Beware a stranger’s text. It caught Volusia man in crypto scheme
A Daytona Beach Shores man was ensnared by a cryptocurrency investment scam that cost him $317,000 after he received a text from an attractive stranger asking him to let her dog out while she was out of town, according to new federal court records.
The man, identified only as Victim 1 in federal court records, wrote the stranger back to say she had the wrong number, but the chatty stranger kept the conversation going.
Astrid Orlov was how the stranger introduced herself. She lived with her uncle in Lake Nona, a bustling Orlando neighborhood.
Orlov and the man moved the conversation to What’sApp, then to video chat although the man couldn’t see her at all. Poor Internet connection was Orlov’s explanation why he couldn’t make out…
