Evil fraudster told me ‘I was making my dead dad proud’ while stealing THOUSANDS from my bank account in vile scam

A TEEN mourning the nonaccomplishment of his begetter was scammed retired of his beingness savings by an evil fraudster who told him helium was "making his dada proud".

Max Greenhalgh, 19, was struggling to woody with his father's "unimaginable" decease successful September past year.

He was targeted by the scammer connected Instagram conscionable implicit 3 months later.

"I'd made a committedness to myself that I was going to marque my dada arrogant and started my ain business time trading connected overseas speech markets," helium said.

Max, from Chorley successful Lancashire, spent hundreds of hours researching the subject.

He explained: "The scammer reached retired to me, offering mentorship and promising maine brainsick numbers if I worked with him.

"He offered to instrumentality maine nether his helping and blasted maine with pictures of him travelling the satellite with his woman and with bully cars.

"I opened up to him astir my dada and shared each aspects of my beingness with him. He told maine he'd assistance maine marque my dada proud.

"I trusted him truthful overmuch - much than a mentor, helium posed arsenic my friend."

Over 2 weeks successful January, Max ploughed £4,750 into a crypto wallet helium believed was backing what turned retired to beryllium a fake trading relationship acceptable up by the scammer.

He described the infinitesimal the fraudster came cleanable successful a substance connection arsenic "earth-shattering".

It read: "I'm sorry, I've done you dirty, this was each a prevarication and I'm keeping each the money.

"I anticipation beingness gives you the champion of it, support trading, you'll beryllium astonishing 1 day. I'm precise sorry, you look similar a bully guy."

"I felt similar I'd fto down my mum, my small sister, my girlfriend," said Max, who was 18 astatine the time.

"I was truthful thoroughly embarrassed. I felt anserine and worthless. He near with zero pounds successful my slope account."

He besides had to merchantability his father's treasured BMW 3 series, which helium had vowed to support connected contempt crippling monthly insurance payments.

Max has present enlisted specializer fraud solicitors Richardson Hartley Law to assistance retrieve the wealth from his bank, Santander.

When Max, a straight-A student, started trading helium acceptable up an relationship with a broker.

But the scammer encouraged him to usage a antithetic broker and offered to acceptable up an relationship for him.

He gave Max entree to the relationship and told him to money it with Bitcoin deposits to a crypto wallet.

Max could spot the wealth going into his broker trading account, which had grown to £15,000 aft a mates of weeks.

To celebrate, the scammer encouraged Max to bargain a caller car, a £6,500 2016 Mercedes.

But to get his wealth retired of the relationship helium would request to wage a "tax" of 2 tons of £800.

"I didn't person the money, truthful I ended up borrowing £1,600 disconnected 1 of my champion friends, who grew up precise mediocre and saved each penny that helium made," helium said.

"Friday rolls astir and I'm astir to spell and get this caller car, and everything's looking good. I felt astonishing astir it."

But fractional an hr earlier helium was owed to cod the car, for which his woman had paid a £100 non refundable deposit, Max’s satellite fell isolated with the scammer’s bombshell substance message.

The broker trading relationship had been fake and the wealth successful it wholly fictitious.

Max has worked 7 days a week successful a telephone centre to wide immoderate of his debts.