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- Edenton, NC, USA • Dec 01, 2024
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Facebook account was hacked and the account owner was not aware. I trusted this person and ended up taking
All the money and
Never hearing from it again until they told
Me I hadn’t made any withdrawal and in order to withdraw I had to
Pay a $2000 fee by bitcoin. Of course I knew better this time.

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WHAT TO DO IF YOU ARE A VICTIM
If you are a victim of an online shopping scam or bitcoin, the FBI recommends taking the following actions:
• Report the activity to the Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.IC3.gov or your local FBI field office, which can be located at www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices.
• Report the activity to the online payment service used for the financial transaction.
• Contact your financial institution immediately upon discovering any fraudulent or suspicious activity and direct them to stop or reverse the transactions.
• Ask your financial institution to contact the corresponding financial institution where the fraudulent or suspicious transfer was sent.
If you believe you are the victim of an Internet scam or cyber crime, or if you want to report suspicious activity, please visit the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.IC3.gov.

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- Centreville, VA, USA • Nov 19, 2024
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I have an excoworker and we always contact on facebook for a long time. she moved to another state and we keept in contact. We both worked as teachers aid and she told me that she invested money and that she was no longer working for school system. Then she got me involve investing and sending money to this TopunionTrade, in various way: cash app, venmo, apple paid, credit card, debit cards, and we my husband and me send money to paid IRS, and now they will not realease documents that shows payments made to the IRS recipt or nothing because they want us to pay 15200 more. They stole our money. I contacted police in North Carolina because that was the place my friend (***** *****) moved to. When I checked the phone numebr it was in California, then I knew something was not right, and she will not take my phone calls or call me. I sent $7500 to a wallet to supposstly paid taxes and it was just a scam.

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• Nov 11, 2024
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I initially came into contact with Xqtraders via their website in January 2022. Xqtraders presented itself as a reputable investment firm, registered with the Florida Department of State, claiming to offer high-yield returns through Forex trading, stocks, indices, commodities, bonds, and cryptocurrency investments. Encouraged by their professional appearance and the promise of substantial monthly profits, I decided to invest with them.

Initially, my experience seemed positive; I was able to withdraw small amounts in February and April 2022, which reassured me of the legitimacy of their operations. Motivated by these successful withdrawals, I reinvested my profits. However, in October 2022, the Xqtraders website became inaccessible, and all attempts to contact them for support or to withdraw my funds were unsuccessful. The website disappearance coincided with a complete cessation of all communication from the company.

Throughout my interaction, Xqtraders used various tactics to appear credible and attract investors. These included:

• Displaying a legitimate-sounding address in Florida as part of their contact details, suggesting a stable business operation.

• Offering detailed and seemingly sophisticated trading programs which promised guaranteed returns, an unrealistic claim in the volatile world of trading.

• Utilizing professional-looking marketing materials and communications which included charts and graphs of market activities to demonstrate their trading success.

Further investigation revealed that the claims of association with recognized professionals and institutions were unfounded. For instance, they claimed that a certain "Russ Kevin Childers" was a managing member, who is, in fact, a Philanthropy Database Analyst at Evergreen Goodwill of Northwest Washington and has no ties to the financial or trading sectors.

Given the abrupt disappearance of their website and their failure to respond to contact attempts, along with the misleading information they provided, I believe Xqtraders was operating a Ponzi scheme under the guise of a legitimate investment firm. The platform's strategy was likely focused on using funds from new investors to pay earlier ones, rather than engaging in actual trading activities.

I am reporting this incident to help prevent further fraudulent activities by Xqtraders and to alert potential investors of their deceptive practices.

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- Levittown, PA, USA • Nov 03, 2024
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They have you put money in a fake stock system make you think you are making a lot of money and ask for more deposits to up the leverage on ur trading trade twice a day a teacher tells u when to buy and sell then at the end they say you can withdrawal your money but want to charge you percentage of what your fake acct says you made and then you can't get anything they just want to scam u for more and within a day the sites have disappeared

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- Kearney, NE, USA • Sep 09, 2024
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Invest money but held money ransom using IRs demands of Paying the tax within 7 days and astronomical fines after that.

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- Mount Rainier, MD, USA • Aug 15, 2024
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They run ad on Facebook promising to teach people how to trade stocks and crypto. The ad then takes you to WhatsApp. While we were getting comfortable his assistant Abeline Watkins from Ottawa Canada introduces us to John Christmas who introduced a scam trading platform called dexfly (h5.dexflypro.org and gave a few winning trades which we practiced on dexfly. Then he started asking people to buy subscription to new crypto currency call ico promising great returns. This all started in June 2024, by August i had 550 worth of crypto currency because when others were throwing in tens of thousands, i didn't because I am new to the idea, in August i had check my dexfly account for the balance, i couldn't access it. I contact customer service for dexfly at 478-305-3535. I was told to pay $400 in order to get access to my account. So I called John Christmas because he introduced us to the scam and he said go ahead and pay it, and I refused.now the dexfly is gone John Christmas and Abeline Watkins all disappeared in to thin air ( fly by night operations) so I need to warn others. Because first of all they made it so difficult to withdraw from the account. So at anytime they can shut it down and ask for ransom or take your money with them. I have Google dexfly it's no were to be found. So they know exactly what they were doing.

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- Mount Rainier, MD, USA • Aug 13, 2024
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They promise to teach others how to trade crypto and stocks and have you invest on a platform called dexfly and suddenly close your account for not paying users or technical fee and require you pay $400 so you can have access to you account on dexfly

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• Aug 13, 2024
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They reached out to me on Instagram claiming to be from fidelity investments and then through email. At that time I didn’t think they were scammers bc they were proving to be real bc everything was okay since they were doing things through PayPal and then when they changed to crypto that’s when they kept saying more and more fees needed to release a profit but it’s always lies and they say they will release an amount but nothing the best they released was $114. Now they are telling me to finish paying $2000 to get my profit and if not they are threatening that better business bureau will find my info and be threatening me and they are saying I will be sued and they will make sure I am in a lot of debt and will involve my family that our life is ruined. They have also been very disrespectful and using derogatory words at me. I want my money back from them and for them to be caught and arrested

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- Deer Park, NY, USA • Jul 03, 2024
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Randy Abreu and Paloma Sabatwr Rodriguez have opened up several shell companies and scammed individuals of their hard earned money posing as we were investing money with a return when I’m at the end they did not return no money they just opened under corporation motor parkway deli with illicit funds after they scaled hundreds of people

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- Morristown, SD, USA • Jun 27, 2024
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Seen a ad on Facebook about a new ai trading system they wanted to try out. At first it gave trades for the regular stock exchange which I found very interesting. Then they decided since everyone in the group was interested in crypto to test it out there. I watch the messages come in about how much profit they were making and screenshot of the trades. Seemed real enough to me so I gathered up some funds I had in crypto already and put my information in got things set up and started doing some trades. Following things in the group message system so i could chat with at least 50 other people wether they were real or not i dont know but it seemed like they each had there own personality and different ideas at times. They never seemed pushy as to get us money faster except maybe a little when it was you could make money way faster if you had more in each trade. Supposedly making money but then came a profit potentially like way to good but needed some funds. Well they had a loan application right there so did that and made the trade but afterwards I couldn't do anything with the account even though it Supposedly had 3.9million in it.

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• 7 h ago
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My life was almost ruined because I went into investing with a crypto currency agent on the internet.. I was scammed and lost $500,000..
All hope was lost because they kept asking for more money untill I saw a review about a recovery company who helped me...
I'm leaving this out here incase you have been a victim of cryptocurrency scam, contact them.
Www.retrievalxpert.com
teleg: CoinRetrieval
Whatsapp 1 (281)497-9565

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- Fairfax, VA, USA • Jun 23, 2024
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I fell for a cash flip scam on instagram I got so brainwashed into sending the money and next day I realized it was a scam the scammer told me that she has my money in her bank account.the instagram account was @ashley_thompson_25 I catfished her and she wanted the money since her mom died the reference number to the money gram wire is 62115363 I called the next day and the money was picked up since I wanted to cancel the transaction

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- Bethlehem, PA, USA • Jun 21, 2024
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someone found out on my instagram that i was going through a rough time than and offer me to help me get easy money by making a small investment told me only to put $200 down for they can make me $2000 and than keep saying either i owe a late fee or another ******** *** reason but i was only able to pay through cashapp to username $jayyy18766 and its a female acomplish who keeps changing her profile and account on instagram first is was vikmarie than it was olivia perez and now it's nicky__lewis__ which is currently active.

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• Jun 19, 2024
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Elitestackmarkets is a place to avoid if you value your hard-earned money. Investing with them can result in your funds disappearing without a trace, leaving you unable to withdraw. I personally experienced this issue and reported it to the authorities. Spectrum-Crest is the company that assisted me in recovering my funds, after which I promptly closed my account. If you have also fallen victim to Elitestackmarkets, I recommend reporting your situation to Spectrum-Crest.

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- Wimauma, FL, USA • May 26, 2024
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An investment contract was signed with the indicated company directly with the owner Daniel Siboni and he disappeared with the money

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• Nov 16, 2024
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THIS INFORMATION IS TRUE "DANIEL SIBONI" IS KNOWN SCAMMER IF YOU SEE THIS MESSAGE CONTACT ME I HAVE THE LIST OF INVESTORS.

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• Jun 05, 2024
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Is not true information

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• Apr 29, 2024
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I was invited to an investment group and assured that initially, the first 100 days of stock advice would be free in an effort to prove themselves credible. After that a contract would be signed to pay them a percentage of my profits. This was a pump and dump situation. After a few successful buy and sell opportunities, on Fri, April 12, I was asked to invest in IZM stock at $40.77. I bought 183 shares. Mon, April 15, I bought 100 more shares at $47.50. total investment of $17,014.53 CDN. the shares were to be held for a few days and then sold by the end of the week for a proposed 100% profit. It did rise for the next day. Woke up on April 17 to see the stock price had plummeted after 10s of millions of shares were dumped. I was instructed to sell ASAP. If instructions were not followed, there would be no further stock advice. I sold 283 shares at $4.58. Lost $15,271.07. I was told any loss incurred from their advice would be covered. No longer getting messages from either Wisdom Capital or Elena Ross, the "investment assistant".

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• Apr 22, 2024
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This scam involved mimicking successful trades on the xtb-online.vip/h5 website. When attempts were made to withdraw, the site then demanded a 25% tax to be paid before funds could be withdrawn.

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- Garnet Valley, PA, USA • Mar 24, 2024
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My encounter with Felicia Paul began with a modest investment of $700, promising a hefty return of $6000. However, her demands escalated, asking for more funds under various pretenses such as withdrawal codes ($1000), stop losses ($500), verification fees ($1000), and clearance fees ($1500), totaling an exorbitant amount. Despite promises of immediate withdrawals, I found myself trapped in a web of deceit for two agonizing weeks, culminating in another demand for an additional $4000. It was then I realized the painful truth: I had been scammed out of $10,000.

As a Scientist holding a PhD, I am deeply ashamed of my lapse in judgment. Yet, I refuse to let this experience go unnoticed. I’m committed to spreading awareness and filing complaints against these scammers. Names like Felicia Paul and Martha J Gillian may be aliases, but the damage they inflict is very real.

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- Selah, WA, USA • Mar 21, 2024
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They e-mailed requesting bulk product, in the amount of $10,000+. Attempted to gain a line of credit with us. Provided FAKE references to get credit. Including Firth Horizon Bank, Valtronic Technologies (USA) Inc, Jacob Engineering, and Mid States Aluminum LLC. None of which do business with Sonic. He provided fake email addresses and phone numbers.

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- New York, NY, USA • Mar 13, 2024
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This website is scamming people for a lot of money. They use identity fraud to present themself as Bluerock company and they put a lot of "partners" logos. They say they are a trust company and ask people to buy shares from them and they are not licensed to do that. Also the "buy and sell" crypto for what again they are not licensed to do. And on their login page usersetrade.com they pose as Raiffeisen bank escrow account that are also fake in order to steal money... they have 3 domains usersetrade.com and bluerock.center and bluerock.email please help to stop them!!! thank you!

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- New York, NY, USA • Mar 13, 2024
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I a m writing to lodge a formal complaint against the British company Leap Sharing Technology co.,Ltd, which has engaged in fraudulent activities. The activation of the fraudulent operation is as followCompany name: leap sharing technology co.,ltd

Fake website: www.leap189.com

Phone numbers: +44 730-766-4358, +44 730-766-4358

Phone numbers for local managers or marketing as they claim that we communicate with them in Telegram or WhatsApp only with written text messages and we cannot contact them by phone as they say only messages in Telegram or WhatsApp and here are others

His name is Addison +44 7455-717-303

His name is Ambrose +44 784-808-7412

His name is bernie +44 934-172-7853

+1 646 820 9222

Address: Mortgage London, 25 Old Broad Street, London

The above-mentioned website, which is allegedly associated with Mortgage London, has engaged in deceptive practices, misleading potential customers, and engaging in fraudulent transactions. Despite presenting itself as a legitimate financial entity, it operated with malicious intent, potentially causing financial harm and suffering to unsuspecting individuals.

Numerous attempts to call the phone numbers provided have been unsuccessful, which also indicates a lack of transparency and accountability on the part of the company. Furthermore, the address listed appears to be just a front, which contributes to the mystery surrounding their operations.

As a victim of this fraudulent scheme, I demand immediate action to investigate and shut down Laep Sharing Technology.,Ltd's illegal activities. In addition, I appeal to the regulatory authorities to intervene and ensure that such deceptive practices are stopped, and to take appropriate measures to protect consumers from falling victim to similar scams in the future.

I am confident that swift and decisive action will be taken to address this matter and bring the perpetrators of this fraud to justice.

sincerely,

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