The biggest selling point?
Were talking about people whove lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in a relatively short period of time.
And were publishing a sample of the full, unedited complaints below.
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That turned out to be a scam as well.
Truth Social seems to be a target-rich environment for people who are easy to con.
One 72-year-old man who reported chatting with a beautiful woman on the site was scammed out of $21,000.
His complaint ends with, I havent told my wife about this blunder.
She still doesnt know about it.
Its not sitting there for them to withdraw.
There are many different kinds of scams on social media sites.
We recently explored the dating appsextortion scams on Ashley Madisonand sextortion thats happening onGrindrwith FOIA requests to the FTC.
But we believe the patterns that emerge give some degree of confidence that these are real scams.
To be clear, this doesnt just happen on Truth Social.
If you said Trump supporters, youre clearly not alone.
1) I paid a fee to get past this security risk.
Met on truth social.
She said she was in the business of trading cryptocurrency.
Got me to trade with a company called coincorner based in england.
Money was sent via bank transfer to a crypto wallet then to coincorner.
When i tried to withdraw money, i had to pay taxes up front.
then site said i had one too many numbers in my bank account number and now a security risk.
I paid a fee to get past this security risk.
After this, i filed a report with the sheriffs office in Hibbing mn.
Case[redacted].
Later i filed an online report with the FBI.
On march 30 an [redacted] ph [redacted] contacted me.
Says she is an accountant with coincorner and trying to get my funds returned to me.
She tells me she is in oregon, but works for coincorner.
My assets are now in a bank called Top City choice Bank.
I need to pay a withdrawal charge of $10,000 wire transfer to [redacted].
Rte [redacted] acct [redacted].
[redacted] new orleans la 70128.
I made this payment.
Then a COT cost of transfer fee $15,000.
Same wire destination after that a bank account activation fee $25,000.
Now they want $70,000 for an authentication transfer pin.
After i pay this they promise there will be no more fees and i will receive my assets.
This is where i am at today.
I questioned it but they then said when my account reached 20,000 i would get one.
I refused to add any more funds to my account after that!
The lady is still harrassing me on truth social!
Telling me to just pay it to get my card!
I have snapshots of it all.
the wallet is GDXTracex and the website is gdxtracex-web3.com.
and they say I only have until 10/5/24 to pay them.
He referred me to Elite Republican Trades.
I decided to check out the information.
We researched Mr. [redacted] and didnt find any negative information.
I was instructed to open a Crypto Account to invest in Crypto.
Throughout the following 11 months Ive been investing with this platform seeing profits daily as promised.
I gave Mr. [redacted] 100K to put into this platform.
In the beginning of July he notified me that I made 3.5M in profit.
At that time the money would be releasedi.e.
approximately August 2024 it would be released.
Three days pass and I hear nothing, hes unreachable.
He said I owed $250,000.
As of today 17 July 2024 they are wanting me to send this 15K today.
I am not sending any more money thats the reason for this fraud report.
I have everything in detail, conversations, emails, bank wire records if they are needed.
I would like this information shared with the FBI!
5) I then thought things were legit.
I met [redacted] on Truth Social.
Talked about stock market and i was experiencing losses.
she took me to WhataApp.
She then spoke of mdyscoin.com.
Had me sign up and then do practice trading for a bit.
I then invested $3000 to just try it out.
I did a wire transfer from the bank to crypto.com then to mdyscoin.com.
I used that money to do bids.
when I made some I wired money back to my bank.
I then thought things were legit.
[redacted] then said to put more money in for bigger payoffs.
I then invested $130,000 to work with.
Mdyscoin said my account was frozen that I had joined a 500,000 vip club.
I didnt have the rest of the funds.
Basically they said sorry for you loss.
they looked into the web page and found it to be a scam site.
I do have the crypto.com wallet address to were it went to.
But I think now I seek help in what to do at this point.
We ended up paying for all the supposed customs fees, attorney fees etc.
I know what idiots we are.
What can we do to investigate this?
Every certificate and website she has given us turns out to be fake.
We dont know where to go from here.
It is such a long story but this is it in a nut shell.
The more I write the dumber I feel that I would even fall for something like this.
Now the ledger will not release my funds except in small amounts every few days.
Still do not know if I will be able to withdraw funds.
The [redacted] Account Is solely in my name so she transferred her money into this account.
The trade made $1500.00.
We did 2 Forex trades which grew the account to $447,000.00.
we needed to raise $1.75 million to purchase this house.
And I dont want to get caught in some sort of fraud.
I asked them to take it from the withdrawal and send me the balance.
They said they wouldnt do that and that I must pay it myself.
She said they could make money by investing.
[redacted] first invested $10,000.
11) They keep trying to get me to invest more money…
I made 2 $500.00 transfers in august .
My account was showing great returns and I became interested in investing more for my retirement .
I made another transfer of $50,000.00 in december .
They keep trying to get me to invest more money on a weekly basis.
I have noticed that the first website is gone ,but the second link is for the site now.
None of this happened and the woman has been absent and unresponsive.
Ive lent her a total of $34,500 since July/August 2022.
He friended me on Truth Social.
Within a week we exchanged phone numbers.
Before he left he sent me a pic of his passport and private jet voucher.
This all happened in late April 2024.
He told me he paid for some a colleague paid for some but the remaining amount was $25k.
He also had me purchase a $500 Apple Card.
He then asked me to pay $68,000 to get him and the equipment back to the US.
I decided to disengage from him at this point.
15) They were friends and blossomed into something more.
[redacted] met someone on Truth Social, [redacted] who was assisting him with trading.
She claimed to be in Charlotte, SC.
She sent him a picture that is supposedly of her.
They were friends and blossomed into something more.
He was setting up a liquidity mining through Truth Social.
He spoke to this person about a month through Telegram (username: [redacted]).
Crypto punch in was Ethereum.
On Jan 26, 2024 he added $22,000 in the same manner to the same wallet address.
The total balance in the wallet was $29,821.75 after he deposited the $22k.
[redacted] has reported it to Kraken.
[redacted] has screenshots/documentation of this situation.
Began a chat on Truth Social on August 12, 2023.
The contact wanted to start a friendship.
Her Truth Social name was [redacted].
The chat was friendly, but not romantic in nature.
The person had a very beautiful photo and portrayed herself as a wealthy business owner.
So I questioned immediately why she would want to be friends with me.
It carried on from there and i looked into her background information.
She had provided a link to Facebook and the name was [redacted].
It was the same picture as on Truth Social.
She said that was her nickname to avoid predators.
Unbelievably, I continued the chat.
We ended up on WhatsApp and continued to the chat.
After a while I saw others on Truth Social with the same picture.
When I questioned her she said someone had hacked her accounts.
She switched us to Telegram.
Over weeks that passed she sent me numerous pictures that was the same person as originally shown.
Sadly it turned a bit romantic and I developed feelings for her.
and of course she said she had feelings for me.
She said she was harassed on Telegram, so she switched us back to WhatsApp.
I ended up sending $21,000.
I can hardly believe I did that but she was very persuasive.
I am 72 years old and probably just too gullible and lonely at this point in my life.
Last night she informed me that I needed to add $36,000 or I would lose my money.
At this point, I knew it was a fraud.
I should have know much sooner looking back.
I was too confident with the Apps that I downloaded from Apple App Store.
Crypto.com and Trust Wallet apps.
I read online that Crypto criminals could modify the apps and make them look real.
I suspect that she and her team modified the Trust Wallet app and stole my money.
It was an elaborate scheme probably with a team which I suspect is very effective.
It definitely worked on me.
I saved all her photos and all our conversations.
I havent told my wife about this blunder.
She still doesnt know about it.
17) I believe now all 3 options are fake and rigged to draw one in further.
I was contacted by the person listed below on Truth Social.
She started up a compelling conversation where she came across as a caring and trustworthy individual.
Over time the conversation become more engaged and felt like there was a connection.
She asked to continue the conversation on Telegram.
We had a video call to confirm she was real.
She sent me pictures of her which I now believe at least some are fake.
I had suspicions but feared confronting her directly and rationalized it somehow.
As the relationship got as I perceived closer, she introduced XAUT.cc.
site extolling the virtues of Tether gold (XAUT) and how she was getting great returns.
And that I would be stupid to not get involved.
Returns are made via Storage of XAUT tokens, Arbitrage (AI bots) or option trading.
I believe now all 3 options are fake and rigged to draw one in further.
In hindsight she was very manipulative.
Assured me it is all safe as it is all on the block chain.
She also talked about her mom and her dad and her uncles.
What they did weekends around San Diego and what they had for dinner, etc.
She indicated she works at a place in San Diego called ECOhomebuildersinc.com.
She kept making a great case and questioned whether I cared about us.
She kept pushing the stakes higher and higher.
I realized eventually I was getting manipulated but did know how to get out safely.
It all seemed so real, So continued to play along.
All wanted to do is get my money back.
I thought I could do it.
They have threatened me.
I wish I had known about this site to report fraud sooner.
The info I have on the individual is what was volunteered to me and can not confirm it.
I feel so stupid now and scarred of what they may do.
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