I am a 70 1/2 year old disabled senior citizen who is currently confined to a power wheelchair. My only source of income is my Social Security check in which I draw $1,594 / month. Due to the Highest inflation rate in 41 years, I was having to supply my SS income with my savings that I had in an online savings account drawing very little interest. In an attempt to increase my savings due to them running out, I tried doing what l thought was some legitimate investing in the cryptocurrency market. I ended up getting scammed not only once, but twice! To add insult to injury, I received a text message on my phone from a man that said his company had Recovered my funds plus thousands of dollars more due to the increase in the price of Bitcoin since I was 1st scammed. He send a photo of a company ID. After communicating back & forth a while with him, I decided to take a chance in getting my money back as I was getting Desperate. He said if I sent his company $2000 in Bitcoin, I could withdraw over $ 24,000 from the account they had established for me. After I sent the $2000 by my Cash App account, he said it wasn't quite enough & that I only had to send $600 more. I realized I had been Scammed again & told him how heartless he was & to Leave me alone. I Never sent him another penny.
Then I received another text message about 3 months ago " accidentally " from a young lady originally from Singapore & now living in Santa Monica, CA. I say " accidentally " because she SAID she was trying to reach a person named Mary & typed in the " Wrong " number. We chatted for a little bit & she asked if I had a Telegram account. I did & we switched over to it. When I asked her what she did for a living, she told me she had opened her own business & that she traded gold futures online that her uncle who had been a " Big wig " on Wall Street had taught her. She said she would let me trade with her calling out the trades when they came available. I sold my pickup truck to get the seed money to set up my own trading account on the Jubi platform & funded my account with the Last money I had! I did very well trading with her turning my near $ 18,000 principal investment into $ 116,000 +! But when I went to withdraw $ 50,000 from my account, Jubi told me that I owed $ 19,242.24 in Taxes to the Singapore government where Jubi is based & had to pay the taxes before they would Release my withdrawal! I have No money left to Pay those taxes and No way to get it! Jubi NEVER mentioned Anything on their website about having to pay Any taxes before making a withdrawal. I asked them Why couldn't they just Deduct the taxes from my account, or Allow me to withdraw the Extra amount over my withdrawal request to pay the taxes? They said they couldn't interfere with my account and the taxes was my Personal responsibility!