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Iraqi Dinar Revaluation Scam: Exposed

It never fails. When meeting someone for the first time and explaining to them that my background is in currency trading, the response is almost always the same, “what do you think about the Iraqi dinar?”. When I finish chuckling to myself, I attempt to give my best explanation of the dinar revaluation. I guess maybe I should be more open-minded, after all, there are still kiosk in malls around America with the sole purpose to sell dinar to those that don’t know any better.

Iraqi Dinar Revaluation

Dinar Kiosk operated by Dinar Inc.

What is the Iraqi Dinar Revaluation Scam?

For those that have no idea about the rant that is going to ensue, let me first explain what this whole Iraqi dinar revaluation scam is all about. 

The Setup: The belief is that you can buy Iraqi dinar, the currency of Iraq, right now (cheap) with the hope that in the future the value is going to increase significantly due to political stability in Iraq.

It seems to me that the height of this dinar craze was in 2008-2009. Just about anyone that knew me, and knew my background then, was buying dinar or researching “buying dinar”. I must have preached enough sense into those that were asking because there has been a lull in that famous question. However, now that I am out on the road meeting new people from all over the world, it seems that the dinar craze may be catching a second wind.

Dinar Revaluation

So…is the Dinar Revaluation a Scam?

A Brief History Lesson of the Iraqi Dinar (my version)

Back in 1982, Saddam Hussein – through his almighty powers – set the value of 1 Iraqi dinar equal to $3.22 USD. It is important to note that when this rate was set, the currency was not freely traded on the open market. Thus, the valuation of the Iraqi dinar could never be revalued by the outside world. Fast forward to 1991, post Gulf-War, the Iraqi dinar had fallen to 1 Iraqi Dinar equal to $0.0003 USD. Quite the change.

This is where the argument picks up steam.

iraqi dinar revaluation

The snake oil salesmen, currently selling Iraqi dinar, will lead the public to believe that now that the United States has gone into Iraq, captured Saddam Hussein, and “straightened things out,” the Iraqi dinar is surely going to revert back to those 1980’s levels. Right now you can buy roughly 1,160 Iraqi dinar for a whopping $1 USD. Well all be damned, if I buy just $100 USD worth of them there dinars (currently equal to 116,000 dinar) and the price comes back to the 1980’s level, next thing ya know Jed’s a millionaire.

(If you didn’t get that joke watch this)

Wait, theres more!

If you weren’t sold on simply believing the dinar is going to revert back to the 1980’s level because [insert applicable relative/friend] said so, there is more proof it is going to happen. Look at the Kuwaiti dinar and the German deutsche mark after the wars. This is another (in)famous argument of the dinar salesmen. True, the Kuwaiti dinar and the German deutsche mark did rise steadily post wars. However, comparing pre-war Iraq to pre-war Germany or Kuwait is preposterous at best.

If you haven’t caught onto my sarcasm surrounding all that is the Iraqi dinar, let me provide you with the quick facts that I blast back to people asking me about it in the first place.

Lets just say that a miraculous turn of events happens and the Iraqi dinar is suddenly of equal value to the US Dollar. That is, the 116,000 dinar you bought today for $100 USD is now equal to $116,000 USD tomorrow. Cha-Ching! You hit the lottery didn’t you? Of course, so you set off to the same mall kiosk/internet site you bought the dinar from to begin with, laughing all the way. But wait, that same kiosk/internet site you bought the dinar from doesn’t buy it back.

Why?

The Iraqi dinar still remains a currency that is not freely traded. Currencies such as the euro, yen, pound, etc. are traded daily, 24 hours a day, 5 days a week. Every day over four trillion dollars are exchanged on these markets. However, the Iraqi dinar is not one of them. I suppose if you had invested $100 into Iraqi dinar and suddenly it was then worth the same as the US dollar (now at $116,000, post revaluation), you could afford to fly to Iraq and exchange them yourself…

If that still wasn’t enough of a reason to believe that the Iraqi dinar revaluation is highly unlikely to happen in the fashion that has been portrayed by the best of internet marketers, I’ll leave you with one final note. Iraq is still inundated with massive debt. A country with massive debt is highly unlikely to go poof and make their currency on par with the US dollar. Sure, there might be a lot of oil in Iraq, but not quite that much. The exchange rate between the USD and Iraqi dinar has been virtually stagnant for 5 years. I equate buying dinar to lottery tickets, but with worse odds.

So there ya have it.

Now, how do most people I spend the time explaining this to respond?

“Oh, alright then, I guess I’ll just buy $100 worth just to be safe.”

iraqi dinar revaluation

HUH???

I don’t understand why, with all the odds stacked against you, that you would be interested in buying into a pipe dream. Nonetheless, the Iraqi dinar revaluation is likely, but revaluing to a rate anywhere near the USD, euro, pound, etc is highly unlikely. Maybe instead, you should buy into shares of the TheTradingTravelers.com???

About the Author Charlie and Brittany

We are Brittany and Charlie - we traded the 9 to 5 and the so-called "American dream" to live our own dream and see the world. We sold all of our belongings and left the US in August 2013. For 5 years, we lived primarily in Thailand and built our online business and location independent lifestyle while we traveled to over 30 countries. We’ve had house sitting gigs on 3 different continents and we’ve even appeared on HGTV’s House Hunters International.

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15 comments
James says January 14, 2014

in other words, dinar = JUNK

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    Trading Traveler says January 15, 2014

    Thats a fact jack!

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Ines Radman says January 22, 2014

I have been watching this thing for a few months now. The gurus don’t even use the right lingo in currency trading, but today I just laughed when TNT said ” They just removed a few Zeros”. You don’t remove zeros, you redenominate and that is a process in itself. You need to exchange your old notes for the new ones and most likely you need to travel to Iraq to do that. So these people with very little intelligence, education are taking on international economics and currency as if they are picking apples in season.
I just feel sorry for the people that have been dreaming of becoming rich, what a let down this is going to be when they finally realize 2018 is here and still waiting.

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    Charlie and Brittany says January 23, 2014

    I’m glad you are one of the few that knew this was nothing more than a scam to begin with. I feel bad for these people that bought into it as well. Hopefully I can reach more people before they make the same decision!

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      Ines Radman says January 23, 2014

      I just recieved a response from the IMF that I had to written to a few weeks ago sending them links from the sites where Christine Lagarde was mentioned. They have told me it’s a scam if you like I can send you my email and the response. You can find my email on my blog and paste this comment so I know where the request came from.

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        3 feathers says June 21, 2015

        I would appreciate a email on that document from the IMF it would be very valuable information to show people the proof
        My email; charlescpederson@gmail.come
        Thanks you Charles

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          Ines Radman says June 24, 2015

          Here is the post where the letter is shown, that’s the best I can do because I deleted all that crap long ago. Like I said before, write to the IMF yourself and they will respond, wait a few days they are too busy right now lending Ukraine criminals money. I may have to re think that response, seems the IMF is just a criminal organization so they could be supporting TNT. LOL
          https://wearelightbeings.wordpress.com/2014/01/23/enough-proof-dinar-rv-is-a-scam/

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Introduction to “Trading Tuesday” | thetradingtravelers.com says February 4, 2014

[…] the shock we got when we saw the reaction to the first “trading” post I put out on the Iraqi Dinar Revaluation.  I really had no idea how this would be received by people. Did anyone even care about what I had […]

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networth says February 10, 2014

Nice article. You were far more deferential than I would have been talking about the folly of the dinar. The odds of a massive revaluation of the Iraqi dinar aren’t just small, they don’t exist! It is mathematically impossible. Your odds of winning the lottery are infinitely better!

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    Charlie and Brittany says February 12, 2014

    You nailed it! Thanks for reading!

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How To Become A Trader: Understanding Indicators | thetradingtravelers.com says February 18, 2014

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Richard Boyd says May 10, 2015

Informative Vs Exaggerating

In fact, it is unfair to say that all Iraqi dinar sites are selling dinar on misleading hype. I don’t deny it there are some sites exaggerating on revaluation and the expected dinar value after revaluation but still many respectable sites offer very useful informative platform for investors in Iraqi dinar. Some sites update with news on the Iraqi economy and the situation in Iraq and the expected deletion, dropping of zeros. They offer blogs, forums and news excerpts. Of course there are some zealous iraqidinarholic who express their thoughts in such forum in an exaggerated over zealous manner but is the the fault of site owners. most of the respectable Iraqi dinar sites offer daily currency convertor and daily results of the Iraqi CBI auction. Iraqi dinar is an investment because of the economic situation in Iraq gets stable, the value of the Iraqi dinar will increase gradually or dramatically. Both senarios are possible.

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Richard Boyd says May 10, 2015

Iraqi Dinar revaluation is a must. You still can’t forget how many trillions of Iraqi Dinar were transported from Baghdad in agreement with the Iraqi government to supply Iraqi with its need of hard currency; usd dollar in a very unfair and cheap rate of 4000 Iraqi dinar for one dollar. Trillions of Iraqi dinar are at the us Treasury waiting for exchange when the right time comes; revaluation and deletion of zeros. As Bush said in early 2004: The war on Iraq will pay for itself.

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Abed says September 18, 2015

Iraqi dinar will raise in value as soon as the current political condition in Iraqi becomes stable. The New Prime Minister of Iraq is following a strict economic plan to improve the economic performance of all Iraqi entities. As soon as ISIL is out and Iraq is united again, there is revaluation of Iraqi Dinar and deletion of three zeros. Same thing is happening to Iranian Rials Toman Iran and the expected lift of sanctions will better the exchange rate of IRR. Remember IRanian Rial was 1750 per one dollar in year 2001… it is now 29900!

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James Lynnwood says August 4, 2016

Great article along the same lines as this one. Don’t hold your breath, there is no Iraqi Dinar Revalue comming http://iraqidinarrevalue.blogspot.com/2014/02/dont-hold-your-breaththere-is-no-global.html

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