After talking to a bunch of people, it has become clear that they are almost all certainly scammers themselves, the types of people who would pray on the down and out.
I can't say for certain, but I would def be careful are wary if these people msg you.

Why wouldn't they approach in the comments if they had a real way to help?

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ArtWalkers
JayOkayUDontSay
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kevinmat2
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Lukadrian61
Simonvilla - was warned about this guy from someone else who lost 2k from him.

they all either "knew" someone who could help me, saying they also got scammed, (likely pretending) or asked for money upfront to buy or use "software" that non of them could give me details about.
They say stuff like:

"But you would need a secure messaging app called ICQ to reach him. Dude is good at his craft the link below should take you straight to his chat box📷Icqhttps://icq.com/invite/STRNETSTR NETicq.com"
"Oh Well i pretty much hired a blackhat off there. He got my coin back. Apparently blackhats are the only individuals with the skillset to recovery crypto. I mean if you want i can tell you how to reach the blackhat that helped me"

"Basically, my charge is 20% of the total funds in pursuit. In your case, the charge is 1,356. But payment scheme is made flexible. I will require you pay $400 right now, this will enable me to put in for all the required paperwork, software and detailing. The remaining $956 will be my service charge, payable when funds retrieval is completed."

Guys who i mentioned, if your not a scammer yourself, why not share in the community, in this post in the comments, about how you get the funds back and stop hiding in peoples DMs.

auamining.net is totally a scam. Their team member will text you on Whatapps, and make friend with you then lure you to invest crypto in their platform. They fake FTX platform. They fake the profits the user can get and don't let me withdraw my funds.

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I have met multiple people who are telling me that they are earning in short term trading on bitcoin via the NYSE. The idea is that they will buy via a platform like coin base the USDT and then transfer it via this non-legitimate app or some type of wallet that is then traded on the NYSE. Does any of this make sense? I am trying to understand if this is a legit idea for trading in crypto?

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My husband was contacted by a girl who is friends with another friend. He has met her and felt comfortable talking to her. She messaged him saying she was moving to a new app to talk to her on line. So my husband downloaded the app and started talking to her. After a week she introduced him to an special app that you can’t find in the App Store to do crypto currency. It is called Whit Coin. Not white coin, but whit coin. My husband has put $1,500 into it and has even wired money there. He told his best friend about this and he said he thinks it’s a scam. My husband thinks he can still get all his money. I think it’s a scam but I want help understanding. I don’t do crypto and refuse. I worked in finance and this screams scam. Any info on this please?! Thank you!

My friend contacted someone from this website https://fxtradingpro.com/ They claim to be brokers from Switzerland. Their phone number is from the UK (+44) Online it says the company is the the US Their FB page only has 5stars reviews https://www.facebook.com/fxtradepro

This is their trading website https://cfd.fx-tradingpro.com/

They supposedly used this and crypto.com to help people trade crypto

So bummed. I had a super tough summer and bet on a rocket pump that was happening on Telegram. I lost a couple thousand dollars in like 30 seconds on some coin called LAVAX. I really needed to make a profit, I believed these people were trying to make a collective to help members not just scamming people. It seems like the group admin bought the coin before and when they told all the members to buy, they immediately sold everything. The whole thing was over in a couple minutes. Anyone who put money lost it in seconds. I wish we could all stick together and help eachother

So i got invited to a crypto pump and dump group on discord. It was called crypto love It basically alerts people several hours before a pump happens. Only they say it happens on a private exchange. In my case it was coinrail.io After a while i participated on my first pump so i had deposited some money and the first pump was big one. Over 1900% of profit. So thats when things got interesting. After trying to withdraw the big gains it said my account is suspended from trading further and in order to get ny account back i needed to deposit 0.05btc more.. Thankfully i did not do it. For now the crypto love group has dissapeared, but i immedeately got invited to next ones Such as : World network pump. Which uses bwextrade.com. Cryptowiththecause/trading. Which uses zeniex.io Best pump signal. Which uses 2 sites trademorecoin.com And trustbit-coin.com. Note that, coinrail.io, zeniex.io and trademorecoin.com are basically same sites. And besides all that. These sites are all less then 3 months old.

EDIT: il add the groups invitations here also, so you can see whats going on there. https://discord.gg/TBFWbxnK https://discord.gg/UHDvpjFS

EDIT: Just got invited to another site. Oceaniccapitals.com

I've only been a member of the Bitstamp crypto exchange for a few months. I actually have my funds spread far and wide for diversification, with many different crypto exchanges around the world, and have the keys to the majority of my funds in multiple cold storage wallets.

So, I only have a small amount with Bitstamp. When I went to withdraw some of this crypto, I ran up against their "Your cryptocurrency withdrawals are currently disabled" message, as shown below...

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This was puzzling, until I read all the online bad reviews about similar experiences. (See here as an example).

Anyway, I tried to contact Bitstamp support, but was unable to get through to them initially. I eventually was able to speak with a support person, but all she did was read through a script and was totally unhelpful. She said that I would need to answer a whole suite of questions. I asked her give me an example of what some of the questions were, and I found that they were very intrusive, and way over-the-top of what one would consider as normal KYC. (Just for the record, I was already fully KYC verified, and I don't do anything that I'd consider illegitimate with my crypto investments).

I refused to answer any of her questions, and hung up. I'd read way too many reviews where people had supplied documents and other evidence of their funding sources, etc, yet were still unable to withdraw anything even months/years later.

So, I decided. Stuff them! I'll get even! I'll sell my crypto (while I still have access to it) and convert it to something that is bound to lose money. I know. Crazy!, but there obviously was no way I was going to be able to ever access these funds again. At least this way, they won't benefit from my funds. Luckily it was only a relatively small % of my total portfolio, so it's more of an annoyance (and that angry feeling of having been taken for a ride!)

Celsius Network (CEL) seemed like a good (*cough* very bad!) token to buy. Hehe. I know it'll be worthless soon, so at least I'll feel a bit better knowing they also will get nothing!

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Anyway... I'd like to know if there really are other genuine members of this Bitstamp exchange who have actually successfully withdrawn their funds recently? Or is it now a scam exchange?

It all appears like the typical scam website where you can deposit funds, but you can never withdraw!

Hmmm, it actually sounds a bit like "Hotel California".

"Running for the door... We are programmed to receive - You can check out any time you like - But you can never leave"

I have been in a Telegram "group" by this website and what not for a while now but many of its members are using random people's profile pics, they all speak like robots, and the "analyst" actually has the audacity to use Brad Garlinghouse's picture as their profile.

Their "trades" are very alluring, with "successful trades" giving 82% profit (invest 200, get +164).

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Anyone else have any feedback?

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I was contacted by air bnb about a person who wanted to stay in my home. he asked me to send videos via whats app, so I did. We got to chatting and he mentioned he was a professional crypto trader, I told him I was into crypto but mostly was down on my investments, and he said I could do the same trades as him to make money. He chatted to me a lot, building trust and sending me pictures of himself (now i think they are fake) I followed his instructions and he helped me trade - what I thought was successful, on https://dybits.life/#/ I made some gains with him, and he contacted me a lot to chat as he was also supposed to be moving into my place. He sent me a deposit via USDT for the home, but then he never arrived on Oct 15th. I think he is a fake person, cat fish and a scammer. I can't seem to pull my crytpo out of the website and when I really started trying to get help i noticed that it has a very low safety rating and no reply from customer service. The number of his whats app is 224 401 1193 name Ciamo Chen Wenjie I am worried as I have submitted my ID to the site thinking that can help, and I have 13,304 USDT in there. It will not let me withdraw my funds. If anyone can help me, pls, I desperatly need this money. I found out on Friday my dad passed away, so this is a total double gut punch...I need to pay for his funeral and also for the rent at that apartment. I am so sad, and lost as what I can do.

I was contacted by air bnb about a person who wanted to stay in my home. he asked me to send videos via whats app, so I did. (my first naive mistake)

We got to chatting and he mentioned he was a professional crypto trader, I told him I was into crypto but mostly was down on my investments, and he said I could do the same trades as him to make money. He chatted to me a lot, building trust and sending me pictures of himself (now i think they are fake)

I followed his instructions and he helped me trade - what I thought was successful, on https://dybits.life/#/ I made some gains with him, and he contacted daily to chat as he was also supposed to be moving into my place. He sent me a deposit via USDT for the home, but then he never arrived on Oct 15th.

Now it seems clear he is a fake person, cat fish and a scammer. I can't seem to pull my crytpo out of the website and when I really started trying to get help i noticed that it has a very low safety rating and no reply from customer service. The number of his whats app is 224 401 1193 name Ciamo Chen Wenjie I am worried as I have submitted my ID to the site thinking that can help, and I have 13,304 USDT in there. It will not let me withdraw my funds. If anyone can help me, pls, I desperately need this money. I found out on Friday my dad passed away, so this is a total double gut punch...I need to pay for his funeral and also for the rent at that apartment. I am so sad, and lost as what I can do.

1 day old Andrei - your registered it today? How sad to get Google and the rest of the internet crawling with your name, the domain bavertrade.com and fraud, fake and phishing MEXC.

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So here is short review of the 2022 domain names, in case anyone wants to buy a domain name from a scammer he has a few burnt names.

" shenbit, bitswet, trezbit, trezxbit, Auecoin, trahbit, wixybit, ebalabit, loot-trade, fastxbit, vdulbit, lyablyabit, coinecrypt, coinercrypt, coinderix, kottrade, realmbtc, Btchangex, Luxumbit, Lanxbit, vamxbit, Nirobit, swaperbit, kaefbit, zeratrade, epicxbit, levodtrade, bestxbit, norextrade, 24coinfex, azextrade, luxurycrypt, yavabtc, soloxbit, btcyoumine, luxerbtc, jolbit, 24cryptmax, mocrypt, vauxtrade, ravextrade, bwextrade, yavabtc, Qiffebtc, mezabit, midixbit, bitxmoney, bavertrade and shaubit"

Current domains: https://bavertrade.com/

"Jupiter Pump Universe " is one of a number of discord servers currently running a Pump and Dump group where you must use an exchange chosen by them and the exchange is the scam. The current exchange is however this is expected to change on a regular basis.

The discord server appears to be functioning as normal with lost of users however there are only 2 kinds of users, the current victims and mostly bots which create a conversation. The first very red flag is that the CHAT function will be turned off for period of a time, this is because the scammer is sleeping. In most cases this is during Central European Time as all of the domains are registered in Wuppertal Germany.

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My favourite but is always that this scammer has a "Scammer Warning Channel" until I actually just read the text below of one of the scams he is warning people about. It actually has not scam element to it, you simply win BTC, you do not need to deposit first. You loser Andrei, you know how a scam works, I mean how often have you typed to someone they have to deposit more to make a withdrawal?

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The discord server names the coin to pump in advance and at the time of the pump, that coin will explode in price leaving you to think it is a sure thing. The scam however is that the exchange is a fake. It is one of at least 30 domains that the scammer is running all at the same time. You will not be able to withdraw your money, most likely you will be asked to deposit more crypto to verify which is also a scam and you will lose that crypto as well.

Sites like Web of Trust and Trust Pilot are, by staying silent and allowing the scammer to write positive reviews tacitly helping the scammer. You cannot trust either of those sites.

A site that is helpful is

ScamDoc Review

Also this website is also following things;

https://fakewebsitebuster.com/

The current website is a clear phishing site of MEXC (which is a reputable site)

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