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On 3/4/24, I was added to a whatsApp group that promoted "trade short-term stocks to obtain high returns". However, very quickly, the I was introduced to an exchange: "ALMCOIN registration steps, Apple mobile phone users can search for ALM MIN to download in the App Store, or click on the link to download. Download link: https://h5.almcoin.com/#/pages/reg/index?invite_code=519264 Registration invitation code: 519264 Please tell me after registration is completed and I will teach you how to receive tokens! If you encounter any questions that you don’t understand, you can consult my telegram My Telegram:https://t.me/SS518" When I informed that I do not use iPhone, I was given a different link to download an App. They were promoting a tool named AI Turbo "once you own AI turdo, you can use it in any investment market. It can collect primary data, remind you of buying and selling points of trading signals, and tell you when to buy and when to sell. An AI signal trading APP". After much deliberation, I started to conduct crypto future's trading with the group. For every transaction, we were asked to put away 70% of our profits into a crypto currency owned by the group, LANE. We were not allowed to take anything out of the LANE account until June, when we were told AI Turbo would be launched. I started to incur heavy losses into the future's transactions, and was blamed on me for the losses. Since I almost ran out of all my money, I decided to not participate in transactions anymore. There was an issuance of a new currency SCT (ICO= Initial Currency Offering) and I was encouraged to participate in it as it would be highly profitable and I would recover all my previous losses. LANE funds were allowed to use but not transfer out of the exchange until the ICO was over. I thought I might as well participate at the ICO with my USD 117k of the LANE currency. I was given a token that will assure I get a full subscription. Subsequently, I was told that I was given the wrong token, instead of 100k token, I was given 200k token, which the Customer Service already "bound" with my account and if I do not reach 200k of subscription, I will not win anything as it has been heavily oversubscribed. I was offered a 100k loan that I will return in a week after the ICO is launched at 1% rate per week. After the launch of the ICO, I inquired where should I transfer the funds and I was told that I need to bring in additional funds from outside, otherwise I can't withdraw my profits. Nowhere in the contract it stipulates that funds will have to come from outside. My earnings from the ICO is USD6M, whether it is real or not, at this point I do not know. But, at the very least, I had 117k of my funds with the exchange and now, I have no options to even trying to recover the funds as I do not have such sum or money and almost certain, it is all a big scam.