Channel 4 show hosted by Noel Edmonds.But he was conned out of his retirement nest-egg after clicking on a Facebook ad about investing in the cryptocurrency.Graeme, 65, of Cove, Aberdeen, is now backing a police campaign urging people not to go down the same path.
Explaining how the con had ruined his life, he said: “You cry inside.“I was planning to buy a house but now I’m renting a flat.”In October 2018, with his retirement as a railway worker on the horizon, Graeme wanted to invest some of his cash.He clicked on an ad by OMC Markets, filled out a form, and took a phone call from a man claiming to be Daniel Hardy of London.In fact, it was a scammer calling from Sofia, Bulgaria.Graeme opened a Bitcoin “wallet” and deposited funds then.
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