Mentor senior falls victim to multimillion dollar crypto scam
MENTOR, Ohio (WOIO) – A Mentor woman is one of thirty victims across more than a dozen states who was fooled by a sophisticated crypto scam.
She thought she was making big money on an investment, but she was scammed out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
“It seems like almost every other day we have a scam coming in,” said Mentor Police Detective Rick Smith.
The 66 year old woman thought she was taking investment advice from a friend she’d met online.
She told police she started with an initial investment of $2,000.
In her statement to police she said “it went wild.” So she invested more.
But Detective Smith said the first mistake this victim made was taking financial advice from someone she’d never met in person.
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