I met a guy named Rowan Chen (Yiyang Chen) on Hinge, an online dating app, on 7/23/2023. We switched our conversation from Hinge to WhatsApp shortly after we met, and his phone number is 818-485-1407. He also told me that he deleted his Hinge account after meeting me. He presented himself as a wonderful guy, and we just had a lot of common topics. I quickly fell in love with him, and when he offered to teach me how to trade bitcoin binary options, I lost my judgment about being cautious when investing in something that I don't understand. The investing steps are as follows: (1) wire transfer money from my bank accounts to my Coinbase or Kraken accounts, (2) purchase bitcoins on my Coinbase or Kraken accounts, (3) transfer the purchased bitcoins to external bitcoin wallet addresses that the customer service of the scammer site gave me, (4) trade bitcoin binary options on the scammer site based on the guy's instruction to buy up or down.
During the time period when I was scammed (7/23/2023 - 9/1/2023), I have performed a total of ten withdrawals from my Coinbase or Kraken accounts, and I was instructed to send the funds to a total of four external wallet addresses. These external wallet addresses were provided to me by the customer service of the scammer site, https://www.edgecapitelkdy.top, accessible through the browser on DefiWallet.
The following is a summary of withdrawals I have made and the external wallet addresses I have sent the funds to:
2 withdrawals from Coinbase to: 1LAj2BsKaniadqaXws7D5R7BHAZvNaZ14x
5 withdrawals from Kraken to: 19dfswn5S75sVCCRZtgtbVP5kc7EG8F64E
2 withdrawals from Kraken to: 1H6yw936Bx7L49SdaqCG3HfBCTQngCLWeF
1 withdrawal from Kraken to: 1LHEjT7QZh4NVa6AyiJXrt5zXhRzAqWT3w
Overall, I lost a total of about $650,000, including the bank’s wire fees and crypto transaction fees charged by the crypto exchanges.