This story is truly heartbreaking, knowing that a 72-year-old woman lost her entire life savings and inheritance, totaling $224,000, to crypto scammers. They used a deepfake video of Christopher Luxon, the New Zealand Prime Minister, to lure her in.
It's a very sad story and I wish that the woman will get support from police, government to catch scammers and recover her money back. It will be very long story and at this moment, I only can wish the woman best of luck.
About this scam, she was too naive to believe that the man who called her is the NZ Prime Minister. She would have known that man is very busy with his powerful position, and she ignored one more red flag. How did a NZ Prime Minister call her just to invite her invest money into something, in this case invest in cryptocurrency.
It's very basic scam method.
The cryptocurrency scam book.She needs to cooperate with the authorities regarding on the unfortunate situation happened to her so that they know where to start their investigation then find possible leads to catch those criminal.
To bad for her to rush his decision to do huge transaction without getting enough knowledge. This indicate how dangerous the technology now for adults and maybe there relatives will educate them on those crazy activities happening in internet so that they would be aware on online scams.
For us who know this scheme this is pretty basic, but for those who join late they are the one who's prone to experience such scams like this.