I am a 63 year old male disabled and had my life savings stolen from me by a fake investment company. I was invested in the stock market with what money I had from an accident that has injured my back and I have had 3 surgeries and I am still in pain 24/7. I was trying to invest in the market on my own and I was not making any money and I could not work because of my injury but I needed more money to live. So I looked into having someone invest for me and I did my due diligence and the company came up with everything looking good. There were people recommending this company and I figured I would invest a little of my money and see how they did. I was Leary at first but the returns on my money were good. So to make sure everything was real and this was truly a good company I withdrew my money and I got back what was requested. So I’m thinking this company is legit and made some nice returns so I invested back in with my whole account because they were doing much better than I was and the account was growing nicely and as time went by it was getting pretty substantial and I wanted to take out my original investment and put some aside for each of my daughters and feel that they would have some money in case my account took a turn everyone would have a nest egg. I requested money and they said since it was over $500,000 I had to pay $100,000 insurance to get my money. I was telling them that’s ridiculous and they said that’s the policy. I said there was nothing about insurance once I got over any amount of money about this or I would have withdrawn before it reached that level. They said I had to pay or I would get locked out of my account and I would not be able to access my money. I said that’s BS just take it from my funds and they said it had to come from me. I was in shock and told them I did not have that kind of money and why would I have to give you more of my money to get my money. I knew I had been scammed and I cried like a baby. How could this happen to me. My life was looking very dark and I was so mad at myself for letting this happen. I called the police and the y said come in and fill out a report. I said what happens then? They said SLED would take it from there. I called SLED and they were not very interested and said that I should fill out a form that goes to the FBI and I did that. Did not get any response from FBI and went into debt to hire a firm that specialized in recovering stolen investment money. They located the company but it was not where it was supposed to be. Had a lawyer contact them and they were not even in California they were out of the country. It’s been 3 years and I am never going to see my money from that company. They have changed the name and disappeared. I had many sleepless nights and thoughts about being so stupid and ending it all but my daughters would have been devastated and I am going to my daughters wedding the end of this month. I sold my truck so I could help with the wedding costs and if anyone could find something in there heart to help me it would be very much appreciated. Thank you for reading this and God bless everyone.