A 64-year-old East Allen Township man fell sufferer to a cryptocurrency rip-off that bilked him out of $60,000, state police stated.
Pennsylvania State Police in Bethlehem stated the man reported the incident on June 5. Investigators say the scheme concerned the sufferer changing into concerned in an funding group on a web-based app. The group supplied members the prospect to commerce cryptocurrency choices, police stated.
The sufferer then invested $60,000 into what he thought was a authentic funding platform, in accordance with police. The phony platform started providing the sufferer quite a lot of funding plans, together with one-on-one investing with whom they claimed was a authentic monetary adviser, police stated.