two heads Brazil Professional football (soccer) players claim they have fallen victim to a crypto scam – and say they were convinced to invest in a fraudulent project by a fellow supporter.
according to media outlets Listen, SpearAnd ESPN Brazil, two players have initiated legal proceedings against the company run by the third player. The case was brought by Maike, who is currently playing for Palmeiras in São Paulo, Brazil, along with Nottingham Forest (English Premier League) midfielder Gustavo Scarpa.
The two have filed a legal suit against a “consulting” and “financial planning” firm called WLJC. The firm is run by Willian Bigod, who currently plays for Fluminense in the Brazilian top division.
Mayke and Scarpa claim they invested over $2 million in “crypto” last May on advice from WLJC. He claims that he was told that he could expect profits of 3.5% to 5% a month on his bets.
But he claims that this profit never happened. And he claimed that when he tried to “withdraw his money” his stake was not returned.
Both men claimed that Bigod “introduced” them into the project. His legal case calls for Bigod to be brought to court and his money returned.
Football Player Bigodd: I’m Also a Crypto Scam Victim
Media outlets reported that WLJC recommended that Myke and Scarpa invest their funds in a platform called Xland Holding.
However, in October 2022, Xland was identified as “a potential financial pyramid scheme” by the Ministry of Public Affairs of the Brazilian state of Acre.
However, Bigod’s legal team have claimed that their client did not act in bad faith – and that he himself is a victim of the Exland scheme.
His legal team said that Bigod lost $3.4 million of his own money in an investment. And the team claimed that Bigod and his firm had only recommended the project to Maike and Scarpa when it was introduced to them by “people they trusted”.
The legal team wrote:
“WLJC is not a brokerage. [It does not] Has the power to make investments on behalf of its clients, as it deals exclusively in the area of financial planning.
Last month, Indeal, a Brazilian company believed to have masterminded a crypto pyramid scheme worth approximately $193 million, declared bankrupt,