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Arbitrage Bots: When a Real Strategy Becomes a Fraud Disguise
Arbitrage sounds sophisticated and low-risk — which is exactly why, as Felix Bick explains in Chapter 21 of How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps, it’s become a favorite label for fraudulent schem
Market Making Bots and the Risk Marketing Leaves Out
Market making is a legitimate, well-established institutional strategy — and Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps explains in Chapter 22 exactly why retail products borrowing this la
Copy Trading: Real Feature, Real Risk of Fabrication
Copy trading occupies an interesting middle ground in Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps — it’s a genuinely legitimate feature offered by some regulated platforms, but also a mecha
How Bot Performance Gets Manipulated Behind the Scenes
Even bots genuinely connected to real markets can have their marketed performance manipulated — and Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps devotes Chapter 24 to explaining exactly how
Backtesting Abuse: When Historical Data Lies
Backtesting is a legitimate and standard part of strategy development — but Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps dedicates Chapter 25 to explaining why it’s also one of the easiest t
The Simple Math That Exposes Impossible Returns
Chapter 26 of Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps might be the single most immediately useful chapter in the entire book — because it gives readers a piece of simple math that can e
The Recurring Warning Signs Across Every Trading Bot Scam
Closing out Part III of How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps, Felix Bick’s Chapter 27 synthesizes the patterns discussed throughout the trading bot section into a single, memorable set of warning
The History of Ponzi Schemes — And Why They Never Stop Recurring
Opening Part V of How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps, Felix Bick grounds the discussion of modern investment fraud in its historical roots, and Chapter 38 offers genuinely fascinating context f
Referral Programs: The Engine That Powers Ponzi Schemes
Referral bonuses seem harmless enough on the surface — but Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps explains in Chapter 40 why they’re actually the core survival mechanism behind most Po
MLM Investment Scams: When the Product Is Just a Cover
Multi-level marketing investment schemes occupy a particularly deceptive space in Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps, and Chapter 41 explains why a nominal product doesn’t necessar
High Yield Investment Programs: The Internet’s Oldest Scam
High-Yield Investment Programs, commonly abbreviated HYIPs, are among the longest-running online scam categories — and Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps devotes Chapter 42 to a pa
“Guaranteed Passive Income” and the Framing That Sells It
The phrase “passive income” carries powerful appeal — and Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps explains in Chapter 43 exactly how this framing is used to obscure fundamentally fraudu