A Northampton single mum says she has "lost everything" after falling for a "work from home" cryptocurrency scam - ending up with £26,500 of debt. Ogo Ezeaka, 34, signed up to the online "job" to earn extra income along her full-time role in IT.
“I thought the job would give me some good experience and help to pay my childcare costs as a single-income household. But it was all a lie.” "If you successfully submit a product onto the website, the value of it will be added to your in-app balance. Once I’d completed the tasks, they’d deposit all the money and profit made into a crypto wallet. Flora made it seem so genuine.”
But then the balance on the selling website bizarrely dropped into minus figures - plummeting to minus £18,000 This happened because if she failed to submit a product worth a lot of money, the total would be subtracted from her balance. However, she was met with a message saying her online account had been frozen, and she’d need to pay another £6k to restore her balance. Once she’d realised, Ogo tried messaging Flora for help but found she’d been blocked.