With selfies and food pics, scammers won Anthony's trust. Soon they had his savings

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Anthony and a woman he'd met online messaged every day for months. Their chat history shows how scammers won his trust — and then drained his savings.

Those who have lost money aren't the only victims. Many of the people carrying out the scam — the people that Anthony would have been talking to every day — are being held against their will.

"The only way out of it is if you scam enough people. The only way that they can escape is to rip people off."Michelle guided Anthony through the process of setting up a wallet with the widely used and legitimate cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. Weeks later, when he knew he had been scammed, he found that Michelle's wallet had transferred $US49 to 250 other accounts — probably these were other scam targets like Anthony.The scammers were paying real money into his Coinbase wallet — money that they'd scammed off other people — to give the impression the investment was profitable. Anthony's wallet was being fattened up.He didn't yet realise, but he'd already lost everything.

The recent federal Budget includes $9.9 million over four years for a National Anti-Scam Centre to co-ordinate the work of different agencies.

 

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