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I linked with someone on Hinge dating app. They said their name was ****** ***** and she was an partner/manager at **** Plastic Surgery (with locations in Boston and LA). The story they told was that they owned a couple store locations, but the stores weren't doing well so they had a side hustle. They described it as BTC option trading and cloud mining. They said they could show me how. I looked up some info online about it to confirm the info and then opened the account on Crypto.com Onchain app. They had me use the web3 browser on the app to access the site https://robinhood-ot.com/#/. I started out small and slow. Just a couple thousand to see what it was all about. After a few trades, I was convinced it was real and started sending funds to the account to scale up. After I had contributed approximately $700,000 (before transfer fees) in personal funds and "grew" the account to $4.85M, I submitted the withdrawal request, and that's when I started hitting road block after road block trying to withdraw the funds. Once they requested that I pay the capital gains tax before withdrawing the funds which equated to about $600,000, that's when I stopped contributing funds and put a stop to all communications. They gave me until Jan.25th to pay the taxes or else they would start adding a 0.5% fee every day after Jan.25th. I am still receiving texts from the person on WhatsApp. Our conversations are mostly on WhatsApp (from a number 1(323)503-2781) but I have received a few texts directly to my cell from a different number (from a number 1(213)397-3214) claiming to be the same person from WhatsApp. I looked up more details once they would not allow the withdrawal and I believe the term for it is called "pig butchering". https://robinhood-ot.com/#/ This is the trading platform through the Crypto.com Onchain App using the web3 browser that they had me trade BTC options on. This is the site where I transferred my funds to. And this is where they will not allow me to withdraw my funds. (AND they somehow had robinhood email me from an email address that ended with @robinhood.com)