The scammer messaged me on instagram and wanted to be friends. We started to talk in Jan 7th. After one month, he said he is interested starting a relationship. After that, he suggested investing on the platform for make extra earnings for our future. He was supposed to come to meet me beginning of May. End of April, I was going to withdraw money, I am not able to unless I deposit additional usdt into my account to cover tax. After I made the deposit, the guy disappeared completely.

Got tricked into using a pre-made smart contract, now the eth i used is stuck on this address: 0x1AAc1E531AbA9d804Fe3B3317579D63e11a34Eaf Pig Butcher Scam Gonna learn from it :)

I was messaged about a job and explained that we would be creating orders by completing 40 task and every once in a while the system will generate a bundle. In the first two days I got paid with only 1 bundle in which I added $300 to cover. The task was complete and I was able to withdraw over $400 and was paid lets than 30 mins both times. 3 day same thing but this time the system generated two bundles and I covered the first one which was $800 and then the second one was $3000 It was by this time I realized I had been con. But it was too late and now I don't have anything and will possibly be evicted and car repo all because I'm so stupid.

Wants me to pay out of packet for withdrawal

On 04/09/2024, The scammer approached me in a Discord group chat. We added each other as friends and started private chatting. During the next couple of weeks, the scammer introduced me to crypto investment and told me there was a huge opportunity with the upcoming Bitcoin halving event. She said we could also trade crypto options on a website called Bitstenspro (https://www.bitstenspro.com/h5/#/). Following her instructions, on 04/19/2024, I first wired $70,000 from my bank account to my newly registered account on CoinBase. I purchased the ETH coins using all of the $70,000 on CoinBase. Then I sent all the ETH coins from CoinBase to my newly registered account in Meta Mask. On 04/20/2024, I sent all the ETH coins from Meta Mask to my newly registered account on Bitstenspro. In the next couple of days, the scammer kept asking me to get more money to buy more ETH coins, which made me start to wonder something was not right. On 04/23/2024, when I tried to withdraw all the ETH coins from Bitstenspro, I realized I could not withdraw. The withdrawal request was shown as 'In Progress' for days. While waiting for it to go through, I contacted the customer support of Bitstenspro website via live chat. Their customer support made all kinds of excuses, for instance, the withdrawal request was under review, there was blockchain network congestion or they needed to verify my ID again, etc. Eventually, I was not able to withdraw my ETH coins and that was when I realized they were scammers.

On December 17, 2023, I was contacted by a woman who introduced herself as Lin Xiaole via SMS, and we exchanged WhatsApp contacts. As we shared stories about our residences, jobs, hobbies, past experiences, and romantic lives, I began to develop romantic feelings for her. Here is her profile: Nationality: China Residence: The Lion City, Singapore Position: Employee and shareholder in an IT company Duties: Server construction and management and data analysis Place of Birth: Foshan City, Guangdong Province, China Education: National University of Singapore Phone Numbers: +65 9103 7614, +65 9481 4363, +81 70-9237-4247 Lin Xiaole's company began operating a cryptocurrency trading platform after signing a contract with Crypto.com, and showed me photos of the profits earned from trades aligned with market maker orders, inviting me to join in. I asked about the risks and was told there were none and that profits were being made, so I decided to invest as well. However, I was strictly instructed by Sister Lin and Lin Xiaole not to disclose this matter to anyone else. Afterwards, I was introduced by Lin Xiaole to a cryptocurrency exchange called "CoinMf," where I transferred 0.509461ETH and 0.211843BTC and then could not withdraw them.

J'ai investi 250 euros sur Finmarkethub.co en octobre 2023, j'ai été contacté par quelqu'un qui dit s'appeler Maxime Brunet. Au bout de plusieurs mois, les 250 euros sont devenus en février 2024 52080 euros. En février, le courtier m’a demandé de les transférer de Finmarkethub sur mon compte Crypto.com dont l’adresse m’a été donné par le courtier. Mais ils ne sont jamais arrivés car quelqu'un se présentant comme un contrôleur de la Blockchain m’a demandé un virement de 31% de la somme pour les récupérer, soit 18000 euros.  J’ai refusé. En mars, le courtier m’a expliqué qu’on pouvait faire le transfert pour débloquer par morceaux en USDt. Pour le prouver, j’ai fait un envoi de 50 euros en USDt et j’ai reçu le double.  Le 18 mars, j’ai envoyé 2000 euros en USDt à l’adresse 0xe6ff6a8d699e1d189a05899f912c17a993f1b2db75a02ab8ede74dac2460aa64 le courtier me disant envoyer le complément. Pas de résultat. J’ai été appelé par « la Blockchain », c’était une manip interdite.  J’ai demandé au « courtier » une attestation professionnelle : https://brokercheck.finra.org/individual/summary/5782855 Le courtier m’a dit que la manip pouvait se faire si on investissait 9000 euros en USDt que j’ai envoyé en deux fois. : de 5266 USDt  et de 4258 USDt à cette adresse : 0xF6525Eb31E5019e1F252C0B9E208833F252A9432 Pas de résultat.  La « Blockchain » m’a dit que la transaction était dans la Blockchain et qu’elle variait en Bitcoin mais qu’elle restait indéfiniment.  J’ai reçu un document de la « Blockchain » qui demande un virement de 10000 euros pour débloquer les 68000 euros.  Transaction Details: Amount to receive: € 68,121.00 ·Liquidity amount:€ 21,117.51 ·Liquidity amount alreadyin circulation: € 10,667.59 ·Liquidity amount missing: € 10,449.92 ·Extra fees/taxes: None   Signature of CEO:  Blockchain.com, Inc. NMLS ID# 20240319|NMLS Consumer Access

I invested in cryptocurrency on this site www.btbbozotex.com first i started with a small amount 40$, after few days i added 200$, when i saw that i'm earning, i added more, i traded everyday and still, and i'm earning, i tried once to withdraw 100$ just for test to see if it will works, i did transfer it to my wallet on binance,so everything was good, then my account reached 3883$, i tried to withdraw 3800$, i received a rejection message and to contact the customer support, i tried 3000, 1500, 1000, even 100 and all was rejected, i sent an email to the customer support, he told me that i have to pay 30% tax on the amount in my account, 3883x30% = 1.167$ to be able to withdraw, i asked why they didn't inform me before, and i asked him to withdraw the (tax) from the amount i have, he said no i have to transfer them this amount, then the account will be functional for withdrawal, now i have in my account about 10.691USDT, but he told me the tax has to be paid once on 3883USDT = 1.167$ even if the amount in my account is growing.. of course i'm not gonna pay anything, i'm sure it's all scam, but is there anything to do now that the account is still working and i can trade but i can't withfraw or transfer anything 😡

I found a crypto trading group that was proving great results. Too good to be true of course. You just have to open an apexnumber account, deposit $100k, upgrade to VIP account, and earn a ton of money, and only pay 5% commission to the copy trader. In about 1 month, my account was already at $1M. Then quickly $2.25. I was ready to pull out some money for the first time! I went to do so, and they tricked me with hidden fees and a "bonus". The bonus of $250k was immediately deposited into your apexnumber account, and now it is frozen until I can pay back the $250k bonus back to apexnumber, outside of apexnumber app. (So I have to come up with $250k to pay apex, so I can have access back to my account. I cannot use any of the $2.5M in my account.) I started a 2nd account to hopefully get around this. Stupid me. Just wanted to earn a quick $250k, so I could pay that, and get access to my $2.5M sitting there. Come to find out from another member in the group, there is a 10% fee you have to pay once your account reaches $1M, to access your funds. (apex or my trader did not tell me this, just another member I connected with). So on top of the $250k bonus I need to repay, once I do that, they will require another $250k for 10% fee that they claim is for taxes? (yeah right). After a bit of research, it appears this is about the time they stop responding, and I don't expect to see my $200k back. I pulled my wallet number from blockchain.com, to find there is only $1300 in both my accounts. (not $2.5M and $100k like my apexnumber account says). Needless to say, I feel like a total idiot I fell for this. I felt like I did enough due diligence, but was blinded by all the success I was seeing from fake profiles. All the red flags are so obvious now. $200k later.

I was told to buy ETH on Newton. I then transferred 8998.87$ worth of ETH to the fraudulent platform TFISFX.com and now I can't withdraw anymore

Hi, so these scammers keep changing their domain names. You can search on Google for BTBEXCHANGE, you will find one of their current live domains. So at first, everything goes well, you are able to complete your withdrawals. Then when you invest some and make profits, they will make excuses like you need to pay 5% or 10% of your total funds, later they'll ask for some type of fee, like late fee or withholding tax fee. Thing is that they can approve or reject your withdrawal request. I have attached the number of the girl who claims to be investing in that platform, and I am very sure that she is behind all this. She will know when your account reaches certain funds, and then she will make you trust the platform and pay the fees because she claims to be your "friend"