Freelance artist and designer Petrina Fuda said said she got involved with what she thought was a bitcoin investment company.
The 53-year-old said she had heard about people making money via bitcoin, so when a company contacted her she signed up.
Fuda was told she could double her investments, with one representative later even claiming he could make her up to $8000 in a month.
But Fuda says the company took her entire life savings, around $27,000, and in return she received no cryptocurrency.
Fuda now wants to warn others, saying the scammers “primed” her before moving in to steal her money.
“Before I knew it they were in my bank accounts, they took every cent.
“When they started to corner me and took out the large sums from my bank I just went into shock.
“They just literally primed me and swooped in.
“It escalated before I was even aware of what was happening.”
The north shore mother said back in 2020 she initially agreed to invest $1000 in a company, which lists addresses in London’s financial hub, Canary Wharf and Cyprus.
“I thought I’d give it a little shot with a small investment,” Fuda said.
“There was a lot of people at the time investing in Bitcoin, they were saying it was…
