User.Ironltdfx.com Scam — How I Lost and Recovered My Crypto Funds

In April I received a friend request on Facebook from someone named Melissa. At first, I did not recognize the name, but then I noticed we attended the same College and had about 15 mutual friends so I accepted the request without giving it much thought.

About an hour later, she sent me a message on Messenger saying she thinks we graduated the same year and would like to connect.

I admitted I couldn't remember her but I am always open to making friends.

We began talking quite a lot as she would always check on me to see how I was doing, it also turned out we had quite a lot in common. The conversations never felt forced, she was great at making me feel heard. When I was stressed, she was there. I started to depend on her for my daily mood boost.

One day, she sent a casual photo of her phone screen, it had a dashboard showing a profit of over $15,000. When I asked her about it she told me it’s the money she made investing in digital assets. 

She told me that she spread her savings across several different investments because she didn't want everything sitting in one place and that was the end. Some days later I saw an article of cryptocurrency investing, I took a screenshot and sent it to her asking if it was the same thing she showed me earlier she said yes.

She asked if I had ever invested in cryptocurrency before, I said no but it never hurts to try. She directed me to Crypto.com to buy some crypto 

and with her guidance purchased $2,000 in used. I then asked where she invested so she directed me to User.Ironltdfx.com.

I put in $2,000 just to see if it was really as good as she claimed. Within days, the balance had increased from $2,000 to $8,000. I believed it was a Ponzi scheme so I requested a withdrawal. All of my money arrived in my wallet, that was the easiest money I had ever made in my life. I spoke to Melissa about it and she encouraged me to invest more, saying she once made over $200,000 In a single month. 

Convinced I borrowed $30,000 from my brother and put it all in User.Ironltdfx.com not because anyone pressured me but because I saw myself making so much money that I would not need to work for the rest of the year. My account balance continued climbing significantly reaching a profit of $85,000.  

A month later, I figured I may as well pay my brother back with some interest so I decided to withdraw $35,000 from my money.

User.Ironltdfx.com customer support informed me that my account had been placed under a compliance review and I needed to pay a fee of $5,000 to have access to my money. I told them to take it from my profit but I was instructed that policy states a the fee has to be deposited before any funds could be released.

The explanation was weird so I called support, they began threatening me that failure to pay will lead to closure of my account and forfeiture of all my funds. They repeated the same policy over and over again. When I asked Melissa about it, she told me she also paid it. So I asked my brother for more money. 

He asked what I needed it for so I told him all about Melissa and User.Ironltdfx.com. He told me Melissa was a scammer and I was stupid to give away such money.  We fought.

That night he apologized and told me to come over to his place, at his place we spoke to a friend of his who was a retired police officer. He told me I had been the victim of a romance scam called ‘pig butchering’ and Melissa did not exist. So I texted her to confront her, I told her what he told me and she blocked me instantly. 

I had really been scammed, it was really painful because I borrowed the money from my brother. He told me not to fret that his friend mentioned the force had traced money stolen through cryptocurrency in the past and were willing to help me.

They told me to file a complaint to CipherTrace, a chargeback agency operated by Mastercard. I sent a complaint to them on - www.theciphertrace.com 

An investigator too reached out to me, they examined the records before arranging a conversation with me. We discussed the sequence of events together, reviewed the blockchain activity, and identified several supporting documents that could strengthen my case. I provided every documents they asked for and eventually all of my funds were recovered.

I paid my brother back immediately and sent a thank you message to his friend.