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Commonwealth Bank and St George held accounts for Options Rider investor scam, FinCEN files show – ABC News
Carmelita deposited $6,000 for an online trading platform into an Australian bank account and watched it grow to nearly $100,000. Then the company’s website disappeared.
A friend recommended Carmelita Roque invest her savings in Options Rider.
Options Rider’s use of Australian banks gave the US Army officer comfort her money was safe.
“Seeing the money that I would be wiring would be going to a country like Australia, in my mind that was convincing enough that that company was legitimate,” Ms Roque said.
She deposited thousands of dollars into Options Rider’s Australian bank account and watched it grow to nearly $100,000 on its online platform.
Then the webs…
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