For coming victims, beware of this wallet address. Check link attached for SEC Investigating firm who helped me track my all investment to this wallet and got them back to me.
I met this person by the name of Brian on a dating app back in July 31 2023. We started up chatting as friends, but it seemed that he showed romantic interest towards me, but I proceeded to talk to him because he seemed nice (We never met in person). A few days later, he talked to me about investing in Bitcoin on Web3. He claimed that he had made a lot of money investing, and that he would help me out, since he was good at determining when it would be a ”good trend” to buy up/down on Bitcoin. After doing a bit of research myself, I decided to give it a try and I set up my Coinbase and Coinbase Wallet by myself With some of his help. Brian then gave me the dApp website where we would be trading Bitcoin (https: //defi web3-eos. vip/web/). I then tried out trading BTC by just putting in $100USD to start with (using CashApp) and recharging it into the BTC address in that dApp (which I thought was mine, but now I realize that it is not). After a successful buy up on Bitcoin (with Brian’s instructions on when to do so), I saw that I got a return of 33%. I then continued investing and saw that my money was increasing in The account. I then decided to add more money (up to $1000USD), which I would invest and get a 33% back if the buy up/down was successful (all this with Brian’s recommendations on when to do the trade). He also showed me how to transfer funds from that dApp account into my Coinbase, which I only did twice, using the Online Customer Service chat in the same dApp address as mediator. I would ask it to transfer “X” amount of BTC into my Coinbase address, and it did those two times. I then saw that I was able to make some money, so I continued trusting this person and I continued adding more money into the BTC in that dApp website. I added in total about $16,000 in about five recharge transactions to that BTC address. Then, Brian suggested that I could ask the platform for an overdraft line (basically a loan) through customer service chat, and that I could pay it back later on. I looked into it and ended up getting persuaded to ask Customer Service chat for a $30,000USDT loan, which was just then added to the funds that I already had (No contract, signatures, nothing, just very informal by asking about it in a chat). At that point, my account was locked from withdrawing any more money until I recharged back the $30,000 that I had just asked for. At this point, I decided not to do it because I did not have that amount of money in my bank. Brian, who had helped me out with all of this, would keep on pushing me to pay it off, otherwise I would get in trouble with authorities and I could get sued. I did not make any such payment in the deadline of ten days that I was given, and later then I received an e-mail from the supposed platform telling me that I had to pay the overdraft line, otherwise it would be considered fraud, tax evasion, and malicious earnings. also that my real name would be sent out to FinCEN for investigation and prosecution, Threats and extortion kept coming in until I reported them and got all back!!