"Anna Johnson" reached out to me on Facebook in mid May. Started to chat to develop a friendship, then told me how she's a day trader with Crypto. Invited me to join her one day, so I downloaded the iPhone App called "Coinrate" (website: crateis.vip). To first get money into the Coinrate platform, a purchase of bitcoin (or ether) was made using the Cash App for a small sum ($100). The bitcoin or ether was then deposited into Coinrate where it would appear and could be short-term traded. She would guild me through the trades (either short or long bitcoin or ether price, for a small duration of time) that would be highly profitable. For the first couple of trades (on different days), I would "cash out" from the Coinrate app to my Crypto.com wallet and then into my bank. She obviously did this to build my trust in the process and App. She never directly controlled the deposit and withdraw process (though, of course, they have complete control of Coinrate...). Then she convinced me over weeks of conversation to invest more and more. Two larger transactions were for $50k each, that was wired into Crypto.com and then sent – using ether – to Coinrate where we invested some more. Keeping the funds in Coinrate so we could "build capital". Then, after a lot of conversation (her trying to convince me that the time was now to invest and that I could profit much more with a greater capital), my savings of $570,000 was invested by wiring $100K, (2) $200K, and $70K chunks either to Crypto.com or STRIKE; which was then sent to Coinrate. These larger transactions happened on June 18th and 21st. After that, she told me to "join" a campaign on Coinrate that would reward a 3% rebate for depositing $1 million in funds. Not realizing that by "joining" this campaign my funds would be frozen from withdraw. I tried to withdraw but they wouldn't let me of course. Then she tried to convince me to take a home equity loan... I knew something was wrong. I recently read an article on "pig butchering" and realized I had been caught up in the same thing...
I am still in touch with Anna via her cell phone 786 498 0116. She has had phone conversations and video chats with me. AND she wanted me to visit her this Friday, July 12th in Miami, FL where she "lives". She was going to pick me up at the airport. Obviously, I've told her I'm not coming but I've tried to keep the conversation status quo for the meantime. She knows I'm upset about not withdrawing my money and she's offered to "help" by depositing $100K of her "own", but of course I have to deposit the remaining $150K before I "finish" the campaign. I have pictures of her, but I have found from google image searches that she has used many pictures from other X or instagram accounts. The pictures of herself are verifiable as coming from the same phone given there are small pink shards observed in every picture – a common problem on older iphone cameras...