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Romance - Romance

Scammer pretended to have a formula for binary trading to predict Bitcoin 60 second price movements (up or down). Fraudulent trading platform is www.cmegroupilinx.com which showed fake financial gains for each trade.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Unknown Location

Date Reported: November 21, 2025

Business Name Used: N/A


Romance

A person i met through Makromusic app encourage me to invest in what is apparently a scam app named SSFOAUNT which allegedly use GTCFX trading, after try to withdraw my money they requested a verification fee then the "online service" stop responding (note: they use crisp for the online service) after i tried to track the person phone number my login to the app was "prohibited"

Dollars Lost: $24258

San Francisco, CA- 94100

Date Reported: November 21, 2025

Business Name Used: N/A


Romance - Relationship of Your Dreams

My wife has been following an internet "relationship" coach for a small time. She told me recently that she wanted to invest in herself. In this program to help her "soften" She said it would cost a bit of money and that's why she was afraid to bring it up to me. Without even thinking much of it, and appreciating the vulnerability that she was showing, I just said "ok, love, I support you" I didn't delve much further into it. A few days later as Im doing our finances I discover a 6700$ charge and I was incredibly shocked. Upon seeing it I spent the next few hours doing investigative work to figure out what it was for and then who created the program. Upon my investigation I discovered many disgusting things that have been used against my wife to get her to go behind my back with such an immense financial purchase. He used emotional manipulation, high pressure sales tactics, and grooming to get my wife to sign a contract behind my back that houses no protections for the consumer(including a no refund/no chargeback clause and a legal matters only resolved in ontario courts piece) The contract holds a lot of fear based language for anyone who might disagree or change their mind upon seeing the actual program. I have a multitude of emails and facebook messages to provide as proof as well as the contract. This man has now positioned himself between me and my wife in a multitude of ways and has caused severe damage to our relationship. I write with concern for all the women that this man and his group prey upon. I also write in concern for any man that should come u[p against this cretin. Everything that is good in our relationship he attempts to take ownership of. It is truly nightmarish. I uploaded the contract and redacted private info. I will also put in this text the initial discussion between the two that I believe outlines the predatory nature of this man and his company. I can provide a psych evaluation of the rhetoric that exists in his emails as well as his content online. He seems to shame women into thinking they are broken and thats the reason their relationship is broken or they dont have one. Then he says he has all the answers. This is the initial conversation between my wife and what I assume to be Zak Roedde " Hi Zak Roedde, A new event has been scheduled. Event Type: DREAM RELATIONSHIP DISCOVERY CALL Invitee: {REDACTED} Invitee Email: {REDACTED} Text Reminder Number: {REDACTED} Event Date/Time: 13:30 - Friday, 7 November 2025 (Eastern Time - US & Canada) Description: Apply to speak with me 1-1, where we will: * Get you crystal clear on your vision for your dream relationship * Identify the specific obstacles that have gotten in your way of being able to experience this. * Get you aware and honest about the very real consequences if things continue this way. * Diagnose a solution with you to resolve this and point you in that direction, whatever it may be. IF, that is our academy, then make sure you are going to be fully committed in every way for yourself before we commit to you. Location: This is a Zoom web conference. Attendees can join this meeting from a computer, tablet or smartphone. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83638673278?pwd=xn2Nbqd4RjQrTr8UGdF3zSbfwymZWo.1 Password: 695561 One tap mobile: +1 309 205 3325,,83638673278# +1 312 626 6799,,83638673278# They can also dial in using a phone. US: +1 309 205 3325, +1 312 626 6799, +1 646 931 3860, +1 929 436 2866, +1 301 715 8592, +1 305 224 1968, +1 507 473 4847, +1 564 217 2000, +1 669 444 9171, +1 669 900 6833, +16892781000, +1 719 359 4580, +1 253 205 0468, +1 253 215 8782, +1 346 248 7799, +1 360 209 5623, +1 386 347 5053 Meeting ID: 836-386-73278 Invitee Time Zone: Hawaii Time Questions: How do you know about my work? “I follow you on facebook I'm in your free group” The first 30min of the call is to assess your love life and give you understanding of why you don't have what you want and how to change that. There is an additional 60 minutes booked in case you want our help creating your dream relationship. “I understand. I will make sure I have the full 90 minutes available if I decide you can help me transform my love life.” Tell me what your biggest problems are that you want to shift in your love life, and what do you want your current or future relationship to look like when these problems are solved. “My husband says he’s very devoted to me but I feel afraid to share my feelings or disagree with him. I’ve tried being vulnerable, expressing my desires, my feelings, my need for safety and security, and he usually tells me there’s no problem and there’s nothing wrong and I need to quit living in fear, start respecting and supporting him, and lean into trust. My fear is that there’s no solid foundation to lean into so it doesnt feel safe to me.” Tell me if you are ready immediately to step into a solution if you KNEW it could give you your dream relationship, or are you window shopping for next week / month / year. “ I'm not ready now and need to get my finances or life in order first” If you are in a relationship do you need your partner's permission or money to invest in yourself? “ No I can make my own financial decisions” Do you have the financial means to invest in a love-life transforming coaching solution that will require a multi-hundred dollar a month payment plan? “Yes... depending on how many multi-hundreds per month we are talking about.” Is there anything you are concerned about that might stop you from investing in a high-end coaching solution. “Monthly payments” Tell me any fears or resistance to this application, or to talking on the call with me. “Fear of being manipulated, fear of going into debt, fear of being hurt / judged, fear of the solution not working, fear of giving up, fear of being too ‘broken’, I do have a fear of being judged. Previously my husband hasn’t been very open to coaching programs and books and podcasts I gravitate to so I am a little afraid he will dismiss this as another “quackery” I fell for (this is what he called NVC by Marshall Rosenberg)” After your call is booked, you will be redirected to a page to watch a 40 minute video to help you understand how to create the relationship of your dreams. Do you PROMISE to watch it before our call? “Yes. I will watch it now.” Do you PROMISE to show up on time for the call, or cancel it 24 hours in advance so that you do not waste my time and take up a time spot that someone else could have used? “Yes I promise" Her answers are in quotations. I believe that this man has gotten her to sign a contract under undue influence and I am fighting for my marriage. She has just canceled the chargeback as this man threatened to take us to court after I told him we wanted a refund immediately. Which he refused. The evening blew up and my wife was leaving me. This man was whom she decided to reach out to for emotional safety. He answered and responded as such. “Excellent. Fantastic, Natasha. If you have any other big issues that happen with your husband in the next week, tell me. Normally, I don’t keep my line open — it’s usually handled by my team. But because this is a rather serious issue, I want to make sure you’re properly taken care of and have the support you need, especially in regards to feeling your feelings. So do not hesitate to reach out to me if you need it, okay?” He is creating a serious crater in my relationship all to enrich himself via selling psuedo-science and old idioms under a new package. Even me writing this and collecting the evidence is putting my relationship at risk. But, I feel that I have been attacked and bamboozled in the worst way.... and I dont want this happening to anyone else.

Dollars Lost: $6700

ON-

Date Reported: November 20, 2025

Business Name Used: Relationship of Your Dreams


Romance - Romance

Had confronted on tik tok mail kevin creekman to talk with him. But got a text back saying it was him on text talked for a while many days then he asked me for money to help him out in many things as it went on. His music, his inheritance for him in germany. Nany times sent him money through cash app. . Then he said he wanted money for inheritance return of fathers money. But went on and on different people on wire transfers equaling over 90,000 . Would be returned to me after he received money back but on 3 years later he just left concersations online.

Dollars Lost: $151500

AZ

Date Reported: November 19, 2025

Business Name Used: Kevin creekman


Romance - Investment Romance and Phishing Scam on Wincestead App

Met through online dating apps, was taught how to invest in cryptocurrency with Tickmill via an app called Wincestead, eventually convinced to begin investing some of her own money. When she decided she wanted to make a large withdrawal and quit investing, was told she needed to pay 20% tax up front before the money could be added to her wallet.

Dollars Lost: $50000

Irving, TX- 75061

Date Reported: November 18, 2025

Business Name Used: Investment Romance and Phishing Scam on Wincestead App


Romance

We began chatting on FB in mid-July. He claimed to be an Admiral in the US Navy, on a ship in Japan, ready to retire. Of the 17 or so red flags suggested to watch out for, I found 8 or 9. He never asked for money until November. Many imposters of him popped up from time to time so it was difficult to know who I was chatting with.He soon switched our conversations to Spike chat for security. He asked me to receive a package for him until he was stateside. At first I refused several times since I'd never met him/her or had a voice/video chat and the contents of the pkg was unknown to me. He pressured me to receive the pkg because he claimed his personal belongings were in it and Iranian sleeper cells were ready to attack the fleet. I agreed after incredible pressure, and found out later that he expected me to pay $5000+ for shipping the pkg, an amount unaffordable for me, so I tried several times to cancel the delivery . I suspected this to be a Military Romance Scam.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Unknown Location

Date Reported: November 18, 2025

Business Name Used: Admiral Frederick William Kacher


Romance

I met this guy Luca Mayer on Instagram threads. We formed a romantic connection and about a month in he asked me to invest in spot gold. I signed up thinking it was a legitimate website and took out all of my 401 k, savings and loans to invest. At first they allowed me to take out a couple thousand dollars and then when I needed to take out more they said I needed to pay an anomaly verification of 95,000 by a certain date in order to get my account to normal and use my funds. The website where my money was was LBMA-forex.com and is a scam website. They threaten to freeze your account if it’s not paid by a certain date and also other attempts at extorting the money.

Dollars Lost: $400000

Unknown Location

Date Reported: November 18, 2025

Business Name Used: LBMA


Romance - Romance

This is a romance scam of my brother, Stuart Straw.

Dollars Lost: $5000

Central Valley, CA

Date Reported: November 17, 2025

Business Name Used: Jenny


Romance - Romance / crypto scam

I was contacted by a recruiter on Link The supposedly employer mentioned she was impressed with my credentials and mentioned a start up company she was up starting in January 2026. She became friendly and opened up to her family and mentioned to me her aunt was a big CEO at Morgan Stanley. Approached me one day on selling crypto and making a large profit. Mentioned she traded again and showed me her profits. And then told me she could ask her aunt if I could join her and invest. I was not interested and mentioned to her I was only interested in employment.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Seattle, WA

Date Reported: November 17, 2025

Business Name Used: Start up AI company


Romance

Promise of romance possible long term. You never get any further than purchasing one credits in order to communicate via text, photos or emails.

Dollars Lost: $100

Strovolos

Date Reported: November 16, 2025

Business Name Used: Okamour


Romance - Crypto

We met on an online dating site called Bumble. Scammer said name was Plato and used pictures of Barack Ben Shimon from Israel (i found him on a reverse picture site) Plato moved to WhatsApp to communicate quickly. Love bombs and invests in crypto currency to make money and  travel the world. He says he will teach you too and then has a crypto website for exchange to steal your money that you can't withdraw. The scam website is cryptosnewsdaily.com.

Dollars Lost: $300

Shorewood, WI

Date Reported: November 16, 2025

Business Name Used: Plato Janssens


Romance - Relationship Scam

We are not sure how much information or what information was taken. This person was scamming my mom for months. They mailed her a check for $15000 gave her instructions on cashing it and advised her their attorney would pick the money up because it was for a house they were bulding locally. They were sending her very flirtatious messages and doing everything the could to befriend her and gain her trust

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Hurricane, UT- 84737

Date Reported: November 16, 2025

Business Name Used: Mardi Noetling


Romance - Arte Oro

Woman was attempting to reach a "Ms Mary" but got my phone. The number was from Arkansas but she said it was a new phone belonging to her assistant. She said her name was Ella, is 39 years old, from Singapore, is a jewelry designer living for 10 years in LA. She asked me to go on WhatsApp. She attempted to flirt, sent me pictures and even video chatted with me briefly (she used extremely broken English). She said her business was called "Arte Oro" but did not have a website nor could I find it as a registered business in California. We chatted for a few weeks. She continuously began talking about her investments in Gold and using crypto currency wallets to move assets because banks ask too many questions. She sent me screen shots of her investments. The pictures she sent me were real but clearly AI enhanced. When I began pushing if what she told me was real she became increasingly agitated and began acting like a victim. I knew it was a scam eventually and played along. She told me her step-father was the head of Temasek in New York and gave her all her investment advice. I began telling her that I would move to LA so we could finally be together. She accused me of wanting her money and because she was good looking and that we were only friends. I kept throwing around scam terms like "Pig Butchering" to get a reaction. It was clear that someone else was in control of the conversations often, as the messages sounded contrived. I eventually sent her all the evidence I amassed that she was part of a scam ring, downloaded the conversation, reported her to WhatsApp and blocked/deleted the message. The number she used on WhatsApp is 213-257-6844.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Los Angeles, CA

Date Reported: November 15, 2025

Business Name Used: Arte Oro


Romance - Romance Scam

He messaged me on Grindr looking to help me financially, which he did by paying off a credit card bill by sending me the account and routing number. but then requested more and more money to then get to an allowance. I should’ve stopped when he first asked, but I felt pressured since he had already paid off my bill.

Dollars Lost: $700

Unknown Location

Date Reported: November 15, 2025

Business Name Used: N/A


Romance - Romance Scheme

my father in law engaged in text conversations with scammers on line posing to be a love interest. He sent multiple text back and forth and we were able to get some of them when he was hospitalized. He sent apple gift cards in numerous amounts to them. He also engaged in facebook conversations with them possibly posing as Jennifer Anistons page. Thousands of men commented on these pages and they wrote back. They also sent him a USB drive that came from an Australian Address he does not own a computer and we were able to get this USB away from him. The address listed on the package is Leigh Gardam 1551 Murchison HWY Yolla TAS 7325 ustralia

Dollars Lost: $3000

Unknown Location

Date Reported: November 14, 2025

Business Name Used: N/A


Romance

They have talked to my mother into opening an account with crypto.com and open bank.com, as well as an LLC.  These scammers are stealing from her.

Dollars Lost: $3000

Unknown Location

Date Reported: November 14, 2025

Business Name Used: N/A


Romance - Romance / Sextortion

Wanted money or they were going to expose inappropriate pictures

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Unknown Location

Date Reported: November 13, 2025

Business Name Used: N/A


Romance

I met a guy name Sevastinos Elias on BLK dating site. We have been talking for a moment and then he approached me with a the website where I can have my own e-store and then showed me how to open my own store and where I started to get suspisous is this has to be paid in bitcoin and I looked up this site and it says it has been the romance scam and I wanted to report this site immediately and the person if I am being scammed. https://tikiint.xyz/main.html

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Arlington, VA

Date Reported: November 12, 2025

Business Name Used: Sevastinos elias


Romance - Julie Leach romance/ IRS scam

Scammer used Julie Leach. Late evening attemlted to get a 200. Card from me. Then insisted on Wednesday morning to have a 200.00 card. Then after card numbers shared, ithe con continued trying for a 500.00. I ref.

Dollars Lost: $200

Unknown Location

Date Reported: November 12, 2025

Business Name Used: Julie Leach


Romance

Posed as department of state affiliate.

Dollars Lost: $297

Unknown Location

Date Reported: November 11, 2025

Business Name Used: United passport


Romance

First I ask for someone to talk to from Maryland, Then I talked to a person that said she was from Ellerslie, Md. that's my home town then she wanted to meet me but never did she keep asking me questions that I needed to answer. And lots of sex questions. I am 84 and was looking for someone to talk to. But very soon I was ask to buy more credits time and time again. It ended up with more than $ 150.00 worth of buys. I want my money back and I was told the BBB could help me. Thanks ***** ********

Dollars Lost: $150

Unknown Location

Date Reported: November 10, 2025

Business Name Used: TemptingLocals.com


Romance

The scammer is pursuing a love relationship, and offered a trip to Tahiti. Typed up a contract and tried to get me to do a voice video with the simple word yes i declined. The scammer can be very persuasive in their action and will not give up. They will pretend to be someone else but then have an foreign-born accent. They will lure you in and try and steal everything they can from you. Beware and please not give out any personal information

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Unknown Location

Date Reported: November 10, 2025

Business Name Used: CAM Company


Romance - carla almeida

Lady names carla almeida on WhatsApp running a pig butchering operation. She had me wire money to meibitfx which is a fake site.

Dollars Lost: $24000

La, CA

Date Reported: November 10, 2025

Business Name Used: N/A


Romance - Micheal Hayson

I was approached on the Grindr app by a man claiming he wanted to send me money to pay my debts. He sent me an online check of $1,200 to deposit in my account (check is probably invalid, we will see) and then wanted me to send him money on Cash App right away to help an orphanage be able to get food. I stupidly sent $300 of my own money (as the check hadn't gone through yet, needing to be verified, taking 10 days before I will know if it is a valid check or not). Then he asked for more money to be sent, all before his "check" hadn't gone through into my account yet. All fishy and weird and I fell for the what I believe to be a scam. I don't think the mobile check he sent me is going to go through and I am just going to be out the money I already sent him. Don't be stupid like me and fall for someone who claims to want to give you money, but then start asking for it to be sent to weird places.

Dollars Lost: $300

McCall, ID- 83638

Date Reported: November 10, 2025

Business Name Used: Micheal Hayson


CryptoCurrency - Social Media

David Micheal Johnson introduced himself to me on X. He claimed to be a private investigator who could help me retrieve the money I lost to Franklin Matt Evans in a romance con and bring charges against him. It was all a lie. He set up a bank account without my knowledge or permission with ChevAccess Bank and deposited $70,000 into the account. I foolishly spent $14653.76 attempting to access the funds. Included in those funds was $ 5360 to purchase software to track down Matt Evans. I have never had access to the account. The FBI advised me not to touch the account and I haven't. At one point, David Johnson claimed he was falling in love with me. Then, he also told me I owned him money for his services and he threatened to press charges against me with the police if I didn't pay him.

Dollars Lost: $14653.76

Chipley, FL- 32428

Date Reported: November 10, 2025

Business Name Used: N/A


Romance - Sophia Harris Esty

Hi, this is to report a scammer: Sophia Harris ?+1 (725) 290-8259? what’s app number https://etsy.toshopus.top/

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Sacramento, CA

Date Reported: November 9, 2025

Business Name Used: Sophia Harris Esty


Romance - Blackmail Romance Scam

I met the person on Grindr and we then texted on the number but then they wanted to scam me and found my family and maybe friends contact and will expose me with explicit photos of me to my family and friends and the internet if I didn’t pay the scammer 2,000$ I haven’t contacted the scammer in a while but I am scared they already exposed me

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Hickerson, OH

Date Reported: November 9, 2025

Business Name Used: Ash


Romance - Romance - Business Start Up Offer Scam

Person makes you manage their e-commerce store and then tells you to share in the business with them and become a merchant with them for helping support for our future life together

Dollars Lost: $0.0

CA

Date Reported: November 9, 2025

Business Name Used: Tiki INT


Romance - Romance

Online romance scammer from Australia pretending to be Cody Johnson, country music singer. Scammed my mother out of thousands of dollars. From her credit cards, bank account and in the form of gift cards. He made my mom somehow believe he was who he said he was. He depleted my mother’s accounts. My mother passed away May 2025. I truly believe it was because she was completely stressed out Diego this man taking her life savings.

Dollars Lost: $15000

Unknown Location

Date Reported: November 7, 2025

Business Name Used: Impesonator of Cody Johnson


Romance - Romance

She says she lost her well social service houseing and plays the single needy mother act and cast she goes threw your documents has a sex trafficking lawyer and doesn't have any pants dream team baby Ruth bowels

Dollars Lost: $4000

Fields Landing, CA- 95537

Date Reported: November 7, 2025

Business Name Used: Liz buy house


Romance - Online Dating Scam

I thought this website was a place to meet people but they saverly ripped me off just to send texts and now I find out that the person I was talking to doesn't even exist. They took my money

Dollars Lost: $0.0

NY

Date Reported: November 7, 2025

Business Name Used: ManPlace


Romance

This is a scam dating site. There are no real members. You pay for messaging credits. You will never aquire a phone number or email address to actually meet someone. They block that information they just expect you to pay to message back and forth with their fake profiles. You never actually meet another person on the site because it is a 100% FAKE SITE.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Unknown Location

Date Reported: November 7, 2025

Business Name Used: SakuraDate.com


Romance

Person is involved in a romance scam; she was with Boyfriend A and came to realization that she was in a romance scam. Was contacted by another male and he became Boyfriend B and Boyfriend B recommended the private investigator to her. Private investigator claimed to have found "Boyfriend A" and she will need to send money for him to travel to multiple countries to catch Boyfriend A. Member has sent close to $200,000.00 to SLS Global Links LLC to pay the private investigator. The investigator business name is "JTD Private Investigator". The woman is still currently stuck in the scam and the actually amount of funds sent to the business is an estimate.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Lomita, CA- 90717

Date Reported: November 6, 2025

Business Name Used: SLS Global Links LLC


Romance - dating app / contact / Piper

Joined dating app and was bombarded by messages (very predatory). Spoke to a woman (supposedly) named Piper and she coerced me into repeatedly purchasing messages both pictures and videos which turned out to be auto deleting and then sending me the same ones that I had to unlock to view over and over with the promise of a date and time spent together. Promised conversations on Snapchat and then asked for money via pay pal and continued to ask for unlocks for messages on 9pm app.

Dollars Lost: $1275.7

Honolulu, HI- 96814

Date Reported: November 6, 2025

Business Name Used: N/A


Romance - Romance Scam, Imposter-Vera Wang

Fraud Timeline: July 2024 Received unexpected SMS from unknown international number: +46 700861664 Replied saying it was wrong number, but she initiated friendly conversation. Name Olivia Johnson (Chinese name: Li Siqi) Conversations moved to WhatsApp. [Month - Sep 2024]: Developed online relationship. Person claimed to be female investor working as Design Director at Vera Wang, NewYork Claimed her uncle Shanquan Li was a senior investor with Invesco in New York. Also sent photos (attached) with him and Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan (attached) Sent photos which I verified online .Built trust through daily communication She introduced investment opportunities in cryptocurrency trading.Claimed her uncle provided algo trading knowledge Convinced me to make small initial investment .Showed apparent profits (fake returns to build confidence) [Month -Dec 2024]: Convinced me to invest larger amounts.Both she and I allegedly invested USD 200,000 each Goal was to "buy an island together and build resort" after profits. Convinced me to take Binance loan of USD 100,000 .Promised she would repay USD 50,000 loan after profits She booked my flight tickets to India to get more funds to repay the loan, so she also has my passport copy sent to book flight tickets. [Month - Mar 2025]: After I repaid USD 50,000 of loan amount, she disappeared.All WhatsApp messages stopped.Number became unreachable Investment platform became inaccessible.Realized entire operation was elaborate fraud. Now the platform is running again with a different name https://www.trustxau.net/#/

Dollars Lost: $311250

NewYork, NY

Date Reported: November 6, 2025

Business Name Used: Vera Wang


Romance - Bitcoin Employment Scam

I met her online and we chatted for a while building up a connection, the name I was given is Hana Lin, she asked if I wanted to make extra funds which led me to this website https://b.b.gonine777.club/www/#/login, and they do a few shop orders from here with customers. https://b.b.gonine777.club/wap/#/home I did a few orders but it was oddly strange they want you to use bitcoin in this website and not card, I did 3 successful orders and got the money given back, but then when it came to the 4th one, which was higher than the 500 one I did, they lost the 819 at first and then found it and then had me put it towards the order. And I asked multiple times to the customer support to close the store because when they lost the bitcoin for a while I became skeptical. Now they’re telling me when I tried to withdraw my money from the next order. I cannot withdraw my 819 bitcoin which I already tried to resent back to cashapp because they’re saying I have to finish a 2600 order that was made but I told them multiple times I was done with the store. So they’re pretty much withholding my money. And then when I went to email support I seen that was a completely different email than actual bigbuy, so I emailed bigbuy and they said they don’t work with crypto or bitcoin, so there seems to be a fake link to this other store. They also took my ID pictures to register me to this website saying it will be my own shop online, and had me name it. below is a picture attachment of me being stuck and the picture of the shop.

Dollars Lost: $819

West Side, MA- 01602

Date Reported: November 5, 2025

Business Name Used: **IMPOSTER** Bigbuy


Romance

Meet this guy on the Bumble app. We started talking as friend. He wanted to switch our conversations to the Whats App. We talked consistently everyday. I lost my brother so talking to him sort helped me with grieving. Eventually, he introduced me into long/short term crypto trading on the crypto.com Onchain Wallet. We used the website coincn777.com to setup my account. I have all the screenshots of what we did. Needless to say, I wired $20k to my wallet and he sent $25k to my wallet. We traded for a few minutes. My wallet got up to $579k. I tried to withdraw it and the customer service said I needed to pay withdrawal fees promptly of $53k. That was a red flag to me. I started messaging customer care. I have those screenshots as well. I told them I’m not going to pay that and they claimed they will charge me a 1% late fee. As far as the guy he wants me to figure out how to pay the money and give him back the $25k he supposedly but in my wallet.

Dollars Lost: $20000

Los Angeles, CA

Date Reported: November 5, 2025

Business Name Used: Nexus Chain


Romance

I met this man named David on app called Boo. He has a French accent and he advised me to join a retailer site called Tikiint. He showed me all the money he was making and wanted to show me as well so we can build a future with. I didn't research and signed up for the site. I uploaded my driver's license and now I can't get a hold of someone to delete my account. Be aware of this man even I video chatted with him and is a real person.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

CA

Date Reported: November 4, 2025

Business Name Used: Playraid


Romance

Fraud dating site. Ropes people in without ever meeting people. Most likely not even real people on the other end. Definitely not ones that match the pictures, because I've seen the same on multiple sites.

Dollars Lost: $21.69

Unknown Location

Date Reported: November 4, 2025

Business Name Used: HolMe


Romance - Romance

This website is a scam, 99% of the profiles on it are completely fake. It claims to be a dating service for people looking for multiple partners. In order to contact other users you have to pay for their VIP service which is about $30+ per month. When you do sign up, you are only ever contacted by people trying get you offsite to other chat services like Telegram to scam you into buying some fake sexual database ID. The whole process is extremely predatory and the site staff do nothing to curb the volume of fake accounts on it.

Dollars Lost: $92.46

Unknown Location

Date Reported: November 4, 2025

Business Name Used: N/A


Romance

Fraud dating site. Ropes people in without ever meeting people. Most likely not even real people on the other end. Definitely not ones that match the pictures, because I've seen the same on multiple sites.

Dollars Lost: $16.27

Unknown Location

Date Reported: November 4, 2025

Business Name Used: Uniee


Romance

Single mother of two children both parents died when she was young every 6 months telling the person we are going to meet but never was overseas serving the United States army in humanitarian aid

Dollars Lost: $130000

Unknown Location

Date Reported: November 2, 2025

Business Name Used: N/A


Romance - Romance - Crypto/Investment Scam

I was speaking to someone online for three months. They shared a business site with me. First they asked me to manage their business site for the a few days. It seemed legit and they showed me proof of funds they’ve withdrawn once they made profit. They recommended I start my own and said they would help me if needed. I did not click on a link but looked up the site separately and signed up for an account - tikiint.icu is the website. I added picture of my license as ID to set up my account and the person I was speaking to online has a store and was my guarantor. I made a logo and named the store ****** ************ I first added cash through wire transfers and then used crypto through cash app or Coinbase. The store is placed in an online mall with items I choose from the warehouse to add to my store and customers place orders. I pay 80% for the order and once the customer receives the order, the full payment is returned to me. I decided to close the store after adding $127k because my store was getting bulk orders and I couldn’t handle them. I was told I needed to process my orders to close my store and that is where the big amounts had to be deposited. Once I processed the orders, they said I had to pay 25% tax since the store was not open for 3 months and they don’t cover taxes unless I stay open for 3 months. I paid the tax and they claimed the tax review was completed by the Chinese tax bureau after 10 days or so but that $20k I had deposited was laundered money and I have to pay $8500 to activate my account because FATF froze my account. They said if I don’t pay I will lose all my funds and they will be donated to international Red Cross.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

CA

Date Reported: November 2, 2025

Business Name Used: N/A


Romance - Romance

This individual tried to scam my mother! My mother is too smart for him. We investigated everything. He also used the “orphanage story” His tactic is he tries to lure them in by being kind, saying he is a “Christian” quoting Bible scriptures etc. he will use AI for some texts as they are well written out and sound professional, then when it’s him texting, he has broken English, you can tell he’s possibly from Nigeria. He called my mom and she said he has a very thick African accent. Not Lithuanian like he claimed to be from. He uses the sob story he lost his parents and wife to cancer (same sad love song all the scammers use to try and lure in their prey). We brought up this scam he used on this other lady and his response is, he was hacked. He’s a liar and a scammer.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Unknown Location

Date Reported: November 2, 2025

Business Name Used: Patrick Lawrence Kurt


Romance

This gentleman is 73 years old and has been involved in many romance scams for the past 15 years. Over a half a million dollars of his assets has been sent to Nigeria in the name of love. Basically everything he owned was sold, and the money was sent to Nigeria, including his retirement and his inheritance, in the name of love, fake internet wives, supposedly young, a beautiful flawless model women was in love with him.They were engaged to be married.Many times he sent many, many scammers.Money for plane tickets to come here that never showed up. I have tried for the past 6 years to keep him from the internet to keep him from communicate with these types of people.But he is suffering from some sort of dementia or mental health issue.And refuses to meet people in person at the local businesses here in our small town, he only has cyber relationships that's it. He has had every bank account.He's ever opened.Shut downDue to the fact that scammers were trying to launder money through it or do illegal business.In some way. Then, after a few years, he straightens it out and gets another bank account.And the same s*** happens just repeatedly. I am his friend and his roommate and I'll get everything.I can to stop him from sabotaging himself.He gives these scammers every detail about his finances and how much money he's got in his pocket.How much he's got on his chime card?What he eats for breakfast.What he eats for dinner.He takes pictures of everything in the house and sends to them daily. He bought a brand new t v and then sold it a week later and sent them the money. Just recently. And these people that i'm sending you the employment agreement.They sent him to sign, says they can't even talk to him.Until he has opened an account at a brick and mortar bank.Because all he has is chime, and they can't use chime that way .

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Unknown Location

Date Reported: November 2, 2025

Business Name Used: Day delivery network logistic company


Romance

It started out as friends talking to a George Walter....and then it was romancing and falling in love with George. He then wanted to come to the USA to meet me. He claims he then has a box that is being sent to me with his documents jewelry and over 60,000.00 in this box that is supposed to come to me..... Well the box was being sent by a Fred who George claims his friend sending the box . From Instanbul ??? So Anyways we sent the money to APEX LOGISTICS ...and was having a hard time with transferring money ( as that should have been a sign to me ) ... Anyway then there was a bank to bank transfer which the money did go through 1,200.00. to a bank in Texas ,.... APEX LOGISTICS had sent me another letter to inform me that more money was needed in order to complete the box transfer ... And this time it was for insurance purposes that was in the box. This time they wanted 1700.00 for insurance. Well George kept trying and trying and trying with me and saying "baby I need your help please so I can get off this oil rig it is dangerous here and I am scared " Well George kept on and on and on ..... Then George tells me that I can use some collateral money to get this box ...... I kept telling George I cannot help you any more I have exhausted all my options.... He still continued on about me helping him. Oh and he was using Rufus Gifford pictures. As profile pictures. [email protected] is the email address he used with me For the Apex LOGISTICS [email protected] This is the letter I received wanting more money: Hello Mrs Laura, We are committed to ensuring your shipments arrive safely and securely. To provide you with added peace of mind, we offer insurance coverage for your packages in case of loss, damage, or theft during transit. We strongly recommend that you consider purchasing this protection for your upcoming shipment.To insure the box you have to pay the sum of $1700 for the package.because of late payment your package was delayed I strongly advise you to do this as soon as possible before it’s to late or your package will be confiscated.we dictated a lot of cash and gold jewelry inside the box and it has to be insured to avoid any damage or loss that might occur.Without insurance, you may not be fully compensated for the value of your package in the event of a problem, as standard carrier policies often have limitations.To add insurance to your shipment.If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to contact us at your earliest convenience. Thank you for choosing Apex logistics company. We look forward to serving you. Sincerely, Apex agent. The tracking number seemed legit APE-77899419 And well as Bank details: Bank name: Wells Fargo Bank, N. A. Account num: ***-**-****4. Account name: Angela Torres Rico. Beneficiary's address: 1107 w Erwin Ave Mckinney Tx 75069. Routing num: ********* Bank address: Mckinney- Eldorado Medical Center We sincerely apologize for all the inconvenience please endeavor to make the payment so the box can be delivered as soon as possible. Thanks. So now George is not talking to me at all ... Oh well and as for me I hope this helps someone!!??? Umm ... as I just have to move on learn my lesson and take my loss !!! I am Thankful I did not send any more money . George is a romance ,sweet talker ,loving kind ,as in the time I thought I got to know of him.... I fell in love ....

Dollars Lost: $1200

Unknown Location

Date Reported: November 1, 2025

Business Name Used: APEX LOGISTICS


Romance - My Cheeky Date

My friend and I signed up for a speed dating event through My Cheeky Date. The tickets were sent to us vis eventbrite. When we arrived at the venue (Night Owls, Colorado Mills) the night of, the staff told us they had no record or plan for this event to take place. They were also frustrated and told us they hosted one speed dating event a month or two ago, and now this keeps happening for the past few weeks. People are sent there and the organizers 'cancel' last minute but there is no event to cancel as they never set anything up with the venue. When I asked My Cheeky Date for a refund, they refused to refund me and said they have a no refund policy. I explained that there was no event, however, ever scheduled with the venue so I wanted a refund. They kept refusing on email (the only method of contact I had with them). I asked to speak with a supervisor. They then called me at my work number instead of using my personal information or asking me where I would like to be contacted or providing me a phone number to call. When I said I was not getting the calls (it was night and I was not at work), they then proceeded to personally attack me and my character over email as related to my line of work. It was disrespectful and inappropriate. I was a paying customer who only wanted my money back for a service I not only never received, but a service that was never even scheduled to happen with the venue. Stay away from this business. Since then I have heard and read many similar stories about them. They try to personally scare and intimidate you so you will stop asking for a refund. They need to be shut down. Totally unacceptable, do NOT give them any of your money!

Dollars Lost: $76

Denver, CO

Date Reported: October 31, 2025

Business Name Used: My Cheeky Date


Romance

I was texting a girl but then it was a man pretending to be her then try to blackmail me

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Unknown Location

Date Reported: October 31, 2025

Business Name Used: iMessage


Romance - phishing

sent a lude picture and said wanted to get to know me

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Unknown Location

Date Reported: October 31, 2025

Business Name Used: Mandy


Romance

I thought she was a woman and wanted to have a relationship with me and asked me for intimate photos and I sent them to her but she started asking me for money or she would post the photos.

Dollars Lost: $500

Unknown Location

Date Reported: October 26, 2025

Business Name Used: N/A


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