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In February 2025, I matched with a woman calling herself Arya, on a dating website called firedating.me. After exchanging a few messages over the website, we switched to WhatsApp. Her number is +852-5307-7116. She claimed to work for JP Morgan, doing equity issuance, financing cooperations, and company transfers from OTC markets to NASDAQ. We messaged for months, including texts, photos, audio calls, and video calls. Eventually, she offered to include me in her work: A publicly traded company looking to improve their stock price would apply to work with JP Morgan. She would then work with JPM clients to direct them to buy this stock at a certain time and price. She explained that she's done it before, and has invested her own personal money, and that the returns far exceed the market's. The first company is Lamy (ticker symbol LMMY). It's traded on OTC Pink. I agreed to buy $400,000 worth of the stock. Eventually, it crashed. At this point, she claimed she would be responsible to me to the end (the implication, as I understood it, being that she would compensate me for my losses). A month later, her team at JPM had identified a second company to work with. This company (ticker symbol ELPW), is traded on NASDAQ. At first, she said that there would be a short term project with less impressive gains. I put in $20,000 - placing a buy order well below the market price. She said that her trading team would lower the price, filling my buy order. It happened just like she said. A few hours later, on her instruction, I sold it for a 10% profit. A few weeks after that, her team was ready for a longer-term, higher-return project, again with ELPW. I put in $100,000. It soon crashed. After it crashed, out communication continued - she assured me that everything was under control and that the price would soon rise. Then, she stopped communicating with me altogether. Nearly two weeks without a single word from her, until a few days ago when she sent me one message, responding to my own messages to her. The end result: She's largely disappeared (though hasn't blocked me on WhatsApp, and her firedating.me profile is still active), and I've lost $500,000.