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On Facebook everybody was talking about how Kaitlyn helps them out in day trading training with crypto.  It was fake profiles on Facebook. So I reach out to Kaitlyn on Instagram and she was willing to train me on crypto day trading.  I’m new to crypto. She sent me a website link to Trade.bithodlvault.com. This website looks so real. So I signed up and add bitcoin. I started off with $1000 she told me that is all I need.  I was only able to do 5 trades a day. All of a sudden Kaitlyn wanted me to upgrade to Advance plan  which is $18,500 to do 25 trades a day. So I work on getting more bitcoin I was only allowed $2,000 a day and $5,000.  She kept pushing me to upgrade account I didn’t think nothing of it. I reach out to live support which is the only way to reach someone. They gave me 20% discount which they say it was $11,700.  I had a hard time getting bitcoin so Kaitlyn looking up places to help me buy. They did give  me an extension. Once I came  up with the bitcoin  they said discount expire I need more bitcon I kept adding more money. Kaitlyn kept pressuring me to upgrade everyday. This is how I found out something wasn’t right. I saw Kaitlyn pictures on another instagram page with different name. So I ask did she have two profiles and do she go by another name. My radar with off So I stop communicating with her and with back to website to transfer funds to my cold wallet. They told me it will be a instant withdraw. Funds never made it to my cold wallet. I reach out to live support about why the funds never made it. This is what they told me. We Found your withdrawal it’s been held in escrow that’s why it hasn’t processed into your external wallet yet. There’s a 10% tax charge & Escrows fee that’s unpaid from the initial withdrawal made ($17,253) We see you have a balance in your trading account but it’s not sufficient to cover for your tax charge & escrow fees - you’re required to deposit ($1,725) into your trading account to have your funds released from escrows into your external wallet on file. Your withdrawal is authorized to be released from escrows immediately your tax charge & escrows fee is deposited to your account. It takes less than 2 minutes or almost instant for your funds to be available in your external wallet once released from escrows. We’ll also email your tax form 1040 to your email which will enable you file your annual tax return with the IRS. Let us know if you want to go ahead with your tax charge and escrows fee deposit right now so that we can help you generate an escrows deposit address.  After this I knew it was a scam I was told if the ask you to pay taxes before they transfer to a cold wallet it’s a scam. I said no. It didn’t make sense it’s suppose to be a 1099 form. I told myself I got scammed how I didn’t see this. So I went back to Kaitlyn and ask her about Nicole which is the other profile. I showed her a picture and ask her is that her on the picture. She said Yes it is I have had reports about people impersonating my profile. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.  I ask her let’s do a video call  never replied back. I went back to Nicole’s profile and message her about Kaitlyn using all her photos and I provided her with a link to kaitlyn’s profile. Nicole reach out to Instagram and reported Kaitlyn. Instagram deleted Kaitlyn profile. I looked up trade.Bithodl vault.com address in the USA on Google It’s a virtual address not an actual address.

Targeted Person's Location

GA, USA- 30135

Scammer Information
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Erie, PA- 16509

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(000) 000-0000

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https://trade.bithodlvault.com

Scam Type

CryptoCurrency

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Business name

Unknown

Date Reported

April 18, 2023

Scam ID

700157


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