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Don’t let my mistake become your reality too! I am a victim of an international stock exchange scam. I consider myself to be an intelligent person, and to have been manipulated so severely is mind boggling. I thought I had covered my basis, doing an AI search on the company and people associated with Ellsworth and Vane, but I simply was NOT asking the right questions! Let’s start from the beginning… Sunday, September 7th I accepted an invite to join the Ellsworth & Vane Community group. I had been looking into getting information about stock trading and Lydia reached out to me via WhatsApp. I was sent a chart listed Ellsworth & Vane Community stock Recommendation Tracker. I was told that I would receive high quality stock recommendations and support in answering my investment questions. From Monday to Friday, Mr. Water Johnson (the lead guru/mentor), Mr. Kenneth Hudson (aka Data Wolf) mentor #1, and Charles Moreau (CypherX) mentor # 2. From 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. EST, I received current information on stock trends, what the government was doing to positively and negatively affect the stock exchange. There were over 150 people in the group and they constantly asked questions and made positive comments. By ‘checking in’ with EV on a daily basis, I earned points. I also earned points by taking (and turning in) notes, and answering questions at the end of each daily period. These points were totaled at the end of the week and on Saturday, each member was sent codes based on the number of points earned that week. Lydia, who was the main contact person issued the codes which I would take and upload/submit to the Ellsworth and Vane Lucky Draw website. Members could earn BTC, ETH, and EVOX tokens. Members were super excited to get free money (in the form of crypto currency). This cycle went on from Sept. 7th to October 23rd. Instead of utilizing just WhatsApp to receive information, a second app was implemented…Telegram! During our daily group communication, we had learned that Mr. Johnson had spent the past five years developing the Quanta AI program/system that would change investment history. He had already launched the EVOX token back in October, and it was gaining momentum. It had launched at 50 cents per token and had grown to be over $3.08 by mid-November. I’m not familiar with tokens, and how they work…but I don’t know a lot about the stock market either. My naivete was in its prime…RED flag!! Towards the end of October, the Quanta AI launched its first beta group test. Our community had grown considerably and members were split into two beta groups (A & B). The first group was issued $300 from VinanceR to be used when trading stock. Members did not have to use their own money, and if the test failed, would not lose their own funds. VinanceR was the platform that Ellsworth and Vane utilized to support trading and funds. This first group did ten trades during a five-day period with 100% success and members got to keep 100% of the profits, returning the original $300 back to VinanceR. I was in the second beta group and completed nine trades during a 5-day period. Quanta AI was able to successfully send signals for a 100% success rate! I was stoked to be able to keep the $496 profit. The test ended on Friday 10/31 and that following day (Saturday) Mr. Johnson announced that he was going to launch the Quanta Super Bowl Profit Playoff beta test, where all members could utilize their own funds to participate in a 20-trade event. My weekend raffle winning brought my EVOX token value to 510 tokens! The value was $2,075.73 by Nov. 13th! Not bad for getting something for nothing! Little did I know that its value was $0.00!! I secured funds to be ready for the Monday, November 3rd launch. Lydia highly encouraged (as did all the mentors) to put as much funding into the accounts so that ‘compounding’ funded assets with winnings will create even greater investment opportunities. During the course of Monday to Thursday, I had taken my $5000 and turned it into $14,221!! That is a $9,221 profit in just four days! During this four-day period, Lydia had put me into a ‘discussion’ WhatsApp group. There were six other members, including Lydia. In this group, a member named David was also sending stock exchange calls…and making BANK! Other members in the group were also taking his signals and were cashing in. I decided to do one of his signals on Thursday morning and attained a $1739.45 profit! David sent a second signal later that afternoon and dummy me decided to try my luck again…I was 100% on all my trades to this point. The volume on this particular trade was 280 (20%) and the margin was 2800. My screen went BLANK! There was absolutely nothing on the trading platform. Not only did I lose that trade, it took my entire bank! David informed me that I had been hit by a ‘whale’ and that I didn’t have enough capital in my account for such a big variance in the trade. I was devastated!! Lydia kicked me out of the Super Bowl Profit Playoff beta group since I didn’t follow directions and had traded outside of the beta group. How was I going to get my money back???? ALL the trades with the Quanta AI had been 100% spot on! I was the idiot who had strayed from the group! The Super Bowl Profit Payoff beta finished on Sunday, November 9th with Quanta AI calling 100% stock trades correctly. On Sunday night, Mr. Johnson posted that he was going to start a new beta platform the next day, the Quanta FF Alliance PAC. This was the final stage before the March 2026 launch of the Quanta AI system to the world. Its membership would be a $100,000 yearly subscription for individuals and $1,000,000 for business corporations. Members of the community could invest however much funds they had to create unbelievable returns. There were six tiers to the Alliance PAC. If you had $50,000-$150,000 to invest, you were in the novice tier. The top tier was the First-Class Tier Partner with a minimum investment of $5,000,000. Let me say this again…the greater the investment, the greater the return! Members who invested were GUARANTEED a 300% return on their initial investment. Ellsworth and Vane would take 20% of the profits as their ‘fee’. So let me break this down for you…if you invested $50,000, your profit would be $150,000. Pay your 20% fee ($30,000) and take your new profit $120,000 and add your initial investment ($50,000) for a take-home amount of $170,000!!! Also, if anyone was to take on a trade that incurred a loss, Ellsworth and Vane was to your loss/investment at 100%! How could you lose?! Well, you’ve ALREADY LOST because your hard-earned money has been transferred via crypto currency into the VinanceR trading platform. Also, anyone who did NOT join the Alliance PAC would not receive any more trade signals. What?! How was I to try to regain my loss? I reached out to Lydia for help. I asked her if I could get my signals for trades to try to recover from my loss. She reluctantly said that she could maybe send me one trade signal a day to help me gain back the $14,221 loss. I transferred another $5,000 into the VinanceR platform. Lydia sent me a signal and I did the investment. This experience MADE ME SICK! I literally felt sick!! I could NOT lose again!! I started to withdraw funds from the VinanceR site. Because moving crypto is pretty scary because you have to trade on certain networks, or you lose the funds into crypto never-to-be-recovered space, I did an initial $100 transfer. The funds successfully transferred. Then I did a $1000 transfer…successfully! In the meantime, I reached out to Lydia to let her know that I would not need any more trades and that I was leaving the community. She informed me that she had talked to Mr. Johnson and that they were going to make an exception for me and let me enter the novice tier to continue to receive trades. She also encouraged me to increase my funds so that compounding would help me increase my assets. I point I had $4445 in my account (it had winnings from the previous trade). I was NOT going to increase it, but thought…huh, I can get $13,335 on my investment, pay the $2667 in fees and walk away with $15,113. Considering I had invested $4445 of my own capital, it was still a win! I need to mention something here about my husband. He was 100% aware that I was in a discussion community from September to November. He was also aware that I had invested $5,000 during the Super Bowl beta test. He was not thrilled about it, but he was extremely supportive and encouraging during the time of the Super Bowl beta test prior to my loss. When I lost all my funds, I was DEVISTATED! Regretfully, I did not share this information with my husband. I felt responsible for my loss due to following trades that were outside of the beta test group. My contact and discussions with Lydia on how to recover my funds were also kept to myself. That being said, thank goodness I mentioned the Alliance PAC that Lydia had offered to me. He questioned the scenario and we did an even bigger deep-dive into Ellsworth and Vane. I could not believe how much information we found…and NONE of it was good! I was soooooo disappointed that I had got the wrong information when I had initially looked into the group! When I tried to move the $5000, my funds were frozen. VinanceR said that my funds would remain frozen for ONE MONTH! This money is gone anyways…I know it. I called the local police and filed a report. They said that the sites, WhatsApp, Telegram, Ellsworth & Vane, and VinanceR are all ‘smoke and mirrors’. I was able to give them valuable information, but I was advised to contact the FBI IC3 Scam division to file a report. A report has been filed! Bottom line…do your research! I was in a fake site from day one! It was 100% believable and money wasn’t even brought up for months. The Quanta AI beta test was unbelievable! The returns were insane! I was duped into making trades on my own, suffered losses, and felt 100% at fault. Learn from me…DO YOUR HOMEWORK! If it’s too good to be true, it probably is.

Targeted Person's Location

AZ, USA - 85212

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New York, NY - 10001

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Unknown Email

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(804) 641-0236

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Unknown URL

Scam Type

Investment

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Business name

Ellsworth and Vane

Date Reported

November 20, 2025

Scam ID

1110922


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