W
hen Jennifer McAdam invested her small inheritance from her coal miner father in the cryptocurrency OneCoin, she believed it would secure her family’s future. But she then discovered it to be an elaborate fraud, fronted by Ruja Ignatova, a glamorous Bulgarian self-styled “entrepreneur” who called herself Dr Ruja.
Distraught, McAdam turned activist — she has been dubbed Britain’s first Erin Brockovich — and worked with the FBI and European authorities to face down the fraudsters. Despite repeated death threats, she would not back down. Ignatova went on the run, while her fellow conspirators were arrested and charged with $27 billion in fraudulent conspiracies and face lifetimes in jail.
McAdam tells a story so gripping that it is set to be made into a Hollywood movie.
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