The scammers were posing as ARK Invest employees and everything had ARK Invest branding and employees from ARK Invest when checking their website. Conversations referenced prior investing plans that were previously executed by ARK Invest and this was their latest investment venture which was a four phased plan. I got involved starting with minimal amount ($20,000) and then once the phase 1 segment of trading was over and phase 2 & 3of the plan was to begin, there was a $300,000 buy-in. We traded for multiple weeks growing our account to well over $2,000,000. With phase 4, there was an additional $300,000 buy in with promises of amazing growth. We traded for a total of 2 months and my account grew to $31,000,000. I have documentation of every trade and every conversation I had with the scammers. Once trading was over, they asked to pay taxes but only a portion and that ARK Invest would be working through the tax documentation to minimize the tax burden on the profits. An additional $400,000 was asked for to release the money. After trading stopped, we immediately sent the commissions payment to a specific wallet (noted above in the other section). Upon paying the tax payment and after some back and forth with the money transfers, I was able to transfer the money to a broker that would convert to non-crypto and send to my bank account.
Once the money was transferred to the broker, Yasmina Hage said they were having issues contacting the broker and then she disappeared. I reached out to Jason the analyst (last name Newgate - I believe) about the issue and he said that the broker had vanished but that they could lock the wallet and recover my money. After a few days he said that they needed to pay a professional tech team to crack the wallet to get my money and that it would cost $100,000 up front and then $500,000 once I received my money. Once the money was supposedly cracked, I was told it was being wired to me - the money never arrived and Jason went dark.
There was another gentleman that I had been having conversations with throughout the entire trading process (that seemed legit), Benedict Maxwell - (551) 358-2232 that supposedly received his money after all the trading.
I have multiple documents with every trade and every conversation had with "ARK Invest" throughout the process. I have a 60 page PowerPoint document and a 120 page Word document with all (and highlighted) conversations. I also did Been Verified checks on all the numbers of the What'sApp Admins from the multiple groups that we worked through during the 4 months of trading. I have attached those Been Verified documents in the prior section. The core people I labeled in the above section (impersonating ARK Invest) did not have their numbers tied to a name.
Additionally, most of the money I sent over was done through money brokers. I can provide a list of those as well but I don't have enough space to list here.