Did my coworker get scammed?
Tldr: yes
Ill try to make if short.
Co-worker, in her late 60, approaches me to ask some questions about crypto.
She thinks she got scammed of about £250k.
She doesn’t know how.
She started in 2024, by depositing money into different exchanges, until the banks blocked her deposits. Opened other accounts, with different banks, to deposit more. Got blocked.
Then, from what i understood, english is her 2nd language, she got in touch with some people she found on facebook, to help her buy crypto for her. Got scammed for some money, then the avalanche of scammers started to come in.
She then started talking, or they got in touch with her (unclear), some law firm from Switzerland, with HQ in centre London, where a furniture store is, as per their contact page. And she got allocated a lawyer/recovery person, which sent her 28 ETH on Solona network, in base wallet. Apparently, what they could recover. Now, these 28eth are not worth £112K, the amount it shows in her wallet. Now this law firm, this recovery person, is asking for 6.4 ETH either for taxes, insurance, EU tax, all sorts of things.
I have told her to cut all communication with everyone. I told her she got scammed and to trust no one and that, unfortunately, the 28eth is not real.
I dont know how else to help her.
Any suggestions please?
Edit: “get”
Thank you all for your replies!