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NYMEX (Entity impersonating New York Mercantile Exchange)
Investment / sanctions alert · dfpi
DFPI — Victim narrative (California)
A California Victim was approached by “Hao Yang” who instructed him to buy cryptocurrency on Coinbase and send it a website called “NYMEX” where he believed he had opened an account. Eventually he invested more than $650,000. At some point, his NYMEX account showed it was worth at least $10 million funds, but when he tried to withdraw the funds, he could no longer contact the company.
Estimated loss: $10,000,000
Type: Pig Butchering Scam | Fraudulent Trading Platform | Imposter Scam
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What to do if you were targeted
- 1.Stop all transfers immediately.
- 2.Contact your bank or wire transfer service to attempt a recall.
- 3.File a complaint with the FBI IC3 at ic3.gov.
- 4.Report to the FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov.
- 5.Report to your state securities regulator via nasaa.org.