Marti DeLima

Who is this?

And then it might lead into just some interaction, very friendly.

Then maybe after quite a few text messages.

These are long cons, right?

These don't happen overnight.

The criminal might say, oh, by the way, my uncle is trading in this new cryptocurrency.

He's let me bring in a few friends.

Do you want to get in on it?

I can help you download this app.

And these scam centers also have app developers.

So they can make really legitimate looking investment apps that make it look like your crypto investment is going up and up and up.

And it's when you actually try to take out that cash, you realize that it's all smoke and mirrors and the money is gone.

The other troubling thing is many of these scammers come back at their target pretending to help them recover their funds.

So they might pretend that they're a local law firm or that they're a federal government agency.

One thing we can't forget is how much capital these criminal organizations have amassed.

So they do have funds to pay marketing teams and to do A-B testing on messages.

It's more sophisticated than most people know.

I mean, these scam organizations have attorneys.

They have HR departments.

The scammers have to meet quotas.