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In November of 2022, I met Amanda on Facebook. She and I were messaging. She said she was Asian and lived in Baltimore, MD. She showed me a MD Drivers license. She said her uncle worked on Wall Street, and she is unavailable through the week. She said she had an inside track into crypto. She presuaded me to join a fake company, Redcoin 01. She showed me how to wire money to crypto.com. I set up an account there. Crypto.com is a warehouse that holds your money until you tell them where to send it. I had the money sent to RedOne 01. I could see a graph showing my money was increasing on a graph. She said she was putting money into the RedCoin account too: $20,000, $18,000. She was contacting me from Cambodia. We communicated a lot through WattsApp. I could see her on screen, and she looked like she was in a rich person's home, or a friend's house. The last money I deposited was in january 2023. In February 2023, the account reached 1 million. So, I went to make a withdrawal. I was told I could not withdraw the money until I paid $1,000, and she became hateful with me. Then I began contacting scam advisors on the internet, and they wantd a lot of money to track her down, like $20,000. I went to my bank, US Bank, in New Albany and showed the bank manager the pictures of my RedOne account. She sent me a fraud notice, saying I was involved in fraud scams and closed my account. Then I received a call from job and family services saying they ahad gotten a referral for elder abuse. I told Job and Family Services that I was just investing in crypto and not to worry about it. Amanda was very persuasive that everything was fine. I called FTC and was told to put a freeze on my credit report.