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JuicyFields Big Fraud OVER 7 MILLION EUROS STOLEN Now it is official. As has been widely suspected, investments in the JuicyFields "Cannabis Crowdgrowing Platform" were actually far too good to be true. In the meantime, the dream of high returns through digital "e-growing" has finally been blown off. The internationally operating impostors took French leave in mid-July, after having previously stolen more than seven million euros and thus largely emptied all accounts. Since then, private investors have no longer been able to log into their accounts and have thus lost all their capital invested in JuicyFields. A first sign that not everything was going as it is publicly presented at JuicyFields was a circular email from the support team on 12 July, in which investors were informed of a strike by the employees. About the reasons, it said: "We also had to take this decision due to ongoing disputes between the team and the management." Four days later, investors received another circular email from the former JuicyFields team that had been left out in the cold: "The support team, the marketing team and the office managers have received no instructions from the owners, no communication and no guidance. Damage was caused to part of the technical team whose accounts were in shared/remote access. How these accounts are now managed and accessed is unknown. Neither do we know who manages them. ... There are no words to describe the state of all of us who believed in the project and are now mentally and physically devastated. Without going into details, some of us have not received a pay cheque since June." The large-scale international fraud was exposed after JuicyFields repre-
sentatives drove up at this year's Spannabis in three Lamborghinis, which prompted a Spanish newspaper to investigate the matter a little more closely. What is particularly annoying is that the automatic email delivery function is still active. Therefore, the cheated investors still occasionally receive an automatically generated email worded as follows: "We are happy to inform you that your JuicyFields harvest is ready for sale to licensed medical cannabis dealers! Hooray!" However, you don't feel like shouting "Hooray!" at all when you realise this is just another reminder of your own loss. One of the presumably last circulars from JuicyFields was sent on 19 July - and this time in English and not (as always before) in German, which suggests that this email was no longer written and sent by the employees but by the criminal management or the owners themselves. Once again, they used the ill-placed hope of defrauded investors to continue deceiving them. For this purpose, various new email addresses were given, to which the defrauded small investors could air their grievances and apply for minimum compensation (one single plant per damaged person). However, the email specifies that compensation can only be claimed via: "a video message from the growers in which they tell how much money they have lost on the platform. On this video, growers shall present their ID or passport in front of the camera and also send their bank account
details by email as an attachment to the video." All we can do is advise all damaged users to refrain from doing so, as in this way (after the total loss of the invested money) the identity of the financially damaged parties can also be stolen and misused. Real identity of the people who are now behind JuicyFields is clear especially in the last paragraph of this last official circular email: " Undercover salespersons and other street vendors can email us at mafia@juicyholdings.com with suggestions on what quantities of hash or flower they can sell each month. Ultimately, it's a great thing to be part of the big Italian-RussianColombian family." So if you want to sign on with the ItalianRussian-Colombian "mafia", here is your chance. Everyone else has been cruelly fooled by JuicyFields and should not delude themselves. They will not get back even a fraction of their invested money. No doubt strange circulars will continue to go out, relying on boundless trust or perhaps blind stupidity, and announce that the "crowdgrowing platform" will be rebuilt. As if anyone would still be prepared to invest their hard-earned money there...