Now that is a bit of mess, There are tons of such scammers here in Ireland. To make it more real they all look Irish and speak english, in year 2016 my aunt was mugged for 25k under the title "Save your hard earned money", it was pension scheme where they did meet her at Ballsbridge, Dublin, ironically this place is walking distance from US embassy and they pretended to the registered with Leading Insurance regulatory of European Union. My aunt who is accountant herself (financial controller) got scammed into this, must say scammer are very good at pretending and impersonation. These days people loos more money in scams like this than Forex and Stocks. We tracked down the scammers, they were from neighbouring country Poland and Romania, but our fcukedup Irish judiciary system gave them protection and the case is still on. Probably my aunt Aoife (name changed) lost more money hiring the lawyer, wow. Thank you Irish Justice System. It's time to get out of this country now.