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- Silvis, IL, USA • May 06, 2025

I was contacted via WhatsApp to invest $500 in cryptocurrency to receive a large amount of money. Instead of me ever receiving any money I was just paying more money out because every time it came to pay out I had to pay a fee here, a pay a fee and then finally I didn’t want to pay any more fees because I had spent too much money 25K and I realize that I was being scammed

- Philadelphia, PA, USA • Apr 10, 2025

Type of SCAM: Online, Offer, Investment, Facebook, Bitcoin, Credit Card

Someone used a hacked Facebook account under Savannah and posted these guessing number game and once you guess it, they then msg you about an offer which will be given based in the amount that you pick and in return you get the offer prize amount. After making the initial payment, they demand a "Payment Verification Charge" (PVC), followed by countless other fees. These fees continue piling up until it becomes clear they have no intention of honoring their promises or refunding your money. They will sent letter from the company “Paxful n Xiong, Inc” stating about the fees but even after the fees are paid, they will find ways to manipulate for you to pay more. Whenever you express doubts, they'll provide videos or screenshots to convince you that the offer is legitimate and that others have successfully received payments. They have used the following strategy to scam me

Exploitation of Emotions: asked to pay the payment/fee or delay fee or offer will end, sense of urgency, if not paid they will refund.

Building Trust: they make me feel comfortable and less likely to question their motives since the scam agent shared a lot of mutual friends and family. Didn’t know the account was fake

Playing on Hope: First I was hoping the offer is real to help with my financial relief and after many fees I was hoping for a refund, overriding rational skepticism

Sowing Confusion: make me feel confuse and when in doubt, they would find ways to dismiss my doubts and ignore the red flags, very manipulative. I was into deep and too embarrassed to share or seek advice from anyone, and was just hoping for this to end.

Tailored Manipulation: They listen carefully to my concerns, vulnerabilities, and definitely take it to their advantage. They know what to say and very manipulative as though you can’t stop and at the same time there are other victims not knowing that we are all being scammed at the same time.

Social Proof: They show fake evidence, like testimonials, videos, or screenshots, to convince that the scam has worked for others. They even went as far as providing a check to be cashed in the bank, Carpets by Mr. Jason, Inc ($4330); Sloan Consulting Inc. ($4800) – sent via facebook to be printed for cashing; Rocket Pharmaceuticals, INC ($100K) – this check was mailed but never received.

Additional Information about the fake company and employee:

Company: Paxful n Xiong, Inc.

Savannah Nguyen

**** * **** ** ****** ** ********** *****************gmail.com Phone: +1 ***** *******6

Comment: Florida driver license was provided, this license is active and stolen; Facebook account is still active, post on facebook to help other invest in Crypto, and purchased a RV to make it believable that the investment in Crypto is legit, but it is all a SCAM

Michael Paul Vue

4011 ******* ** *** **** ** ***** ** ********** ********************** *************** * ************ Shipping Company: https://rapidship.net/track-packages/

Comment: This scammer provided his/her Texas state photo ID, military veteran, Facebook account home and profile pic matched, provide work ID (Paxful) but this is fake. Confirmed with Paxful and they don’t have an employee with that name. Method of contact: Messages via phone and email.

Henry Nguyen, ********************** * ******************* ** ************ * ************ **** ******** **** **** **** ******* ** ****** *** * **** *** ******* **** *********** ******** ***** Comment: This scammer refused to provide ID, but provide his photo and method of contact was via phone and email. Called to speak over the phone one time to confirm final payment but failed to explain further.

The scammers also request confidential information, like facebook login, bank account login, etc, which was not provided and was ignored on my end. Despite numerous red flags, these warning signs are often overlooked due to anxiety and a desperate hope for a refund.

Payment was sent to multiple people whom they said worked for the company. Half of the Payment was made via cashapp (bitcoin) to different wallets, and the other half was made to PayPal to different recipients. Since the payments are authorized, the bank and creditor were unable to investigate even this was part of a Scam. A report was filed to FTC, IC3 and police but no chance of bringing the scammers to justice, sadly.

- Simla, CO, USA • Jul 01, 2024

June 30, 2024

Dear ,

I wanted to personally thank you for your interest in Crypto.com. We received your application and think you would be a great addition to our Remote Data Entry Team. We are currently expanding operations in our Work-From-Home Department and believe your desire to explore new opportunities and your eagerness to learn would equal success here with Crypto.com. We would like to officially invite you to attend a virtual orientation on July 20th.

As of April 2024, we had over 80 million customers and 4,000 employees. Your job will be to provide world-class data entry services from your home. A new laptop computer and telephone with our proprietary software pre-installed will be provided for you which you’ll use to communicate with your team members.

Crypto.com is providing a $4500 signing bonus, payable after successfully completing 30 days of employment. We currently have positions from home available for full and part-time employees. First (8am – 4pm), second (4pm – 12am) and third (12am- 8-am) shifts are available. All Remote Data Entry Representatives start at $38.78 per hour, including while in training. After successfully completing 90 days of employment, you will qualify for insurance and paid vacation.

A deposit of $131 is required for the laptop computer and telephone. This deposit is refunded to you after successfully completing 30 days of employment or if you return the items to Crypto.com. You will need our computer and telephone in your possession during Orientation.

Please go to (Click Here -> Crypto.com New Hire Form) or (https://link.cryptoemploycc.com/6-7pt1) and fill out the New Hire Form. When asked, your employee number is 571361. Fill out the form completely and provide the correct shipping address for the computer and telephone. Pay the $131 deposit. We currently accept Visa/Mastercard and PayPal as payment. The electronics are usually shipped the following business day and generally arrive within 10 days. We currently have you scheduled for a Virtual Orientation on:

Time: July 20, 2024, at 10:15 am EST

Where: https://meet.google.com/zhk-jwgw-bcy

We have (719) 310-2678 as your contact phone number. Please select your start date on the New Hire Form.

Dominica, from everyone here at Crypto.com, I want to personally welcome you to the family! Please complete the New Hire Form by July 2nd to guarantee the arrival of your computer and telephone before Orientation.

Warmest Regards

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James McElroy

Recruitment Director, Lic. # 38812F

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- Des Moines, IA, USA • May 22, 2024

I was introduced to a crypto trading site, cypte.ai. The person introduced herself and wanted to be friend. She showed me how to sign up, trade, and show me the profits. When I withdraw the money, $297,000, the transaction was freeze. I have withdrawal small amount before, $2000, without any issue or asking for the service fee. Now they want me to pay $52,122 for service fee before releasing the money and that's not even for sure. There is no information anywhere in the site about service fee and how much that is.

Bitcoin investment opportunity yielding high return on investment.

Initial amount suggested at $350.00. After 5 days the account showed a return of 14%.

Established trust by allowing a withdrawal of 20% of the initial deposit then once transaction was confirmed to be successful further requested a deposit of $3,000.00.

I attempted to make the transfer but was advised by my bank that this was a scam. After due consideration I stopped the transfer and returned the $3,000.00 to my account.

- Allen, TX, USA

I follow a natural person on TikTok. The scammer used the likeness and photos of the natural person to get me to join his investment group to learn to trade Crypto after watching a few live streams of the real person. I thought it was him, but sadly it was not. I invested $1000, and now I can't withdraw it.

- West Des Moines, IA, USA

Microwex.com "gives" .48 btc with promo code "wex". If you want to withdraw funds, you must deposit .006 btc ($265.53) to "verify" your account. Once deposited, you still cannot withdraw any funds.

- Mitchellville, IA, USA

The tactics was Bitcoin being given away , you were to go to the web site and put a given code in , the web site looks very ligit , they have my legal name and email with legal name , after I put in the code the Web site shows I have a wallet with their company and shows the value of the Bitcoin , it was exciting to see it's not every day a person is gifted $10,000 the site looking very ligit I went to the withdrawal options where it asked for my wallet or banking info but I backed out and went thru the site more I seen it said I wasn't verified yet , so then I seen the chat button and tapped it , the texter (Sam) respond. I asked what it meant having not verified by my account name it took awhile for them to respond and I was texted that to release the funds from my wallet which Peacenex holds I must send funds of $202 to lock into my wallet. I texted a bit more than said Thank You, I looked the site over more which looks very ligit then I tap the chat again telling them that I do not have $202 and to please close my account. They did not respond, I asked again for them to please close my account and no response.

There is no option for one to close their account, in the legal of the website it says you must contact them to have the site closed.

I am now getting emails after emails on same email I had given peacenex about funds I could receive the emails are not going to my spam which I thought odd.

The email below these are what I started getting with in 2 hours of asking them to close my account all are about receiving money and 2 nights ago they came minute after minute.

Peacenex not only has my email and legal name they have my phones IP information, I found that information on their website about receiving the Bitcoin, Thank Goodness I do no banking on my phone.

Email

[OneUnemployment BenefitsGuide • [email protected]]

- Ankeny, IA, USA

I deposited money onto the WINT platform - m.wintcoins.com between 8/30 and 9/25, in total $6,000.00. It seemed like a legit crypto exchange. I even tested it a few days after I deposited money by withdrawing money and that worked, so I thought it was a real one. I learned of it through an instagram ad, which hooked me up with a whatsapp group. In there, a "professor" would analyze the market and would post trade alerts, usually 1-2 per day. That part seemed all very scammy, but I couldn't figure out what the catch was, because they weren't asking for money, and the exchange seemed to work, and I could withdraw my money. So I was kind of cautious, but still proceeded. I eventually built up my account to around 10k, at which time it seemed like the whatsapp group really changed and they aggressively started pushing me to do 1 on 1 trading. I told them I just wanted to take it slow and learn, and they basically shifted to criticizing me then, and asking why I wasn't dedicated to make more money. At that point I really stopped any trading and just tried to pull my money out. That's when I ran into issues. The withdrawl wouldn't go through. I did the support link in the app and it went to their telegram. At first, they said that the account was under review and it would just take a while to approve it, but then it never went through. They eventually stopped responding. Then I contacted the "assistant" that worked with the professor and told her that my withdrawls wouldn't go through. That's when she tried to convince me that they work directly with the platform and that my account was suspicious and that I'd have to deposit 25% of my account to a special wallet, and that would immediately get transferred back to my regular account, and my withdrawal would go through. I didn't do this. I told her that this whole thing was a scam and that I wasn't going to give them any more of my money, and she really put on the pressure that this is my fault that I'm not cooperating with the platform to get my money out. At this point, the money is just sitting in the account, but can't be withdrawn and their support won't respond, and the whatsapp group assistant says that I can work through her to get it out, but I'm not going to do that, because I know for a fact that I'll lose any money I send to her.

I was contacted by @iammarian.the.crytominer on Instagram ([email protected] - 437-782-8581) regarding an investment opportunity. I was told to send monies to Shakepay which was then converted into bitcoins. I was then told to send it to a specific ewallet and to set up an account with Sammy Apex Trade.

(1) The first investment was for $2K and the profit after it was fully trade showed a return of $23K in Sammy Apex Trade.

(2) I was then told that in order to withdraw my profit of $23K, I had to upgrade to a Gold, Silver, Diamond or Ruby account which would give me up to $30K, $50K, $70K or unlimited amounts in withdrawals but it would cost me an additional $5K for the Gold account, $7K for the Silver account, $9K for the Diamond account and $13K for the Ruby account. I decided to upgrade to the Ruby account which would give me unlimited withdrawals so I sent in $13K in CDN funds.. There was no indication in Sammy Apex Trade chat correspondence to me that it was to be $13K USD, so I ended up sending $20K CDN, which was also converted into Bitcoin. I was told that once I upgraded my account, I would be able to immediately withdraw my profits by both Marian and Steve at Sammy Apex Trade.

(3) I tried to withdraw my profits, but was then told by Steve at Sammy Apex Trade that in order to unlock the funds, I had to pay an additional $10K USD to access a PIN.

(4) I then contacted the friend who referred me to Marian and asked her whether she had paid for her PIN and she said yes. I also asked her if she had to also pay a commission to Marian before she could also access her funds and she said yes (she had to pay 10% of the profits before the funds could also be released which was contrary to what I was told by Marian who said that her fees are deducted from the profits).

In short, I lost a total $22K CDN in funds. It would have cost me approx. an additional $40K CDN in order to access my profits. It is a total scam. I would not recommend this investment coach or company. They are not honest, or forthcoming regarding their fees. Every step of the way, they wanted additional funds to access my profits.

- Myrtle Beach, SC, USA

I was approached through messenger by a woman called Keiko Lee. She later asked me to download Line app. to continue chatting on this platform. She told me that she worked with an international company called E.TSYSTEMS and that her sister provided data to buy and sell crypto., She gave me the website and said that people double and triple their accounts with 3 rounds of data that her sister in NY. provided.The website is https://www.et.trading/

- Davenport, FL, USA

I have multiple pictures to add showing the amounts. The scammer pretended to be my trader I was in contact with at the time. As a result, my bank account was closed, I lost my home and my son and I have been unable to bounce back from this loss

- Arlington Heights, IL, USA

I have Deposited money in USD interest account , on October 31st to CONST LLC 903f Web iD 2941435110, Trans Id- Hetal A4BA30311C2F4B9- FROM MY CHASE BANK ACCOUNT. They did not let me withdraw i been trying to withdraw since NOV.17th

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