On October 4, 2023, I accepted a friendship from a person of a mutual friend on Facebook. Her name is Nattaya Sakulwattana. We chatted for several months before she introduced me to online trading. We started trading using DeFi Wallet downloaded from the Google Play upon her recommendation. At first, we started trading small amounts. As I began to trust her, she instructed me to chat with customer service at dao-sc.com/dapp to qualify me for a 2-minute trading. When I learned that a 2-minute trading was a $65,000 loan, I asked Customer Service to take the money back because I did not have $65,000 to repay. I am a retiree with limited funds. However, they refused to take it back, instead I was hit with a threat to pay the $65,000 back in 3 days or face a $500/day penalty. I pleaded with people I know to borrow money. And I paid $65,000 as requested. They cleared my account for withdrawal. I requested to make a withdrawal to pay back the people. Instead of giving me the money, I was instructed to recharge $56,000+ into the DeFi wallet to pay the IRS for taxes on the profits. I must pay in a week or face a $500/day penalty. They told me that I will be getting an email of the tax document within 30 days to print for my record at the local IRS office. To this day, I have not received the tax document sent to me yet. Again, I begged people I know to borrow their money and I paid the requested amount They unlocked my account and I again requested a withdrawal. This time I was threatened again to pay a withdrawal deposit of $36,000+ in a week or pay penalty $500/day. I borrowed more money from various sources and made the payment. Afterward, I was told I am cleared to make the withdrawal without limits. I again request for a withdrawal. They told me that they will have my money in 24 hours. After several days, I still didn’t receive any money. I reached out to customer service via live chat (this is the only way to communicate with them). I was told that the funds had been intercepted by the Federal Reserve and the $250,000 withdrawal that I had requested had been returned my fake account. They told me that I have to do a manual verification but that I had to recharge the amount of $89,000 in 1 week for the manual verification or face a penalty of $1000/day. Again, I begged people to borrow money to recharged as instructed. After the recharged I was told that my account is in the green and okay for withdrawal. At this point, I had already deposited a total of $253,000. On April 17, 2024, knowing that everything was verified and recharged. I made another attempt to withdraw. I requested $80,000 to pay for some loan. Instead of giving me the money, they told me to recharge $70,000+ to verify that it was me. I need help getting my money back. Please help me! They have my Driver’s License on file. And I paid into the account UID:490670 multiple times because they threatened me. Help, please!

scammer asking for 6% fee to be paid in bitcoin in order to send fund earned when investing

He DMed me on telegram asking a question about the pionex trading app if it was legit or and I can withdraw from it I said yes so he started talking about how he does forex trading and how he makes alot with it me being new to trading and the crypto industry I asked him wither it's easy or no he said yes and went forward explaining how he can 100x my money and told me if I want to start I told him why not show me how than he said is kinda hard to explain what about I trade tour money and told him ho much you want he said 10usdt I told him if he can do with 5 he said yes and gave me his wallet adress which was from trust wallet so I sent him the 5usdt and after he told me he didn't receive the money and ignored me for 2 days I kept texting him until he replied back saying all the money went pass gas fee which I said that was bullshit so he gave me the wallet secret phrases so I can see for my self when I entered the wallet I found the money and told him the money it there he than he said he will reinstall the app and it worked he the wallet fund has changed after that he swapped to tron so he can trade he told me to send more so he can swap I sent him 1usd in bnb so he can complete the transaction after that he sent me a screen shot saying the minimum he can trade is 10 usdt and told me to send him 8.59 usdt I think so I sent him using my pionex wallet after that he disappeared for another 2 days and he came back after I started mentioning his name in there group before i knew it was a scam group so he came back with a screen shot that had 110usd in it and told me he needed 20usd so he can transfer the money at that time u told him that I am starting to get worried and before I got the chance to ask him why he blocked me and kicked me out of the group and the group admin blocked me too and that's how I lost all of the money I had it might not sound like alot but I am in a war right now.

a trader said that he will double my money in telegram

Hello, this scammer told me to add a different network on meta mask called Guarded Ethereum. They sent two websites that looked super real explaining how to add them. Then they sent 300$ worth of it. I was then told to send this to a certain wallet (the scammers) to cashout. When I did i got an email asking for a gas fee. I paid. Then it asked for a escrow handling fee and a Blockchain Validation Exception Fee. Then other fees which they claimed were super rare but can happen. When I messaged the scammer about this they acted clueless but everything seemed so legit. So I ended up paying 800$.

I am reporting this name and address to help prevent others from being scammed. They lure people in with fake investment plans, deceiving them and taking their money. Unfortunately, I fell victim to their scheme. I joined their Telegram group, where they showcased supposed “successful” investment screenshots and payouts, which made the plan appear legitimate. Believing it was real, I decided to invest. However, after investing, I was met with nothing but lies. The handler demanded a withdrawal fee, followed by additional fees, and it became clear this was a fraudulent operation.

They call it the Digital Financial Research Institute. There is even a review on Yahoo!Finance: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/digital-finance-research-institute-charles-132000563.html and there is another page here: https://novenews.net/en/news/digital-finance-research-institute-bridging-theory-and-practice-in-finance-9866

I was contacted through text messages about a job I could do from home. Then they took all my money pressuring me to borrow more, send more or I would forfeit everything. They still haven’t given me anything back after all their false promises. I have screenshots of everything if you want it.

https://orderus.cc دي منصه المفروض انها تخص ابلكيشن تيمو وانا المفروض كان اعتقادي اني بتعامل مع تيمو ولكن المنصه دي طلبت مني ايداع بمبلغ وكل مره المفروض اني بشحن من خلال المحفظه ع عمله مشفره من ابلكيشن okx وطلب مني اعدي كل مهمه لازم احول مبلغ مالي لحد ملقيت نفسي غرقت ف مبلغ 220000 الف جنيه مصري والايميل بتاعي في 6000 دولار بلعموله انا مش عايز اي عموله انا بس محتاج فلوسي عشان فلوس شغلي وفلوس عمليه والدتي دي كانت غلطتي من الاول بس انا بجد معرفش ان ده كولو بيحصل انا معايا الايميل والباص وورد بتاع ايميلي والمنصه شغاله لحد لوقتي وفيها المبلغ وفيها رقم محفظه اي حد يساعدني استرجع اموالي انا انتبهت وادمرت نفسيا بسبب الموضوع ده ارجووو المساعده

Be careful of this guy, he called me because i wanted to do copy trade on telegram with trade wiz link to my phantom wallet, he stoled around 350 solana from  me, Jude Umeano He called me today again, say that im making profit, now my trade wiz have made a benefit the balance is now $1,058.46.. and that i need to send solana to his address to pay for the gas fee..i lost 50 sol again.. GUYS NEVER SHARE YOUR PRIVATE KEY TO ANYONE! Man this guy is a very bad person, he is doing  scam on YouTube to use trade wiz and unibot and stole from people who join his group… Jan 15, 2025, 13:56 CST this is the wallet of im, the scammer: 9Vfh2xL2jtAgf4P9S3vxgi9ChviTHyaV5vvSfTnPGdLY My address solana hacked 7WA29UoTGK1RZoqfXSZNTR7dugC7php6b2YP9bQXSwN5, 8sKdTYQPepH4ypHrvPmpVPa8p9qr2i3PxeUbfWFYk5jR and 2r26uEnsGsii84Nt6G1AbyJtrtPL6TxtVbTZuTk2g1qC That is the id of the hash transaction 2HYGrjWfSvVTnc6M9bhGs82YY8wykLNZ651qufDAqQnX 9gBs85y4hCTdtRobdyksXbxh4WDAAnsYydvikJbD8wBT HQNgJ2aZoeGRVSkoCdsy4uvt21f9nJreSFEP4cZK1ZXp HjJMEkRC5g1THtyj5772W8bG7apUYMKff8GurFnM5FKv 9dhvAMFJzxLNGcqfQcggjeURLJz1FLDuLfC4uqvwLH4R E3a2XR8ihhsVZJ2n2aPbrBWqJk19LSP2NeqAcXieBGs1 Mig Jan 15, 2025, 13:53 CST Yes, I just want to know if it's possible to freeze its solana wallet and if it's possible to be refunded a small amount back? Saul (Phantom - Customer Happiness) Jan 15, 2025, 12:34 CST Hi there, Thank you for reaching out, and we are truly sorry to learn about this. We want to ensure that we are understanding exactly what happened. Based on the information shared, it sounds like you interacted with a bad actor who claimed to be able to help you with investing. It sounds like this individual told you to send funds from your wallet, 7WA29UoTGK1RZoqfXSZNTR7dugC7php6b2YP9bQXSwN5, to their wallet, 9Vfh2xL2jtAgf4P9S3vxgi9ChviTHyaV5vvSfTnPGdLY.

Incident Summary: In October 2024, I began investing with a platform called Plus-Traders, which claimed to offer cryptocurrency investment opportunities with high returns. Over the course of October and November 2024, I invested more than $20,000 CAD into their platform, trusting their promises of profitability. They sent me a small amount of money to an Ethereum address 0x2c8a944Af89aC79C54f321fE859ff99D26Dcd1dC, stating that this was part of my returns and that I could access it. However, the address turned out to be fraudulent, and I have no way of accessing or withdrawing any funds from it. After repeated attempts to reach them, Plus-Traders has become unresponsive, and it appears the company no longer exists. To make the investment, I took out a loan, which I am now struggling to repay. This has caused significant financial stress, as I was scammed into believing this was a legitimate investment opportunity. I have not been able to recover any of my funds. Key Details: Ethereum address involved: 0x2c8a944Af89aC79C54f321fE859ff99D26Dcd1dC. Amount lost: $20,000 CAD. Date range of investment: October–November 2024.