It’s the great mystery of the social media age: This person makes that
much money doing what?
A mental step back, maybe a cup of tea, and a few moments of collected
thought will probably lead you to some obvious if annoying truths:
- That
one is extremely
good-looking and is a 7-out-of-10 dancer. - This
one knows how to change
their personality so that it connects with small children - The one over there is really good at a particular video game.
That’s all pretty reasonable in today’s influencer economy.
But there are still some inexplicable outliers. Why, at the bottom of
your friend requests, are there so many people who apparently made their
fortunes from forex trading? And why are they wearing the same aviator
sunglasses, posed against the same expensive but tasteless cars, looking out
over the same sunset vistas? And who carries around a briefcase full of cash,
really?
Forex is a portmanteau derived from foreign exchange. As a financial
vertical, foreign exchange investment is traditionally in the form of arbitrage
opportunities. Sums of money are moved between different currencies in order to
take advantage of small discrepancies in exchange rates, turning a profit.
Forex fraudsters, that’s who. And their lavish insta-lifestyles are as
fake as the opportunities they offer.
A typical example might look like: a forex investor exchanges USD to
euros, then euros to Hungarian forints, forints to RMB, then back into USD,
perhaps ending up with a…
