This is the scam of 2012 and beyond. So I caution you with regards to binary options online investing. It can sound appealing that you might turn your 500 dollars into 2000 dollars in a week, but if you never get your withdraw, then you have just lost your hard-earned money. It's happening all over the place, with dozens upon dozens of companies appearing out of the mist.

So you ask, if it's illegal for these companies to solicit to U.S. investors why and how is it happening? Well, I'm glad you asked! First off, most of these companies are located in a small island called Cypress. I actually had never fully known where this was, until I was approaching by one of these binary options scams. It's a small island near Greece which is regulated close to zero where these guys flock. Most of them have migrated from the U.K. and when they started clamping down and regulating them, and so they did what most scams do, simply re-locate. So if you get a call by one of these guys just ask them where their main office is, and most likely they will say Cypress. If they say that their company is located in the U.S. then they are probably lying. You can simply check it out for yourself by calling the Commodities Futures Trading Commission directly at 1-866-366-2382.