It started with a message on LinkedIn.

She said her name was Anna and that she was working on a project in Toronto for a tech company. She said she had noticed improper large-volume trading in a cryptocurrency and it was the chance of a lifetime.

An Ypsilanti man identified in court documents only as D.C. apparently believed her. He opened accounts with Coinbase and Crypto.com when she told him to and then transferred the money into what she said was an offshoot of the cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform Deribit.

It wasn’t.

When it looked like he’d lost everything, he took her advice to reinvest. When his apparently profitable account was supposedly frozen, flagged for possibly illegal transactions, he paid tens of thousands of dollars to unfreeze it like she told him she’d don

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