The Con and the players

 

Andrew Baines

The Con - How it works

From memory this all began with an unsolicited call from the aforementioned Victor Martini, which I initially brushed off. No idea where he got my name and mobile number from, however he mentioned that I had registered some interest in forex investing (which I had not) and was pretty insistent that this was a lucrative opportunity.

So basically from what I can work out – and what happed to me - the idea is that the you get contacted initially by someone offering you an opportunity to invest, even if it’s a small amount of money, then you get allocated an agent or ‘account manager’ who will do the investing for you. Initially only small amounts of money are requested, and profits are made and sent back to you and they start to earn your trust so you invest larger sums of money, which then of course they ultimately disappear with.

All transactions are done via Crypto Exchanges (like Kraken or Binance or whatever) so never bank-to-bank, so once they’ve completed their dirty deeds, I guess tracing this for any financial recuperation is more difficult.