Romance - Crypo
Scammer messaged me on Facebook, then FB messenger. She suggested I download and use WhatsApp. We connected on WhatsApp and she described herself owning a fashion design studio in San Francisco. She also mentioned Bitcoin trading interests and offered help me make profits in trading Bitcoin with an initial $2,100. She guided me through the setup process and had me download Crypto trading and wallet apps and set up the accounts. Step by step she walked me through all of it and seemed to have an interest in my life. She explained that there are a lot of scammers using her pictures but she was not a scammer. We traded pictures and chatted about various things and eventually she suggested a video call. Scammer looked like the girl in the pictures, (but thinking back it most likely was an AI filter).
Scammer said her Uncle has a group of people that trade on NESBITTCO.COM and offered me the opportunity to join them. It started out OK, We made some trades and it seemed i made a few hundred dollars per 30s trades.. She showed me screenshots of her trades and profits of larger amounts and suggested I add more funds to trade with. all seems normal at first, I wired $50,000 from my savings account to Strike (a bitcoin buy/sell app). Scammer walked me through the process of sending the funds to the trading website and it went from there. Scammer offered to front $72,000 from her bitcoin assets for me to trade with also. seemed very generous, so I went along with it. After trading for a month I needed to withdraw funds, Scammer walked me through the process and it worked. I was able to withdraw and return $10,000 to my bank account. All seemed good. We continued chatting daily, watching videos and movies at the same time discussing them after.. We would node trade 1 or 2 times a week as time went on. In February she suggested I get a home equity loan for trading and making even more profits and just pay it back after a month. I ended up doing this for $191,000, (very bad decision) One day the trading site stopped working, scammer assured me my funds are safe, and it was just a domain name change. Scammer gave me the new name and it was working again. The website did this 4-5 times total ending on FRBIT.CC. I decided to withdraw funds in the amount of $65,000 a day in April and she walked me through the process step by step. Once I hit OK it was done and she said I just have to wait a few hours or 24h at most (they never arrived). The next day she suggested I contact customer service and ask why the funds haven't arrived yet. BIT customer service claimed that an error in the receiving address caused an anomaly with my account and I needed to pay $65,000 to fix the issue within 7 days. (Scammer said she had never heard of this issue ever before now) Since just about all of my funds were stuck in this FRBIT.CC site I had to come up with $33,000 and scammer offered the rest ($32,000), however it was not in the 7 day allotted time. Scammer assured me we were good. Customer service then said I was required to pay 1% of the total amount in my account before my account could be used again ($29,969) late fees. Scammer promised she would help with this, but never did. I managed to come up with $10,000, and she promised the rest. She then claimed a tariff issue caused her to have to use Mexico or Canada to get past the fees on stuff from China, so she used $7,000 of her $20k. Scammer promised the $13,000 was for me to use only, nothing else. She walked me through paying the 10k and another $7k to BIT customer service again, and when she was supposed to transfer the rest, she claimed her bank card was frozen and could not do anything with her funds. Scammer claimed the bank and accused her of money laundering and froze her account. Scammer also claimed her uncle was being targeted for espionage and was under investigation by an MP (all lies). She then left me to gather the $13,000 to restore my account. I refinanced my home equity loan and came up with the funds , but by this time FRBIT.CC stopped working and I could not access the site.. Scammer assured me this was normal, and she would get the name. After a few days she told me the new name, www.cbocn.com or (CBMWW.COM.) After creating an account she said I just need to verify by uploading me CDL and everything will work after I pay the final $13,000 late fee even though the site was totally different. What choice did I have if I wanted to retrieve anything at this point. She had me contact customer service on the CBOT site and they said i need to pay the "funds". went through process again, and paid the $13,000 (final mistake). I attempted to withdraw a small amount and it has yet to go through, just says "confirmation in progress". its been a week and customer service stopped responding altogether..
This person has caused me a to be in a financial mess. I hope one day they are caught and tried and convicted. This has caused me major anxiety and I doubt I will ever recover. I know it was a big mistake to trust this person, the script this scammer followed on me worked too well.
She has contacted me less and less over the timeline. Scammer then came up with that I have to pay %10 taxes on withdraws made from the CBOT site in order to prevent people evading paying taxes on withdraws. total lies, but I found out that that is the last part of this type of scam and I will never get my funds back. This has been a nightmare. Crypto trading is all a scam to me now. Please help. I'm dreading filing taxes in 2026 now as this is the worst nightmare ever.