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They have called from in excess of 20+ phone numbers which mostly list from Que. asking for me to continue with my account to deposit 250 in order to have access to the investments after numerous calls they change their tactics to say that I have an invested amount waiting for me that belongs to me even though I said, I never deposited or started an account and they continue to argue with me. Yes it’s all yours it’s just waiting for you and they’ve called several times different locations and I’m assuming they’re using some kind of a router to change their location. They resorted to text messages in the beginning. It was an email which I blocked and when I confront them and say you guys have called me 1520 times or more from different locations and they’re saying oh well we never called you before , I called them scammers and hung up. Thank God I didn’t go through with anything else.

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- East Jordan, MI, USA
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They said if I invested $1500 that I would.

Get a Total of $9,000 through them investing it in bitcoin, But then when the day came to pay up, they never could and required more money because they invested my money. The wrong way or something anyways long story short. I got screwed out of money. My dad who was no longer alive now. Lost as well, So I would really like you guys to get this money for me. I can't afford financial loss like this especially now. I'm the last man In my family, You said his name was mark Andrew.

And has an Instagram page.

I can show you the images. They've just recently sent me trying to get more money from me. And I won't do it!

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- Mineral, VA, USA
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I was contacted by a person i have known for years about bitcoin tractions. I thought it was legit. It started with asking for $100 and has ended with asking for more and more money. I used bitcoun through cash app and also sent moeny via zelle. I kept getting told " this is it I promise" now i am out of $850 and they are asking for another $400 to again complete the transaction. I tried recovering money through my bank unsuccessfully. At one point i was asked to provide my Facebook user name and password. Next i was told to send a video wishing someone a happy birthday to receive my payment .

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- Washington, DC, USA
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I wascontacted by them through WhatsApp, and initially, they requested $200.00 as an initial investment, promising free trades in return. I transferred the $200.00 to them. After two weeks, I received a message from them stating that I needed to maintain a minimum balance of $30,000 to gain access to VIP membership and continue trading with ST5-VP1 privileges. At that point, I had earned around $22,000, so I wired them an additional $1,000. However, they then demanded an additional sum of approximately $7,000.00, which I sent via crypto.com to upgrade to VIP1. I was granted access, but...!!!! When I attempted to withdraw some of my earnings, they refused to release any funds unless I sent them an additional $5,000, citing system detection issues as their excuse. This fraudulent operation involves individuals who go by the names Cindy and Jason Thomas. It appears that they manipulate the price chart they provide, making it seem lower than the actual crypto price.

This trick IMO causes people to invest, driving up the price as the chart starts at a lower point. It's essential to report this scam to the FBI or the appropriate authorities responsible for investigating such crimes. These scammers are defrauding hundreds of individuals! Please be cautious and do not trust anything they say. Keep records of your WhatsApp conversations as evidence of the scam.

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- Oklahoma City, OK, USA
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A friend Tim ******** messaged me on Facebook telling me about investing in Bitcoin mining. He said he has made a lot of money and suggested I contact his mentor Paul *****. After investing a couple hundred dollars Paul Leach started mentioning fees I have to pay to proceed to collect my profit. Paul had me login to a peakprotrade website to see my profit which at the time showed 63,000. The fees were 2,000 to 3,000 each. I confirmed this with my friend Tim and both said multiple times that I only had one more fee to pay. I stopped paying the fees after I realized it was a scam.

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- Hitchcock, OK, USA
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The person came across as someone locally known as Stephanie ************ Snider in Kingfisher, OK. They are a very well known & respected family in the community (the **************). I thought I could trust "her" and everything was fine after my initial investment of $1,000 to do Bitcoin trading. Well, the trading cycle came to an end (about 3 weeks after the initial investment) and "she" said that after all the trades were completed, I profited $76,000 (I was only expecting at most $4500). I said that was awesome and how do I go about withdrawing it? "She" told me that I had to pay the fees and the trading % of $15,200 before I could get the $76,000. I said well, you can take the fees out of the $76,000 and that would be good. "She" said no, it needs to be a wire transfer to her Coinbase wallet then I'd get the money. I told her no and that I had enough trouble getting a $1,000 to invest and I sure couldn't get $15,200 to wire her. She refused to answer me or say anything for several days, then asked when I was going to wire the money. I told "her" again, that she could take the fees out of the $76,000 and if "she" couldn't do that, to just give me my original investment of $1,000 back and forget about the rest. "She" blocked me on Messenger and haven't heard anything else.

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- Lincoln, NE, USA
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They promise me, if I invest in their platform, I will get some revenue in interest and gain money to pay my debts. she also promise she is an Expert doing trading, have a lot of years of expertise. So I trust it put in the minimum amount. Then they did trade put a crazy amount in the platform call Boomoptionsmarket.com and asking me to pay a fee before my 1rst withdrawal. I questioned the amount is too much and she said is because she is good in trading.
Everything was made and talk in Instagram Account name. createwealthwithpaige.
email: [email protected]

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- Manhattan, KS, USA
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At first, we added friends on Twitter, and later we added cable friends. Through chatting, she gradually gained my trust. Then induced me to invest in this platform, from August 21 to August 30, and accumulated to 22,700 dollars. In order to gain my trust, she helped me invest part of it. Later, I was told that I could withdraw money, but I had to pay taxes, and I realized that I had been cheated.

Her Twitter account is @LeslieG72128016. Her telegraph nickname is emily9300. The address of the fraud software is https://kcxdmc.com/#/. All my investments were transferred to KUPAYES through OKX, and the TRC20 address used was: TH6MCKYmSTfaefaUQQVXVLdsXpux7bQZFk

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Requested Affiliate Marketing info, to work from home, they invited me to speak to them on What's App. Asked me to become an investor with $300 and within 6 days I would be able to withdraw my profit. On the 6th day they reached out to me and asked me to withdraw my profit and pay a 10% brokerage fee $1,780, once paid, they asked me to pay the taxes $1,060, once paid, they asked me to pay the transfer of fund fees $1,200, once paid, they said I needed to pay $750 for taking so long on making all of these payments. I never received the "profits". They blocked me on TikTok since I started calling them out on their videos as scammers and they wouldn't return my money. Insisted if I pay the last fee I would receive my profit immediately.

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I personally found the sarcastic attitude right sad and awkward when I asked to get my money back from the investment account that had been started after they started requesting more money for unknown fees. The prices of the fees seemed to double in dollars 500 to 1000 1000 to 2000 nothing they did or requested made any sense.

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She said to me if i give her $200 that i would recieve $2,950.47 and then she asked me for another $130.00 to the pay the taxes for me to recieve my payment and now she is asking me for another $135 for her to verify and pay the ScamPulse.com so that it can process the payment

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Kevin and I had a mutual friends which ended up being his nephew. I had messaged his nephew, Jason to see how they were connected. Jason said that that was his uncle and I told him that we were going to reach out to him about investing and he said that he saw that he had his uncle was doing that but I hadn’t asked him about it but to go ahead and ask him about it and that it should be OK. So my husband reached out to Kevin and we ended up putting $1800 into crypto and set everything up with their company and were making profits. Kevin would reach out to my husband every day and ask how everything was going and my husband felt that he had a good relationship with him and all was going well. By the end of week two we were told that we needed to add at least $250 to our accounts because our number of transactions had been Mets and they continue making profits we needed to put in more money. So we did and The day, we attempted to cash out we were told that he needed $1500 in order to make sure that we are who we say we are. I told my husband that sounds fishy because we’ve already verified who we were. I told my husband that if he felt that he could trust this guy to go ahead and do it and I guess we’ll see if it’s a scam or not. My husband still had contact with Kevin until the morning after and then Kevin ghosted him. No deposit into our checking accounts no nothing. iMessage Kevin and told him that we were absolutely devastated and then I was ghosted as well. I reached out to Jason and I gave him a heads up or not to try his uncles business and that we were scammed I just want to make sure other people out there know that this is a scam. His Facebook looks legit.

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It was a group of people who introduced themselves us a school for helping people to make a good investment case with buying stocks thru their investment platform. They were contacting me and convinced to open an account with them and sent over $2000 there, also they said that their services are free and if my investments will be successful I would pay them a part of it only in this case. But after some time all my money disappeared and I’ve got blocked on that platform and never received my money back. After I figured out that I was scammed all this guys were gone. Please, suggest, what I have to do for get my money back and to stop these people from doing this. Thank you

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was approached by a supposed friend to invest with a good return, invested some money and for the past month there has been fees, upon fees, upon fees to supposedly get the money sent to my Zelle account. Today, they are wanting more money to release the money to my Zelle account! This has been a month long process that started with a certain amount, showed a huge amount in my account and still have not been paid!

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I invested money into a trading market called T-OTC and when I try to withdraw my remaining balance that I accrued I’m told in a notification that the withdrawal is rejected for whatever is unknown. It was easy and simple for me to transfer money to the trading market via cash app and through Coinbase, but when I try to withdraw the money that I have invested I am told the withdrawal is rejected. So I feel as though I’m being scammed and all I want is my money and no problems that’s all. I’ve tried numerous times to withdraw the money and I get told the same thing every time without explanation. I even reached out to the app customer service via messaging and just completely got ran in circles with no proper help or explanation.

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I signed up with coinivate and they were to do online trading for me. When I later attempted to take some money out of the account they wouldn't let me.

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I used a broker that was on Facebook to invest my money. I was told that I could invest my $500 and watch it grow and see the investment multiply. After see the investment multiply then She asked me to invest a full amount of $1000. I did invest the $512 more. Then before the Profit pay out that was to happen in 2 days. I get a email to add more money in order to be able to withdraw my profits and to make the signal work for more trading then shared a possible amount of money that I would be able to profit more from the added money.

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- Lawrenceville, GA, USA
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FTC report (max 3500 characters): -12/2021: introduced to Daniel Mangena through friend. Dan met me on Zoom, coached, helped me have certainty around coaching sales conversations. Planted seed for doing franchising. He introduced me to Lance Graulich
(franchise broker). I opened a LaVida Massage in 11/2021. -09/2022 I was sharing w/ Dan about cash flow issues due to SBA loan disbursement delays by bank. He urged me to join his "financial freedom in a box" program. It uses CC financing to start multiple
business streams, generating $2k/mo, as little as 2 wks to a few months post-financing, growing to $5k/mo+ over time. I trusted him, signed up. He charged me $10k to start asap, sent a contract that guaranteed income of $60k/yr w/ zero out of pocket costs. Said the minimum payments / interest payments would be paid by him until businesses are making $60k. -Dan and team set up LLC "Live Well Make a Difference" in my name, registered in WY. Team received my signature, Social Sec number, many other sensitive details, including my bank account to send inflow $ to. -Dan's team connected me with Rudiger Merz (www.growingwithcredit.com) who was to be paid from Dan's team (but charged me directly) to guide opening cc’s and using all 3 of my LLC's to get funding. Banks involved: American Express, US Bank, Truist, Regions, Bank of America, PNC, Capital on Tap (UK) and more. Dan's team sent permission slips w/ card info to charge up to the maximum credit, and promptly charged them. -The charges started in 09/2022 for the first banks, continuing through rest of 2022. -Rudiger's company also charged me directly when they should not have. -To date over $79k were charged on my cards, mostly to "FFIAB", some to "www.dreamwithdan.com" and another $4,264+ in min. payments and int. charges were never given. Further, I took out a personal loan through BOA to pay off a card that had 30%+ int. charges without any promo offer. -Dan’s team weren't sending min. payments on time, made it difficult to get payments. Kept blaming me for delays/issues, said Dan is taking money out of own pocket to set up businesses + that I need to be patient, and various reasons for delays. -They stopped making payments in 03/2023 for the min. and int. payments, explained anyway, those payments were “expenses” on the business, and were just a courtesy. Gave option to charge cards more to then make the card payments. -Team communicated via Telegram, I never received concrete details on the streams. I wrote a message via WhatsApp in late Dec 2022 to Dan to come out of this program, had a call with him. Dan was very aggressive, blamed me for performance issues, implied I’m not believing in abundance, etc. I was crying during the call. -In April gave concrete timeframe for 1st stream payment, yet no payment came. More excuses -On May 4, another victim showed me an article + podcast showing Dan’s connection with Lindani Mangena in UK, a con artist who was jailed for similar. Later, they connected me with more victims who felt scammed with a similar story: a 70yo woman who lost retirement savings, someone else who had accounts opened under her name without permission, and more.
Research by one of the victims showed connections of family members + other associates from Lindani / Daniel. -Dan currently advertising program, luring more victims into similar programs -My computer hacked (maybe by Dan’s team or someone else).
Identity theft. Sensitive docs may be stolen and used.

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Hi I was also scammed by this man and his team. Nearly identical story as you.

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Hi - I just saw this. Thank you for being brave and posting. I was ripped off by Dan also to the tune of several hundreds of thousands of dollars. I'm now considering all my options to pursue this from both civil and criminal charges. Do you want to connect?

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- Bradenton, FL, USA
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A man named Michael started commenting on my Instagram post and said to message him about a business proposal. They said I would just have to send $150 and would receive $5000. Then after said I hade to send another $300 to be able to gain access to the funds. Then requested an additional $450. Refused to send any money back and just kept saying this was the last step and everything would be sent to my Cashapp

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- Far Rockaway, NY, USA
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It’s a fake trader company of stocks they pretend like they can show you a full proof method to make money on the stock market when you send them the start up fee you never get your package and you never here from them again.

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