COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Knox County man says he invested more than $800,000 in cryptocurrency, only to find out the whole thing was a scam. He says the feds have located his money, but the funds are still frozen, and he doesn't have access to them.

“It's a mess,” Dusty Frazier said. “I don't know how to describe it other than this has been a mess.”

Frazier, who lives in Fredericktown, had a large stack of documents with him.

“I’ve kept a paper trail,” he said while sifting through the documents.

The papers serve as evidence of an ongoing investigation, but they’re also a reminder of one very bad investment.

Frazier invested a little more than $807,000 of his own money in cryptocurrency. His bank statements document multiple payments sent to someone he befriended in early 2023.

“I met an i

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