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I had gone on multiple websites to try to find a company for a pay day loan. I was contacted by a "Sam Whistler" from Cash Advance America. I didn't think anything of it because I had done payday loans before. But this one was different. Normally, I am asked to provide my basic information in addition to my routing and account number for my bank to receive the loan deposit. But, he asked for my username and password for my bank. I should've stopped there, but i didn't. They made several deposits into my account, then asked me to add the money to my Cash App account, buy bitcoin and send it back to them. Again, I should've stopped then, but I didn't. They provided me with a bitcoin wallet address, i made the transactions and I thought that was that. Unfortunately, "Hannah Adams" mistakenly deposited an additional $2000 into my account which i was to repay back in Bitcoin. I began to have issues with Cash App and the withdrawals were cancelled for my protection. I let "Sam" know about this issue and he asked me to go to CVS to purchase gift cards, at that moment, that was a red flag for me. I wanted to reach out to my credit union, but, they are closed on the weekend. Anyway, Cash App advised me to get another wallet address and send transactions to them which I did and I was under the impression that everything was resolved. I had sent them all the monies they had deposited. After that, they reached back out and said that I owed an additional $1025 (due to fees) and I was to send that back to them and they would deposit $2,200 into my account. But, they had already deposited $2000 into my account. So, i told them that I would repay the $1025 in addition to my loan of $2000 which would be automatically deducted from my account and things would be resolved. They are currently asking me to repeat the process again of sending $1025 through Bitcoin. I have a feeling that they will continue to do this. So i am reporting this incident to you all and will also report it to my credit union.