A 60-year-old Indian woman lost nearly $30,000 in a crypto investment scam. After she was contacted by a marriage website. where she registered herself to search for a soul mate
followreportof the media, a retired mumbai woman executive from a private company Registered on a dating site at the beginning of 2022 and soon someone on the site contacted her. And the two exchanged phone numbers and started calling each other. and talk regularly
In March 2022, the man told her about the opportunity to invest in Crypto and how he claimed to make a fortune. In which he gave the other person’s phone number. and told her that he would advise her to invest
Between April 2022 and December 2022, this woman invested almost $30,000 in cryptocurrencies. And at one point she had $62,000 in her digital account. But when she asked to withdraw money Instead, they told her she had to pay $15,000 in conversion fees and taxes to withdraw the money.
while she was thinking about what to do She noticed that they had not contacted her again. And her digital account is not working. So she went to the cyber police and reported what happened. Regarding cheating, counterfeiting and criminal conspiracy
India has reported quite a few crypto scams in the past. And in most cases this is due to investors’ lack of knowledge about crypto investments, making them vulnerable to fraud.
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