Hi, my name is Arjun. I am trying to raise funds to help my Dad and Mom save their Home, Business, pay their Employees, and fight back against the financial institutions that are denying their claims to restore their stolen funds.

My dad is the victim of scammers. They took advantage of his age and declining mental capacity to drain him of my parents’ life savings.

Allow me to explain. Dad spent decades very slowly building what became a successful independent airport limousine service with many regular private and corporate clients. He started with nothing and, despite many ups and downs, managed to create a small business that his clients love. Even with the advent of Apps like Uber, they have remained loyal to him because of the level of personal care and attention he gave them. After a lifetime of struggle to get a comfortable standard of living with at least the hope of a late retirement, the following occurred:

Unbeknownst to me and my family members, my Father began experiencing mental decline in the late Summer of 2024. He just seemed like his normal, stubborn, grumpy, independent self, though perhaps a little forgetful with hindsight. It was in early Fall when he asked me about investing in Crypto Currency as he had been told it was a great time to do so. I told him not to, as through my Podcast (my only presence on social media), I had witnessed/heard nothing but accounts of people being scammed or defrauded.

In December, he came to me and said that I should invest with his Crypto Broker. This set off an alarm in my mind because the entire point of the Blockchain, in theory, is to eliminate the middlemen of the modern financial system and allow one to one commerce/transactions/trading. So I said yes, to learn more about what he was doing, which surprised him. Yet information was not forthcoming.

In January/February/March, I kept an ear out as much as I could to hear who he was speaking to on the phone for so long, as these calls grew ever more frequent. It was always a respected Financial Institution that he conducted his business through. The same ones he always had. Occasionally, a call from a “Department of the Government”. I'm not a spy or expert, and as the caller IDs that I could glimpse looked plausible, it seemed legit in the sense that I knew he was investing in crap but doing it through his trusted institutions.

April/May, things began to unravel. Nothing major at first, I would hear of a missed payment here or there. Given my Father's temperament, I gently inquired how much he was investing in Crypto. He replied that he had only ever invested $2500 in November, and that all the calls he had received since from "the investment bank" were only soliciting more investments, which he had declined. As these incidents became more frequent, my family began to suspect he was lying to save face and trying to make up for what must have been his losses by continuing to invest through his financial institutions. This continued, and given the turbulent financial situations we had faced throughout our lives, this seemed like it could be worse than ever before. In late May, my Father's memory lapses were no longer few and far between but constant. We insisted he see his Doctor, who indicated that he has Dementia and made appointments with specialists to confirm his diagnosis.

In June, after a large build up of unpaid bills, given his memory loss and what I considered his honest denial of investing anything more than his initial $2500 in Crypto, I demanded that he allow me access to his business and personal accounts to find out what was happening. He agreed. It was then that I discovered that as early as late February, e-transfers were being made from all of his accounts directly to Crypto.com and immediately transferred to an unknown third party. On June 18th, I went to the bank with my Father and reported the fraud. I explained everything, how he had thought he was speaking to their investment arm and doing business with them. I filed a claim on his behalf. At that point, he could not remember anything not immediate. I filed a Police report. It all seemed like at least we would at least be able to salvage some of his money to pay his bills and employees. The claim was denied, though the bank assured us that all of his online privileges, including e-transfers, had been cut off. So my family rallied and put all of our available money towards paying the workers and debts at least until the end of July, when the company would get paid for services rendered to its clients. A disaster to be sure, but one we thought we could endure.

However, last week, when we had told everyone we would be able to meaningfully make payments to begin to climb out of this hole of debt, the account we had been assured was cut off from online access by the bank, which had allowed us as a family to breathe, wasn't. In a sequence of $1000 e-transfers, it was drained in two days. Drained completely. The bank took no responsibility for this and made me spend 6 hours at the branch on the phone explaining the entire sequence of events again.

We are out of options. We are financially drained.

Thus, I am forced to use the platform you have given me through my podcast Deep into History to ask you for help.

Though I have promoted many GoFundMe campaigns and donated to as many as I could afford to, I am new to asking for help. Call it misplaced cultural pride or whatever else. The fact is, everyone who knows me knows I have done everything I can to help everyone in need. Be it direct money or using my status to help their cause reach as many people as possible. So, please, I need your help desperately.

I hope to raise as much as possible, ideally $30,000 CAD. Which will be spent thusly:

Anything more will be used to address the litany of other financial issues caused by this, especially excessive credit card debt used to simply live without any money for months. Other forms of fraud that the scammers used to drain all his savings.

I will be reaching out to my friends in my industry. Asking them to promote my GoFundMe. And out of human decency, offer to go on their shows to explain how this complex modern predatory scam works because it is happening to someone you know. I want everyone to know the warning signs and what to watch for. I would do it anyway, but I truly need your help. You are my only hope, or everything my very flawed Father ever worked for is gone, and my entire family ruined in the process.

In the pics I have posted some evidence of the crime and shared as much as I can without revealing sensitive information. I would never lie, but this way you can see for yourself that what I say is true. I just need enough breathing room to take over the finances of the company and use the legal system to recover as much as I can for my parents.

As of this writing, Ddad has been scammed of an amount well into the six figures. This continues to rise as I unravel more and more of the scam, which includes access to his credit cards. All he ever worked so hard for all his life has been stolen. Coming to terms with the magnitude of this is incredibly frustrating, maddening, and painful. I have taken all conceivable steps to prevent this from ever happening again. I just need the funds to last until the end of September and I will be able to turn things around. No one should lose their life savings to people posing as legitimate financial institutions or have their claims of fraud denied because they are perceived to lack the ability to fight back. He is a good man, so I am doing all I can to save him from ruin.

Thank you so much for reading my plea for aid. If you cannot donate, please share this.

Bless you and yours,

Arjun