Zeke Faux
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126 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard May 2025
Zeke Faux’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, so she told me that tomorrow we could do it. We could do the trading.
Once we get into it, she sends me a link to download an app that's called ZBXS. ZBXS.
You have to sideload it.
Let me tell you, it was not easy to install ZBXS. You have to be pretty motivated. This is why she had to butter me up for a week. Oh. Because, like, these instructions to get this bootleg app on your phone are not simple.
Like, my mom, I don't think, would ever be able to install ZBXS.
No, but it was just like, you had to adjust something in the settings that seemed very clearly... Designed to protect you from things like this. Yes. It was clear it was a bad idea. And you open up the app, and it says it's a new and safe, stable trading market. And it's got a lot of, like... price symbols, and it looks kind of like a bad crypto trading app.
But one thing that was promising is that all the prices are quoted in terms of Tether. So first she tells me to download crypto.com. I say, yes, the exchange of my friend Matt Damon. Then I learned that crypto.com is illegal in New York and it won't work for me. So like Vicky probably should have researched that.
Yeah. Then she suggests I use one called Trust Wallet. And this is where the good message comes. I'm like, what should I buy in Trust Wallet? I've downloaded it. And she says, find USDT to buy. That's Tether. Yeah. Because USDT is not affected by any rise or fall in the currency market.
Yes, it's a stable coin. Each Tether is always supposed to be worth $1. Yes. Because I was sort of wondering... All the cryptos would probably be pretty good for Vicky's purposes. Yeah. Why Tether? This is why. It's part of the sales pitch that she's like, oh, it's always worth a dollar. Don't worry about it. So one of the funny things I always learned in investigating crypto is that
In theory, there's no fees, but there's always lots of fees.
And in order to buy Tether the way that Vicky suggested, I have to pay $105.86 for 93 Tethers. So I'm paying $12 in fees. Yes. I don't know why. Vicky says it doesn't matter. We're going to make so much money on the nodes.
I tell her I'm nervous, and she said it's okay. I was nervous when I first traded, too. You have to relax. It's not too complicated. Then she says, get ready. We have to be ready by 4.30. You have to make sure you have 500 tethers in ZBXS by then. And at this point, I might have been busy that day. Also, like my budget for losing money to Vicky Ho was more like $100.
I didn't really want to lose this 500. So I was sort of hesitating. And she starts calling me, asking me to send the 500 tethers.
I don't know why I did sort of stick to the truth in my communications with her, a lot of them. So I said I had to take my daughter to the doctor. She said, well, the child's body is important.
Yeah. She asked, has your daughter's health improved? She suggests that I maybe do some trades so I could get money to buy my daughter a gift.
These scammers are often not any more convincing than Vicky was with me.
But... One thing a lot of the people have in common is that they've hit some sort of desperate circumstance in their life. Like they have a terminal illness, or they've just lost a loved one, or it's the pandemic and they're unemployed and they've had to move in with their parents. And a lot of people, if you're at least middle-aged, have access to some amount of money.
You could max out your credit card even if you're broke.
Yeah. Although once you know what's really going on on the other end of the text messages, it becomes not fun at all. And I started to wonder if Vicky might be punished for her failure to scam me. And I just, I realized that it was time to come clean.
Ice Toad is explaining to me how he can trace the crypto wallets. And he's like, I've personally seen hundreds of millions of dollars of Tether move because of these scams. Oh, wow. And I'm kind of thinking there might be some way to locate Vicky. Maybe not Vicky herself, but Ice Toad is like, you know who you should really talk to is this Vietnamese hacker. Yeah.
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