{"id":11807,"date":"2023-10-10T06:38:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T04:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/10\/i-felt-powerless-how-a-crypto-scam-cost-a-finance-boss-300000\/"},"modified":"2023-10-10T06:38:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T04:38:07","slug":"i-felt-powerless-how-a-crypto-scam-cost-a-finance-boss-300000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/10\/i-felt-powerless-how-a-crypto-scam-cost-a-finance-boss-300000\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I felt powerless\u2019: how a crypto scam cost a finance boss \u00a3300,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investment manager tells of how fraudsters managed to persuade him to hand over his life savings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2023\/oct\/07\/i-lost-240000-uk-victims-share-their-stories\">\u2018I lost \u00a3240,000\u2019: fraud victims share their stories<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2023\/oct\/09\/what-to-do-when-you-think-you-have-been-scammed\">What to do when you think you have been scammed<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2023\/oct\/07\/scams-six-of-the-most-common-tricks-and-how-to-avoid-them\">Six common scams \u2013 and how to avoid them<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A senior manager at a UK investment firm has told how he was conned out of his \u00a3300,000 life savings by cryptocurrency scammers.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Thomas* says he was \u201cprobably blinded by a mixture of greed, curiosity and stubbornness\u201d when he was ensnared by the elaborate and complex scam which took place over six months.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2023\/oct\/10\/crypto-scam-finance-boss-fraudsters-savings\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c966cad62ab241d7336ffc8b856a586fb03265d8\/29_29_4873_2923\/master\/4873.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=90db0b3f7c49b89a027daf4885b10106\" title=\"\u2018I felt powerless\u2019: how a crypto scam cost a finance boss \u00a3300,000\" \/>Investment manager tells of how fraudsters managed to persuade him to hand over his life savings<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I lost \u00a3240,000\u2019: fraud victims share their stories<br \/>\nWhat to do when you think you have been scammed<br \/>\nSix common scams \u2013 and how to avoid them<\/p>\n<p>A senior manager at a UK investment firm has told how he was conned out of his \u00a3300,000 life savings by cryptocurrency scammers.<br \/>\nMatthew Thomas* says he was \u201cprobably blinded by a mixture of greed, curiosity and stubbornness\u201d when he was ensnared by the elaborate and complex scam which took place over six months. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investment manager tells of how fraudsters managed to persuade him to hand over his life savings \u2018I lost \u00a3240,000\u2019: fraud victims share their stories What to do when you think you have been scammed Six common scams \u2013 and how to avoid them A senior manager at a UK investment firm has told how he &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/10\/i-felt-powerless-how-a-crypto-scam-cost-a-finance-boss-300000\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018I felt powerless\u2019: how a crypto scam cost a finance boss \u00a3300,000<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}