forex & commodities

Frederick H.K. Baker, Mark W. Akins

ReportedOct 10, 2011
LocationLogan, UT
Amount$1,700,000

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Industry
Online currency (forex) trading pool
How investors were recruited
79 investors, largely in Colorado, by April 2007.
Pitch & red flags
Promised "monthly returns of at least 8 percent a month and as much as 15 percent"; no actual trading - money put into other high-yield programs

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Source

archive.sltrib.com

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