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Katie Williams & Hannah Mackenzie Wood

Scots dad's warning after losing £100,000 of life savings to cryptocurrency scam

A Scots dad who lost '£100k' of his life savings after falling for a cryptocurrency scam has issued a warning to others.

Mick, who owns the Coffee Lodge in Hermitage of Braid, Edinburgh, shared his story with customers after realising he had been conned. He explained in the last seven years since the Lodge opened, he had been adding to a savings account for his children, Edinburgh Live reports.

Then at the beginning of this year, he decided to invest the money in cryptocurrency - but later made the horrifying realisation he'd lost 'all of his life savings'.

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