Massive Binary Options Con

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Massive Binary Options Con

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Sep 12, 2018

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Simona Weinglass, a reporter with the Times of Israel, describes the US$10 billion global binary options scam that she and her colleagues exposed. Far from being a sophisticated scheme, it was simply unchecked fraud on a massive scale.

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Sep 12, 2018

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