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Since a layoff in July, I applied for several jobs posted online as part of the Idaho Unemployment Insurance requirement of 5 applications or work activities per week. Two weeks after I applied for marketing jobs via LinkedIn, Indeed and reporting to Idaho Labor, I received 3-5 texts offering me part time, remote marketing jobs. One of them caught my eye because it was tailored to my experience, skills and strengths for online product marketing, pricing, promotions and customer reviews To receive my salary, I was asked to set up Crypto.com and Onchain wallet accounts. I asked several questions to ensure security and safety with the reason being an international company headquartered in Spain with global retail/CPG operations and customers. It was easier and faster to be paid for online marketing on a daily basis. About 10 days into the role and successful withdrawals of pay, I was randomly given a Fund Award for $366,370 to recognize consistent daily commitment (26 days in a row) and fast completion of tasks. It was the 2nd Award I had won - the first being $50. Other awards went up to $1.7 million based on your membership level and the merchant/retailer alliance. Keep in mind Yrixolon has created a very real work environment including 4 WhatsApp number - your Trainer, your Customer Service Rep, your Finance partner and a big US Working Group of 110 colleagues working on similar tasks. I used them all a lot. Over time, I realized they were all fake bots. I started calling their phone numbers and it's either dead or you get a canned voice mail but not at all personalized. They are all bots or an organization of scammers. Anyway, the $366,670 award was too much - and honesty too good to be true. So I declined it but they said I didn't have choice. The next day it was deposited in my work account and froze everything. It froze my $3000 of earnings and contributions. But worse it prevented me from working at all and early a few dollars a day UNLESS I put in 10% to unlock it all. I wanted my $3000 and mostly I wanted to work. I was accepting 3-4 part time online jobs Like a fool and 100 questions later, I withdrew a combination of savings, retirement, and college savings, thinking I could 10X my deposit and follow instructions to withdraw my earnings - daily income and awards - in batches. That was the last time I saw my $37,000. The fake company - Yrixolon - implanted a custom node on Onchain and siphoned out the money onto a blockchain. They assured us that it was only to deposit $10,000 but in fact they were taking $$$ that way too. Never were they upfront about the blockchain. Now they are extorting me for 30% rather than a 10% deposit because "I made an error in the verification process" and the $$$ is needed to repair and restore my account. First, I didn't make a mistake - their instructions were unclear and Second, they said the Custom Node was to send my earnings. What they did in fact was put my money on a virtual Customer Node and "freezing it"/ All so I can give them another $60,000 which I have not. How was I targeted? I believe because my personal information is out there and especially on LinkedIn and Alignable. I've read that recent fraud targets include laid off tech professionals, marketing and communications due to the rise in AI, and states like Idaho are growing in Cyber Fraud and Scams. If I've given cell phone number through online job ads, they can text to ask if I'm interested in a job opportunity, especially if based on a fake job posting. If you study the www.yrixolon.com website, you can see that it's a very slick site but the press articles are fake, like Google investing in them as a top 3 Spain start up. It's not until you've expressed interest in the job, received the salary proposal, and completed 4 hours of training that you even find out the work platform is www.yrixolon.xyz. And it takes longer to figure out the company behind it. But by then, they had reeled me in. They continue to pressure and threaten me. I have also reported this to the FBI, FTC cyber fraud, and the Idaho State Attorney General to investigate. Any ideas abut a forensic crypto expert to recover frozen and stolen funds