residents of Quebec Canadahas explained how he was defrauded of approximately $205,000 worth of tokens in an elaborate crypto scam.
talking to TVA NovelsThe man – a 63-year-old father of three children named Jean Seguin – explained that he first linked up with the scammer who left him out of pocket in May last year.
Seguin, who lives in Gatineau, Quebec, said he was approached by a “friendly” person. This person’s call “allowed the fraudster to build a bond of trust with his victim.”
How was the victim duped by the crypto scammer?
The scammers, Seguin said, encouraged him to invest in crypto through the Coinberry platform as well as Crypto.com.
Seguin said he spent $205,000 on crypto over a six-month period. But it appears that the scammers have convinced Seguin to transfer their funds to another platform – “Dexcrypto”. The scammer allegedly told Seguin that doing so would allow him to make a “daily income” of more than 2% of his original stake.
Seguin explained that “warm conversations on social media” convinced him that moving all his coins to the platform “would improve his returns.”
About six months later, Seguin realized he had “caught a trap,” and no longer had access to the coins in his wallet.
He reported the matter to the police, and even took up the matter with the American FBI and private detective agencies. But he has so far failed to get his tokens back.
Seguin said:
“In a personal way I was scammed by this person.”
The father of three said he went public with his case in an effort to save others from falling prey to similar scams.
Andree East of the Gatineau Police Department was quoted as saying that crypto scammers were making “small variations” to existing scams as well as “completely new schemes.”
Former said:
,[Scammers] take advantage of new technologies such as […] cryptocurrency. Often, [they dupe victims] Out of a very large amount of money.
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