Topic: Woman loses $73,000 in Crypto Investment Fraud -Scammer plays Book of Friendship (Read 185 times)

I don't think you can talk about this woman as a poor person. Perhaps it's quite the opposite. Calling her poor, how can you talk about a person who just threw away $73,000 just like that? She is a mother; moreover, the article says she is a businesswoman.
All that can be said about her is that she was mistaken in thinking that in the crypto business, profit can be made just like in fiat. Perhaps she has had experience with investments, but it is very sad that everything went against the finances of this woman.
But I want to believe that she will quickly be able to recoup her losses.

If we look at them from the perspective of an outsider, we would assume that they are the dumbest people because it is too easy to trust strangers on the internet. But I don't blame them either because we don't really know what kind of situation they're in. There are many lonely old people, they lack love, so it is easy for someone to grasp that weakness and take advantage of their trust. We are not in their situation, so do not rush to blame them because maybe one day we will also fall into the same situation.

Sara's story is heartbreaking, but frauds like these won't cease as long as people are irresponsible with their cash. Before spending money, you must comprehend what you're buying. Sara learned the hard way that naively trusting a stranger you meet online is stupid.

There are restrictions to protect investors from fraud, so be sure your investment site is real before investing. This is especially important with cryptocurrency, which is unregulated and prime ground for scammers. We must learn from Sara's mistake and be more cautious in the future.

What's worse with this is how easy it is, or gullible someone could pose as a friend and then try to give a lot of money to be invested in something that has no proof or something. It will be an easy catch for those who have yet to learn. The woman probably has a lot of money and thinks of something she can afford to lose. It's saddening to see this effect on older people. They are more gullible in terms of tech-savvy stuff.

Such stories are not uncommon, I sometimes read about them, but at such a moment I always have doubts whether these are fictional stories or they can be true. If you think logically, no matter how gullible a person is, but to believe someone who wrote to you in the messenger and then send him any amount of money, it seems to me too unlikely an event. Although people are different, if this is really true, then I will not cease to be surprised at human stupidity.

It is laughable but at the same time sorry and mostly she is 51 years old and that old but i feel more sorry on her , i know she made a big mistake and dumb mistake but if she is poor and struggling in life then that is very sad. We also have a news in our country a 60+ got scammed also as she thought his sone was in hospital and someone ask money thru text with unknown number. Scammer are heartless now a days they are doing everything just to scam people

Unfortunately, fraud, using "technological" solutions, is gaining momentum, and the audience of victims is growing ... It is not so difficult to imitate the work of the exchange, and the costs are not very high. Then an ordinary Ponzi scheme or similar begins... A person "invests", even makes a profit, at first. And then he loses control over himself, "calming down" that the profit is coming ... And on this "statement" he begins to "invest" even more, hoping to get a huge profit ... But then everything ends abruptly.
A particular problem with such “investments” in cryptocurrency is the almost complete impossibility of finding out who was “on the other side”.

It is a pity for the person who suffered, but this is a lesson for others .. Dear, negative, but a lesson ...
I wish everyone to be more careful and check investment objects more carefully!

Isn’t this the scam that was happening on Poloniex last year. It was the other way around however. Instead of some man scamming some women it was a women scamming some men.

Basically they met romantically somewhere and she tricked men into investing into cryptos. And I think she told them to use Poloniex. The exchange wasn’t scamming them but the women was. She just told them to use Poloniex as an exchange and somehow they ended up investing in some scam and that women was gone.

Been a while so I am loose on the details but fairly sure this is a similar story.

Yet another victim of pig butchering scam... but seriously, everyone should be aware of this scheme as this is likely the most popular crypto scam right now. Cipherblade estimated the losses to be around billion/s, see: https://cipherblade.com/blog/the-prevalence-of-sha-zhu-pan-aka-pig-butchering-scams/

As a rule of thumb, it's better to stay away from any stranger who starts talking about finances in your DMs as they're likely up to no good.

If you don't understand why these people fall for such scam, I would consider that as a good thing because you're most likely not a part of the target audience for this scam

But, well it is greed plus trust that triggers the scamming incident.  Greed often makes a person irrational and emotional.  This is not the first time greed makes a waste of people's money.  There are lots of same stories as this.  The poor lady is blinded by the figure she thinks she would earn after learning about the earning opportunity presented by the scammer and she falls for it.  It was a double pitfall for the lady, I hope she is fine and able to move on with the heart breaks and pocket breaks.

I don’t know much about women gambling. However I know for a fact women are more vulnerable to scams than men maybe because they are more expressive and more likely to talk about what they are thinking. Romance scammers exploit this trait and target single women between the age of 45-70 on dating sites, these women are lonely and desperate for attention that they refuse to believe that they are being scammed.

I've seen alot of losses in gambling but having experience with women making a huge losses in gambling is another thing not so common,  i believe women were also well to do in life and could be found in every settings of life, same also applies to gambling section, women olay a vital role and gambles but doing that in a bassark manner is what's rare, we need to always stay focused and be vigilant against any scam related.

Greed and the get-rich-quick syndrome is the main catalyst of falling for fraudsters. We should never think that anybody will freely give us access to big gains just like that. In recent times I am hardly active on any social media except because I have a business to handle online. The story shows clearly that Coco was not poor and she had buoyant savings, which means it was greed and discontentment that made her invest in that scam site.

I have received many messages from scammers about job offers and juicy investments. Sometimes I might decide to waste their time if I am less busy by asking them some questions that will make them stop the chat or cut the call. The bottom line is that never expect that somebody will ever assist you to make money you didn't work for on social media.  I feel sorry for Coco because she just her life savings to a bunch of criminals that will spend most of the money on drugs and luxury.

We can't judge her what she had done as we don't know the full story. How she was screwed by that scammer.
It may not be greed but yes, something like hypnotism may played the role in this.
But whatever it was, will be an expensive lesson for her. Better not trust strangers when it comes to money.
A lot have been scammed in dating apps or any online chat rooms, it will not be the last sad story that we will read over the net.
Scammers know their way how to earn trust from naive people. They are using such weakness without conscience.

lack of knowledge or understanding of an investment can make a person vulnerable to fraud or scams. So it is very important for everyone to keep learning and updating their knowledge about things that are relevant and important in their life, including about investing and finance.

Scammers always get scammed money and hopefully this incident will make us raise our awareness about scams. It should be important to always take proper precautions, including avoiding talking to people you don't know or can't trust, avoiding offers that are too good to be true, and always verifying information and its sources before making important financial decisions. From this story, it is easy for Shrajha to trust a stranger (coco) without knowing his clear background.

I believe that everyone who falls victim to a scam is due to a lack of knowledge or understanding. Some scams or scams are very sophisticated and difficult to detect even by someone who has sufficient knowledge about the topic. Also, some people may fall victim to other factors such as emotional stress or the desire for quick profits.

Therefore apart from increasing knowledge and understanding of important topics, it is also important to always be alert and skeptical of offers or opportunities that are too good to be true. Always verify information and its source, don't be easily swayed by tempting promises, and don't give out personal or confidential information to people you don't know or don't trust.

In addition, there are many resources and information that can help us identify and avoid fraud. For example, we can always do background checks on people offering investment opportunities or business deals, check other people's reviews or experiences with them, and talk to trusted sources before making a decision.

I am very concerned about fraud cases that are always related to crypto investing, based on the news above I have the conclusion that we must have the knowledge to control ourselves overcoming messages from unknown and blocking them, if the old woman has self-control then the conversation will never happen and he can never be fooled, but women are very sensitive to financial matters so he was curious to try instructions from scammer friends to deposit to fake exchanges, but I wonder why he didn't withdraw his first profit to convince him that he wasn't being scammed and he added a deposit of hundreds instead dollars again.

Dating scam is something that have been on for ages now, it is a very popular way to scam people, and in the case of this woman, I am not surprised, and I also do not blame her, it's probably not her fault, and I don't think lost that money out of greed of any kind, could be that she was hypnotized.

I live around some of the dating scammers and I tell you, if you see all the diabolical stuffs those guys do, in other to spiritually make their victim to be 100 percent submissive to them, you wouldnt blame the woman.

Anyways, I feel sorry for her though for such a loss, I hope she recovers it back soon.

My theory is that people from that age lived a different period of time when they did not experiment much exposition to scams. It was a period of time when internet was not so widespread, as well.
Suddenly with the advance of the technology everyone is using smartphones and using webpages to do things like: paying bills, buying, selling and even ordering food.

Young people has grown up with these technologies and are more aware of the kind of things that can go wrong, and the kind of scams which can occur, the elderly do not. They are less aware of the advantage bad people use on internet and their trickery to steal money.

It is unfortunate, but that is what I think it is going on.

I rather think it is ironic, a 51-year-old businesswoman, fell into this scam.  Alas, an experience does not mean anything if the perpetrator is doing their social engineering skill, I'm sure they are aware of how fragile she is and thus able to execute the scam successfully, note that they also set it up over a lengthy period of time.

Generally, scammer handbooks are similar in essence, playing the psychology part of the victim, building trust, pretending to help them, gaslighting them, etc. The problem is not many people are exposed or comprehend to how plentiful scammer are existing and how the method evolves, the method or mechanism is similar but the execution can be varied thus there will always be a new victim. It is unfortunate, but that's that.

This has only tell me one thing, everybody has their time when it come to getting scammed, I do not believe there existed a single guy who never got scammed once in their entire life. What can I say about it? If $73,000 is a life saving to her then it would definitely hurt to be scammed. btw there is just too many scammers around us, it is not a joke anymore, eventually all of us would have our time to be scammed too, it is always best to get scammed small amount of money and get yourselves more aware of scammer.