MANTECA – A Manteca mother reached out to CBS13 and the Call Kurtis consumer investigative team after being scammed following something that she saw on her Facebook feed about Bitcoin.
Angelina Diaz was already thinking about Bitcoin when she saw her high school friend post on Facebook about how much money she was making investing in cryptocurrency.
It made Diaz, who lives paycheck to paycheck, think that she should take advantage of this, too, surmising that this could be the next Google or Apple. After all, she had just received a $2,000 bonus at work. She was impressed by her friend’s post, who wrote, “I’m so happy and grateful. Bitcoin mining has made life so easy for me”, as she showed photos of her luxurious new home.
“I’m thinking it’s the next best thing, like everybody else,” she said. “And I’ve never have done anything like that. I’ve never really joined any next-best thing. Things I really don’t. I’m really very conservative and very reserved with investing and whatnot. And, so again, I just wanted to get a jump. This is my chance.”