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In 2017 Invested in Option Global Stars. I never saw my money back. On the 2nd of December I received this mail from mr. Stan Roberts.

"I represent the Global Finance Rescue and to break down the whole process for better understanding; We are working in conjunction with the European Finance Ministry and the Cybercrime Commission who were responsible for probing this company called OptionStars, and after the investigation, the company has been shut down and the owners are facing time behind bars, in trying to reduce their sentences they had to disclose the location of the offshore crypto wallets holding their customers' accumulated profits.
Upon the investigation, it was made clear that OptionStars performing illegal activities. It was discovered that they manipulated their system to make their customers think they lost their investment. But, in reality, they invested the clients' money and even some of those investments made good profits, for example, Bitcoin made a big uptrend, but this profit was siphoned without the customer's notice. So the mandate has been placed for us to release these funds to the rightful owners.
Please note that the recovered money is in two parts:
1. Fixed compensation fee of about $5000. This is a fixed amount which the court has mandated the owners of OptionStars to pay their victims to receive a lighter sentence.
2. The accumulated profits in Bitcoin from clients' investments over the years.
So whatever amount you will see on the offshore account, that will be the amount we will be overseeing the transfer of to your preferred account. And thereafter, once we have successfully assisted with the recouping of the whole amount we will be entitled to 5-10% of your total balance at the end of the process.
Now I will like to inform you that we are not in a position to influence our client's decisions because we understand that they might be skeptical because of bad experiences with these swindlers so we let them decide for themselves and work with us only if they are comfortable with the terms. As IT IS said; it takes two to tango. However patience is our policy, and if for any reason you decided not to proceed with the process of recouping your recovered funds, we will need you to authorize the funds to the pool of unclaimed funds by signing a Waiver of Rights that will be issued to you upon your request or in the absence of positive feedback and by signing this affidavit client's recovered funds will be donated to charitable organizations and prison reforms. Also, signing this affidavit means you forfeit all rights to claim the recovered funds, and can not press any charges against this company in the future.
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Now I have to activate my account and put 400USD in. I am afraid to lose my money. Is there someone who encounter this too?
 
In 2017 Invested in Option Global Stars. I never saw my money back. On the 2nd of December I received this mail from mr. Stan Roberts.

The recoverasset.org domain was created in May of 2021. I believe there is a very good chance that it is nothing more than an attempt to remove another $400 (and then more) from your wallet.

I strongly recommend you send a copy of that message to both the fraud division of your local police department as well as the European Finance Ministry and their Cybercrime Division (if there is one). if this offer is real, surely the police or regulators will be able to verify it for you.
 
The recoverasset.org domain was created in May of 2021. I believe there is a very good chance that it is nothing more than an attempt to remove another $400 (and then more) from your wallet.

I strongly recommend you send a copy of that message to both the fraud division of your local police department as well as the European Finance Ministry and their Cybercrime Division (if there is one). if this offer is real, surely the police or regulators will be able to verify it for you.
Deffiently report it to many scammers
 
Recovery of funds or a pie in the sky pipe dream.
This scam has been attempted against me on several occasions the last one just this week and prior to that about two years ago, The scammers get the information from scam report sites and/or get the leads from past successful scams.
The scam is quite tempting and it goes like this:-
1. All your deposits in Ivory Option had been invested in Bitcoin in a respectable cryptocurrency exchange and each deposit Ivory Option diligently assigned these to my Ivory Option account ID and my personal details. This was revealed after court injunctions due to fraudulent activities allowed exposure and tracing of the funds.
2. That is a very nice carrot but not enough it seems. The funds hvae not been dormant. Oh no. They have have gone up five time is value. So in my case £60,000 would now be over £200,00 last Wednesday. I did not respond so another member of the scamming team tried a more subtle approach and his figure was a more modest £178,000. He showed me the ticket displaying the amount of BTC which last week was 5.5 BTC and now my account with the same cryptocurrency exchange was 4.18 BTC. He said that he would freeze the account at that value. Er?
3. The punchline came with the fake ticket as he had added 10% UK tax due. He phoned me and said that he could not release the funds until I had paid the £14,000 tax. He added that he could arrange payment in instalments.

So the scam was fairly clever but it revealed a few flaws. A respectable company would not ask to run Anydesk to view sensitive items such as bank accounts. Only a scammer would think that there was nothing wrong in that. The other flaw was that they did not have an accurate figure of my lost funds. How could they? The alleged respectable cryptocurrency headed emails were all fakes. The third mistake they made was that they thought that freezing an account in BTC would do anything at all if it had not been converted into a real currency. So how can 5.5 BTC go down to 4.18 BTC in a week if nobody had taken anything from the account. The fourth and greatest flaw was that Ivory Option would not leave money around for others to grab let alone provide traceability and accountability which is the very opposite of what their business model would be. Once you deposited they would salt it away by shifting it around all over the world so that nobody could ever trace it in a million years.
Assume that lost funds to scammers are lost. There are legitimate companies claiming that they can recover funds for you but all of them want an upfront fee. An Israeli solicitor wanted $5000 to track and trace my funds but I declined because if he knew that he could be reasonably find and recover my funds then he would go with no win no fee.
Attached is the almost impressive fake ticket. Of course there are no funds and I would need to pay them £14,000 to find out that there wasn't any. There is no justice and there isn't a God. These are lessons that I have learned online and with trading platforms.
 

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Honestly these scammers are just scum. It's bad enough people get scammed when they have their money but to scam people that also have already lost it is beyond the pale.
 
Recovery of funds or a pie in the sky pipe dream.
This scam has been attempted against me on several occasions the last one just this week and prior to that about two years ago, The scammers get the information from scam report sites and/or get the leads from past successful scams.
The scam is quite tempting and it goes like this:-
1. All your deposits in Ivory Option had been invested in Bitcoin in a respectable cryptocurrency exchange and each deposit Ivory Option diligently assigned these to my Ivory Option account ID and my personal details. This was revealed after court injunctions due to fraudulent activities allowed exposure and tracing of the funds.
2. That is a very nice carrot but not enough it seems. The funds hvae not been dormant. Oh no. They have have gone up five time is value. So in my case £60,000 would now be over £200,00 last Wednesday. I did not respond so another member of the scamming team tried a more subtle approach and his figure was a more modest £178,000. He showed me the ticket displaying the amount of BTC which last week was 5.5 BTC and now my account with the same cryptocurrency exchange was 4.18 BTC. He said that he would freeze the account at that value. Er?
3. The punchline came with the fake ticket as he had added 10% UK tax due. He phoned me and said that he could not release the funds until I had paid the £14,000 tax. He added that he could arrange payment in instalments.

So the scam was fairly clever but it revealed a few flaws. A respectable company would not ask to run Anydesk to view sensitive items such as bank accounts. Only a scammer would think that there was nothing wrong in that. The other flaw was that they did not have an accurate figure of my lost funds. How could they? The alleged respectable cryptocurrency headed emails were all fakes. The third mistake they made was that they thought that freezing an account in BTC would do anything at all if it had not been converted into a real currency. So how can 5.5 BTC go down to 4.18 BTC in a week if nobody had taken anything from the account. The fourth and greatest flaw was that Ivory Option would not leave money around for others to grab let alone provide traceability and accountability which is the very opposite of what their business model would be. Once you deposited they would salt it away by shifting it around all over the world so that nobody could ever trace it in a million years.
Assume that lost funds to scammers are lost. There are legitimate companies claiming that they can recover funds for you but all of them want an upfront fee. An Israeli solicitor wanted $5000 to track and trace my funds but I declined because if he knew that he could be reasonably find and recover my funds then he would go with no win no fee.
Attached is the almost impressive fake ticket. Of course there are no funds and I would need to pay them £14,000 to find out that there wasn't any. There is no justice and there isn't a God. These are lessons that I have learned online and with trading platforms.
What's the response you have received from the company?
 
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