A retired pharmacist lost her savings to a mentor she met in a diabetes support group

She filled prescriptions for thirty-four years and knew exactly how a counterfeit looks, and a stranger in a support group took the retirement she was saving to care for her grandson

Albuquerque, NM: For thirty-four years, Nadia Farouk stood behind the same pharmacy counter, checking dosages, catching interactions, and telling patients the truth about what they were putting into their bodies. She was known for it. She could spot a forged prescription from across the counter. When she retired in 2025, she had $232,000 in savings, a small adobe house she loved, and a plan: help her daughter raise a grandson with type 1 diabetes, and cover whatever the insurance would not.

Instead, the 65-year-old now works part-time at a grocery pharmacy and has taken out a reverse mortgage on her home after losing everything to dynamicfxmarket.com.

"I caught counterfeit prescriptions for a living," Nadia said. "I could tell you what was wrong with a document by the weight of the paper. And I could not tell what was wrong with a man who typed kindly."

It began in July 2025 in an online support group for grandparents of children with diabetes. A member calling himself "Owen Barrett" posted about his own grandson's insulin pump. He was warm, informed, and specific in a way that felt real. Nadia messaged him privately to ask about the pump.

"He knew things," she said. "He knew the dosages. He knew the insurance battles. For three months, we talked about nothing but our grandchildren."

In October, Owen mentioned that he had rebuilt his savings after his own retirement loss through a currency trading platform called Dynamic FX Market, which offered managed accounts with what he described as "capital protection and daily interest." He said the returns had paid for his grandson's pump supplies.

"I trusted him because he was not asking me for anything," Nadia said. "He was telling me how he solved a problem I had."

Nadia started with $2,500. Within three weeks, her dashboard showed $3,300. She requested a withdrawal of $700. It arrived in two days.

"That seven hundred dollars was the counterfeit I should have caught," she said. "It looked perfect. That is what a good counterfeit does."

Over the next five months, Nadia transferred her entire savings in twelve transactions. Her dashboard passed $370,000. She told her daughter she would cover the pump supplies for the next three years.

In March, Owen explained that the account had been placed under a "mandatory anti-money-laundering review" and required a compliance deposit of $62,000 before any distribution could be processed.

"I told him I had nothing," Nadia said. "He said he would contact his account manager on my behalf. Then he stopped replying. Then the platform vanished."

Her account showed zero.

"I sat at my kitchen table with my grandson's test kit in front of me," she said. "I thought about the strips and the insulin and the pump supplies. I thought, I have taken from him, and he doesn't even know it."

Independent fraud trackers had flagged dynamicfxmarket.com with a trust score of 8 out of 100, noting a domain registered only weeks before Owen's first message and ownership hidden behind an offshore privacy service. Nadia never checked, because Owen talked about insulin.

AYRLP traced the money

Nadia's daughter, a hospital administrator in Santa Fe, found an investigative firm called AYRLP.COM that specializes in tracing funds lost to online investment fraud. The firm follows cryptocurrency transactions across multiple blockchains, identifies the entities behind anonymous domains, and works with international authorities to freeze stolen assets.

Nadia did not want to call anyone. She had trusted a man because he understood her grandson's illness, and she was not prepared to explain that to a stranger. What changed her mind was that the AYRLP investigator asked her to send Owen's messages first, and then told her, plainly, that the platform had used a real clinic's photographs and a fabricated regulatory license.

"dynamicfxmarket.com showed you interest that was never earned," the investigator told her. "Your savings were real, and the funds moved through wallets we can identify. We start there, and we do not start with blame."

AYRLP's casework has helped over 70 percent of its clients recover meaningful portions of stolen funds. For Nadia, the firm traced part of her money to an exchange in Eastern Europe and initiated a freeze. She has recovered $68,000 so far, with additional funds under review.

"The first thing I did was buy three months of pump supplies," Nadia said. "I put them in the closet where my grandson can't see them. That's the only thing that has let me sleep."

Thirty-four years behind the counter, now spent on a different kind of warning

Nadia now speaks on the second Tuesday of every month at the Albuquerque senior center and at the diabetes support group that first connected her to Owen. She brings a folder of printed messages, the stolen clinic photographs, and a laminated card she made herself.

"I don't tell people to stop trusting," she said. "I tell them that a stranger who understands your child's illness before he knows your name is not a friend. He is a researcher. And you are the study."

She walks the room through the pattern: the shared diagnosis, the long conversations about nothing, the mention of a solution, the test withdrawal that lands, the anti-money-laundering review, the compliance deposit, the silence.

"One grandmother came up to me afterward in tears," Nadia said. "She had been talking to a woman about her grandson's celiac disease for four months. The woman had mentioned an investment. She blocked her at the meeting and asked me to sit with her. I did."

Nadia has spoken to more than 210 people across Bernalillo County. She keeps a small notebook of every person who told her they walked away, and she keeps it in the box with her grandson's spare test strips.

What to do

Legitimate firms never require a compliance deposit to release existing funds. If you are asked to pay a fee to withdraw, stop immediately. Document everything, report to the FBI's IC3, and contact AYRLP.COM for a free consultation.

"I spent thirty-four years learning that a counterfeit works because it copies the real thing exactly where you are not looking," Nadia said. "These people copied the one thing I cared about most. My grandson's illness. That is what made it impossible to see."