I work for the village of Stetsonville office, as clerk treasurer. person id's themselves as Express update, thinking it's my election machinery...the person asked if we were located at 105 N Gershwin St. I said YES...then thought, oh no, did I just get scammed by answering YES. I called the number back on caller ID and the recording says to look at www.expressupdate.com hoping the village isn't caught up in some subscription to something I don't want by saying YES. phone call came in at 3/3/2025 at 1:17 pm to 715-678-2191 Village office.

I received a text messages from an unknown person who asked how was I doing. I asked who's this, in reply. She replied Luna. I replied wrong number. She replied sorry, I was trying to say hello to my friend. What's your name? I replied ****** no problem, you're welcome. Later that day I received a WhatsApp message asking whether we can become friends and chat on WhatsApp? That was from a new number. I was skeptical initially because I found her to be a bit aggressive. Nonetheless, I agreed and we began sharing WhatsApp messages. We spoke on a wide range of topices, including what we do for a living, hobbies, books, country of origin and more. She told me she owned a fashion boutique and investing in crypto currency trading. And that her investment were paying her better than her membership only fashion boutique which was her dream. We talked a few times about crypto currency trading and what I know about bitcoin. She informed me that she is a part-time trader but is doing well and is willing to teach me if that is something I would be interested in. At one point I asked whether she wants to communicate verbally. To which she replied, "I rather communicate by text messages. When you write it comes from the heart. By the end of the second week I dismissed her and accused her of being a scammer and wanting to rub me and other Americans of their hard earned money. She replied, saying I was falsely accusing her and making her feel bad. "I think you are a gentleman and likes speaking to you ". We resumed our daily WhatsApp messages which led to her asking whether I wanted to open a crypto currency trading account trading bitcoin. Her uncle is part of a trading group and analysts who analyzies bitcoin and gives her trading nodes which enables her to trade successfully. It sounded impressive which prompted me to agree to opening a crypto currency trading account. She sent me the website www.p2bdex.com and guided me through the process of opening an account. Following the submission and approval of the application to start an account I made an initial investment of $1K which was paid through my cash app account. All our communication was done through WhatsApp messages and screenshots. I had to follow her directives and instructions by an exchange of screenshot messages. By the end of July, we had made significant progress and profits. So much so that my investments had grown to $4K. A few times I got annoyed by her insistence that I should add more money to the account which in my opinion hinged on fraud. In September the account had reached over $10K and she advised me to try bringing the account to $20K which would enable me to generate a 35% profit on the investment. I didn't have the money and made my position clear. During the first week of October she advised me to take out a loan fo $5K from the trading company which would push the account over $20K. I contacted customer service of the trading company p2bdex.com for a $5K loan. On October 9, 2024 the loan was approved and to be paid back in 30 days with a 10% interest. Failure to repay the loan within the 30 day period would incurr a 5% interest on the daily balance. With over $20K in the account we began trading and receiving reguler trading nodes with increased profits. As the deadline to repay the loan I consulted her on a payment plan. She advised me to withdraw the equivalent of the loan amount to repay the loan. That is when I discovered that the loan has to be repaired with external funds and not from profits generated from trading. I was scammed but to deep to stop. I managed to raise the necessary funds and paid off the loan. By then the account had ballooned to over $570 aided by the election results and the reelection of President Donald Trump. I had my doubts and wanted to verify whether I was being scammed and at the same time excited about the possibilities. She encouraged me to believe in the process and trust the opportunities that now possibilities. We discussed making a first withdrawal. I told her I wanted to make a withdrawal and would need her help in doing so. I began the process and soon run into difficulties and had to request her assistance. We went through the process exchanging texts and screenshots until we made a submission. That was on November 21, 2024. Based on the customer service the funds should be in my cash app account within 24 hours following verify of my request. The next day I received an email informing me that the withdrawal had been put on hold until I pair 10% of the withdrawal amount as fees for an upgrade of the account. The withdrawal amount is unusually high and had triggered an alert and needed to upgrade the account to a " large-value channel upgrade to secure the safety of the funds. The required upgrade would have to be done within 15 business days. And failure to do so would result in an additional 5% interest on the daily balance. She initiated a $10K payment towards the fees for the large-value channel upgrade and I have to pay the balance. This is outside of usual wire withdrawal norms and processes. I have consulted many banking institutions and persons involved in such transactions and the general consensus is that this trading company has scam written all over it. They are insisting that I pay this one time fee for the large-value channel upgrade and that my account will be upgraded to VIP meaning that future withdrawals will be done with no difficulty. I suggested that the requested fee be discounted from the amount being withdrawn and the balance paid to me. They are adamant that the fees be paid with external funds and immediately thereafter the transaction will be completed. I think I am being scammed. Meanwhile, numerous attempts to have my friend who introduced me to crypto currency trading/p2bdex.com pay the balance of the fees to facilitate the release of my money had been very defensive. She is adamant that I should raise the required money by borrowing from family, friends, banks and other lending institutions. I want to determine whether I have been scammed, get my investment capital back and if a tall possible get the full amount in the account which stands at about $570 + depending on the value of bitcoin. I am still intouch with my friend and p2bdex.com if you need immediate contact information. In fact, since raising my misgivings and doubts about the legitimacy of the trading company my friend has made numerous threats including sueung me for monies she paid on my behalf and ensuring I spend the rest of my life in jail.

I had never heard of this company, WinRed. Begining 2/29/2024, WinRed began charging $75.00 per month to my credit card without my knowledge or authorization. The last time a made a political donation was during Predident Trump's election in 2016. That donation was made to a Trump site and know, in 2024, it appears this WinRed group is using my credit card information i supplied in 2016. This is only my assumpation. I have attemped to use WinRed's recommended procedures to request a refund of donation, per their website. I have made three such attempts but have only received a form email stating a representive will be contacting me. Three weeks later, i have not heard from their represetive.

I got a random text on discord from a guy named matt Hendricks and he asked me if I knew anything about crypto.I told him I didn’t and he proceeded to inform me and offered copy trading for beginners. He told me I could invest 100 dollars minimum which I did, all this was done through bitcoin but then he told me that it was to low for me to follow his trades so I added 900 more dollars as he instructed me to do so.this was a three month duration plan. I accidentally made another trading plan which meant I had two different plans following him.so I had to add 500 more dollars for the second plan.i started getting hit with all of a sudden fees after a couple of days like switching to a higher frequency which cost like 2,000.After eight days the signal that is needed to copy his trades goes out and you need to pay 1300 dollars to renew it. After paying for all of this and doing more research I kept telling myself and him that it was suspicious and probably a scam, but he reassured me and gave me his word that it wasn’t. Many red flags about the website kept going down and having maintenance without notifying.So then I started doing research on him and the website found his instagram and it seemed suspicious but at the same time legit.the first month was just the two fees but after that was he had a significant lost and I had to put back what he lost 830.He switched coins on the second month to etherum and I had to add 1500 each plan so 3000 total.he started asking me if I wanted to be apart on extra trades, and I wanted to so it was 600 dollars and that made a profit of 1300.another fee came which was that one of my plans had 1000 more dollars in it and they told me that they both needed to be at the same to continue, I couldn’t afford it right away so he said that it would be paused until I can pay it.i payed it after a week in which he said that my duration was also pushed back a week.the third month he switched to lite coin and I believe I had to put 1500 in each again.two weeks later after the election it went on a bull run and because of that I had to pay 1800 in total to add a stop loss.he kept telling me everything was fine and that he will make sure everything is going good for me, he texted me almost every day out of those three months.the 1800 dollars was the last sudden charge, the. It came down to withdrawal timeNov 25. I needed to register my wallet for 460 dollars and pay a vat tax 10% which was 7600, this is when I knew my money was gone and since then he’s still texting me and trying to get me to pay it even offering installments.

Very similar experience for me I saw somebody posted about it on Facebook. I tried to follow up on it. The person I initially messaged asked if it was OK for a girl name Charlotte I believe to contact me within an hour and I said yes couple days of communicating she asked if I had two hours for training and how would get paid the first day, we went through it step-by-step. It was the easiest too good to be true thing ever and I really was looking for any reason to abandon ship if shadiness occurred and I actually got paid training seminar netted me like $28 and then they deposited $500 into my account that was a weekly base salary, but I couldn't get that until the end of the week and then they said that I could do my first job if I wanted to so I did the girl was right there via.Text message if I had any questions. She was very, very attentive, almost too much. I too came across one of the urgent jobs, which is supposed to pay five times as much, but if you don't have enough money in your account to cover this payment, which I didn't quite understand the explanation of what it even was for and why the company didn't cover it. This first time I had had enough in my account from the day before that I had released yet so no big deal at work just as they said it would. That first night I netted $119 believe and it took me all of 12 min... That's when it started to get weird. She said she would now teach me how to release the funds which involved Cash app and cryptocurrency and me connecting a debit card to Cash App using my photo ID to do so even though it was cash app and reputable company. I did not like it and I said it, and they had another option to use a similar site called upload which is more of a cryptocurrency exchange Site like COINBASE. I was able to release my funds from the job to upload. I just didn't put in my banking information to get the money into my bank. The next day the girl texted me asking me if I was ready to work since the money was there the night before Not salary because it wasn't showing that it was there. I decided to let work so I got about halfway through the jobs. I'm supposed to dispatch which means clicking two buttons. I came across a job that I needed to use $250 in my own money to move along and that's when I put up the walls and just tried to find somewhere to compromise myself , and there wasn't and I didn't have enough in the account to cover it so I proceeded to tell them how I felt they were adamant about me leaving and not talking in the group chat foreign the way they were typing their English to me so I did the group text and said how I felt and then I left and never go back. I still have 100 and something dollars in the upload account because of crypto surges since the election Went from 47 or something like that almost $200. I'm just a little skeptical about putting my personal information in there in case they're still monitoring it somehow I'm just being super paranoid but reality site has nothing to do with them so scam the scam was to give me 140 something dollars then ask for 250 back and I'm sure if I did that , they would then hit me with bigger hopes of getting it back at the end of the shift explained to me, which is exactly what happened to you

Person initially contacted me via text message. Quickly moved to WhatsApp. From there talked me thru using an application called CashApp. Copied a small amount of money $100 to the crypto currency exchange called klicklex.cc. This was then invested and became $230 dollars. This was repeated several times. Eventually another $1000 was invested. The scammer wanted a total of $10,000 for a big opportunity occurring after the Nov 5, 2024 election. This because $156,000 dollars! Sounds great. However the web site https://klicklex.cc charges a 15% "fee" to withdraw the funds. This was another $23,000+ to withdraw the funds which I refused to pay. So the alleged money is still in the exchange awaiting the payment of the "fee".

I worked for a company North Carolina community coalition during the election. Contacting several people. The last assignment I had was to go door to door. The questions I asked where the specific questions in the Empower app that I was tol to ask. My husband and I never got the money that was owed. Everyone ghosted us and never replied with an answer. The coach LaShun said that she completed her job however never replied to any of my other messages about my money. Many people on their Facebook page, Instagram and twitter are speaking out about not getting paid!

They left a voicemail from number 1 + 562-395-9389: "Number is 866-406-6777 I am calling about your preapproval of 42,000 in available funds now that the election is over there has been another drop in interest rates making this the best time to secure loan before the market changes again my telephone number is 866-406-6777 that's telephone number 866-406-6777 look forward to your call bye-bye if you'd like to talk out please call us back…" I called the number provided in the voicemail and gave them a fake name, and they were trying to obtain personal information regarding my personal debt and how much I owe to see if I "qualify" for a loan that they said i am "pre-approved" for. They were making it seem like they were a loan company but trying to phish for my information.

Phone number calling from was 561-465-0796, voicemail is as follows. *6 seconds of silence* "Hello, my name is James Portman, I am a senior unwriter (?) at the Liberty Loan Group, my telephone number is 866-407-5137. I am calling about your preapproval of $42,000 in available funds, uh, now that the election is over and there has been another drop in interest rates, this is the best time to secure a loan before the market changes. Please give me a call back today again telephone number is 866-407-5137,. Again that's telephone number 866-407-5137. Look forward to your call, buh-bye.

I took a political poll sponsored ad on Faceboo.k. The company was called Truly American. They stated if you answer the poll questions you could purchase a Trump flag for Shipping only in the amount of $4.97. I did the poll and ordered 1 flag. They charged my card for $4.97 and also a separate charge of $79.99. It was listed on my card statement as DECO DREAMS ONLINE, ADDRESS I called to have the $79.99 removed. They said I signed up for a monthly membership fee of $79.99! I was upset and had them cancel my membership. I called my card company. They had rejected the $79.99 charge and recommended they issue me a new card. I ordered the flag in September. I called again in October to find out why I hadn't received my flag. They said it would go out in 1-2 days. I have not received the flag at all. When I called after the election, the phone number I previously called them on is no longer in service. Also, another $79.99 charge appeared on my new card under another company name. Thankfully my card rejected the charge. It seems to be a scam run on FB during the election cycle. The company names used, and address listed on my card seem fraudulent. I can't find the original company, Truly American, and have no further way to contact them.