This is all true and how it all happened. I believe it is termed PIG BUTCHERING.
This is all true and how it all happened. I believe it is termed PIG BUTCHERING.
A young woman called Diana direct messages me on Twitter and seems genuine and starts to build a rapport with me.
My profile already states I’m a husband and father, so I was not interested in romance, and she acknowledged that.
My gut instinct was to block her and ignore, but she’s very persistent to the point of me not being able to ignore her.
Claims to be a financially well off after retiring from a reputable financial institution and trading crypto currencies every now and then.
Has given her a great lifestyle, not just help with paying bills, she claims.
Introduces me to a crypto trading platform thru WhatsApp.
I start depositing small amounts at first.
The woman walks me thru live trading and shows me the profits in real time after seconds.
She also shows me pictures of her massive gains with the same trades.
Of course, unbeknown to me these were just numbers manipulated on a screen.
Obviously I am intrigued and fell for it at this point. I deposit some more to the amount that was in my checking account at the time, about $4k.
I figured I could use this to trade and then withdraw soon after. After trading and seemingly making a profit, I entered my bank details to withdraw funds.
Although the words “success” flashed on the system for a second, I noticed nothing had deposited in my bank account the next day.
Guided by Diana, I hit the online service button on the trading platform, and live support tells me the the bank transfer failed due to a mistake in the account number,
which they showed in a snapshot of the bank transfer receipt.
Online support then said that system restrictions were triggered by the incorrect bank account number where I had to deposit the equivalent amount in dollars in order to remove withdraw restrictions.
At the same a deadline was given where 2% was being withdrawn each day from my balance as a penalty!
Not having that much left in my bank account, I needed to secure a small loan with my car as collateral.
After collecting the funds and depositing an additional $4k, the system still failed my withdrawal but this time because not enough trading transactions had been made.
I was told I needed to upgrade to vip level 2 where the minimum balance needed to be $18,888 and all restrictions lifted.
I waited for my March 2024 paycheck and literally put all of it into the account with the hopes of withdrawing it all soon thereafter.
Then I got devastating news that my mum had passed away in England. Flew out there quickly and whilst waiting for the funeral arrangements to be made, this time the withdrawal to my bank failed again for some unknown reason.
Being in shock, I’m thinking all of this was legit at the time. Now I’m told that the only way to receive the funds was for them to issue a check.
However, a check could only be issued with a minimum balance of $30k.
I reached out to family and friends in desperation borrowing $12k. Deposited some more to reach $31k finally.
Surely now I was going to receive my money and pay off everyone I had borrowed from.
However, now I get a reply that the check will be issued from outside of the USA and that a VAT tax payment of $9k was necessary to be paid upfront before the check was issued.
At this point I woke up and realized it was a clever scam.
All in all I lost about $20k of my own funds, and $12k borrowed from friends and family.
Then in mid April I got laid off when I was expecting the April paycheck to help somewhat.
Come end of April, my paycheck was negligible, car loans were in default, bills are pending, credit rating has sunk and I still owe $12k.
Any help during this dire time in my life would be greatly appreciated and paid forward no doubt as I now understand how painful life’s unanticipated challenges can be.
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