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There is a company based in Paris, France named ABTasty. They supposedly have 8 offices around the world. 2 in the US. San Francisco, CA & NY, NY. Cant find a office in CA and the NY office has an address but the 2 phone numbers I have found, one does not work and one has a loop when pressing buttons. Tried calling the Paris, France office and when being sent to option 1 they speak French so I don't speak French and just hung up. Corporate Headquarters: Paris, France: 19 Rue Michel-le-Comte, Paris, France 75003 - New York, New York: 408 Broadway, New York, New York 10013 London, United Kingdom: 3 Waterhouse Square 138, London, Holborn EC1N 2SW San Francisco, California: 535 Mission St, San Francisco, California 94105 Madrid, Spain: Calle Henri Dunant 17, Madrid, Community of Madrid 28036 Cologne, Germany: Richmodstraße 6, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia 50667 Singapore: 36 Carpenter St #3, Central Business District, Singapore 059915 Berlin, Germany: Rosenstraße 2, Berlin, Germany 10178 This is the CEO of the company info: Alix de Sagazan LinkedIn profile. https://www.linkedin.com/in/alixddsagazan/ . I tried reaching out to her and no response. Her email [email protected] and sent email, no response Her website abtasty.com - learn about the company and what it does How this all started. I was sent a WhatsApp message asking if I was interested in part time work. I said what is it and then Sarah began to explain it all as it shows on website abtasty.com in what they do. Being in the IT industry for 24 years I understood. I said yes. She began getting me set up with ABTasty app and also I needed to setup a Crypto.com account. I started following directions of her training where I had 40/40 tasks to complete after putting in $101 and would earn .05% on each task (data optimization of each merchant). I completed task set and received $48 in my wallet. She showed me how to withdraw all $48 to my Crypto.com account and then convert it from USDC to USD. Then I was able to wire directly to my personal account. I did this a total of 3 times. Then she said I can raise you to a VIP2 level now. (there are 4 levels of VIP). I still didn't understand all of this and went with flow. So I was a VIP2 level where I earned .075% on each task. Now the task set was set 50/50. I thought this was easy money. I was in for a life changing event over a course of 2 months working with Sarah. I believe at task 20 something I had what they call a combination happen where a merchant is paid out 10 times more than what you have in profit. What this means is I had around $500 in profit and the profit scale went to negative $2200. This means you have to fund the account $2200 to finish task. After many many questions trying to understand all of this and listening to her tell us this is real and not a scam so many times and me wanting so much detail that she would not give, my wife and I were in this together and believed her stories. I physically talked with her on the phone 4 times. So we funded account into our Crypto.com account and then she always helped converting USD to USDC then I would have to reach out to CS on app (top right corner of app will take you to a representative. Which was strange because I always got Amelia.) to request an encrypted address 42 digits in numbers and letters. This address was then added through many navigation and then when i sent it over to the ABTasty website through Amelia she would do whatever on the backend to add the money to my wallet and plus a bonus amount would be added depending on the amount you funded. Based on there percentage chart. So now I was in the positive and could continue finishing tasks. Well here is where the craziness got worse. A few more task finished I believe the 2nd combination was around 31/50. Again it needed funded to complete. This time is was around $22k. We fell for it again. 4th one happened again at 49/50. Now it needed funded $74k. We fell for her story again 4th time. This time I made her put her own money in of $33400. Then we hit 50/50 which should of been completed and now i should have been able to withdraw all of it. I received a 5th combination now wanting $32k. Again we fell for it. So now my account sits with $176,197. This included our retirement of $105,400 + bonuses they give you + all the fee reimbursements they give you+ tax deferment 2 times they gave us + Sarah's money of $33,400. I tried going through with the withdrawal and it was flagged I could not withdraw. Amelia (CS) says I would need to speak to a specialist to repair the order. Gave me the phone number which are all land lines. This person name did not show up like all the others. Just a picture. She was very rude in explaining to me how I needed to repair the merchant complaints and the order timing. All a bunch of BS now looking back. She said she needs $30k to repair the account and then I will get all my money. Here is where my wife and I knew for sure we were scammed bad out of our retirement amount $105,400. At this point I would love to talk about this entire process to an assigned agent because I know with all the information I have, conversations, phone numbers, Instagram account, screenshots you can bust these people. I want them stopped before more people like myself get scammed out of there money. I believe they try to bankrupt people. I would love for your help to get our money back of $105,400. The people I was involved with named if its their real names plus land line numbers; Sarah Deroche - My trainer. 1-202-773-5708 Amelia Smith - CS. 1-347-937-6678 Issue specialist - no name. Lady picture. 1-225-502-8021 I also belong to a group chat of 89 members on WhatsApp doing the same thing. Doesn't appear anyone has experienced what I have. I have a couple more people I talked privately where I seeked information. At this point I need to know what I should do. Keep them on the hook talking like none of this is going on or stop talking to them period? Please inform me. Thank you for your help, ****** * ******** ************ ********************** P.S. When I was doing a lot of research before things got out of hand. I could not find any lawsuits against them. I called FTC and the BBC and nothing reported. I filed a complaint with BBC. So this is on file. Justanswers.com is a website for Lawyer advice. There are some things about this company on there. Redit.com has many people on there calling it a scam but no one pursued any action against the company. This is why my wife and I thought it was still legit. Although wife had a feeling it was a scam but we could not prove it. Unfortunately we know now.