“ 72-year-old woman who wanted to pay for her four grandchildren to go to private school lost almost £65,000 to a cryptocurrency scam and fraudsters who claimed to be from the City watchdog.
Amanda Briggs, whose name has been changed, became interested in cryptocurrency following an episode of the BBC show Dragons’ Den in which an entrepreneur was looking for investment in his cryptocurrency scheme. “Some of the panel invested as a trial and were impressed with the return received so I looked into [similar] investment opportunities in 2019,” she said.
After her research she invested some money from a property sale with a company called Extick. She withdrew a small portion early on to check that the investment was genuine and, satisfied that it was, topped it up to a total of almost £42,000 in the following weeks from her bank account and a Barclaycard credit card.”
'I lost GBP65k to crypto scammers and now my grandchildren can't go to private school'
FFS scams on Dragons Den now!
Amanda Briggs, whose name has been changed, became interested in cryptocurrency following an episode of the BBC show Dragons’ Den in which an entrepreneur was looking for investment in his cryptocurrency scheme. “Some of the panel invested as a trial and were impressed with the return received so I looked into [similar] investment opportunities in 2019,” she said.
After her research she invested some money from a property sale with a company called Extick. She withdrew a small portion early on to check that the investment was genuine and, satisfied that it was, topped it up to a total of almost £42,000 in the following weeks from her bank account and a Barclaycard credit card.”
'I lost GBP65k to crypto scammers and now my grandchildren can't go to private school'
FFS scams on Dragons Den now!
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