Co-worker (divorced, 46) meets a guy on Yahoo's personals. The guy is a 35 year old investor.

Co-worker was telling me about the guy and how he opened several trading / investing accounts for her. He's supplied her with instructions, user names, and passwords on how to use them. She's currently day trading euros and other currencies. She was saying how she took 5K and turned it into 5.5 overnight.

Maybe I'm just paranoid, but something about this just isn't right.

 

ya he's going to take her money when she peeks

 

sounds fishy

not the day trading so much but that fact that some guy is supplying her with all her information and gave her the usernames and passwords, which implies he also has access to the accounts.

 

yeah she's going to get the very short end of it pretty soon.

 

tell her to change the pw

 

Tell her not to be a pussy. This guy seems legit.

 

at this point changing the password wont do any good. the guy had it, she's deposited money. so if he is scamming then he prolly already has bank account numbers and who knows what else she had to provide.

 

chagin password will protect the money in the investment account. How did she provide the 5K to the dude?

 

Has she ever met said guy from yahoo?

I would advise her to withdraw everything from the account, change bank account info and anything else she has on file with the day trading company.

Then she can use the gained knowledge to continue trading on a secure account that only she knows about.

 

where'd the initial 5K come from?