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Type of a scam CryptoCurrency
These scammers often use Whatsapp, WeChat, or LINE to find their victims. But in my case, the scammer even used LinkedIn to contact me. The original message was very professional at first. I was unemployed for the longest time due to COVID and was looking for professional contacts to network with, and this scammer took full advantage of that. Our conversation started with the state of our current economy, then turned to limited job opportunities due to COVID and inflation and high gasoline prices due to the war in Ukraine with Russia. The glass ceilings Asian Americans face in our workplaces. After we built a professional connection, the scammer suggested continuing our conversation on the LINE app.
I followed along and continued to chat, thinking I could network with this person to increase my chances of finding a well-paying job. Please keep in mind this was NOT a romance scam or honeypot scam, as I was NOT looking for online romance.
I was only looking for ways to help improve my family's current situation.
I take care of a family member who had a stroke a few years ago and still suffers from the after-effects of nerve pains, numbness, and partial paralysis; I am also the primary caretaker of my 93-year-old father as well. So as you can see, I was not looking to make a fast buck to buy myself a fancy home or expensive cars; I was only trying to improve my family's current situation.
The scammer knew this and took full advantage of me by slowly introducing crypto-investment opportunities into our conversation. The scammer also used our shared Asian American heritage, language, and cultural background to build trust and friendship.
I did my due diligence and performed background checks on the scammer and all the investment sites, and they all seemed to be OK at the time; little did I know all their profiles and information, and even all the investment sites like CBOE and Deribit were all fake. IT professionals designed and built them to look and work like the real thing; I could see various crypto-currency investment opportunities, market performance, and real-time results. I started very small initially to test the waters, and I could even withdraw the profits from the trades. As the assets and profits became higher, I began to notice minor discrepancies and small clues along the way that didn't add up, so I tried to stop the madness and withdraw my assets, and that was when everything went completely upside down. The sites would give fake reasons why the funds cannot be taken out, such as needing a secondary ID verification or paying a 20-22% tax. These are all fake excuses designed to waste my time and scam me a second time by paying taxes to them.
In the end, I lost upwards of six figures of my 401K and savings to this scam; but more importantly, I lost my sense of trust and faith in others. I also blamed myself for not seeing all the clues sooner and allowing myself to be taken advantage of so quickly by a total stranger. Sometimes I cannot eat or sleep; I feel completely numb, sad, and depressed on other days.
I learned these "Pig Butchering Scams" are part of a vast syndicate with the knowledge and technology to design and build fake crypto-investment sites. I could not just sit back and do nothing, so I reported this to my local police station, the FBI IC3 fraud complaint department, and the Federal Trade Commission. I know the chances of finding them are low, prosecuting them will be even lower, and recovering my losses will be impossible. But if only I could use my story to caution others who may fall victim to these similar scams, then it would be all worth it.
Scammer also used this fake CBOE website: *******************