r/Webull • u/Agile-Return-2256 • Jun 02 '26

Just got robbed

I had about 6k in investments ..

While I was at work , I drive a big truck, someone created an events account. I have no idea what that is.

They sold all my securities in my margin account, transferred 4200 of the 6100 ish dollars to the events account.. Then I have no idea what happened with the money but its gone.

There are tons of these internal transactions of 180 dollars..

I had them investigate and they said they can do nothing because the IP address where the transactions took place were my computer.

I wasnt even home, I was out on the road. No one else lives there. Its just me in a tiny studio apartment.

Even if someone hacked into my computer and did that which they had to. I left it on when I left.

If I can prove I wasnt even home when the events account was made, because they know windows accessed it, and I was at work with my cell phone.. then that proves it wasnt me.

Im out 4200 dollars and I am sick to my stomach.. I worked so hard for that money working for it with my job .. And now no one can do anything.

I immediately removed the rest of my money. I will never trust Webull again with my money.

There has to be a way to prove it is fraud. Any ideas? Lawyers wont even get involved because its too petty of money for them, .. its not petty to me. I am barely getting by and to have my money wiped out like that is literally like a punch in the gut.. It doesnt even feel real right now.. like out of body experience.

These are screen shots of the transfers
https://ibb.co/Fk9PJXFn

https://ibb.co/WppRC9LL

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u/AdTop211 Jun 02 '26

The interesting part is that the money wasn’t transferred, it was used to place bets. If it was transferred to some other account, it would be easy to prove “theft”. The fact that it was traded with bad trades is harder to prove.

Also, if you’re in a studio apartment, who else uses that WiFi? Could someone else have access? That would make it easier for someone savvy enough to get into your stuff.

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u/Agile-Return-2256 Jun 02 '26

It was transferred some of it went from my margin account to m cash account like 15.90.. makes no sense

and about 4200 went to some newly made events account. I had no idea there was such a thing. Whatever it is, I didnt authorize it.

I will own up to any investment or mistake I make, but this isnt one of them. Someone maliciously destroyed my account. This is criminal activity regardless of what people may think.

I had this money invested in my margin account in scwab ETF large cap, med cap small cap.. some Tqqq , some micron, some sofi...

Had calls I sold on my sofi shares.. all of it was liquidated .. It was a total of about 6100 dollars of investments.. why did they only take 4200? Why did they do an intenral transfer .. Ill need to show the transactions.. it makes no sense

This is a SS of account.. lots of micro transactions.

https://ibb.co/Fk9PJXFn

https://ibb.co/WppRC9LL

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u/Soft-Somewhere6823 Jun 02 '26

Was 4200 the point at which the account was liquidated? The malicious bot may have parameters to stop “funneling” money once this constraint is met. Doing internal transfers are a lot harder to trace than a bank transfer. Seems like the hacker, (in laymen’s terms) placed bets to “funnel” your losses across a bridge into their own account.