Published by Andrew Fenton
micky.com.au
British and Australian victims of the scam were persuaded to hand over their cash by fraudulent ads on Facebook, and mobile phone games, featuring celebrities such as Hugh Jackman, Gordan Ramsay and savings expert Martin Lewis. The Guardian reported that after responding to the ad, victims were contacted by a Kyiv call centre and promised lucrative investment opportunities in Bitcoin, commodities and foreign currencies.
In a further twist of the knife, once victims had lost money they were then contacted by scammers pretending to be from other companies that could help them recover their losses. The scammers also faked large returns to persuade victims to hand over more money.
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