Lost my money to this fraud Bobby Lucas

I first saw Bobby G. Lucas, also known as Bobby Guy, on Facebook from his page named *Bobby Guy Trading Community.* His looks gave the impression that his operations were highly sophisticated with what appeared to be a lot of supporters; looking back though, they were probably bots. He instructed me to open an account with *tradewhitaker.com* to view his trades claiming that he only took a 15% cut of my profits.

My skepticism arose from the lack of any information available on the site, but I still carefully proceeded giving an initial deposit of $4,000 instead of the $10,000 he had suggested. Afterward, I further increased my account to $20,000 in order to be able to trade more. Bobby made two trades and I was able to realize about $4,000 in profit. Once I tried to withdraw my trading profits, keeping the $20,000 in my account, *tradewhitaker* locked me out.

They told me the reason my account was locked was because Bobby had an open trade, which they had no way of knowing or showing since the site doesn’t show pending trades. Then they said that I would need to make a *gold plan* deposit of $20,000 to have my account unlocked. If I did not comply, I would forfeit all of the $24,000 I had in the account.

At this point, they stopped responding to me and Bobby removed me from his group on Facebook.

Though he says he is located in Columbus, Ohio I don’t believe he is anywhere near the United States. I intend to report his group on Facebook and have bought the domain *bobbyglucas.com* where I will post a warning for others so they do not get scammed.

Accused Details:
Person / Business Name: BOBBY G LUCAS
Monetary Loss Amount : $20,000
Location: Columbus, OH United States