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Scammer's website www.adultfriendfinder.com
Scammer's address Miami, FL, USA
Victim Location ON L5J 4R8, CAN
Total money lost $20,000
Type of a scam Romance
During our conversations, she described her history as being raised by her biological parents till age 7 and then her parents separated and her mother (who she claimed is Singaporean) met her step father who was a Forex expert working for the US Financial services (I dont remember the details) and stated that after a few years, she started trusting her step father. She described that she was divorced from her previous marriage to a model who used drugs and duped her of 2 million Singaporean dollars. She then got back on her feet, invested in her mother's personalized Jewelry business and expanded it commercially to make millions and that through the guidance of her step father (name not provided) she would make money through Forex trading, giving her a 15-20% return every time she traded. These talks were mixed with talks of looking for a partner who is older in age and settled. I have been going through a separation and in an emotionally vulnerable state, and of course, stupidly enough, ended up giving her a lot of personal information including sharing my license to open a trading account and also details of my family etc. We continued to connect on Whatsapp and I was attracted to her and stupidly enough believed every thing she said to me and shared, all the time realizing that was I was doing was something I would not do otherwise but this person seemed special so I should trust her. I am usually not a person who trusts others easily and even when sharing information with banks, I used secure clouds or physical fax etc to ensure security of my personal information. So this was clearly a moment of weakness and vulnerability which I regret.
She then guided me to a forex account with brokergage www.isandisofx.com. This is new to me and on her insistence, I agreed to try Forex trading using a dummy account through this brokerage company on meta trader 5, a forex trading platform. She guided me through trading scenarios and following her instructions, the trading account made 15-20% each time I traded on the dummy account. She then encouraged me to open a proper brokerage trading account with www.isandisofx.com. I reviewed their information and a couple of website describing this company as a good company to trade on. Again the search was done emotionally and not logically, missing lots of indicators that something is not right.
She instructed me to open an account with www.newton.co, a cryptocurrency platform for Canadians and then transfer money into this account, purchase Ethereum cryptocurrency and then transfer that to the personal account on www.isandisofx.com. The account number that I got on this website had the following identification:
1. ID: s438t8jp
2. Brokerage account number: 80300049
pass word and username were my email that I am not adding to this description as advised by your website.
I then transferred CAD $1000-00 to the crypto account on Newton.co and then transferred this to the www.isandisofx.com account on the app for this forex trading company.
The first time we did trade with the 1000-00, we got a profit of approximately 16%. This was following her instructions on meta trader 5 account that I had opened as per her advice. She then encouraged me to take out some money and have a nice meal. I did not. She then asked me to transfer more money. I did transfer 9000 CAD and then 10000 CAD amounting to a total of 20,000 CAD that I took from my TFSA account. The third time I was going to transfer another 10,000 dollars, www.newton.co blocked my transfer. When I approached customer service with www.newton.co, I was informed that they have blocked this transfer to the address provided as they believe this company www.isandisofx.com is a scam company. By this time I had also shared my license with this person as I was having difficulty uploading my identification on the broker website. When I realized this, then I started searching the number she (or he) was using to communicate with me. This person had told me that she was back in Miami at the time. She had by then also shared a wire transfer document of her transferring money from her personal bank account to the brokerage account to and fro which had her alleged date of birth (21st September 1990), her name, her address and the bank account number, signatory of the bank etc. I checked these addresses and the bank address and all seemed to be correct. Unfortunately I deleted this document in a haste along with other things she had shared.
I then started searching for the photos that she had shared with me by using google lens and found out that the photos were of a model Carina Zaveline. I messaged this model that her photos were being used by some one else.
I had already transferred 20,000 dollars and through the forex trading platform, and her guidance, a profit on around 5000 USD (approx 8000 CAD) was made but the amount stayed in the brokerage account above. I realized that I was being scammed based on the review of the information through google lens and the concern raised by Newton.co who responded to my query on two separate occasions explaining to me that they will not allow any more transfers to this brokerage as it is a scam, they have refused to allow others money to be returned and that the account information that they have provided me including the crypto wallet address is a shared address and that I am not the only one who has access to that account.
So I made up a story that I will be transferring 300,000 dollars from my corporate account to Newton.co but Newton was not allowing me to transfer it to the brokerage. The person then advised me to open a NDAX account, another crypto trading platform for Canadians and suggested that I transfer through NDAX. I, in an attempt to get my money back, made up a false PDF document with some personal and a local bank address information (In Mississauga, Ontario) on it to ensure that she (or he) believes that this is an original document (I had already shared this personal information with her through my license). This document was a wire transfer document stating that I had transferred 300,000 CAD to my NDAX account and I said that this will take 5 business days. I asked for my initial investment of 20,000 to be transferred to my personal account on Newton.co (money arriving in Newton.co account was not blocked). The excuse used was that this was my son's school fee and that the 300,000 CAD was corporate funds so I needed to open a corporate account with the brokerage and would feel more confident in doing so once my 20k came back. I kept the additional funds that were obtained through profit in the brokerage account to not raise suspicion. I am not sure why and how, but I guess in the anticipation that I was trapped and that I was transferring a significantly large sum, the brokerage transferred money in the form of crypto back to my Newton account. two to three days after that, this person then asked me to confirm whether the 300k had been deposited and I stated that it was in my NDAX account and I was waiting for corporate documents from my accountant to open the corporate account with the brokerage (www.isandisofx.com) and then transfer the money there. She stated that she wants me to trade what ever funds I have in my personal brokerage account with isandisofx in the next trading that her step father has advised. In that she guided me somewhat differently. I did that, suspecting that I might loose the funds (they were not mine anyway). This did happen and I ended up in $31-00 USD in negative equity on the forex account. She then laughed on whatsapp messaging and stated that she had fooled me, that I was a bad student and did not buy into her advise and hence she tricked me into loosing all the money that I had made. I then told her that I was aware she was scamming me and that the photos were of someone else. She and I then had some too and fro altercations on whatsapp, she said she is going to use my license to get a credit in my name using my identification to cause me to loose more and then blocked me. Her facebook account remained active for a couple of weeks after that until day before yesterday.
I have since reported to Transunion and my banks. Equifax will not put a credit alert asking for a police complaint to be filed first and the police has refused to file a complaint stating that as I have received my money back, they cannot classify this as fraud or potential identity theft and asked me to come back to them if there is any suspicious activity on my credit report. I requested them to file the report so that I can approach equifax for a credit alert and that other can be protected. They refused to log in a complaint stating that even the 20k was a small amount and they would only log in a complaint if the amount was >50,000 CAD. They advised me to approach better business bureau, hence this attempt.
I continued my interactions with this person on whatsapp in an attempt to keep her engaged hoping that I will be able to approach law enforcement while she is actively using the number and Identity. Unfortunately for majority of this time, I was travelling in India and the police in Mississauga would not log in a complaint on the phone. When I returned home, I approached them in person as above and no action was really taken.
I have tried to attach whatsapp chats that I engaged in with this person for your information but the page does not allow me to go to the next page after attaching a document. I can send this separately if required.