A person contacted me byconver [removed by editor]. Said he would teach me about cryptocurrency and trading. Encouraged me to trade in Bitturk with funds from my IRA retirement account. For a couple of months, he ‘helped’ me trade in cryptocurrency. However at
A person contacted me by text message. Kept a conversation going [removed by editor]. Said he would teach me about cryptocurrency and trading. Encouraged me to trade in Bitturk with funds from my IRA retirement account. For a couple of months, he ‘helped’ me trade in cryptocurrency. However at some point he said that if I put more money in Bitturk to trade with , I would be eligible for exemptions on the taxes incurred by making profits in trading on the Bitturk app. I then borrowed money to put in Bitturk, to qualify for the exemptions, at this point it looked as if I had made a lot of profits. When I set out to withdraw my funds in Bitturk, I received an email telling me that I had to pay taxes of $56,044 and that when I had paid them my funds would be released in 24 hours. Bitturk did not release the funds. When I asked why they were not releasing them, they said that there was an anomaly in my withdrawal address and that in order for them to fix it I needed to ‘recharge’ my Bitturk account with 50,000 USDT. At this point, all of my money was in Bitturk, in addition to funds that I had borrowed from credit cards and a personal loan, believing that once I had paid the taxes, I would receive my funds, and be able to pay it all back. Now I am in debt for at least $71,000 and all of my savings and retirement account is in Bitturk, am now realising that I have been scammed.<br />
In addition, I found the legitimate company called Bitturk ( in Turkey) and in response to my email requesting them to release my funds, I was told that Bitturk is based in Turkey and only Turkish residents are able to trade on this platform. Also, they had no record of any account in my name. Thus, there is a fraudulent: Bitturk app that apparently just seeks to take your money, without returning any of it to you, when you have apparently been trading on it
