NEWS UPDATE: Bitcoin Enterprise Dupe Customers In Calabar, Vanishes With Millions Of Naira

A crypto currency company popularly know as 'Bitcoin' has allegedly disappeared with millions of naira belonging to customers in Calabar

As early as 8am many customers had besieged the company's office at Bassey Duke only to discover that the company had closed shops and disappeared with their money.

Several phone calls were made by the customers but no response from the company officials that  started operations about two months ago, collecting money from customers and giving them a 30 per cent extra after seven days online trading.

As at yesterday over 1000 people who were expecting their monies got tense over the development broke into the office and carted away any items they could lay their hands on as a little compensation for their investment.

The entire premises of the company that occupied few rooms in the Bassey Duke shopping mall was taken over by frustrated customers and one of them who gave his name as Ifeanyi said, "this is things fall apart, can you imagine I put in over N2.5million and now everything is gone"

Another customer, who cried profusely, said he put in N5 million saying, “I saw people doing it and collecting the 30 per cent interest after one week that is why I also put in money. A huge part of the money I collected was even borrowed".

Some National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members also invested and one of them said she had put in N1.5 million and it was all her  money in the world.

Another youth corps member who put in N150, 000, said "that money was all the money I saved in this my service year. This is painful, I thought I could do business and help myself and my poor family"

It was gathered that thousands of people invested in this business and and another person said, "the crowd you are seeing today are just a few that have come to get their own money. They people have made millions and disappeared with our money. I don’t know why we would never learn.

"MMM and other such businesses that promises quick profit have duped us in the past, yet we keep falling for it, including me. I put in N500, 000 in this one and now see my money has gone down the drain.”
 

The situation caused an atmosphere of pandemonium and some soldiers who arrived in the afternoon fired several shots in the air to disperse the people but they kept coming.