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Beginning of February, I came into this video post on facebook called OBR investing. I was interested in trying to invest in stock market so I open their site, and downloaded their messaging app called Discord. From there, someone talked to me on chatbox about their company, how to start, and where to deposit. They said they have a vero good yield and that I should try their company. I didnt know anything about crypto and stock market so I asked a lot of questions. In the chat, they told me to make a bitcoin wallet account, and then start to fund my account in another site called https://www.alphatrades-dividends.net/ from there you will see how your money grows everyday. I see my money growing the first trade cycle. after that, I told them I will just roll over my fund which was 780 USD plus the divident it yielded. they me I need to deposit another amount higher than the first for me to continue on the second cycle. So I deposited 838 more. The second cycle continued and yielded more dividend as you check daily on the alphatrades site. I told them I wanted to withdraw all of my money plus dividend and stop from there. They told me that minimum withdrawal is 5000 after tax and fees. I was shocked as they didn't disclose this at first. So to get atleast 5000, I deposited another 1205. the third cycle continued and ended in a total of 11747. But they won't deposit it back to my Bitcoin wallet until I pay the taxes and fees of 2920. I did another deposit in the account to get all my money, but they said they were having problems with bitcoin account, and I need to download another bitcoin app and another app, even talked to this guy named Jeffrey Hands via snap chat. they wanted me to download an app that is very harmful to all my devices as it has possibility to hack all my accounts. so I didn't agree to download. I asked them and even begged to just return my money back even without the dividends. I asked and asked for days, even weeks. they reached out to me again on the discord messaging app and they told me they will send a check. I waited for days, followed up to them, until they I received a check. It didnt came from the OBR Investing, instead from a Nursing Home in Boston. the amount was 22000, 10000 excess of what I was expecting to receive. We talked again on the app and they told me I need to return the excess amount. I told them I will after I encashed or deposited the check ony account. They asked me to take a picture of the check that came from them, but I didnt until I went to the bank. so I went to the bank and the teller told me the check was fraud and called the manager. the bank manager told me to report this incident, hence I did.

Dollars Lost

$5700

Targeted Person's Location

TX, USA- 77583

Scammer Information
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MA

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Unknown Email

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Unknown Phone Number

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Unknown URL

Scam Type

CryptoCurrency

Business name

Unknown

Date Reported

June 26, 2022

Scam ID

613395


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