I recently fell into this high yield investment scam! I've attached some pics. I sent them $507 investment + $403 signal fee (they were asking me $1000 investment but I wanted to give it a try with half of it. The signal fee was unexpected and supposedly required to start trading). So, screenshots show an initial investment of $910. They kept talking to me for a week or so (supposedly you go for a 7-day round trade). The person in touch said her name was Mrs. Helen Patrick. Whatsapp # +one-four-six-nine-seven-one-five-2549. "She" said she could do normal text messages (and actually answered one via regular text) but then said that whatsapp was highly preferred. The person seemed to be nice and walked me through the whole setup process: Buy Bitcoin (BTC) and send it over an "investment wallet" supposedly generated by the unlimitedtradeoption.com website. This website will give you access to your "dashboard" where you are supposed to see your profits growing for the next 7 days. A very basic and static website. She said she had 7 yrs of trading experience and was gonna be my point of contact during my trading round. Once your time is up, the website sends you an email asking for 20% commission fee to withdraw your money! One of the screenshots shows my total profit of $9600. So 20% fee = $1920. I didn't want to lose more money on this ($910 initial investment + $1920 = $2,830 total!). So I tricked this person (using a very basic trick from youtube) and got her IP address. She was based out of Nigeria. She first said she was based out of Dallas, Texas but was living in California at the time. I confronted her and the person ended up admitting this was an scam and even if I invested in another "similar high yield investment whatsapp or social media group" -that I found sorta around that same time- I would be losing all of my money. "This was the real truth" the person said. Also, at some point (when I realized the IP address was from overseas), the person promised me that no additional funds were needed to be able to withdraw my profits (I was trying to give it a final try and really hoped to get the promised money!). Guess what, I ended up getting a withdrawal fee email from the website as seen in the attachments. The person said it was unfortunately required by the company. Bottom Line: Do not get into these crypto, bitcoin, or any high yield investments where they kinda promise you get rich quick. They are just NOT real. I lost $910. If you get greedy and still want to give it a try, think of all these red flags first (I learned this the hard way): Whatsapp communication only (sorta not traceable?), crappy/sketchy/basic trading dashboard website (with a bunch of grammatical errors or copy/paste type of style -no social media links, no CEO bio, nothing!), unregulated market (cryptocurrency): once bitcoin goes to a digital wallet, there's no way to retrieve your money! (unlike normal regular credit card or bank transactions where there's more backup in case of fraud at least here in the States), unregulated company (unlimitedtradeoption.com), no real physical address in the website, no company phone # (if one, no one picks up the phone). Please stick to normal and safer ways to make money. There's always going to be some risks on anything you aim for of course but any potential investment that offers "extraordinary" or "too good to be true" type of yields (by simply comparing it to regular financial market rates) with a very thin line of communication and transaction, then please do not proceed with it. You've all been warned! My email is: *******@gmail.com (if not shown here please look for it in the screenshots: it's a gmail account). I am real person with a decent LinkedIn Profile and based out of Texas, USA. Hit me up for further questions about this unpleasant scam experience. I'll be glad to help.
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