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"

met a girl (Sophia ) on tinder from Singapore, kind of a love interest at first , but it seemed we both really connected on our devotion to work and focus . determination and goals. a business relationship, and exhanges experi and knowledge from our own careers..we mostly messaged but she did video chat me too. Lives In the same state as I do but she is overseas for work regularly. she explained market trading,techniques, and explained that with the more cash that was deposited , into my wallet, I’d receive special privileges of safer trading scalping strategies, and cash bonuses. so as my account was growing from successful trades, and also deposited more cash from wire transfers , cash app, from bitcoin.com app, exhanged bitcoin, ect, all to what I thought was my main wallet on the trust app, but the wallet that I was instructed to deposited the cash / bitcoin to , ( a wallet I had in the browser website coinmarketbase.online, which I had created an account and wallet with driver license, vefification , and in return I was supplied with a wallet address, and That deposit address is the scammers address.. first $3000 (withdrew 100$ to show that I could withdrawl) then becoming a vip status with a total deposit of 60,000 I woild receive bonus off 5000$ usd. 100,000 -8000 bonus, ect..invested over 100,000 + to continue to grow ranks of vip status on a trading platform that is current and real time legit for bitcoin market trades and scalping .. then when I went to withdrawl I had to pay a 50,000+ tax payment.. so after paying almost the entire amount , I thought to check the terms of service because this payment, was never disclosed , anywhere from what I could recall, and had to be paid upfront, a percentage for handling, one for processing , and the rest of that tax payment or settlement was for net income tax. when I looked up income tax laws and crypto, none of any other exchange platform made you pay any tax up front and from an external source and externa funds. only the one I was using . had put every last penny I had into trying to pay the tax, asked her for help because she told me that if I couldn’t fund it, she would help with the tax payment , she even paid almost 5000$ toward it . But being just shy of the full amount, I still cannot withdraw any funds . i tried to cancel the with drawl. They Say there is a cancel fee that must also be prepaid of 1000$. I did not have the funds to cover the costs of the fees and taxes they requested, i had deposited 100000, $ paid almost 38000 in the taxes and fees , Sofia offered to help and paid 4900, and that left 8800$ left that I am unable to come up withand with the successful trades, had a total of 291624 … approximately $334000 (with the taxes that were sent in from external wallets )

A friend of mine told me about a new crypto wallethen I should Try it out but it had steaking spot trading and all that stuff So I went out of the website created an account and tried it out And then 1 day I tried to withdraw all my funds from it And it told me that I had to deposit 0.004 Bitcoin into my account for verification for money laundry or something So I jumped on the customer support chat and ask them exactly what that was about and how it works The customer support chant said that I needed to deposit that much that it said or more to be verified and then directly after that it will allow me to withdraw any and all of my funds freely so like a dumby I deposited 0.00675 bitcoin which was like $658.49 or something like that which really sucks bc I don't have alot of money to start with

This person has a Discord username hidden in their profile called "Daniewest14#9506". They got me to sign up for a "Copy Trade" service through www.BettermentsTrade.com where a professional trader will trade their account and mimic those trades in your account. Believing this to be a legit site with a legit owner, I proceeded with transferring money from my Bank Account to my crypto exchange and converted the initial deposit amount of thousands of dollars into USD Tether and sent that amount to this external Wallet Address 0xdd1Ee8DaEe3e5161d66B9A5F6F566E80564bB3b7 on to fund the account initially. I purchased the service within their site after signing up with Betterments and the account started "trading" for about a week. I then, at the direction of the impersonator, purchased an additional service in the site using existing funds in the account. I was then told that in order to proceed I needed to deposit an additional amount for a total of over $8,000 sent using USD Tether to the same wallet address as above and did so on to meet a minimum capital requirement in the trading account. After the trading service ended in the account I requested to withdraw profits from trading via Ethereum to my Ethereum wallet address in Coinbase. They said the withdrawal was in pending status until I deposited a commission fee of around $15,000+ USD. I did not send them any additional funds because I told them I wanted to speak with them on the phone. They refused to call me and would make excuses as to why they couldn't call me. At this point nothing was adding up and the person I was communicating with on the site was not making sense. I started to investigate further and confirmed I had been speaking with an impersonator. I spoke with the true owner of the business I thought I was dealing with initially over the phone and he confirmed this person was impersonating him.

I want to share my story of how I got caught in a “pig butchering” scheme and lost over $400, 000 in cryptocurrency. On June 8th, 2023 I got a text from a person that introduced herself as Diana (812)416-8465. She told me her name is Diana He Na. Sadly, I never spoke with her on the phone to hear her voice, though I asked her once to set up a chat and it never happened. We started corresponding as “friends”. She kept telling me we will meet in LA and have dinner, that never happened. Above phone number I was told it is a work number so she asked me to move our conversation to Telegram, which I didn’t have. I told her I have WatsApp and I was given number (209)618-5917. Then she said her number was “compromised” and we used (508)618-1173 as a new number. Later, I got Telegram and subsequently, that has been the platform we communicated with including now at (209)618-5917. While talking to me, she kept sending photos with her shopping, expensive purses, she informed me at some point that she has a house in Beverly Hills. Later, she showed me that she has an investment account and a screen shot showed a $ 2 million dollar. She slowly started introducing investment and she almost started pressuring me. I fell for it and initially I only sent $1,000 with her guidance. She guided me step how to transfer the money. She guided me to set up a Kraken account, a MetaMask account and an account with Jubi and sent me a link: https://www.jbtop-ex.com. I set up all the accounts with her guidance, thinking it is me opening the account and I have all control. She sent me a copy of her account and explained to me how it worked step by step. I would take a screen shot on my phone and she would place a marker to show me what to press and what to do next. I started with $1000. Next I sent $98,600. Then, I told her I don’t have any more money and she sent me info online where I can get a loan. I took 2 loans totaling $100,000. Next I sent a few more deposits to the same address: On 12/8/2023 I transferred $84,000 On 12/19/2023, I transferred $50,000 . This is where I told her I cannot get any more money. Then she “helped me make more money, on the node trading and on 1/10/2024, she advised me to withdraw all my money. When I requested withdrawal, I was asked to pay $96,000 in taxes and additional $120,000 in fees. After this was submitted, I was supposed to receive my money, then I was told that my account does not have good credit and I need to pay $30, 000 to restore my credit.I must mention that this person Diana, helped me with lending me $22,000 and send it for me. And the second time she tried to help with $19,600 allegedly this was fraudulent money and this is why I need to pay the additional $30,000 to restore my credit. This is when I realized I will never see my money and I am expected to send this by the end of this month. Lots of pressure techniques.

I was contacted through msg on tik tok after liking a few of the real crypto investors videos. After talking the scammer offered to be a mentor in investing in crypto. They directed me to a whatsapp number to communicate there. Once in there they explained that i would need to set up a trading account on a platform called pro traders market. After doing that and depositing money, they told me they would invest in crypto for me and only take a 5% commission on the profits. The account grew steadily and they kept asking to deposit more money. I did not. When i wanted to withdraw from the account i was told i needed to upgrade the account at the cost of 1k. I did this and was then instructed how to withdraw. I had to set up a metamask wallet and create a new network. The money showed in the account but just didnt look right. They then wanted me to buy Eth to be able to send the btc out to be able to cash in. I did this also, but then decided to ask alot more questions, eventually asking metamask support for assistance were they told me that the coin i had was fake and had been scammed

The scammer is Chinese. We switched from WeChat to WhatsApp. Then he asked me to invest in cryptocurrency with him.The scammer taught me to download Coinbase, wallet and OKX, as well as the platform APUEX for me to invest in. The website address is http://www.Gnxce.com.The scammer taught me to buy USDT from Coinbase and OKX, transfer it to my wallet, recharge it to APUEX, and then trade cryptocurrencies on APUEX.I made some money on APUEX. I withdrew 1,000 coins without any problems for the first time. But when I withdrew the coins for the second time, the withdrawal failed.The customer service told me that if the profit exceeded 100,000 US dollars, I had to pay 30% tax, which was more than 30,000 US dollars. I did it, but the withdrawal still failed.The customer service told me that I needed to pay an 8% deposit before I could withdraw the money. I realized that this was a scam.

I am the victim of online fraud by a very elaborate ring of scammers offering remote work for two legitimate companies in the United States. The companies are Resy which is owned by American Express with headquarters in New York and the second is Hawksearch whose headquarters are in Rosemont, IL. The first contact I had about these positions was by text messages with individuals who “worked” as a recruiter! One of which I did speak with who told me they got my name from friends who spoke highly of me and knew me from my work of over 20+ years as a General Sales Manager and Digital sales manager for a large media company! After receiving a brief description of the job they asked if I was interested to which I replied yes and told I would be contacted via what’s app. I started with Hawksearch first. Both “jobs” were very similar working as a data optimizer! The jobs were done on work platforms with 2 sets of tasks to be completed each day. I was familiar with data optimization bc it was a service we offered on a much smaller scale to businesses that advertised with us! The optimization increases products or in the case of Resy restaurants - usually very upscale. To avoid these ratings increases appearing as AI these platforms use crypt currency deposits for each set of work. The job description stated that commissions were earned on each product distributed randomly on the platform. Each set of task could include a lucky order or triple task which paid 3 times the commission! If you got one of these orders it would throw your account negative and in order to complete the task you had to deposit money to reset your task so you could finish and withdraw the crypto purchases back to your MetaMask wallet. It all worked until this past Thursday and Friday! They had an anniversary event which paid a huge commission and I hit several lucky orders so I bought crypto to complete the work but it took a while to make these purchases and that is when all hell broke out and I kept getting reasons after reasons why they needed more money to withdraw my money. I got the money and was told I didn’t follow instructions and when i confronted “customer service” and my “ trainer” that I could not get more money I was told some crazy lie that I would need to deposit over $17,000 (screenshot and end to end telegram correspondence included) to get my money back. The whole tone of my communication with these people changed and it became very threatening, and harassing. My husband and I want to pursue legal action to have a chance at recovery if our money! We have 2 kids in college and we want to pursue every effort to recover but despite all my efforts to get help I can’t find anyone to help. Metamask support suggest I reach out to you for help!

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I got an email from the shut down exchange Bittrex, It was saying that there are still funds in my account. I didn't even click the link that the text message had, I went straight to bittrex myself and logged in, it connected my wallet and as soon as i know it, all of my uniswap is gone. I didnt click sign on anything. metamask usually prompts me to sign or click anything. Nothing this time. The website kept refreshing and i didnt get a moment to even push reject or anything.

I met this guy named AJ (35, Male) on Tinder and we chatted for a few days, he suggested teaching me how to use crypto after a few days of talking, he made me create an OKX account and wallet and made me deposit 30 dollars at first, he then made me withdraw it to this site https://hottoken.vip/ the 30 USDT, then I gained a profit of 9 dollars from it. After experiencing a “good profit” he then suggested I deposit 1,000 dollars on my OKX account and then withdraw it again to the website/platform, he made me do a trade of 200 USDT, then 1000 USDT, then 1000 USDT again, which all made a profit of 20, 200, and 200, in respective order, that my total amount is 1449, then he suggested me to make a larger trade which I did 1400. Still, then I lost that amount and I have left 49. Since I was so nervous and shaking that I might not get it back, I quickly deposited any amount I had in my savings in the OKX wallet and then withdrew them to the platform right away, which was around 400 USDT only, but he kept insisting to me that I should trade 5000 USDT instead to gain back all those money I lost, but I don’t have that amount at all, this is all I have left. I got super suspicious already so I tried to withdraw the remaining amount I put into the platform, but they kept rejecting it, so I lost around 1450 USD from this scam.