Description

I was using the dating app called Hinge. A Chinese woman "Mandy" matched me on 2/25/2024. I personally use WeChat as the chat tool. We switched to the app and chat. She “love bombed” me to build an emotional connection quickly. She started to bait me on making money from the cryptocurrency exchange on 2/26/2024. She taught me to download Defi wallet, buy $999 bitcoin from my Cash App as an initial practice and sent it to the Defi wallet app. She gave me the link www.bakkt-hotwallet.com to be used inside the defi wallet app and showed me how to trade BTC. WeChat is a chinese app and it can detect "cryptocurrency" stuff. Her account got blocked. We then switched to the chatting app telegram. She told me to use wire-transfers to send my money to the platform bakkt-hotwallet. She told me how to bypass the validation from the chase bank. I followed her directions to operate the btc exchange investment. In order to withdraw the money, it asks for prepaid tax. I stopped investing during the withdraw process. The whole story started from 2/25/2024 and ended on 3/27/2024. Total 4 Wire-transfers from chase bank: $42000.00 on 2/29/2024, $35000.00 on 3/4/2024, $17000.00 on 3/6/2024, $41000.00 on 3/18/2024. I later found out it is the typical Cryptocurrency investment scam on Hinge.