I put $17,000 into my trading account for three months and requested to withdraw some of my profits. My account manager, Patrick, tried to persuade me to keep the money in the account so I could make more money, but I refused. Soon after, someone named David Goldman from the trading platform called and identified himself as my new account manager, and he began trading recklessly with high leverage, attempting to deplete my account, and that's when I realized I'd been scammed.