This presentation by Money 2.0 Conference talks about the most pervasive scam in the financial industry- The Investment Scam. With the help of this presentation and information, you will get to understand what is an investment scam, what common investment scams one should be aware of, and what guidelines you should follow to avoid getting into the traps of investment scams.

1. Investment Scams: A Serious Concern
Money 2.0 Conference’s guidance to avoid investment scams

2. Table of Contents
● What is an Investment
Scam?
● Common investment scams
● Guidelines to avoid
investment scams

3. What is an Investment Scam?
● Investment scams involve claims of large payouts, quick money, or guaranteed
returns.
● Always be suspicious of investment opportunities that promise a high return
with little or no risk; if it emerges too good to be true, it most likely is and is a
scam.
● Common money scams that we fall prey to are not the creations of an evil
mind; they reflect the lack of awareness of how to stay safe.

4. Common
Investment Scams
Slide down to view
some of the
important investment
scams you can’t
ignore.

5. Unwanted Rapport
● This is a regular strategy used by insurance agents to persuade an elderly or
influential member of a group to purchase policies with high commissions.
● This type of familial influence extends to socio-religious communities, close
friends, or kitty group members where one or more members try to persuade
others to participate in alleged investment opportunities.

6. Internet Frauds
● Scammers posing as officials send emails to gullible investors advising them
to invest in different schemes, transfer money into different deposit accounts,
funds, or policies, or re-invest the maturity proceeds of another policy into
some bogus financial instrument.
● The best form to safeguard yourself from such a money-laundering scam is to
ignore unsolicited emails offering unusual investment opportunities.

7. Pump & Dump Frauds
● A widespread market-related fraud is when some brokers influence their
subscribers on their social media handles (such as Telegram, WhatsApp,
YouTube, and so on) to buy a specific stock in order to artificially inflate its
demand and, as a result, its volume purchases.
● What is shocking is that, despite repeated government warnings, vulnerable
investors continue to approach unregistered brokers to manage their
portfolios.

8. Disguised Products
● Many banks sell life insurance products disguised as endowment policies,
money-back plans, or unit-linked insurance plans to their customers.
● Generally, retired people who do not require insurance are the victims of this
practise, as salespeople convince them to spend their life savings in these low-
income products.

9. Guidelines to avoid
Investment Scams
● Ask questions
● Research before you invest
● Know the salesperson
● Be aware of unsolicited offers
● Protect yourself online
● It would be difficult to do it
manually, but attending a
knowledge-intensive financial
and insurance conference, such
as Money 2.0 Conference,
would be beneficial!

10. Thank You!
Prepared By:
Vinayak Joshi,
Manager, Money 2.0 Conference
https://www.money2conf.com/