Investment manager tells of how fraudsters managed to persuade him to hand over his life savings
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A senior manager at a UK investment firm has told how he was conned out of his £300,000 life savings by cryptocurrency scammers.
Matthew Thomas* says he was “probably blinded by a mixture of greed, curiosity and stubbornness” when he was ensnared by the elaborate and complex scam which took place over six months.
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