I found this video hilarious when this scammer realized she is criminal for scamming people and doing tax avoidance and would be f'd for being in a Youtubers video 
Nearly scammed by a real pro ...
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LOL.
Good you didn't fall for it, but to be honest, you kind of did since you let "Daisy" string you along for so long before figuring out something's up.
Wasn't it Ken Calhoun who posted something similar? Sexting with a hot girl that was a dude for months?
LOL.
Good you didn't fall for it, but to be honest, you kind of did since you let "Daisy" string you along for so long before figuring out something's up.
Wasn't it Ken Calhoun who posted something similar? Sexting with a hot girl that was a dude for months?
LOL.
I had a similar experience. I responded to a FB ad and ended up joining two whatsapp groups. One was a larger group, supposedly everyone who responded to the ad. The second was a 1 on 1 chat with my personal investment advisor. They claimed to be a real investment firm, by name. When I went to that firm's website, the landing page had a big banner on it to the effect that "we don't have a whatsapp group. They are scammers, don't engage with them." The admins of the fake whatsapp group claimed to be specific people, by name, at a different real investment firm. I emailed that firm to see if they had a whatsapp group and they said,"no, it must be a scam."
Naturally, I played along with the imposters,
but only paper-traded their recommendations. I'm still not sure what their scam was. For a typical stock purchase trade, the large group would be abuzz with comments like, "I am moving $300k into my brokerage account to execute this trade." It felt like pressure to go along with the group. Clearly fake, in hindsight. I ended up losing about 75% of the money I paper-traded, then exited and blocked the group. By the way, they required screenshots of my trade orders, which I sent with any personal info redacted. I'm sharing this so others don't fall for the same scheme.
Naturally, I played along with the imposters,
but only paper-traded their recommendations. I'm still not sure what their scam was. For a typical stock purchase trade, the large group would be abuzz with comments like, "I am moving $300k into my brokerage account to execute this trade." It felt like pressure to go along with the group. Clearly fake, in hindsight. I ended up losing about 75% of the money I paper-traded, then exited and blocked the group. By the way, they required screenshots of my trade orders, which I sent with any personal info redacted. I'm sharing this so others don't fall for the same scheme.
Well, it shouldn't really be here. This is Elite Trader. Not Cat-Fished-Me.com
Honestly, you're already being pegged by everyone for being a white-knight sucker by admitting this story. I was hoping at first it was just a joke post.
These kind of online scams are very common in Asia/China/Thailand/Taiwan, etc. I didn’t know some of scammers were good at English. lol
I heard during the holidays from a local friend that his friend (who I don’t know) on the east coast was scammed out of nearly $1M. From what I heard the scam worked like this: his friend was contacted online by a stranger who pretended he made a mistake of the identity. Nonetheless, two of them struck up some casual chats. After a while, the topics moved to investment.
Gradually his friend was convinced about some kind of cryptocurrency investment strategy proposed by the stranger. I suspect his friend may have done a few small tries with the stranger and got good results. Eventually his friend collected all the cash he could and took out a HELOC loan to about $1M. As soon as the money was transferred to the crypto exchange account provided by the stranger it vanished. The last thing I know was that his friend’s family notified the FBI and FBI is investigating.
I heard during the holidays from a local friend that his friend (who I don’t know) on the east coast was scammed out of nearly $1M. From what I heard the scam worked like this: his friend was contacted online by a stranger who pretended he made a mistake of the identity. Nonetheless, two of them struck up some casual chats. After a while, the topics moved to investment.
Gradually his friend was convinced about some kind of cryptocurrency investment strategy proposed by the stranger. I suspect his friend may have done a few small tries with the stranger and got good results. Eventually his friend collected all the cash he could and took out a HELOC loan to about $1M. As soon as the money was transferred to the crypto exchange account provided by the stranger it vanished. The last thing I know was that his friend’s family notified the FBI and FBI is investigating.
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Good luck with that. Anyway, yea, it seems they are good at English (somehow), and our norms, etc.
"Daisy" would text me about going to the gym, meetings with clients, etc. And always a good morning text.
I felt really comfortable in the "relationship" until the crypto investment suggestion came up.
And in terms of small tries, I asked "Daisy" if the platform she proposed, Kraken (now I know that it would have been a fake plaftorm, in fact), provided demo support. She said no. So I went to their (real) website and found that they sort of do. They are able to route test orders to another exchange for matching, etc (don't know if this is how crypto trades work). Anyway, I decided that I was not going to do anything until I was able to demo a strategy for a while.
I don't think that we here on ET are terribly vulnerable to this type of scam, but I'm really worried about my friends and relatives.
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Yea, apparently the Asian market is saturated with these scams, so there is a real awareness over there about them. And according to the youtube videos I've been watching, the UN estimates there are about 250K of these scammers in southeast asia alone (many human trafficked into it).