Mariland Woman Loses Millions in Cripto “Skinging Mesaring” Scams like a FBI warns of more targets

Baltimore’s FBI field office warns of a Grows a scam of cryptocurrency that costs some victims their life savings.

Sectors, often based in Southeast Asia, slowly gain trusting their targets, and then convince them to make money to buy cryptocurca.

Millions are lost

Maryland woman said she lost millions of dollars.

She told the VJZ investigator Mike Hellgran to be a shame for temptation, but she wanted to tell her story to protect others.

“I put over $ 3 million in this, and it turned out that I was almost as 80% profit,” said the victim.

VJZ has disguised his voice and protect its identity to its request.

“I never thought I would actually fall into something madly. I was so humiliated. It was very hard,” she said. “You trust someone, and you betrayed. It really hurts more than part of money.”

The victim told Hellgren women’s fraud first reached an incomprehensible app with Koresca and spent several weeks earned her trust.

Oramca then slowly sought the money to invest in the crippt for her.

Snapshots for the Victim Image Scrapse with VJZ Explore.

The victim said that the investment portfolio looked like a real thing, and first focused on the legitimate Coinbase website before it was taken to other sites.

“When she got a lot more of my trust, more money would be poured,” the victim said. “Unless you know what you do, you won’t be able to say, especially if you’ve never worked crypt before.”

Often, the FBI said the victims could pull a small part of their money first to build trust. Frauds eventually take everything.

The victim called him “the biggest mistake I’ve ever made.”

“I actually saw a few red flags and I decided to ignore him because I just said to myself, well, I have to trust this person,” she admitted she admitted. “There was a point where I put so much, I was just desperate to do it.”

FBI Baltimore Warning

Sarah Levis, an agent in the Baltimore Field Office of FBI, learned that this victim was deceived through the level of work, the bureaus program to reject these crypts of fraud.

Sectors often prepare their goals in case they are implemented encompassing the training of victims to what they say.

“When I initially talked to her, she told me she wasn’t cheated and gave me a specific language I knew he came directly from fraud,” Lewis said.

Lewis said that many victims don’t trust her when she calls. Ask them to do their research and warn them that they do not give more money for fraud.

“I tell them you don’t have to trust me, but don’t send them money anymore,” said VJZ researchers.

That is why it is mean, the fraud is usually known as “Sking Mesa”. Many victims are in their 50s and older, but not everyone.

“They find the victim’s pigs increase the amount of money to deposit in this false account, and then the slaughter disappears and the victim explained that the victim disappeared and the victim lost all the money.

Her colleague, Special Agent Jeremy Capello, said the targets were often again again victims.

“They will lose hundreds of thousands of dollars, and then they contact them with the same fraudsters, where they will tell the victim,” we can pay us for the fee “,” said to us, “Kapello said,” Kapello said.

The website creates by criminals, said, “You would never know it was a fake site.”

Most victims will never see their money again, although the victims are quickly acting to report what happened to the authorities and give them the best chance of being recovered.

“Once that money goes, it goes to bad guys and is not,” Capello said.

Developing consequences

In one case Mariland, the man in the 80s is shot on Facebook and finished his own life after he lost his life savings.

The victim who lost millions said to VJZ if he was lucky to have a strong system support system.

“It’s money, and how difficult it is and how humiliating as it is and how harmful it is, it’s worth your life,” she said.

Tip for victims

The FBI said that the scam is a vicious cycle, and some of the frauds are victims of trafficking and forced labor threatens that these contacts will do as they work outside the warehouse in Southeast Asia.

Caution in the FBI You should not react to spam and never invest your money with people and organizations you don’t know.

Agents said many times that fraud will not want to communicate over the phone and will direct victims to encrypt messaging platforms such as whatsapp.

NationVide since January 2025:

• The FBI was notified of 4,323 victims of cryptocurnent investment fraud.
• 76% of these victims are not consciously cheated on them.
• Estimated savings of victims is $ 285,639,989
• 42 Victims were sent to the FBI victim to a suicide intervention.

If you believe you could be a victim of this pork throwing crypto fraud, you can report it to the Internet crime login center IC3.GOV.

Mike Hellgren

Viz investigator Mike Hellgren came to VJZ in Spring 2004. years. Solid reporting credentials and reputation for breaking important news characterized Mike’s work. Mike graduated from Journalism from the Northwest School Snickling School School of Johnior and partly growing up in Chicago and Louisiani.