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Scammer's website tu-anhboutique.com
Scammer's address 5459 N 22nd Street, Arlington, VA 22205, USA
Scammer's email [email protected]
Country United States
Victim Location MD 20850, USA
Total money lost $71,271
Type of a scam Investment
I have known Tu-Anh for approximately 15 years and, prior to this incident, I both trusted her, and considered her as a friend. She first approached me about this investment opportunity in mid-November 2023. She eventually convinced me to invest in cryptocurrency through an app called "Web Mining Pool". Tu-Anh persuaded to make an initial investment on November 17, 2023 via bank wire transfer of USD $11,000 to a C2C merchant account in Hong Kong, which was credited to my MetaMask Web3 wallet and quickly appeared to yield high daily interest returns. Encouraged by this, I continued to invest larger and larger sums over the next few weeks until I had deposited a total of $50,725.88 by early December.
In addition, during this period, Tu-Anh walked me and others through several trades – all profitable, for which she would charge a fee of either 20% or 30% of the profits gained through the trades. Between December 4, 2023 and December 25, 2023, I paid Tu-Anh a total of $7,657.38 in commissions for what she represented to me as profitable trades. On December 17, 2023, Tu-Anh asked me if she could borrow $50,000 from me. Because I was still seeing profits and growth on the trading URL, I still had confidence in the platform. However, I did not have $50,000 in cash to loan her. She and her associate Nicole Green encouraged me to tap into my retirement funds and/or take out a home equity loan so that I could loan her money. This did not feel comfortable, and I was finally coaxed and coached into loaning her $21,111. On December 23, 2023, Tu-Anh “paid me back” by insisting on depositing funds $12,888 of the $21,111 into the phishing URL and $8223 in the form of a check which I promptly deposited back into my bank account.
On December 24, 2023, the entirety of my wallet’s funds, which then reflected a value of $105,258 – including the profitable trades, was drained and I received an extortion letter from the phishing/Trade URL’s customer service which stated that I was a “Lucky VIP User” and my funds had been auto-pledged to the Ethereum Public Network. The message demanded that I “pledge” an additional ing $65,000 in the next 7 days in return for a reward of 118.88 ETH. If I did not pay, then the trading platform threatened to charge me a fee of 5% of the pledge of $170,000. I was in no position to pay any extortion fee. In response, Tu-Anh, acting with Nicole Green and Colleen Wolak instructed me to “make an offer” to Tu-Anh’s “angel investor client.” I had no offer to make at this point. On December 29, 2023 they sent me a promissory note stating that they would loan me the $65,000 pledge, and I would be required to pay them back the $65,000 plus the reward of 118.88 ETH by January 31, 2023. I refused to sign this document and sent it to the Adobe/DocuSign fraud department.
In total, including the investments, the commission fees, and the loan to Tu-Anh, I lost an estimated $71,271.26 to this scam. I am aware of two other former friends who were also victimized: Jeanne Scott, of Fairfax, Virginia, who shared with me that she lost between $600-700,000 to Tu-Anh’s scam and Zsolt Posgai, of Sterling, VA who shared with me that he lost approximately $100,000 to the scam.
In hindsight, I believe that Tu-Anh Love was involved in an elaborate criminal conspiracy designed to defraud victims like me out of large sums of money. I implore law enforcement to thoroughly investigate this scam and bring Tu-Anh and others she worked with who were responsible for this scam to justice. I would be happy to provide any additional details that may aid in your investigation.
I have reported this incident to the following channels:
• ******** ******** **** * ******** ****** ******** *** ***** * *********** ****** ** ************************************ * ********* **** *** ***** * ********** ****** ****** * ****** * ********** * **** **** **** ****** * *********** ********* ***************** ***** *** **** ******** ** *** ******** ************* **** ** ******* ********* ****** ****** ***** ********* ******* ****** ******** * *** ***** ******** ***** ********* ************************* ***** * ** *** **** * ****** ******* *** ***** * **** ** *** ****** **** * ********* ** ** *********** * *** ***** ****** ***** ******** ****** ******* ********* My losses to Tu-Anh Love’s social engineering scam total $71,271.26, broken down as follows:
• $50,725.88 in Bank Wire Transfers from my Citibank account to what I now understand were fake Hong Kong Bank accounts (most likely re-routed to Tu-Anh or her client)
• $7,657.38 in “commission fees” paid to Tu-Anh Love, LLC via Zelle Payment App
• $20,000 – check paid to Tu-Anh Love, LLC as a loan. In return for this loan, Tu-Anh promised to pay me back by January 31, 2024 with 20% interest.
• $1,111 – Venmo paid to Tu-Anh Love as a loan. She promised to pay me back by January 31, 2024 with 20% interest.
• Received from Tu-Anh: Check for $8223, dated December 23, 2023.
Trade / Phishing URLs used and shared by Tu-Anh to me and others she involved in this scam:
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Transactions Wire Transfers – Details + Screenshots:
1. 11/17/2023, $11,111
Hang Seng Bank Limited, 83 Des Voeux Road Central
Central and Western District Central Hong Kong
ZHONG SILIAN
024
371676610888
HASEHKHH
11:21AM
2. 11/22/2023, $6,304
Hang Seng Bank Limited, 83 Des Voeux Road Central
Central and Western District Central Hong Kong
ZHONG SILIAN
024
371676610888
HASEHKHH
10:00AM
3. 11/30/2023, $17,913.88
Hang Seng Bank Limited, 83 Des Voeux Road Central
Central and Western District Central Hong Kong
ZHOU YOU
024
935094037888
HASEHKHH
11:15AM
4. 12/03/2023, 1469-3186, $8304
Hang Seng Bank Limited, 83 Des Voeux Road Central
Central and Western District Central Hong Kong
ZHOU YOU
024
935094037888
HASEHKHH
9:16AM
5. 12/08/2023, 1469-3194, $7204
Hang Seng Bank Limited, 83 Des Voeux Road Central
Central and Western District Central Hong Kong
LI GUISHENG
024
371676958888
HASEHKHH, 10:15AM
Transactions to Tu-Anh
1. 12/4/2023 – $999.99 Zelle transfer to Tu-Anh Love
2. 12/11/2023 - $1474.69 Zelle transfer to Tu-Anh Love
3. 12/24/2023 - $2200.00 Zelle transfer to Tu-Anh Love
4. 12/25/2023 - $2982.70 Zelle transfer to Tu-Anh Love
5. 12/17/2023 - Personal Check of $20,000 to Tu-Anh Love, LLC
6. 12/19/2023 - Venmo to @tu-anh-love for $1,111
Received from Tu-Anh:
1. 12/23/2023 - Check for $8223 (as partial loan repayment of the $21,111 I loaned her on 12/17 and 12/19/2023).