askoption.com; Austim Malone; Eva @ support, Austin Malone stole over $500K from me purporting that through the year, I had won a Mercedez Benz AMG S65, and qualified for the fake IPO England / City of London

Over the course of the past year beginning in June of 2016, AskOption in particular Austin Malone (Fake name I am sure), lured me in to a scam.  The scan purported to earn 5-10x what normal investments would in a shorter period by trading on their platform.  Initial cash contributions were accepted by CC, then wire transfers as the earnings balance became larger and larger. 

Funding:  June 2016 (1,000 USD/7800 EUR), August 2016 (2,000 USD/ 3000 USD), September 2016 (Wire 50,000 USD), November 2016 (Wire 33,000 USD, Wire 13,000 USD), March 2017 (Wire 98,400 USD), May 2017 (Wire 145,000 USD.  During the process the money situation was getting tight and they gave me an award of a MacBook Pro and it was delivered to my home in Germany.  All of the funding transfers were pressure driven to participate in a special offer.

In the time that I was conversing with Austin, he touted he was the VIP Broker in charge of all the other brokers and would use many buzz words related to investing and credible investors.  In March of 2017, an IPO was published on the website and by the fake brokers.  The IPO was supposed to be out in March 2017 but never happened, it was pushed to September 2017 because in their search for investors Austin Malone said that Berkshire Hathaway had expressed interest in the company IPO and didn't want to go forward until they could secure a large investor thereby increasing the value of the company.  He indicated after the last wire, that I had qualified to be moved to an investor vs. a retail trader.  With the move up to investor, there were to be many perks that would be outlined in the Terms and Conditions.  I asked for a copy of the T&C and was told I couldn't get one until I was vetted by Tony Novak.  He fiddled around with the AMG and wouldn't deliver it to my home.  It had to be presented at the photo op at the IPO.  I June 2017 I had to provide a copy of my family trust to them so the "Tax Lawyers" could disburse my earnings with the lowest tax rate.  In June there was supposed to be a Road show to Omaha, NE (B.H.) and to do the legal paperwork and NDA, Los Angeles, CA, Las Vegas NV, and New York, NY.  Travel was pushed due to the above slip to the right.    Discussed payout required by B.H. T&C that all trading accounts had to be closed and all proceeds and investments in the account would be sent to the "Trust Bank" account.  That totaled to $ 848,000 USD.  Tony Novak never contacted me to interview as an investor.

Needless to say the October timeframe came up and no airline tickets, no itinerary, not anything.  The payout never happened either.  After the Road show should have been done, I sent emails to Austin, but they bounced back and others there were no replies.  The two phone numbers we had on record, rang thru and someone answered and took a message for Austin.  I conducted research on the NASDAQ website and never found any IPO or Roadshow for any of the aliases that Ask Option (Austin Malone) used.  My next move is to go to the FBI and file grand larceny and fraud against this company and these players.