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Do investors and CFD brokers have a conflict of interest in contracts for difference?

A lot goes wrong when investing in CFDs. Our firm has handled more than 60 cases in recent years against foreign providers of CFD investments. The AFM and the Fraud Helpdesk warn about unreliable providers. What exactly is the problem with these investment products? What is a CFD? Many inexperienced investors who get into "contracts for differences" think that a CFD is a type of stock with a buyer and a seller. The seller [...]

Hupkes advocaten2024-03-12T08:28:16+01:0012 March 2024|Contracts for Difference (CFD Providers), Financial law, Investment Fraud & Boiler Rooms|

The investment fraudster’s roadmap: 5 tricks a boiler room uses to defraud customers

How do you know if you have fallen into the nets of an investment fraudster, an online scam or an untrustworthy CFD broker? All these scams work according to the same playbook; step by step, the investor, who is actually a prey, is lured into the trap. Phase 1: the positive phase In the first stage, the investment fraudster does not show his true face, but presents himself as friendly and helpful as possible. He [...]

Hupkes advocaten2023-02-01T12:30:09+01:0015 February 2024|Contracts for Difference (CFD Providers), Fraud & Deception, Investment Fraud & Boiler Rooms|

New CFD broker from Cyprus focuses on Dutch people

The Cypriot CFD broker Capixal sells CFD investments on the Dutch market. A report has been received at our office of extensive damage. We're starting a lawsuit.

Hupkes advocaten2023-11-08T12:49:32+01:006 June 2022|Contracts for Difference (CFD Providers), Investment Fraud & Boiler Rooms|

Lawsuits against new CFD brokers from Cyprus

In recent months, our office has received many complaints about evaporation of investments in CFDs through brokers that have recently been active on the Dutch market, which focus on Dutch consumers. New labels, but the same method The parties that have become active on the Dutch market in recent months are: Tradedwell ( https://www.tradedwell.com/nl ), a label of iTrade Global (Cy) Ltd. IGMFX ( www.igmfx.com/nl ), a label of IGM Forex Ltd Phoenix Markets ( [...]

Hupkes advocaten2023-07-26T13:54:35+01:0014 April 2022|Contracts for Difference (CFD Providers), Investment Fraud & Boiler Rooms|

Victims of fake advertisements can litigate in the Netherlands

The Limburg court has declared itself competent in a case of a victim of fake advertisements against the seller of CFD products from Cyprus. The provider stated that the victim was a professional investor and had to go to Cyprus for the lawsuit. The court disagrees.

Hupkes advocaten2022-08-17T17:53:29+01:006 June 2020|Contracts for Difference (CFD Providers), Judgments|