Scammer's phone(424) 431-5924 Scammer's website enw.cc Victim LocationCA 92882, USA Total money lost$65,000 Type of a scamRomance
Met this individual on Salams, a dating app. We got along very well. We shared many similar views and outlooks on life. He went on to tell me he was once a venture capitalist and that he worked as a private wealth manager, but no longer works in this field. He stated he now owns and rents real estate and also trades cryptocurrency on the side. Our communication was over whatsapp and he sent me pictures and voice messages. We had not communicated over the phone or on facetime. When I initially asked for his real number, he texted me from another number stating he only uses this for work, but it looked like an iPhone message. I didn't question it after that. He never asked me for account numbers, to send him money, or to provide any personal information, but that he wanted me to try this style of trading. He said he would walk me through the steps with a smaller amount of money first: transfer $1,000 from bank to crypto.com, then to crypto defi wallet and from there to a website; enw.cc (this was the website). We then took a couple of trades with profits and from there, he showed me how to take my money and put it into my Coinbase account and then to my bank account, all within a few minutes. When he proved his method worked and my money was back into my account, I believed him. He then started to ask me to use my IRA money and to take out a personal loan to fund the account. He continued to promise that all would be returned as soon as we made a profit, but that the greater the initial amount, the higher return on investment. We would then just use the profits to trade and return the original funds and loans. He said all would be returned before the end of April. Throughout this time, we had not yet talked on the phone. He also kept increasing the amount of initial capital he wanted me to use. It went from 10k to 25k, then he said at least the price of 1 bitcoin, or at least 70k. When I had a total of 65k, he kept asking me to find or ask my family to give me another 25k. I finally told him I have no more money or resources and that this amount will have to suffice; I would not ask family or take anymore loans. With the amount I had, we took quite a few trades and profited about 22k, yet, he continued to get upset with me when I would not add more funds. I in return told him, I have been more than patient for over a month and I wanted to at least talk to him on the phone. When I called out the fact that we could not even talk on the phone, I spoke to a friend who did not like the sound of this situation. I sent her the pictures he had sent me and she found his picture on Instagram under another name. He said his account was stolen. I also asked him why he sent me a picture saying he took it at that moment on March 31st, but Instagram's same picture was posted on Feb. 3. He went on to send me his driver's license to prove his identity, but this also showed inconsistencies. His name was Leon Meyer (or so he claimed), but on his ID the first name: Meyer; last name: Leon. At this point, I knew he was fake and realized I was being scammed. I decided to continue to play his game to try and get my money out of the account. He already figured out that I knew his scam and began lessening his communications until he completely stopped responding to me. I tried to get the money out myself since this was my account, but the website stated I needed to trade 5x the amount of my initial investment, yet no disclosures or legal documents expressed these rules. I had a lengthy talk with the website's contact center regarding this issue over chat showing them their inconsistencies in their "rules" and that they needed to release my funds, but they continued to deny my withdrawal request. I have copies of all communications with the individual from the dating app and from the contact center of the website, as well as copies of all disclosures and user agreement descriptions. This website gave no wallet number even though we were trading cryptocurrency and had no privacy policy. Since the incident, I have reported this scam to the FTC, local law enforcement and news anchors.
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Scammer's website enw.cc
Victim Location CA 92882, USA
Total money lost $65,000
Type of a scam Romance