Is this a legitimate email or not?
My husband recently got caught up with some investment company who would only allow us to withdraw our funds through crypto.com. He received an email from this address: From: Crypto.com Onchain <[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])> stating that he had only 24 hours to pay a 17% mandatory "conversion fee" to be able to withdraw tens of thousands of OUR own dollars. That time has now expired because we were unable to send them an additional $8000. All of our capital was stuck in their own system, and 24 hours is an unreasonable amount of time to come up with that funding. He did all of this without my knowledge, and it's about to force a 25 year marriage to collapse. Any insight into this is very welcome please.
ETA: He is 71 and had a stroke last year, so he’s an easy target. The scammer won’t quit harassing him but I do call the FBI and the local police. They told us to keep the channels of communication open for now while they investigate. Everything is in lockdown now and I’ve rescinded all access to our accounts from my husband entirely. Please be kind here people. I am good with investment ls myself and have never done any cryptocurrency trading myself because I’m smart enough to know I’d be out of my depth. The scammer unfortunately recognized an easy mark in a vulnerable old man who had unfortunate access to our joint investment account. He does not have any access to the main investment accounts I hold, thank goodness, but enough damage has already been done. I’m only thankful that he finally was forced to ask me for money to “withdraw” his money in the first place, or we would have lost A LOT more than $35k, I’m sure. Now I know I can’t trust him with any financial matters whatsoever, so I’m taking this as a lesson he apparently needed to learn and just trying to prevent another stroke. Your snarky comments don’t help in any way. Thank you to those of you who have been kind and confirmed what I pretty much already knew. I started the investigation with the police/FBI on Friday, but my husband didn’t want to believe it. Your comments have finally helped confirm for him that he is, indeed, an idiot.
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Look at the email address. That is from a scam website
FullyRisenPhoenix [OP] 1 points · Mar 2026
That’s what I pointed out to my husband in all of 40 seconds when he finally shared with me what he’d done. 🤦🏻♀️
MBentleg 1 points · Mar 2026
How to do that on