The internet is filled with scam artists who take a stab at swindle unsuspecting people out of their money.
And Gizmodo obtained reports about many of these scams filed with the federal government over the past year.
The FTC identified thousands of complaints filed since January 2023 but released just 200 to Gizmodo.
A deepfake ad of Elon Musk made by scammers promising a new Neuralink cryptocurrency that doesn’t exist.Gif: X
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They sent a QR code with a crypto address which appeared to be a part of the event.
They had only an auto chatbot which did not help.
Can you yo help me to recover my money ?
What else am I supposed to do?
Thank you very much !
(I dont know by email/text phone) .
Also, I search Google, Apple Gift Card to find out many others suffered with the terrible scam.
Certainly, it would be greatly appreciated if my husband can be refunded the money.
I can provide the images of the cards if it is necessary.
Had me open an account with trust wallet.
A bitcoin trading platform.
It shows a deposit of almost 600,000.
In the end I needed to pay 1500 dollars in fees to be able to collect on the account.
Then I went to the Space Stock Mininig website and selected the signup option.
And after 4 days of my 1500 USDT investment, profits started appearing on spacestockmining.com.
Then I realised that it might be fraud.
They give us signals on what tokens to trade when to get in and when to get out.
Mr. [redacted] sends the signals and does the training.
Which from my previous forex and hfx trading coincided with what I know and is pretty elaborate.
Having a finance background seemed weird to me.
They gave everyone who provided their proof of identity $30 to start trading with.
The system changes your leverage to swipe your money.
I got a friend into the app and shared signals with him.
When he tried to withdraw funds it kept being rejected because the wallet address had an anomaly.
He tried serveral previously used platforms such as Coinbase, kracken, cashapp, and crypto.com.
When none of those worked we tried to do an internal transfer and they said that was wrong too.
It wasnt wrong when I deposited my money.
The answer after your money is taken is deposit more money.
I looked for the most traded tokens or contracts and most I could not find.
The ones that I could did not have the same price.
Example GMEUSDT we are trading around $300 but on another platform it is only 0.0000019.
I uploaded all the group chat messages and messages from his assistant Ms. [redacted].
She says they are located in New York.
His company created AI investment software (Quantum AI) Targeting Canadians.
I sent them money online through PayPal.
Multiple calls and emails.
I realized too late and didnt respond to any more communications.
I deposited 145 dollars which is 0.0032 and it didnt verify the wallet.
They said it had to be EXACT amount to be able to unlock your wallet to withdrawal the money.
So, I lost 145 dollars to that.
I just hope nobody else is getting caught by this.
If we go for the links on this page, most of them lead to the legit Medium site.
Scammers use this method to trick users into thinking that everything on this website is real.
Whats more, at the bottom of the page, there seems to be a real-time transaction leaderboard.
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Facebook form that filled out to win tesla from Elon musk giveaway.
Filled out form with name, address, phone number, email address.
Two days later said to send $200 for registration.
I did not send money, sent emails and texts couple days later asking for $500.
I have not sent money Called with impersonation of Elon musk.
Blocked number that called.
You go there, create an account, and enter a promo code ELON65.
I didnt do it.
But I thought I should tell you guys about it.
Be careful out there, folks.
Especially as crypto prices climb to levels we havent seen inover two years.
FOMO is a hell of a drug.
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