My name is Victor Teng. I live in San Francisco, California, USA. In mid-March of 2020 when shelter-in-place was first enforced in the US due to the COVID-19 virus, everyone’s daily lives started to change in a dramatic way. During that year, I had a bad experience that has been affecting my life a lot financially. I’m here to share my story of being an international investment scam victim.
I met a female investment trader named Wan Chen Cai in August 2020 through a friend-finding and dating app named Tantan claimed that she was working for a company named Golden Rule in Hong Kong. We first chatted through the app in Chinese, then we exchanged WeChat contacts and started chatting there. One day, I saw Wan Chen’s postings and photos on WeChat. They were saying that she was working as an investment trader. I was curious about her job, so I asked her about it. Wan Chen told me the main focus of her work is foreign currency trading, but she also does other kinds of trading such as Gold, US Oil, and Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. She told me we could work together and offered to help me open a trading account with her company. I was a little skeptical at the beginning about whether it was legit since I had met a few scammers on the same friend-finding app where I met her. But Wan Chen insisted she and her company were real, and she said she could prove that by video chatting with me, showing me proofs such as her company’s website, company’s business and…
