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The scammer hacked my friend and then impersonated her. She's the daughter of a previous co-worker. I knew her to be a very busy person so it wasn't unusual for us to not speak for long periods. The scammer knew personal details. The scammer hacked her facebook and messenger account. The scammer changed her profile to say she was working at Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage. I invested $2800.00 in crypto currency and then transferred the assets to pythagonexpertoption.com. This is where i saw my profits from trading the crypto currency. When I wanted to make my first withdraw from the profits, the "head admin", the person impersonating my friend put me in contact with on the Telegram app, told me I had to manually pay my first commission fee by purchasing more crypto currency and transferring it to them. There was a "program" that was running automatically doing the trading. But because this was my first trade, I had to do a commission transaction manually. When I asked for investment of $2800.00 back, they went silent.

Dollars Lost

$2800

Targeted Person's Location

Unknown Location

Scammer Information
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New York, NY

Mail logo

Unknown Email

Mobile logo

Unknown Phone Number

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pythagonexpertoption.com

Scam Type

CryptoCurrency

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Business name

Crypto Investment Scam - Hacked Social Media Account Solicitation

Date Reported

July 6, 2023

Scam ID

727635


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