I am a Realtor in Houston. I got scammed recently and lost my money. I believe other Real Estate Agents are a target for financial scam. Let me explain.
There are dedicated scam teams out there, who are specifically scouring the net, tracking Real Estate Agents. I was contacted by one individual, Joseph Matthew, who said he was looking for a $4 Million home. So I sent him some homes and we started getting to know each other.
Very soon, he started asking me if I invested in Crypto. And he started sending me information about how lucrative Crypto was. He gave me this link to the Quedex Exchange, asking me to join: https://quedexid.com/h5#/home
My $10K was multiplied to $38K and then for some reason one fine day the money disappeared. He said "That's not possible, It should be there, brother." I was so upset that I did not talk to him for 3 or 4 weeks.
Before all this, he coached and guided me the next steps, he was very patient, and very insistent. He would not take no for an answer. He kept pushing me on and I invested in excess of $20,000 and by sheer luck a platform called UPHOLD blocked $8,000 and told me that I am being played, I am a victim of Crypto fraud. I would not believe them, because I had fallen hook, line, and sinker for this con artist.
He calls himself Joseph Matthew, don't know if that is his real name. He speaks the same language as I do. So these con artists are making sure that all my defenses will be low when they contact you to prey on you. They do their history on you carefully, and then they target you.
UPHOLD finally released that $8,000 after 45 days and he kept inquiring did they let that money go? I did not tell him much of anything. Somehow I played it smart, because in my mind things were not adding up.
Recently he got me back on Quedex again and helped me recover my $38K balance which I thought I had forever lost. He then helped me trade and get it to $64K. Then when I tried to withdraw money I was permitted to do so $500 twice, and when I tried to withdraw $800, the Quedex system froze my funds saying that I have to deposit 20% of my total funds as security deposit.
HYPOTHETICAL: Who's to say that if I put that 20% that my 20% which is $12K will also disappear?
Right now, Quedex has given me 10 business days to deposit the 20% failing which I might lose the entire $64K.
Now that my Quedex account is frozen, I am researching whether others have faced similar predicaments. I found this site with similar stories where Real Estate agents are being scammed.
HOW THESE SCAMMERS OPERATE:
Not that I am a genius, but I figure that you have to do the first part of wiring the money in through Coinbase, Uphold, or Trust Wallet. Like he said, "You get to manage your own money, brother."
Then, the scammer gives you the website: https://quedexid.com/h5#/home which serves as the virtual under tray to get your money out from under you, to their side. That's how the money gets frozen or disappears.
Quedex will ask you to deposit another 20% as Security Deposit. Never do that. You have no guarantees of ever getting that or your account balance back ever again. As one proverb says "Never throw good money after bad (lost) money."
These scammers will also ask you to ask friends to invest money so you can make 10 to 15% commissions. ALL OF THIS IS UNTRUE. You RISK losing your friends and family all their money as well.
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Quedex crypto trading scam,reported them and I've gotten my compensation
I also fell victim to this scammers on the Quedex platform.
,I got a text on Instagram from woman called Elizabeth Antonio she claimed to be from Hong Kong and was into crypto investment.
She told me lots about this QUEDEX a crypto trading investment platform but it turned out to be a scam after i gave her my number and we texted on WhatsApp practically every day for almost two months. She showed me private pictures if her out and about with her friends and family so i had no reason to believe she was a scam.
I invested over $19,000 into the platform over the months for trading, this scam looked real and the scammer occasionally sent me some videos of her investment also. At the end of the day all efforts to withdraw didnt work out as my investment account got blocked and i had to pay some extra tax over $6,000 which i stupidly paid even after I was warned by my buddy mike at this point i still did not get the investment. I was fortunate to later come across a US security forensic investigation firm luckily they were able to track and get back the funds.
A form can be filed to them by searching the link;
[ bit . ly /3i3bep7 ]
leave no spaces inbetween in search.
I really hope they can help you as they did me.
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I also fell victim of the same scam. What company did you use to retrieve your funds?
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Same thing happened to me. What company did you use to get your funds back?
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Please beware of Home Buyers on WhatsApp that are crypto traders
I am a Realtor and was contacted by a woman by the name of Sansan Lin. I invested over 10k of my savings and she showed me how to do options trading and I got up to over 12k and I went to transfer my money and it has been "frozen" since the 27th. I have reached out to online customer service support and I have not received a response since the 27th of Oct. I am afraid that soon I will not have access to the Quedex Exchange (www.quedextri .com/h5#) and my money will be lost. I have also found other website where the same scam has happened to other Realtors. Please follow this url: https://www.scampulse.com/quedex-reviews and you will see my review and the review of others who have fell victim to this fraud/scam. I have also filed a police report with Savannah Chatham Metro Police Department. I contacted the GBI (GC3 department) and they directed my back to you IC3 as they do not handle complaints like this.
Below is a detailed account of the history.
On Aug 15th 2023 I received a email from GAMLS (Georgia Multiple Listing Service) Sansan Lin.
Name: Lin Sansan
Phone: 4087521917
Email: [email protected]
Message: Looking to purchase a property and hope you can assist me. Looking forward to connect with you.
As I am typing this I am so embrassed and ashamed but I here to spread the word.
I contacted her and spoke with her and she expressed that she was looking for a vacation home in Georgia. She signed a Buyers Agency Agreement and provided me a somewhat redacted Chase bank statement that showed her proof of funds so she would be able to make a cash purchase. I have documentation of every conversation via whats app and screen shots of all my transaction receipts from Quedex exchange just in case the website disappears and the screen shot proof that the online customer service has yet to respond when asking for assistance. I have also reached out to SanSan Lin and she has yet to respond or reply to emails or text via whatsApps.
Sansan and I would communicate through WhatsApp mostly, this is were all of my transactions and records of the conversation are held. In order to trade, I would deposit money from my bank into Coinbase, from Coinbase I would then transfer the funds into my Quedex account. Everything was in my control and only guided by Sansan. I begin trading on the platform with her guidance. She would have me take screen shots and she would circle what I needed to do to carry out the transactions/trades. As my funds grew she would convince me to deposit more money into the account because the crypto market was doing really well for option trading. I decided to continue to invest and increase my stakes. Over a period of 2 weeks I had deposited $10k. My account size grew to $12,103.71. She showed me how to withdraw my funds on 9/1/23. I attempted just $588 and it went through with no issues into my Coinbase account. But then I tried to withdraw more money my account was frozen because customer service said I made too many transactions in on day. I called Sansan and told her what they said and she encouraged me to contact the online customer support and within no time my funds were in frozen and I was able to trade again. After that I put in more money (10k) and it grew to 12k. When I attempted to withdraw the 12k on yesterday I was told that I had insufficient funds and that the transaction would not go through. I can see the funds have been frozen and on the transaction receipt the status says under audit and it does not give a reason why. I have reached out to Quedex customer support multiple time within the last 48 hours and no one has yet to respond or answer me. There is no phone number to call. The only way to contact them is through the online support option.
Update: I was able to talk to another person who posed as a customer service representative and they wanted me to send them another 5k to unfreeze the funds in which I did not do. I have filed complaints with IC3, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the FTC, and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
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I have reattached the POF with the correct matching account number to the one above.
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Thank you for posting this. I found this after doing a reverse image search on the POF bank statement that was sent to me. Exact same scam.
I am a realtor for CountryWide Real Estate and this lady signed up on our site apparently "looking for a home" in Vancouver. She said she would be up to visit properties with me end of June. She went as far as pretending to be a client having me send her options of homes to view. In the background, she introduced crypto trading and offering to help me invest and earn profits. It was so bizarre as she actually developed a personal relationship with me asking how my days were going, what I did on the weekend, etc. Pretty messed up.
Anyways, I got sucked in and started using Quedex with her. She would ask me to screenshot my accounts which I cant believe I didnt fall for. I was so busy with work at the time I didnt realize. So we started trading together and she kept telling me to add more to my account to earn bigger profits. Thank god I didnt have much savings so I only added a total of $2k. Once I added the last $1k to a total of $2k, she ghosted me. I then realized I had been scammed and I tried the website on Quedex and it was invalid.
This the scammer website URL she used:
https://quedexidn.com/h5
If anyone can retrieve my funds that would be amazing but I am not hopeful. Scary stuff out there.
Jordan
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The same thing happened to me and I pray to God that the people who are out here scamming hard working individuals like ourselves receive the type of judgement that only God can give. I will make the money back but this experience did show me a side of myself that I didn't know existed. I have learned a very valuable lesson.
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Scam Elizabeth Antonino
I was realtor for this lady who completely scammed me into moving my funds from BitBuy to Quedex it was crazy. Trying to build a personal relationship with me and then poof gone. NO access to the site anymore and she stole $2k from me. Absolutely insane.
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QUEDEX CRYPTO TRADING
This guy I was a realtor for scammed me after having me find 10 houses for him and then saying he will be in town to check out the homes to buy as an investment and cancels last minute and then talks about cryptocurrency and sends me this site https://quedexlub.com/h5#/home to help me trade.. now I have no access and it says “server with specified host name cannot be found.” The guys so called name is Steve Alves from California or an investor in New York
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Phone:(213) 682-0016
Website: Quedexlub.com
Address:San Francisco, CA, USA
Country:United States
Type of a scam:CryptoCurrency
Very similiar, had me register with what turned out to be a fake exchange that I used to trade for a month but never had access to. When i tried with withdraw it required me to submit a copy of my driver's license which seemed suspect to me and that's when things started snowballing where I realized I had been scammed. I still can see the account I just can't withdraw from it
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REAL ESTATE AGENTS BEWARE!
There are dedicated scam teams out there, who are specifically scouring the net, tracking Real Estate Agents. I was contacted by one individual, Joseph Matthew, who said he was looking for a $4 Million home. So I sent him some homes and we started getting to know each other.
Very soon, he started asking me if I invested in Crypto. And he started sending me information about how lucrative Crypto was. He gave me this link to the Quedex Exchange, asking me to join: https://quedexid.com/h5#/home
My $10K was multiplied to $38K and then for some reason one fine day the money disappeared. He said "That's not possible, It should be there, brother." I was so upset that I did not talk to him for 3 or 4 weeks.
Before all this, he coached and guided me the next steps, he was very patient, and very insistent. He would not take no for an answer. He kept pushing me on and I invested in excess of $20,000 and by sheer luck a platform called UPHOLD blocked $8,000 and told me that I am being played, I am a victim of Crypto fraud. I would not believe them, because I had fallen hook, line, and sinker for this con artist.
He calls himself Joseph Matthew, don't know if that is his real name. He speaks the same language as I do. So these con artists are making sure that all my defenses will be low when they contact you to prey on you. They do their history on you carefully, and then they target you.
UPHOLD finally released that $8,000 after 45 days and he kept inquiring did they let that money go? I did not tell him much of anything. Somehow I played it smart, because in my mind things were not adding up.
Recently he got me back on Quedex again and helped me recover my $38K balance which I thought I had forever lost. He then helped me trade and get it to $64K. Then when I tried to withdraw money I was permitted to do so $500 twice, and when I tried to withdraw $800, the Quedex system froze my funds saying that I have to deposit 20% of my total funds as security deposit.
HYPOTHETICAL: Who's to say that if I put that 20% that my 20% which is $12K will also disappear?
Right now, Quedex has given me 10 business days to deposit the 20% failing which I might lose the entire $64K.
Now that my Quedex account is frozen, I am researching whether others have faced similar predicaments. I found this site with similar stories where Real Estate agents are being scammed.
HOW THESE SCAMMERS OPERATE:
Not that I am a genius, but I figure that you have to do the first part of wiring the money in through Coinbase, Uphold, or Trust Wallet. Like he said, "You get to manage your own money, brother."
Then, the scammer gives you the website: https://quedexid.com/h5#/home which serves as the virtual under tray to get your money out from under you, to their side. That's how the money gets frozen or disappears.
Quedex will ask you to deposit another 20% as Security Deposit. Never do that. You have no guarantees of ever getting that or your account balance back ever again. As one proverb says "Never throw good money after bad (lost) money."
These scammers will also ask you to ask friends to invest money so you can make 10 to 15% commissions. ALL OF THIS IS UNTRUE. You RISK losing your friends and family all their money as well.
Quedex crypto trading scam,reported them and I've gotten my compensation
,I got a text on Instagram from woman called Elizabeth Antonio she claimed to be from Hong Kong and was into crypto investment.
She told me lots about this QUEDEX a crypto trading investment platform but it turned out to be a scam after i gave her my number and we texted on WhatsApp practically every day for almost two months. She showed me private pictures if her out and about with her friends and family so i had no reason to believe she was a scam.
I invested over $19,000 into the platform over the months for trading, this scam looked real and the scammer occasionally sent me some videos of her investment also. At the end of the day all efforts to withdraw didnt work out as my investment account got blocked and i had to pay some extra tax over $6,000 which i stupidly paid even after I was warned by my buddy mike at this point i still did not get the investment. I was fortunate to later come across a US security forensic investigation firm luckily they were able to track and get back the funds.
A form can be filed to them by searching the link;
[ bit . ly /3i3bep7 ]
leave no spaces inbetween in search.
I really hope they can help you as they did me.
Please beware of Home Buyers on WhatsApp that are crypto traders
Below is a detailed account of the history.
On Aug 15th 2023 I received a email from GAMLS (Georgia Multiple Listing Service) Sansan Lin.
Name: Lin Sansan
Phone: 4087521917
Email: [email protected]
Message: Looking to purchase a property and hope you can assist me. Looking forward to connect with you.
As I am typing this I am so embrassed and ashamed but I here to spread the word.
I contacted her and spoke with her and she expressed that she was looking for a vacation home in Georgia. She signed a Buyers Agency Agreement and provided me a somewhat redacted Chase bank statement that showed her proof of funds so she would be able to make a cash purchase. I have documentation of every conversation via whats app and screen shots of all my transaction receipts from Quedex exchange just in case the website disappears and the screen shot proof that the online customer service has yet to respond when asking for assistance. I have also reached out to SanSan Lin and she has yet to respond or reply to emails or text via whatsApps.
Sansan and I would communicate through WhatsApp mostly, this is were all of my transactions and records of the conversation are held. In order to trade, I would deposit money from my bank into Coinbase, from Coinbase I would then transfer the funds into my Quedex account. Everything was in my control and only guided by Sansan. I begin trading on the platform with her guidance. She would have me take screen shots and she would circle what I needed to do to carry out the transactions/trades. As my funds grew she would convince me to deposit more money into the account because the crypto market was doing really well for option trading. I decided to continue to invest and increase my stakes. Over a period of 2 weeks I had deposited $10k. My account size grew to $12,103.71. She showed me how to withdraw my funds on 9/1/23. I attempted just $588 and it went through with no issues into my Coinbase account. But then I tried to withdraw more money my account was frozen because customer service said I made too many transactions in on day. I called Sansan and told her what they said and she encouraged me to contact the online customer support and within no time my funds were in frozen and I was able to trade again. After that I put in more money (10k) and it grew to 12k. When I attempted to withdraw the 12k on yesterday I was told that I had insufficient funds and that the transaction would not go through. I can see the funds have been frozen and on the transaction receipt the status says under audit and it does not give a reason why. I have reached out to Quedex customer support multiple time within the last 48 hours and no one has yet to respond or answer me. There is no phone number to call. The only way to contact them is through the online support option.
Update: I was able to talk to another person who posed as a customer service representative and they wanted me to send them another 5k to unfreeze the funds in which I did not do. I have filed complaints with IC3, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the FTC, and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
Elizabeth Antonino Scam with Quedex
Anyways, I got sucked in and started using Quedex with her. She would ask me to screenshot my accounts which I cant believe I didnt fall for. I was so busy with work at the time I didnt realize. So we started trading together and she kept telling me to add more to my account to earn bigger profits. Thank god I didnt have much savings so I only added a total of $2k. Once I added the last $1k to a total of $2k, she ghosted me. I then realized I had been scammed and I tried the website on Quedex and it was invalid.
This the scammer website URL she used:
https://quedexidn.com/h5
If anyone can retrieve my funds that would be amazing but I am not hopeful. Scary stuff out there.
Jordan
Scam Elizabeth Antonino
QUEDEX CRYPTO TRADING