You cannot imagine how sophisticated some of the fraud is. For example they publish a track record for every trade, but it's all hindsight or falsified in some more peculiar way. Some even offer REALTIME FREE TRIALS. What's the catch? You catch 'em on a bad day, bad week, whatever - you dont sign up although they will try to feed you excuses about their cat being seek, the lunar cycles in the wrong phase, not feeling the market, etc. OK so you dont sign up. But Joe Macaroni happened to take the trial when they had 3 nice days in a row, and Mr. Macaroni signed up. Even if 2/3 of free trial periods are ugly, the 1/3 just by chance is good enough to make some people sign up. Best Examples: RS Of Houston, TraderBrad.com