In late June or the beginning of July, I met “Li Baibai on Facebook dating and she started talking to her. She was acting so cute and acted like she liked me until close to the end of the scam. I mentioned that I was interested in cryptocurrencies during our conversation. She told me she that invested in Bitcoin and Ethereum. I told asked her if she can be my mentor. She said she would, so she showed me some exchange platforms including Coinbase and YomaniC2C. The way YomaniC2C was downloaded was weird almost as if it were an IOS update. She told me to send around $250 to the exchange platform, so on July 8, I sent 0.007667 BTC to this wallet address of the scam platform in all the transactions.
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So we did some contract trading short sessions with it and raised to above $500. Then she told me to send $20,000 so I can make more money, so on July 14, I sent from Coinbase to the exchange, 0.59891944 BTC or $19,640.36 USD at the time. Then I wanted to withdraw, but couldn’t. She and customer service told me I needed a total recharge of $30,000 to become a premium member, or more than $9800 more. I didn’t have enough funds to do so, so after I convinced her to assist me, I sent 0.2489227 BTC to the platform and “passed” the premium membership. So we kept trading on the exchange and made over $120,000. Then I decided to withdraw from YomaniC2C back to Coinbase, but couldn’t. It “left” YomaniC2C, but it never arrived to Coinbase. Customer service told me about the handling fee, but at the time, I didn’t understand what they were saying. I told customer service to bring back the funds back to YomaniC2C. It arrived the next day. Then I tried withdrawing half of it, but couldn’t. I told the “customer service” and the platform told me I needed to send over $4292.52 to manually pay for the handling to withdraw whatever I want. I told customer service to bring back the funds. Then the “mentor” became mean and told me she helped me out a lot to and that it was my problem. I ended up convincing her to send me $2000. She asked for the BTC wallet address, but she sent me the $2000 not in BTC, but in USD! On July 28, I sent 0.0252497 BTC and 0.00511005 BTC to the scam platform. I was able to pay 3/4 of the supposedl handling fee and had $1077.36 to pay the rest, but I didn’t have the funds to pay for it to withdraw $155,000. Further research and discussions with people confirmed that I have been scammed. I’m no longer in contact with the scammer after I kept confronting her $29,158.45 USD was the total amount I had sent to the platform. On August 20, I had an argument with confused “customer service” from YomaniC2C. I wanted to make sure I was a premium member. He/she seemed to go back and forth about the premium membership. Lol! Started a new conversation and now “another” person said yes. Customer service kind of seemed to imply that they know I had contacted the authorities. Then, the day after, I asked again if I was a premium member to verify again. I noticed the customer service talked a lot like Li Baibai. They were trying to change numbers on me again. They said that I needed “$3436.065” to pay the rest of the handling fee. Customer service has blocked me after I told them the platform was her and I talked them about her daughter. Also, Li Baibai had helped me with “$2000” and I put “$1200,” which means I supposedly need $1077.36 of the rest of the 3% handling fee to withdraw from the exchange as I mentioned before. I don’t have those funds myself thanks to these scammers. I have to fully depend on my family now unfortunately. The customer service were counting the $1200 and called it the new plan. I just wanted to “verify” again with customer service that I had “passed” the premium membership and they first brought up the new “handling” fee plan. All of a sudden, they became mean and then they blocked me, which means supposedly I would not be able to deposit more funds to the exchange. After they blocked me, I opened YomaniC2C’s customer service on a laptop , and opened up customer service there. I introduced myself and it was same person recognized me! He/she continued with their game. On August 27, 2021, YomaniC2C was taken down. The detective involved in my case when I met him on August 24, 2021 told me that it was the Feds.