{"id":2713,"date":"2016-08-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverlaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/7-telltale-signs-broker-fraud\/"},"modified":"2017-07-26T14:40:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T18:40:59","slug":"7-telltale-signs-broker-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/7-telltale-signs-broker-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Telltale Signs of Broker Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2896\" src=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/7-Telltale-Signs-of-Broker-Fraud.jpg\" alt=\"7 Telltale Signs of Broker Fraud on silverlaw.com\" width=\"443\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/7-Telltale-Signs-of-Broker-Fraud.jpg 1065w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/7-Telltale-Signs-of-Broker-Fraud-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/7-Telltale-Signs-of-Broker-Fraud-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/7-Telltale-Signs-of-Broker-Fraud-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>How do I know if my stockbroker has defrauded me?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stockbrokers and financial advisors have a legal duty to put your financial well-being before their own when they make decisions about your investments. However, some financial professionals aren\u2019t willing to wait until you make money to increase their profits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Federal Trade Commission, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usg.edu\/assets\/audit\/fraud_awareness_assets\/toolkit_documents\/Helpful_Facts__Figures.pdf\"  target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">30.2 million people are defrauded each year<\/span><\/a> for losses that total close to $3 billion. While a significant amount of this is the result of broker fraud, surveys indicate that <a href=\"http:\/\/fraudresearchcenter.org\/prevalence\/\"  target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">only 20 to 50 percent of fraud is ever reported<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/7-telltale-signs-broker-fraud\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading 7 Telltale Signs of Broker Fraud\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I know if my stockbroker has defrauded me? Stockbrokers and financial advisors have a legal duty to put your financial well-being before their own when they make decisions about your investments. However, some financial professionals aren\u2019t willing to wait until you make money to increase their profits. According to the Federal Trade Commission, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[595],"tags":[313,314],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-investment-fraud","tag-broker-fraud","tag-telltale-signs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>7 Telltale Signs of Broker Fraud &#8212; Securities Arbitration Lawyers Blog &#8212; August 17, 2016<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out the new article 7 Telltale Signs of Broker Fraud on silverlaw.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/7-telltale-signs-broker-fraud\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"7 Telltale Signs of Broker Fraud &#8212; 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