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Beware a stranger's text. It caught Volusia man in crypto scheme

At least 16 victims lost over $4 million in a romance-driven crypto scam involving a fake trading site, with federal agents seizing $4.1 million in stolen funds.

Summary by Florida Politics
A Daytona Beach Shores man was ensnared by a cryptocurrency investment scam that cost him $317,000 after he received a text from an attractive stranger asking him to let her dog out while she was out of town, according to new federal court records. The man, identified only as Victim 1 in federal court records, wrote the stranger back to say she had the wrong number, but the chatty stranger kept the conversation going. Astrid Orlov was how the st…

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Florida Politics broke the news in Florida, United States on Friday, November 28, 2025.
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