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Hello.
The call you're hearing is of a man in Canada speaking
to a woman he thought was his financial advisor.
For weeks he had spent hours on the phone with her
and invested thousands of dollars into what he thought was a cryptocurrency scheme.
Only now he's found out the truth.
No, no, no, no. Atomic told me there is no value to my senior.
The account he thought he was investing in, it doesn't exist.
Showing zero in the transaction.
Instead, all that money has been going to his scammer.
Where's my deposit?