SCAM AND FRAUD
SCAM - Do not trust! Total loss £4,000
I was approached by a guy via a social media page, called: earn_with_christopher_fx
We exchanged information for a few days where I asked questions and he gave minimal details but answered what I wanted to know. After a week or so I decided I would invest with him, so I exchanged a bitcoin purchase of £500 to his wallet, I was originally told I would receive the profits after 3 trading days (72hrs). He updated me with details throughout the trade window, saying it’s been a success but things can change, etc, in this period I also received a few emails from a company he works for updating me on the trade window, this unfortunately aided with me believing this was legit. The company email address is the same one he has linked to his instagram, unfortunately I didn’t realize this until I put all of my money in his bitcoin wallet. After the 72hr period was up, I then asked how I receive my profit and was told he was doing the transaction to my account but sometimes it can pause or fail. From this I was then told to upgrade my account as the profit would transfer immediately, this upgrade cost me £1,300! Pounds... not dollars!
I invested In the 1st few days of August this was a week later & I was yet to receive any money. earn_with_christopher_fx then told me to pay £2,000 for a signal - this would mean my profit would be available right there in 50 minutes time... naively I did what he stated I needed to do. So, currently in total my loss now stands at £3,800!! Again... still no profits received, he then tells me the company needs me to pay £4,000 to send the profits across... my profits from the trade sit at £10,052, this is apparently in my ‘trading account’ - this means If I paid the extra £4,000 I will in total of paid nearly the same amount as I’ve profited, or so he says! He is still contacting me asking me for more money... saying I need to pay for my account to pay PayPal to receive my profits, etc. I have reported his page on this social media site and it has yet to be removed.
He recently sent me trading platform website cryptotradeoptions.com where I got in touch with kind of “costumer service” saying that I have to pay another fees for adding my PayPal account and he guarantee immediate money transfer, after few requests of prove he ended the chat. I researched about the platform what has low trust rating and it’s not safe to use. Website been created 10 months ago, but manager who I invested with saying he has partnership with it more than 3 years, absolute lies.
Do not invest any money before you have researched and got all the needed details and proves. Do not make my mistake, loosing your earned money working hard, time and extra caused stress on the top of it.
