"We started doing some due diligence on a Forex trading platform. "From what we saw all the documents looked legit, the results looked legit, the platform itself was legit, it was a completely registered platform. "He had done some weeks and had success so I, as these things happen, thought OK let's try out this as part of the portfolio." "But after a few weeks passed we realised we had been had." The scammers had cloned a trading platform and were able to control the data they displayed so it appeared legitimate, as did the winnings that went into an online account displaying the user's profits and losses.