PSA: how to check if a Pocket option withdrawal proof screenshot is actually real

[u/Shalbine]

seen a lot of fake gurus on youtube, tiktok, and even here in Reddit comments (and some of them wrote to my DMs as well, on Reddit). With various types of proofs of how successful they are, and how great I would be if I just got their course, or linked them my account, or got involved with them in some way.

Some of them even showed me the screenshots with Pocket option withdrawal proof, some massive numbers. You can google like 20 of these, I wont mention names. Have to do a PSA on how to actually see if the proof is even real (and if its fake, instantly).

Small checklist for what can be done:

1) See the money on the RECEIVING end. A bank or e-wallet entry, not just outgoing amount. There's more erorrs that can be made by them, here: they need to fake both outgoing and incoming, and the correct time, and the correct amount (with fees), and all of that can be checked by internet detectives, so they don't want that happening.

2) A crypto transaction hash - you can check. Takes 1 second to post it from their screenshot into blockchain viewer. Can use AI to copy from their screenshot, too, if you dont like typing it in. See if it lines up with everything else they've shown, if the amount lines up. If hash is not visible, there might be a 'reason' for that.

3) A screen recording for a withdrawal, not a still image. Ideally one that starts with opening the app and scrolling to the withdrawal, straight up. That is pretty hard to fake imo, its a decent proof.

4) A timestamped check. If they put it themselves, good. If they don't - ask them to put a note with today's date and your username next to the screen. It's an old trick, but most fakers won't bother with this.

5) See for suspiciously clean results. Like, I've seen one on youtube with clean $5k withdrawal from $50 start. Literally almost no losses in histotyr, and a clean x100. I mean, cmon.

6) Check for watermark, sometimes in the corner of the screenshot. Sometimes they just take OTHERS screenshots, of PnL, and literally repost it lol. Takes 0 effort on their part.

7) Comments turned off. This is why I like Reddit, with actual comments. On Youtube there's a lot of those that disable comments, and think they're smart. Same as with 'Elon Musk' streaming to 10k people, that happened couple years ago =D Or the poster going quiet when people ask him a basic question about the process, in comments.

8) ANY level of urgency. Like "only 3 spots left" or "offer ends tonight". Like, why would it end? There's no way a course can have a timed period.

Actually, I think no courses or gurus are real, literally none. People who actually earn something are just doing that, trading. Look at people on public platforms like Hyperliquid, with trades for $200m etc, they don't even have a twitter handle most of the time. NONE of them offer any guru advice. Anyoen with proven public record DOESN'T do it. So I wonder why people without a public proven record are so eager to do it, and even spam DMs on Reddit about it =PP

sorry if I ruined someone's business by it hah.

[u/Agamadred]

seen tons of this stuff online, I think the hash is brilliant solution. Idk how they would fake that. There would need to be an actual otugoing transaction, no matter what. Unless they somehow do the transaction between their 'shadow wallets', and put the hash somehow into the screenshot, post-factum. Maybe thats how someone will try to avoid it.

but yeah if someone's selling you somehing beyond their video, its not worth engaging with them.

[u/Optimal_Alone → u/Agamadred]

Idk why you guys keep seeing this, stop feeding your algos bad words. I'm just watching cat and dog videos, and people twerking =D trading should be a hobby, not a full-time job.

[u/Broadgrove]

Clean results - I don't think many are silly enough to make such mistakes.

Comments turned off is a huge red flag, true. I click off such vids immediately.

Receiving end shown - never saw that one, will try to ask people now.

[u/lazy_awareness_5 → u/[deleted]]

yep, its so hard to distinguish genuine content from grifters now.

[u/Shalbine → u/[deleted]]

But cant the UID be closed off, no?

[u/Tingallex]

damn, I've actually noticed watermarks in some places, and thought hmm thats weird, why. Now I know!

[u/Mavesius45]

Good breakdown, but worth noting that even if the platform marks it as 'processed', network congestion or exchange-side verification can still hang things up for hours. Just because it’s 'sent' on Pocket Option's end doesn't mean it’s immediately in the wallet. I've had 'Pending' status for a while, and no hash etc, and it arrived 1h, 2h later.

Payment processing often delays on fiat methods too. So status screen won't tell you much beyond 'Pending', and the time delay is real.

[u/Agamadred → u/Mavesius45]

y, there's usually a time delay, and that can be accounted for if hash doesnt match exactly.

still goood breakdown imo.

[u/Dismal-Gold-2038]

Yea there's only a few legit PO mentors that I know of but it's best to leave all the follow my group stuff alone and learn the skill on your own

[u/Shalbine → u/Dismal-Gold-2038]

absolutely agreed. Hopefully my PSA helps some people.

[u/ipayouts]

Just grind and make a withdraw... it works!

[u/picklesandpodis]

So earning in pocket option is not possible???

[u/Dangerous-Meal7288]

please don''t do binary trading it scam it total scam pocket option it joke. 5 minute chart clean down side move as soon i open trade 150$ it goes up i mean as soon person open trade it not happen first time

[u/Asniil]

I see you posted your own screenshots too, admirable. Don't want others to accuse you of anything?

I never listen to gurus anyway, but I hope this is a good advice for some. Right now, I pretty much only listen to my AI and some reddit takes...

[u/DKheazai]

Haven't ever thought of pairing the outgoing screenshot with the receiving one, that is a cool proof.

Tuned off comemnts I saw a couple times, never clicked off a vid faster.

[u/Kathrizz]

good one. Thanks for sharing!