Paul F.
THEY ARE SCAMMERS DANGEROUS SCAMMERS
I stumbled on a strange name in my WhatsApp and the number was an old mobile phone number of mine. I was surprised as it didn’t occur to me that it was my old number. So I said hello and that was how I fell into the net of this person. As soon as I realised that it was an old mobile number of mine I tried to cut the conversation by apologising and moving on. She apologised and said that her name was Alice and she was of Chinese and British parentage She said that she needed to speak to me on video call so that she can put a face to the name. I was happy. She said that she was in business and doing very well. I responded that I was in business but not doing well as I had a mountain of debts to clear. She immediately offered to help by introducing me to one of her successful ventures. She said that she had a restaurant in Fulham where she was born and grew up. She said that she was also setting up a second restaurant and sent me pictures of the progress of work on it. Then she said that she was also investing and making a lot of money from Crypto trading. As soon as she mentioned crypto trading as her other source of income I became alarmed. I told her that I was not interested as I had suffered losses with every crypto investment. Then she started sending me images of successes on her platform. I asked her which platform it was. She said that it was orangex. I immediately went to Trust Pilot and to Google to find out more. I told her that it was not a reliable platform and I sent her the results from TrustPilot and Google. She said that she had been having a great relationship with them and that I shouldn’t bother as she had me covered. She said that they have nodes which come up once or twice a week for about 30 seconds and I had to make my investment within the 30 seconds and whatever the outcome will be shared amongst all the investors and the returns vary from 10% to about 50%. All of these interactions lasted over two months. I invited her to my church and she promised that she would eventually come. Anytime that I asked for a physical meeting in her restaurant she found a way to dodge the question. She kept on encouraging me to take the opportunity to pay off my debts assuring me that within two to three months all my debts would be cleared Then I decided to take the plunge. I started with a small amount. Then she asked me to put in more money. I told her that I didn’t have. Then one day she switched the conversation to cars and asked me the car that I was driving. I told her that I was driving a car on loan. She told me to sell the car and invest the money since I will recover the money within a short period of time. I told her that I couldn’t do that as the loan company had a lien on the car so it was not really mine and I couldn’t sell it without their permission. But her request made me think this must be real and working for this ‘friend’ of mine to suggest that I should raise money for it by selling my car. I thought that no human being could be so wicked as to want to dupe knowing that I was already indebted. I forgot that the bible describes the heart of man as ‘desperately wicked’ I therefore decided to raise money to invest I started with £5000 which I borrowed and within few weeks my balance was over £10,000 Then I tried to withdraw and the website disappeared. This was a danger signal as one of the reports on TrustPilot had indicated that it was their pattern. I was shocked and told my ‘friend’ She said that something must have gone wrong along the line. She then sent me a link and the site was alive again. I should at this point have counted my losses and left. As I was contemplating my next line of action my ‘friend’ suggested that I could borrow money from the platform to invest. This was a surprise to me. While I was still wondering on the implications of this I got an email: Dear Orangex users: The platform is now vigorously launching loan services and trust account evaluation, which are open to new and old users. According to the personal account credit score, the loan amount can be up to 200,000 USDT! If the first loan application is approved, there will be an interest-free discount. Welcome to consult the customer service hotline to review and evaluate the loan amount! Upon receiving this I fell hook line and sinker into their trap. My ‘friend’ kept urging me on. As soon as I applied they approved a loan of 10000USDT which cannot be taken out of the platform. I took the loan and refunded it from node proceeds within 14 days. I was shocked when I was told that I could not withdraw unless I paid in 10000USDT Unfortunately I did and as soon as I did the withdraw button disappeared. My friend disappeared I cried non stop, I was dying by the day. I couldn't tell anyone. I must be the most stupid human on earth. They killed me. Please be on the look out. Orangex? Run for your life. They are wicked and heartless scammers and murderers