My wife was contacted from out of the blue. She is a Realtor. The person claims to be shopping for a 4 million dollar house. He later raises the amount to 6 million. My wife learns he earns his living trading bitcoin. He calls himself Mr Li. Over a few months the relationship continues but Mr Li lives in LA. We are in Scottsdale, AZ. He has spken by phone once and shares an email. He only wants to communicate by using snap chat. A month or so ago my wife got into a trade of say $500 and made profit. She did this a few times with Mr Li helping. He tells her the exact time to deposit or whatever they do to transact a deal. Weeks later he tells he she should increase the size of her investment. My wife has a bitcoin account. She tells me the process is to deposit US currency that converts to coin. Then trade. Then convert from coin to US currency. I guess Mr Li co-invests with her. The most recent time the initial investment was valued at $44K.
You guys are very soft and by that, I mean you are too friendly and has given him much space than you shouldn't have in the first place. Do you know one characteristic of a scammer, they are very smart people because they dedicate their life to con people and swindle their hard earned money. What this scammer is trying to do in the first place is building a trust, a relation that will make you and your wife not to have trust issues or suspect him when he later makes a huge demand from you guys that will be a huge blow on your faces.
What he is doing is building a bridge, gain small trust, tell you to do this and that then add some sprinkle salt of profit and give back and then make you guys belive that "Yes, he did traded and return the money on interest". What exactly are guys thinking? You really think there is free money on the internet? Have you asked why didn't Mr Li does that alone so he can has all the profits so we can see his name on Forbe's list.
Three trades were made on a specific date and time. Mr Li would send screen shots with markups from him as directions of what to do.
It really does not matter how much of these details I remember (I can get them cleaned up later), it's the process I want to validate. Apparently this trade event was so successful that when the money was deposited into the account, it was help by the conversion company under suspicion of fraud because there was nearly $77K profit made above a smaller beginning amount. NEXT- The party holding the funds until verified says that Mr Li and my wife need to deposit another $22,200 into the account to equal 20% of the balance for 3 days, then all money will be restored to the original account for withdrawal. With this, I am telling her no way. Scam alert. So Mr li deposits all but the last $3500 with over $42K of his personal money investment at rsik for loss by today. Original deadline was 6 days ago. Do any of these proceedures make sense? Wife claims all is done by her alone as far as creating proper crypto accounts, Tether accounts. The emails from the holding company are not grammatically correct and without a signature or contact line. Advice to my innocent but well meaning wife would be?.....
This was the part I was telling you, build a strong bond and relationship; you started with $500 with little profits but now, the story changes quickly and as $22,200 but you see that amount that was confisticated? Nothing of such happen, it was a decoy and trap to make you guys pay that money. Oh my God, my skin is irking to this, you guys are having two head for crying out loud to outsmart this con artist. Block the hell out of him and face your family and business.
