A fraudster posing as radio host and celeb monetary advisor Dave Ramsey tricked a 72-year-old girl on a set earnings into investing in a bitcoin rip-off, in accordance with an Omaha TV information report.

Ellen Graham informed WOWT-TV this week that she invested $2,000 after being fooled by a phony web site that gave the impression to be related to Ramsey, together with a video of the financial-advice character.

“It fooled me, fooled me, fooled me, fooled me,” she stated, exhibiting the faked web site on her smartphone. That web site led Graham to a text-messaging dialog with somebody who claimed to be “Dave,” who pushed her to take a position extra, telling her, “You’ve bought to have extra money,” she informed a reporter.

A pretend bitcoin pockets appeared to point out that Graham’s $2,000 funding had greater than doubled to over $5,000, however one other app confirmed her account actually contained lower than $6, the station reported.