Storminvest Scam

[ImreMarton]

Good evening


On 07.12.2023 I created an account on a site where you can buy crypto currencies. The first time I was called by a lady who explained that I can start with an investment of 250/500/1000 dollars, I made the first Transfer. The first money was transferred to another company. later I found out that the site is related to Storminvest.io (the first time it was .io, then .org and now .pro). I was called by an investment broker named Luca Johnson with whom I talked on the phone and Wiber I sent all my personal data to create the account on Storminvest (The number card, CVV number, profile picture and identity card) After a week I saw on the storminvest.pro platform that the money I deposited is increasing. I was asked to install the Anydesk program to make it easier to use the account. The broker is trying his best to invest all my money for a much higher profit. Later, I received a growth graph and with that I convinced myself to invest a total of 24010 eur. But the problem was that I did not have this money, but he, insisting on the potential profit, convinced me to take out a loan at a bank. Not knowing how to proceed, I installed the Anydesk program with which he managed to enter my bank account and submitted a financing request, (I was warned by Luca that I would be called by the bank, and to declare that I did all the steps, and not to say anything about Anydesk or them because if the bank finds out, they won't approve my credit) the one that was approved, immediately after approval made the transfer to Simplex nevadaex. After the First Transfer, they managed to request another loan in my name from the bank without my knowledge. He did everything online with my pictures that I sent for KYC verification. He said that every week on Friday I can withdraw money. The first withdrawal was supposed to be this week Friday (09.02.2024) when I was called by those from the financial side. I received the information that I have 54117 dollars, I already have it in my account on storminvest.pro, but in order to be able to withdraw to the bank account I have to pay tax in the amount of 6239. Until I pay, I cannot receive money from them. At this point I thought that I had been deceived. I started looking for information about bank transfer and found that the money has reached simplex nevadaex.


With this post I would like to warn everyone who wants to invest in crypto. Below as I write each phone number do as I did.
Luca Johnson Wiber +447438337146
Luca Johnson +442070976229
The Financial Department at Storinvest +442081575564


After each attempt, I'll post here so you can know what's going on.


Imre Marton
Thank you

[SamReomo]

Sorry for your loss, how could you trust a platform like that who would ask you for a loan in order to have more profits? You have been scammed by them and that's only because of your own unawareness regarding such scams. I suggest you to be careful from such scams in future and never trust anyone who claim to double your investment or get huge profits for you.

You've posted this thread in a wrong board, I suggest you to move it to Scam Accusation board as that board is more suitable for this thread. However, be careful from that fraud company and never ever share your personal KYC information with anyone. I also recommend you to block your current credit card and get a new one to be safe from them in future.

[SatoPrincess]

Sorry for your loss. What did they tell you that convinced you to invest 24010 euro in a platform without doing your background check. All the reviews I have seen on the net show that the platform is a scam. I’m guessing you’re caught up with this Luca character that you ignored all the red flags. The scammers have your documents, you’re in real danger of identity theft as the scammers can sell your information in the dark web. You should report this to the police immediately to avoid more problems in the future.

https://www.personal-reviews.com/2022/08/storminvest-review-storminvest-io-scam/

[ImreMarton]

Yes Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything about the Storminvest website at the moment. Later, after I noticed that they have access to my bank account and can transfer all my money without my consent, I realized what happened.

[acroman08]

sorry that this happened, I hope this serves as a lesson to not just trust someone especially when it involves money, your personal information or anything valuable.

but in order to be able to withdraw to the bank account I have to pay tax in the amount of 6239. Until I pay, I cannot receive money from them.

this just further proves that they are nothing but a scam website. really sorry that you lost that much money.

Yes Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything about the Storminvest website at the moment. Later, after I noticed that they have access to my bank account and can transfer all my money without my consent, I realized what happened.

after what happened did you report to your bank that someone has access to your bank account without your consent?

[sokani]

Reading through what you wrote looks like something that could only happen in the movies because everything was wrong right from the onset. Why would you invest such amount of money on a platform you know little or nothing about?

I don't want to start the blaming games but you need to take the advice of SamReomo and Satoprincess very seriously. Cut off the scammer access to your bank account and report the issue immediately to the police. Though, I doubt if you'll have any luck recovering back your funds.

[Potato Chips]

Sorry for your loss, op.

I have to ask. Anydesk is a program that allows remote access to your device/s. Please tell me you have done a clean reinstallation of your OS? Plus if you have accounts logged in previously on any affected devices, change their passwords and enable TOTP 2FA whenever you can -- if you have no idea which accounts, just change everything important to you.

These scammers will milk you dry so make sure they can't come back to your life anymore.

[tabas]

Sorry about that. That's why I don't answer random calls on my phone that are not saved because there's a tendency that they're scammers. Once we register our numbers to any platforms, it's possible that it will be scattered to any other service and that's why if the call is urgent, for sure that person contacting me will send a message first and these scammers don't do that. When they don't think that victim of theirs won't respond to phone calls, they will stop because it's a waste of time for them. Or let's say that I accidentally answered the call and randomly talks about any investments that they are offering, for me that's already a red flag and the conversation should stop there as soon as possible.

[alastantiger]

With this post I would like to warn everyone who wants to invest in crypto. Below as I write each phone number do as I did.
Luca Johnson Wiber +447438337146
Luca Johnson +442070976229
The Financial Department at Storinvest +442081575564

It is a pity that you lost your money to this scam site. While I would encourage people seeking to invest in cryptocurrency for the first time to register on reputable and highly trusted exchanges like Binance, Coinbase, Huobi, and Kraken, I still feel that it is not too late to tell anyone who has been a victim of such a scam that there is a small chance they can recover their funds. To the best of my knowledge, there are fund recovery teams that have been successful in getting back funds for those who have been scammed by these sites. It is not 100% certain that they will get back the funds; it requires some fee to be paid to them, and lastly, some of these scam recovery individuals could also scam their clients. Anyone who decides to go this route must be aware that these risks and opportunities exist.

[viljj]

Sorry for your loss..

But you are probably a newbie of what is happening online these days with scams. People have fallen into similar traps years ago already, investing in crypto. This is one of the newest Nigerian letter scams, which no other than a newbie would fall into..

But you are not the first, people have lost much more. Also you wont be the last.

[ImreMarton]

Thanks for the tips. I spoke with a computer scientist who helped me find the history of Anydesk with IPs, and more information about those who entered my computer. I received a phone call from another company that would like to help me with recovery. I don't trust them because they know everything about my situation (even what I didn't post on the forum)

[Yamane_Keto]

Sorry for your loss, but all the stages you mentioned indicate scam. He may ask for investment on your behalf. This does not mean that he takes your personal data to create an account, but rather that you create an account yourself and he informs you of the requirements. Anydesk application gives a third party access to all of your device’s data, and you should only do this with Someone you trust, not unknown people on the Internet. Instead, create an account, give them the API, and restrict withdrawal permissions. It is better to do everything yourself. Their insistence on taking a loan means that they are fraudsters. There is no financial advisor who advises you to take an investment in something that you cannot afford to lose.

The phone numbers you mentioned and the IP data will not help you. Submit an official request to the police and ask them to freeze the accounts linked to the money that reached Simplex Nevadax. The police can contact the bank and restrict access to that account and find out the users’ data, but I fear that the party that received the money is someone who was scammed like you.

[ImreMarton]

My first aid arrived a few weeks ago. She said her name is Julia and she is an employee of Titanumwallat.io. He said there is a procedure against Storminvestes and he will help me get my money back. I had already created an account on their website, but the email address was incorrect. 41000 usd appeared on the website. which is still today under a wrong email address. On Anydesk he checked what references I made. Binance also caught me looking for something and said my banker hid the password. he asked me to download binance on my phone and he will call me the next day. Meanwhile, I wrote to my broker on Viber about what this guy wants to do with me. Luca told me not to deal with anyone because they are frauds, I thought the storminvest platform was working.
Julia never applies again. her phone number is +442080972198.

[Potato Chips]

Thanks for the tips. I spoke with a computer scientist who helped me find the history of Anydesk with IPs, and more information about those who entered my computer. I received a phone call from another company that would like to help me with recovery. I don't trust them because they know everything about my situation (even what I didn't post on the forum)

My first aid arrived a few weeks ago. She said her name is Julia and she is an employee of Titanumwallat.io. He said there is a procedure against Storminvestes and he will help me get my money back. I had already created an account on their website, but the email address was incorrect. 41000 usd appeared on the website. which is still today under a wrong email address. On Anydesk he checked what references I made. Binance also caught me looking for something and said my banker hid the password. he asked me to download binance on my phone and he will call me the next day. Meanwhile, I wrote to my broker on Viber about what this guy wants to do with me. Luca told me not to deal with anyone because they are frauds, I thought the storminvest platform was working.
Julia never applies again. her phone number is +442080972198.

Uhhhh sorry op but I'm afraid that's another scam... I suspect it's another persona from storminvest because a lot of scammers milk their victims dry. Once the first scam gets discovered by the victim, they will come again with another persona.

It looks like a recovery scam where they promise you to recover your money but it's all crap. I also see that they intentionally made the "41000 usd" numbers appear so this is likely mixed with the refund scam (common from tech support scams) where they ask you to give it back or something and eventually talk you out into giving remote access to your devices and/or send them the money. Titanumwallat.io is another website no one has heard of. The binance bit also doesn't make sense? is it actually the real binance.com or a phishing website? To sum it up, it's all typical scam.

Do you think you can contact one of your trusted people op? perhaps your children and/or siblings? they don't really have to be a pro to reinstall an OS and change passwords. If not, perhaps you could also ask help from your local police cybercrime dept?

For now, don't send anyone money or any personal information. Most importantly, don't download programs you don't know particularly those that give remote access to your devices.

[ImreMarton]

Today's story: Someone from London called again. The phone number is +447458030387. again I had to pay for possible refunds. Of course, there were scams for a reason. I will get back to you with the next updates.

[ImreMarton]

Good evening! We had a conversation that lasted for days. they said he could help me for Payback. He said he can help me recover the fund. I wanted to write what happened in detail. I had to open an account at Kraken.com and another at Titaniumwalet.io. We talked on WhatsApp. The condition of the transfer was to pay 8% of the investment value, $1892. I told him if it can be paid in installments then I will pay $100 and transfer $1000. With the next installment, I pay 1000 USD and transfer 10000 USD..,... In a few days, Luca my broker, He said that everything was stolen. so I can get to the bottom line, but this is the condition and I have to pay. I have attached a screenshot of the WhatsApp chats.


https://easyimg.io/g/3zzkw22y7

[acroman08]

Good evening! We had a conversation that lasted for days. they said he could help me for Payback. He said he can help me recover the fund. I wanted to write what happened in detail. I had to open an account at Kraken.com and another at Titaniumwalet.io. We talked on WhatsApp. The condition of the transfer was to pay 8% of the investment value, $1892. I told him if it can be paid in installments then I will pay $100 and transfer $1000. With the next installment, I pay 1000 USD and transfer 10000 USD..,... In a few days, Luca my broker, He said that everything was stolen. so I can get to the bottom line, but this is the condition and I have to pay. I have attached a screenshot of the WhatsApp chats.

I can't find anything about Titaniumwallet.io other than having a 7.8/100 rating on scam-detector.com, in fact, that is the first result that comes out when you search Titaniumwallet.io, also, I can't access their website. As for Kraken.com, seems like they have been operating for more than a decade but looking at their trust pilot review, they have a 2star out of 2,400+ reviews, I am not sure how reliable they are.

I have a feeling this is just another attempt of people scamming you.

[ScamViruS]

Good evening! We had a conversation that lasted for days. they said he could help me for Payback. He said he can help me recover the fund. I wanted to write what happened in detail. I had to open an account at Kraken.com and another at Titaniumwalet.io. We talked on WhatsApp. The condition of the transfer was to pay 8% of the investment value, $1892. I told him if it can be paid in installments then I will pay $100 and transfer $1000. With the next installment, I pay 1000 USD and transfer 10000 USD..,... In a few days, Luca my broker, He said that everything was stolen. so I can get to the bottom line, but this is the condition and I have to pay. I have attached a screenshot of the WhatsApp chats.

They actually won't let you withdraw these are all excuses. I am totally shocked to read the full story of what happened to you, someone gives all sensitive personal data to a platform and approves the loan! Now they are planning to tax you more money, once you pay this tax money then they may ask for more money again with some pretext. Sorry for your loss.

[Potato Chips]

Good evening! We had a conversation that lasted for days. they said he could help me for Payback. He said he can help me recover the fund. I wanted to write what happened in detail. I had to open an account at Kraken.com and another at Titaniumwalet.io. We talked on WhatsApp. The condition of the transfer was to pay 8% of the investment value, $1892. I told him if it can be paid in installments then I will pay $100 and transfer $1000. With the next installment, I pay 1000 USD and transfer 10000 USD..,... In a few days, Luca my broker, He said that everything was stolen. so I can get to the bottom line, but this is the condition and I have to pay. I have attached a screenshot of the WhatsApp chats.

No suprises there as it was a typical scam from the get-go.

For the 2nd time, it appears you have allowed remote access to your device since I'm seeing anydesk from the conversation again. It's extremely dangerous op -- they can install malware, access and copy your data, look for accounts logged in on your browser etc. Your device needs to be cleaned and you must secure your other accounts.

Please also tell us you will stop entertaining random PMs or calls from strangers... because there's a good chance they will keep coming back just like this time.

[albon]

These scammers create more than one domain for Storminvest; when one falls, they move to another fraudulent domain to continue their scamming operation and hide the traces of the fraud behind them.

One of the big mistakes you made, OP, is that you trusted strangers who do not leave communication applications and social media without their presence and deposited your money into unknown fraudulent exchange platforms based on their instructions without doing your own research and also the warning you got from this scammer called "Luca Johnson" to not to disclose anything in the incoming call from the bank was enough to make you feel suspicious and inform the bank to stop the financing request and transfer process to Simplex Nevadaex and to block him immediately.

I hope you do not repeat your mistake again with Titaniumwalet. They are trying to deceive you again by saying they can help you recover your funds, but they are lying scammers. All you have to do now is to block them and not use the device on which you installed the AnyDesk program, try to create another Windows, and contact the bank for assistance with what happened. You can take legal action against these scammers if you have enough information about them.