00:00Daniel Leynard Turiasingura borrowed and invested in cryptocurrency with high hopes.
00:06I saw myself driving, having Martians in every city of Uganda.
00:12Daniel lost over $3,500 to one coin, a fake cryptocurrency linked to Ruja Ignatova,
00:20a Bulgarian-born fugitive with German citizenship.
00:23I invested half personal savings and also had three goods to sell.
00:28So I told my dad that he could actually invest all his life savings.
00:34Ruja Ignatova is among the world's most wanted fugitives.
00:37She is accused of defrauding victims of more than $4 billion globally, including Ugandans.
00:44Police in Kampala have also placed her on their wanted list.
00:47If Ruja is being looked for by the Republic of Germany, the United States,
00:53and is on Interpol's red list, he becomes a wanted person in all cooperating countries under the Interpol framework.
01:03Across the world, millions are drawn in by promises of quick and easy returns.
01:09Many are reached through social media.
01:11Shalom lost nearly $300 to a scam called USDT Invest.
01:15They're going to let you test a little bit of the money.
01:21You understand?
01:22And then when you test, you get trapped that you want to have more because it's sweet.
01:29Today she supports Daniel in the fight against such scams, helping people around the world.
01:35There is this woman, particularly in Mexico, that was almost losing her money, her life savings, into a certain crypto
01:44scam called PlatinumCoin.
01:47So she saw me speak about it on YouTube, creating videos about it.
01:51And she was like, she reached out in my inbox.
01:54She was going to invest in $7,000.
01:58Shalom says many victims of online scams choose to remain silent.
02:02She laughed actually at me and she's like, how can you trust someone randomly you just met on the Internet
02:08with money or something like that?
02:10Police say that speaking out is a key to breaking the cycle.
02:14Bring the thing out, mention it, so that we really tackle the problem.
02:20Daniel's door to quick money closed.
02:22Now he is opening a new one, focused not on making money, but on helping others keep theirs.
02:32So, let's see.
02:32You
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