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On Facebook a scammer impersonated a friend’s parent of whom I had talked to over a cell phone a couple of times several years earlier. When I noticed a suggested friend I sent a request after I’d had been accepted I noticed financial postings of investment help with pics of people this friend had helped. So I sent a DM to get more information because I knew what I was looking for and this person said yes thanks exactly what “We”do and I can help you get started. I asked who she traded with and she stated she was a pro trader with Wealth Wise Brokers and that she generally only works with family and close friends but would ba happy to help us. She then assisted as much as she could with setting up an account and stated it would be in my best interest to start small. I agreed and also stated that I would need assistance as it was the first time I’ve invested like this. An account was created and as I watched over 6-7 weeks of daily ROI ring added to my account we were excited to receive over 56K in returns. Using crypto trading platform you must pay the commission out of pocket as the E wallets used cannot be accessed via brokerage manager like normal fiat brokers. So the commission was paid in BTC as requested. Here’s the unnoticed beginning of the scam. While I was messaging the customer chat on the main page of the company website (WealthWiseBrokers.net) this person said to me here is the number you need to chat with quicker response times with your “Account Manager” we use WHATSAPP then gave me a phone number. After creating an account I contacted this person who I thought was my account manager. He told me because I didn’t know where I wanted my funds to be sent to as the online app CashApp had such low availability for deposits and withdrawals I will assist you in using Coinbase. We set up an account on coinbase and then when I tried to exchange my cryptocurrency into cash a Ed notification came up on my account my crypto wasn’t given back to me as BTC it was in the form of L-USD (a liquidity asset of BTC but Coinbase doesn’t have/offer that type of cryptocurrency wallet so I could access my funds. Then my “account manager” stated we could talk directly to Coinbase support if we used the converse messaging app and connected my Coinbase account with it so they could assist us further, so I did. Then attached to my account was a message that a 14% payment to cover the bnb blockchain charges was needed first to gain access to my funds which by this time because of the market had grown to over 127K. Well of course I wanted my funds so we agreed to pay the 7K (14% of the original deposit into Coinbase) we waited several days and then were notified that the synchronization of bnb had failed and the funds were then added to our account this happened 3 times costing my family and I over 22K in BTC and charges of exchange by the market when purchasing BTC) From this point we were told that our account would probably have more issues and “they” Coinbase support would send our funds via shipping vault with USD in it to our home. We thought this was very odd but whatever we felt we were so close to getting our money. During this 6 month process my wife was diagnosed with a deadly help problem which didn’t help matters at all. Suddenly we received a message stating that we owed 8K in shipping charges as the vault was coming from the home over in the UK. They sent a message good news your shipment has cleared customs and is on its way to a location warehouse where it would be stored until the full amount of shipping charges were paid. So reluctantly we paid by wire transferred that money to an account and awaited our tracking information days went by nothing. So I contacted the “shipping company” during a 4 week time and several messages they got even more greedy stated that our vault was being held at customs and an amount of 10K was needed to release the vault. That’s it I now knew beyond a shadow of any doubt we were being scammed all along! From the beginning let’s break it down. 1) a friend on Facebook referred us to the brokerage. 2) the brokerage suggested we use WhatsApp for quicker communication. 3) the brokerage never asked how would we like our ROI payout and sent our ROI in a crypto that wasn’t a part of Coinbase platform. 4) stars using Converse messaging connect it to our account. 5) they convinced me that we would receive a vault of cash. So not knowing enough about crypto and then recognizing the red flags we never paid the “so called customs charges as it was as much crap as the 14%. So we did our homework, where did this all go wrong? Facebook was a scammer verified by my friend with whom I know, her moms account was hacked almost 2 yrs ago, with wealth wise giving account manager contact info on WhatsApp was another scammer because most of my recent direct account info an actual account manager could seen on their side could NOT answer any of my questions “where can I find on my investment account?” I contacted Coinbase support directly and they don’t have a 14% charge and that was definitely a scammer and we were told we had been scammed. SO PLEASE DO NOT WORK WITH WEALTHWISE BROKERS THEY ARE A SCAM SITE. Our loss including what we paid out of pocket and the. The market gain were approximately 140K. My family member has survived the life threatening health issues but ALL of our retirement funds are gone! Stay away from WealthWise Brokers and do not accept any new friend requests on Facebook those could be a scammer.