CRYPTOCURRENCY seems to be all the rage right now, but there can be some serious downsides to investing in digital currency.
For one young woman, it meant losing hundreds of thousands of dollars and it happened all because a Hinge match stole her investments.
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Nicole Hutchinson, a 24-year-old from Tennessee, told CBS News that she lost $390,000 of her and her father’s money after falling for an online dating scam.
Nicole had just inherited $280,000 from her mother’s death and planned on using the money to help her family start a new life in California.
But before the big move, Nicole started chatting with a man supposedly named “Hao” on Hinge.
She said she felt a strong connection with Hao after he told her he was from the same city in China from where she was adopted.
Then Hao suggested she start investing in cryptocurrency and assured her he was experienced with it.
Nicole told CBS News: “I’m like: ‘I’ve never invested in my life.’
“I don’t know anything about cryptocurrency either.
“So I was very skeptical.”
Despite her skepticism, Nicole signed up for an account on Crypto.com, a legitimate site.
After she made the account, Hao began sending her links to a cryptocurrency exchange platform that allowed her to transfer…
