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Linda D..........................PYRAMID SCHEME
Aug 10, 2023
I was approached several times by a friend who claimed she had a friend that made lots of money depositing into a savings plan that returned more than 10% every three months if the money would be left untouched for a minimum of four months. I deposited $1000. When I tried to make a partial withdrawal four months later I was convinced that if I left the money on deposit for one more month and increased the deposit I would earn an addition 2% on the entire deposit. On the maturaty date I withdrew my original investment but one week later I redeposited $3,000. Three months later when I tried to make a $2000 withdrawal I could not find the friend nor the administrators of the savings investment plan.
Date of experience: February 2022
Sal C..............................PYRAMID SCHEME
Aug 4, 2023
I was told my money would increase as more people became invested in the savings club. All members are required to convince at least one more person to invest in order to retain status which I did. I was provided regular statements that convinced me the money was good. Three months later I attempted to withdraw my additional deposit and the earnings. I was told I had to first pay my taxes on the earnings and wait one month which did. I could not find any of the people in chargee of what I found out was a ponzi scheme.
Date of experience: December 12, 2022
Sam S...............................CRYPTO RECOVERY SCHEME
Aug 18, 2023
I transferred some money to my wallet using the wrong network and asked for assistance to retrieve the bitcoin and I received an email address from someone to send an email to @etherscansupportcare for support assistance to recover the money that was sent to the wrong network.
This guy said that we can try and revert the money but there is a fee of $98.00 US dollars so I sent the money then he or she said that there is another fee because I used the network called AVAX and a further $85 US fee is needed which I agreed to as the refund was over $3000.
He then took his or her time with processing the funds and wanted me to set up a new Wallet and download Trust Wallet App so I did then wanted me to download telegram I added @etherscansupportcare to telegram to chat so they can help me with how to do it.
Once we start chatting on telegram they send a link that takes you to multiple-bit coin apps so I selected trust wallet and then it asks you to add your secret phrase to log in to your trust wallet..Well not knowing that was a red flag.
And then they say that they can not transfer the refund into an empty wallet another red flag and wanted a further $100 us to be deposited into the new wallet so they can transfer the refund.
Ok, no problem I failed again! as soon as the funds were in the wallet the 100 dollars were transferred out so they then said that someone must have your secret phrase then I realised that they scammed me for a further 100 us and I mentioned to them that you are the only one that has the phrase as I only put it into the link that you provided.
So they wanted me to delete the wallet and set up a new one.
So I deleted it and set up a new one to see if they send the same link and they did. I sent them my wallet receive id only so they can transfer the refund and told them there is no more money to send them just send me the refund.
That is then that they stopped all communications and that was that.
So beware if you send bitcoin to the wrong network it can not be recovered so there is no support from @etherscansupportcare, I hope one day these criminals get caught and they lock them up and throw away the keys and let them rot in hell Criminals.
Date of experience: November 12, 2022
Sue M...............................Forex Broker Scammer
July 20, 2023
They added me to group in WhatsApp. Bella Rossi is the group administrator & assistant to Bejamin "James" Anderson (the director) and Brittany Wrixon is the group administrator along with Bella. They persuaded me to open an account with Fxfront Financial (Fxfrontf); and in a period of 3 months insisted I transfer the money to Metropolitan Commercial Bank; then purchase BTC and transfer the BTC to an account at FXfronf. I Deposited over $100K. Once I completed the deposit and traded few times (gaining over $220K), my account was frozen and they demanded I pay $23K in "taxes' but refuse to issue 1099, as my accountant has advised me. I have requested numerous time via chat, emails and msg that they provide me with an email, company's info, policies, letter confirming my membership etc and they refused. Now, I am not able to log into my account as I get:
"This site can’t be reached fxfront.com took too long to respond."
I have been chatting with the customer service and repeatedly provides this info:
"I can't give you a specific time when the system update will be finished, but I can assure you that our team is working diligently to complete it as soon as possible."
Date of experience: January 18, 2023
Furst B.................................Forex Broker Scam
July 20, 2023
In February 2022 a fraudulent broker (Fxfrontx) with a very elaborate website and trading platform called Meta 5 or MT5 convinced me to make a small investment for which they were able to demonstrate how with the advice of their trading guru James Anderson ? was able to make successful Forex crypto currency and foreign currency trades more than 90% of the time. My introduction was through a WhatsApp investment club with an administrator named Bella. My research via all the government agencies turned up nothing except the National Futures Agency (NFA) provided an ID and listed the company with an exempt status but without a mention of illegitimacy. Wikifix which I later found out was a bogus rating site gave Fxfrontx a 4 out of 5 rating higher than all the other Forex brokers listed. The company’s website was pristine, including the appearance of the automated account pages. It sounded too good to be true. Not able to find anything negative at various agencies I turned to my financial advisors Fisher who also could not give me any information on the company or this type of scam to beware of. This was an expensive lesson learned at a cost of over $90,000 which I didn’t realize until I tried to make a withdrawal. This case was filed with the CFC, the FBI, FINRA and other agencies but no investigation to my knowledge has ben conducted.
Date of experience: March 5, 2023
Furst B.................................Forex Broker Scam
July 20, 2023
In February 2022 a fraudulent broker (Fxfrontx) with a very elaborate website and trading platform called Meta 5 or MT5 convinced me to make a small investment for which they were able to demonstrate how with the advice of their trading guru James Anderson ? was able to make successful Forex crypto currency and foreign currency trades more than 90% of the time. My introduction was through a WhatsApp investment club with an administrator named Bella. My research via all the government agencies turned up nothing except the National Futures Agency (NFA) provided an ID and listed the company with an exempt status but without a mention of illegitimacy. Wikifix which I later found out was a bogus rating site gave Fxfrontx a 4 out of 5 rating higher than all the other Forex brokers listed. The company’s website was pristine, including the appearance of the automated account pages. It sounded too good to be true. Not able to find anything negative at various agencies I turned to my financial advisors Fisher who also could not give me any information on the company or this type of scam to beware of. This was an expensive lesson learned at a cost of over $90,000 which I didn’t realize until I tried to make a withdrawal. This case was filed with the CFC, the FBI, FINRA and other agencies but no investigation to my knowledge has ben conducted.
Date of experience: March 5, 2023
James C.................................Identity Theft Within Coinbase & Stride Bank
July 20, 2023
$25,000 was fraudulently transferred out of my Coinbase account into a bogus account (under the same name as mine) at Stride Bank / Stash Services 20 minutes after it was transferred in from my Fidelity account. I became aware the same day and notified agents from all three institutions by telephone and by email. All three acknowledged notification and said they would immediately launch investigations. Stride Bank / Stash Services said they would immediately freeze the bogus accounts that the money was transferred into. Three days later Stride / Stash allowed the money to be transferred out and refused to provide information on the person setting up the bogus accounts on the grounds it was not me.
I filed a complaint with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) the government agency that regulates the bank because the state of Arizona has no bank regulating agency. The OCC closed their investigation a few weeks later accepting that the Banks had no obligation to provide any information on the people who set up the bogus accounts because they are not me. After my insistence the OCC reopened the case and after a few more weeks determined that they did not have the authority to demand restitution. OCC closed their second investigation stating that the banks claim they did not know in time to block the account and it was my word against theirs despite having copies of emails from me and emails from the Banks acknowledging notification of the fraudulent transfers dated the day they occurred.
I filed a complaint with my home state of CT which governs Coinbase. The state has gone several rounds with Coinbase who refused from the onset to communicate directly with me although I have an account with them. They do not explain why they did not communicate directly with Stride Bank / Stash Services to try to secure the funds. They would not explain how although they claimed two-way verification was used, they cannot produce copies of emails sent to my email address nor how I did not receive a phone call in their claimed two-way verification method. I filed claims with the FBI and the SEC but later found the filing process with those agencies to be more of a method of collecting data than a means to recover losses or to punish wrong doers. I will inform FraudXScamX of any future progress with the case.
Date of experience: March 5, 2023