{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Dating apps used to seduce gullible investors", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/187288895788/", "html": "Dating apps used to seduce gullible investors\n

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Women are being paid big commissions to use online dating sites to \nseduce gullible men into trading highly leveraged financial derivatives \nwith the promise of friendship or romance, according to confidential \nanalysis of pressure sales techniques.

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Brokers are spending more \nthan $280 million a year on introducers, such as women using social \nmedia sites and messaging services, to lure punters into complex \nfinancial products called contracts for difference that are typically \nleveraged 200 to 500 times.

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That\u2019s more than double the amount \nspent by the nation\u2019s entire gaming industry on promotion and is in \naddition to about $130 million spent by the derivative brokers on \ntraditional advertising.

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