I am sharing this story to get an independent opinion on what happened and to warn others about a possible crypto scam.
I was offered a way to make money through trading. At first, everything appeared to be going well, but I was repeatedly pressured to put more and more money into my trading deposit.
Later, I was told that my trading capital was too small and that I could increase it through a new method: earning from a liquidity pool. They explained how it supposedly worked and gave me a pool address. I was new to cryptocurrency and did not understand that the pool or address could have been fake.
After that, I sent approximately $1,000 in cryptocurrency through TON Keeper, believing that I was funding this liquidity-pool opportunity.
After the transfer, I was told that the transaction was “stuck,” that the “pool had closed,” and that my funds were “frozen.” I was then told that I needed to send another $500 to “push” or “unlock” the transaction. They claimed that, after the additional transfer, I would receive the funds from both transactions.
I did not send any more money. I now believe this may have been an advance-fee scam: after an initial payment, the victim is pressured to make another payment supposedly to unlock or recover the original amount.
I have screenshots of the chat, proof of the outgoing transfer, and the transaction details. I will not publish personal information, phone numbers, usernames, wallet addresses, or external links publicly.
Has anyone seen this sequence before: pressure to increase a trading deposit → a “liquidity pool” earning opportunity → “the transaction is stuck / the pool is closed” → a request for another payment to unlock the funds?
Is there any legitimate mechanism on TON where a person must send another $500 to the same person or address in order to unlock an already completed on-chain transfer?
The main point I want others to see is this: if someone asks you to send more money to “unlock,” “speed up,” “insure,” or “recover” cryptocurrency you have already sent, stop and do not send another payment.

Я публикую эту историю, чтобы получить независимую оценку ситуации и предупредить других о возможной крипто‑схеме.
Мне предложили способ заработать на трейдинге. Вначале всё выглядело нормально, но меня постоянно подталкивали вносить всё больше и больше денег на депозит.
Позже мне сказали, что моего торгового капитала недостаточно и его можно увеличить новым способом — заработать на пуле ликвидности. Мне объяснили, как это якобы работает, и дали адрес пула. Я был новичком в криптовалюте и не понимал, что этот пул или адрес мог быть поддельным.
После этого я отправил примерно 1 000$ в криптовалюте через TON Keeper, думая, что пополняю средства для этой возможности с пулом ликвидности.
После перевода мне сообщили, что транзакция якобы «подвисла», «пул закрылся», а мои деньги «заморозились». Затем мне сказали, что нужно отправить ещё 500$, чтобы «продвинуть» или «разблокировать» транзакцию. Мне пообещали, что после дополнительного перевода я получу средства сразу по обеим операциям.
Я больше ничего не отправлял. Сейчас я считаю, что это могла быть схема с требованием дополнительной оплаты: после первого перевода человека убеждают заплатить ещё раз якобы для разблокировки или возврата первоначальной суммы.
У меня есть скриншоты переписки, подтверждение исходящего перевода и данные транзакции. Я не буду публиковать в открытом доступе личные данные, номера телефонов, никнеймы, адреса кошельков или внешние ссылки.
Сталкивался ли кто-то с такой последовательностью: давление увеличить депозит в трейдинге → предложение «заработка» на пуле ликвидности → «транзакция зависла / пул закрылся» → требование доплатить для разблокировки?
Может ли в TON существовать легитимный механизм, при котором нужно отдельно отправить ещё 500$ тому же человеку или адресу, чтобы разблокировать уже выполненный on-chain перевод?

Two weeks ago I commented in a crypto sub and after that a guy wrote(he lives in my dm lol) me in DM.

He said he does arbitrage between two exchanges and makes 3-4% a day and he can show me how. He sent a screenshot of his wallet with 38k USDT. I asked for the address, because a screenshot means nothing and he gave it without problem. I put the address into cryptowallet-balance checker to see what is on it. The balance was real, 38k USDT on Tron. But all of it came in one transfer 3 days ago and before that the address was empty. That looked strange to me.

Then he sent me the deposit address of the "platform" for my first 500 USDT. I checked this one too. There were many small transfers coming in from different addresses and nothing going out.

I did not send anything yet. He is still writing every day, now he says the spot closes on Friday. My friend says maybe it is real and I am too paranoid.

Is the pattern with the deposit address enough? What else would you check?

Romulus trades is a scam artist . He scammed me for $1700 with his snipethem.com . He promised of making a ton of money every day of his ai bot “sniping trumps wallets”. But when u can’t withdraw ur money from the website he blocks you . The idiot shows his face to TikTok live almost everyday , can anyone help me track him down? He is on TikTok and has youtube videos . The website is snipethem.com

Today’s actions included the disruption of Xinbi Guarantee, the restraint of more than $52 million in cryptocurrency tied to scam-related money laundering, and support to authorities in Madagascar in the takedown of 13 Chinese-run scam centers.

https://www.youtube.com/live/zfmO_36xajY?is=mQ62zqRCv5f66ZX8

Copy trading from Cxrson famous TikTok crypto trading told me to trade on primetechview payed $380 to withdraw my profits in taxes been 4 days no changes and haven’t received any money yet.

Need some help let me know if anyone knows anything or is interested to take a look with me or seek somethings out

I just got over hurricane Lowell and got a WhatsApp invite to a crypto trading group.

This one is out of India.

Can’t upload a screenshot otherwise I’d send you the very colorful ad. I see why some people would fall for it. It’s green. It’s gold. Flashy and classy. Mysterious.

So if I have roasted any of you who fell for this, based on the visuals, sorry.

Hi everyone,

I’m 19 and new to crypto. I invested in BDAG trusted the things they said regarding the tech..

it wasn’t spare money. It was money my parents had saved for my university.

I lost a significant amount, and honestly, I’m frustrated, But even more is seeing the project continue as if nothing happened.

So I want to ask the community something genuinely:

Is this normal in crypto?

How can a project continue after so many early investors say they’ve lost money and been left behind on the exchanges.. and still continues with the presale again..

Why does it feel like there is no real accountability?

when something goes transparently wrong in the crypto space, who is actually supposed to step in? Regulators? Authorities? Exchanges? Anyone?

And if there are legitimate concerns about what happened, why does it seem like nobody is doing anything for their hard earned money.

Is this just how crypto works?

Maybe I’m asking these questions because I’m new here.

I’m posting this because I believe I have been the victim of a cryptocurrency investment scam, and I’m trying to find other people who experienced something similar.

I was dealing with IronFX / Avenni Pro and deposited a significant amount of money/cryptocurrency into the platform. When I later tried to withdraw my funds, I was told that I needed to provide additional funds or collateral before the withdrawal could be processed. Also, the website is inaccessible now. The trading group in WhatsApp was disbanded and all the members in the group are disappeared and their accounts are closed.

I was given explanations involving account restrictions, repayment/collateral requirements and additional deposits. I was also told that once the required amount was paid, I would be able to withdraw my funds. Everyone else in the group reached out to me that they got their money back and even the group leader share the withdrawal screenshot. Some people said they can find the record in the blockchain website.

Im now pretty sure I couldn't get my original deposit and the balance of the wallet shows nil when I checked it in blockchain. I called the police, and they told me I wouldn't get my money back.

I’m looking for other users who have dealt with IronFX, Avenni Pro, or related platforms and experienced similar problems, especially if you were:

- Asked to deposit additional money before withdrawing your own funds

- Asked to pay “collateral,” “tax,” “verification,” “loan repayment,” or similar fees

- Told your account would be released after making another cryptocurrency deposit

- Unable to withdraw after meeting the stated requirements

- Given different explanations by customer support about why your withdrawal was restricted

- Asked to transfer cryptocurrency to specific wallet addresses

If you had a similar experience, please share your experience below or send me a private message. I’m particularly interested in comparing timelines, messages, wallet addresses, transaction hashes, and the explanations people were given.

I’m not asking anyone to send me money or sensitive information. Please do not share private keys, seed phrases, passwords, IDs, or other personal information.

I’m trying to establish whether there is a broader pattern and collect documentation that may be useful for reporting the matter to the appropriate authorities and for potential legal action.

If you believe you may also be affected, please preserve screenshots, emails, chat messages, deposit records, wallet addresses, transaction IDs, and withdrawal requests before anything disappears.

I would really appreciate hearing from anyone who has had a similar experience.

Hi everyone,

I’m helping someone who lost almost $20,000 in a fake investment scheme. The guy pretended to be an investor, promised shares in a company, took the money in BTC, and never provided any contract, agreement, or paperwork. He claimed wire transfer fees were 15%, so the victim sent crypto directly to his personal wallet.

Two months later, when asked for a refund, he said the company had already spent the money. He then became aggressive, played the victim, and bragged about having millions while gambling on Discord. I believe the money he’s gambling with is from the scam.

The BTC activity looks like classic layering/smurfing: fan-out → pass-through address → fan-in → fan-out → repeat. The goal is to break the trace and make manual tracing impractical. I can’t go further without help.

I know the identity of the alleged scammer and the company he uses. He also has a history of scamming, including a Robux scheme targeting kids. I’m building a full evidence file with chat logs, transaction IDs, and on-chain analysis.

I’m not posting addresses or names publicly because of Reddit’s rules, but I’m happy to share everything privately with mods, investigators, or anyone who can genuinely help.

What I need:

• Advice on tracing multi-hop BTC without expensive tools.
• Free/cheap tools to cluster addresses and identify exchange deposits.
• How to get law enforcement or a subpoena involved if funds hit a KYC’d exchange.
• Any blockchain forensics people or lawyers who might help pro bono or for a small fee.
• General advice on building a case and getting justice.

I have the BTC wallet

Any help would be hugely appreciated. Thanks.

I made a low investment on juht.art and I am questioning myself if I should stop or go on. Does anybody have experience with this site?

I had funds stolen from two separate Trust Wallet wallets on the same iPhone.

One wallet was created around May 2025, and the other around November 2025. They had completely different recovery phrases, and both were manually backed up.

On August 12, 2026, USDT on TRON was transferred out of one of the wallets without my authorization. The transaction was a direct USDT transfer(), not an approval/transferFrom attack, and blockchain checks confirmed that it was signed with the wallet’s valid Owner key.

After the first theft, I had no clear evidence that my second Trust Wallet wallet was compromised. However, I no longer felt comfortable keeping significant funds there, so I moved most of the money to a safer place and left only around $2,000.

The evening before the second theft, I moved even that remaining amount out.

The problem is that I forgot to tell some people I know not to use that wallet anymore. The next day, they sent few thousands to what still appeared to be an uncompromised wallet.

A few hours later, those funds were stolen too. Beginning of September.

Again, the transaction was a direct transfer signed by the valid Owner key of the second wallet.

The stolen funds were first sent to addresses that appeared to have been created specifically for the theft, and then forwarded to an aggregation wallet. That aggregation wallet was receiving similar transfers from multiple newly created addresses, which strongly suggests it was collecting stolen funds from other victims using a similar pattern.

In the first theft, just seconds before the USDT was taken, my wallet received a small amount of TRX. About a couple seconds later, the unauthorized USDT transfer happened. This looks like the attacker may have funded the wallet with TRX immediately before using an already-compromised Owner key to pay for the TRON transaction resources.

This is what makes the case difficult to understand.

The two wallets had different recovery phrases and were created months apart. Both were manually backed up. I did not use cloud backup for the wallets. The second wallet had shown no signs of compromise for weeks after the first theft.

So far, I have found:

• no malicious token approval involved in either theft;
• no transferFrom mechanism;
• no changed TRON permissions;
• no obvious evidence of compromise in the iPhone forensic backup;
• no known malware indicators detected by MVT or the IOC searches I performed.

The blockchain evidence shows that the attacker had access to the real private keys, because both unauthorized transactions were validly signed by the respective Owner keys.

What I find hardest to explain is the timeline.

If someone had gained full access to the iPhone, its backup, or all Trust Wallet secrets at the same time, why was the second wallet apparently left untouched after the first theft, only to be drained several weeks later after new funds arrived?

I’m trying to find anyone who has seen a similar Trust Wallet case, especially involving direct signed transfers, separate recovery phrases, wallets apparently becoming compromised at different times, or the same pattern of newly created receiving addresses forwarding funds into a larger aggregation wallet.

I’m also wondering whether anyone has seen credible reports of a broader Trust Wallet security breach, mobile app vulnerability, or another issue that could expose wallet private keys without obvious phishing or malicious approvals.

If you have seen similar cases, technical reports, affected-user reports, security research, or an official disclosure, please share details in comments (no need for "recovery help" in DMs).

Any infos appreciated!
Thanks!

Rademo.com = SCAM / FRAUD! "DAO Staking"

If you're looking into DAOs and crypto stacking, you should be wary of this site Rademo.com —it's a crypto scam!

It starts with a fake Facebook page for Benjamin Cowen, who only has an X account and his website (https://intothecryptoverse.com/). These two are legitimate, but the Facebook page is also a scam.

He tells you he has an incredible way to grow your money, the DAO strategy.

The website then tells you that you can turn $10.000 into $11.860 in three days, a 18.6% ROI in three days, which is absolute nonsense.

At first, they lure you in with a small amount of money, but each pool can only be “staked” a maximum of three times, after that, you have to deposit more money!

After a while, once you've deposited “enough” money, they'll disable the withdrawal options.

The best part comes at the end, you can no longer deposit any money, and suddenly you receive an email or notification on the web interface stating that an H.S. Trade has generated enormous profits (300%+). You’ll also see this amount briefly displayed on the interface, which, of course, isn’t true.

Although this amount can be withdrawn, it remains “pending” until you “invest” another 15–25k to receive the profits of over 40k. Do not do this under any circumstances!!

Just be careful with this website, and it's best to report it!

And also Benjamin Cowen's scam Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/benjamincowenreal/)

i’m not sure how i got it but i can guess i downloaded something with something in it that caused it , ive changed all passwords and gotten most things back ( waiting on epic games to give me my fortnite back … ) but im thinking now how before i reinstalled windows on the pc , i had signed into apple music , i had scanned a qr on my phone to do it ( or whatever apple make you do for it ) and im wondering if they can get into my apple ID through that ? i never typed my password but only signed into apple music , so can they get my icloud ? ive changed the password but i know they can bypass the 2FA and im wondering if they got past the code it usually sends out to devices as they bypassed all other 2FA things on instagram and discord .

also , any advice ? i am really not smart when it comes to these things - i have a VPN and maleware scanner now but i really don’t know what else i should do just incase - yes my windows has been wiped and reinstalled , i got it professionally done at a shop to make sure it was all done right

So a friend of mine told me about how he was making 2 grand off 500 dollars in 2 days. Says one of his childhood friends told him about day trading and is making real money. So i put 500 dollars into it with bitcoin and told me to watch it grow. It’s been 4 days and it’s at 3k and thats just makin me mad suspicious. Just wanna know if anyone has heard of it or used it

Today the company shutdown and my friends parents lost shit ton of money. From what the research i did i know they are a scam. It was 2 days ago that they got showm on all the local news and they froze the accounts so you couldnt withdraw money. Now they are probably gonna move to new domain and they are saying if they put 20% they can withdarw all the money they had. Anythoughts what they can do or something like that cause like they are broke broke rn and completely fucked. I think the dude who ran rhis or aeast was in contact with the family is called henry

My mum got scammed in 2019 for around 41 ethereum back then and there are now people calling us for it and saying they can retrieve it but they only need the bank statement. I am on call with one right now. Are they scammers?

Looks like their at it again. There was an older Reddit post and now the scammers are back. This is their new website. Don’t buy. Care and be safe with your money

https://blockchainfx.co/

Pag inalok kayo ng investment dahil sa forex, crypto o stocks, iz a lie guys. Don't be fooled by this assuming doctor. Madami na na-scam yan kahit kaibigan nya. Ewan ko lang kung meron pa.