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Crypto Scam Reports & Reviews (11)

- Elizabethtown, KY, USA • Apr 30, 2024
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Trading crypto currencies, very high returns, will not allow to withdraw funds until tax liability is deposited.

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- Louisville, KY, USA • Feb 25, 2024
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Crypto was release online and send whitepapers on twitter to buy this new crypto but after buying now its show no coins

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- Salt Lake City, UT, USA • Feb 13, 2024
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I thought he was someone else. He claimed that he will help me with Bitcoin and teach me how to invest my money.. I thought it was legit because I was able to go to these websites. But I'm pretty sure he made up the websites to get my info and scan me out of more money!!

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- Reston, VA, USA • Feb 08, 2024
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I wanted to do cryptocurrency trading and found https://bitmart-trades.com via a Whatsapp account/group. I did some research and thought it was a legit company based out of Reno, Nevada but with a physical address in CA. I began trading and sent money via Coinbase Wallet on 2 occasions (1/11/24 and 1/25/24) for a total of $2992.27. At their request, I sent them a copy of my VA driver's license after each of the transactions. After doing more research, I found out that the website was fraudulent and other people had been victimized as well. I have concerns because they now have my personal information (address, date of birth, license number, etc)

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- Ogden, UT, USA • Feb 07, 2024
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houds.com appears to be a scam website for trading crypto currency. The URL is registered to Iceland. However, their chat support says:

"Registered office address 85 Great Portland Street, London, London, United Kingdom, W1W 7LT"

There is minimal information required for setting up an account. Also, depositing crypto currency appears to work. However, withdrawing funds seems to require depositing more funds because of various reasons. I think this is a site setup to steel crypto currency from people that think they are transferring crypto currency into their own account.

I have not deposited any funds because this site seems very much like a scam. Wanted to report this site so others might not be scammed.

More information from their chat support:

We are grateful that you chose us, your account was marked by our verification system, as required for wallet verification. To resume the withdrawal of funds, you need to confirm your wallet by making a deposit in the amount of 0.004 BTC. We apologize for any inconvenience that may arise as a result of this process. These additional steps are taken primarily to ensure the security of your account and the legality of your actions. Unfortunately, there is a high level of fraudulent activity in this industry, and such steps help our automated system to significantly reduce the level of fraud and ensure the safety of our customers. This deposit will be credited to your account and immediately available for withdrawal. This is a one-time procedure. Our system is decentralized and works automatically without our intervention. That is, in this case, we cannot manually verify your third-party wallet, it is technically impossible. No one, even from the company's employees, has any access to opening/closing access to withdrawals. The system operates on smart contracts based on high-level security protocols that exclude any, even the slightest human factor in the management of user accounts. In order for the withdrawal of funds to become available to you, you need to confirm your account by making a minimum deposit of the exact amount of 0.004 BTC from your third-party wallet. A deposit is just a regular replenishment of your account.

Another tactic used is that entering promo code "Elon-boon" gives the user's account about $9000. The incentive to get the $9000 out of the account is to verify the account by transferring BTC into the account.

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• Feb 10, 2024
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Scam

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- Amarillo, TX, USA • Dec 07, 2023
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They offer free bitcoin with a voucher and then wait for you to withdraw it to a BTC wallet or bank account. I didn't withdraw, cant delete account either. blocked the website and removed any associated info from my phone and locked all debit/credit cards and changed passwords

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- Chicago, IL, USA • Nov 16, 2023
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I INVEST $35,384.00 INTO NOVATECH FX , I WAS PROMISED A 3 PERCENT RETURN ON MY INVESTMENT EACH WEEK, I HAVE REQUESTED MY INITIAL TRADING TO BE RETURN , $ 35,384.00 PLUS THE BOUNS THAT IN DID'NT RECEIVE WHICH IS $ 4,469.00 ,OTHERS HAVE NOT BEEN PAID ALSO , MY TRADING ACCT # ****************** ASOF TODAY 5/30/2023, MY BONUS ACCT # I DID'NT WAS ALSO $ 4,469.00 ,THERE WEBSITE IS , CRYPTOLOGAN@CRYPTOLOGAN NOVATECHFX PHONE # 1 (904) 944-6682 NOVATECH IS ALSO LOCATED IN ST.VINCENT& THE GRENADINE

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- Cedar Park, TX, USA • Oct 30, 2023
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Back in July, the gentleman Bradford McDaniels friended me on Facebook. We began to talk. He claimed he is in Houston. He began to pursue me romantically. I would talk to him off and on, but nothing serious. About three weeks ago or so, he began to ask me if I had ever done bitcoin investing. I said I had not, but I was interested. He gave me the website his boss owned. And I showed some concern, but thought maybe he just had a new site. I told him I did not want to do this through him, bc it was a conflict of interest with his romantic intentions with me. So he introduced me to his boss, Tim Gutmann, online. I still said I wanted to research it some. So I pushed it off about a week. I then decided to strart with a smallish amount to to see how it would do. Along the way I would say, I live on this money, and I need access to it. He assured me I would get it. Tried to say I could unlock the funds at 50k. Well got to 50 k and he was supposedly surprised it wasn't unlocked. He then convinced me if I did 100k, he knew for sure it would unlock then. Well we were doing some of this through Crypto.com app, to an external wallet, that I did not have access to. Well Crypto.com tracked they had a limit, so I was not able to do the full 100k, in a day, as Tim had suggested, so he said, well, I am gonna help cover this and help you unlock your account, but you have to trust me. This ended up meaning an additional 4k of bitcoin on Cashapp , plus 500 to someone he told me to send to, plus 2500 on credit card in way of Apple Gift cards that he intended to buy bitcoin with. He kept saying the apple cards were invalid. I finally told him he needed to contact Apple himself to tell them, bc I do not have an active apple id. That was all on 10.25.23 and 10.26.23. The other transactions began on 10.13.23.

I have documented and saved screen shots. Tim also opened a Discover card in my name and increased a current cc limit. Plus he had my banking information as well in addition to my social security number.

I had a friend encourage me to reach out to the fbi, so I have and with FTC, Texas Attorney General, a call to Crime Victim Services for Texas Attorney General.

A Cyber Security professional friend suggested that this was and is what is called a Pig Butchering Scam

https://www.propublica.org/article/whats-a-pig-butchering-scam-heres-how-to-avoi...⇄

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- Bowling Green, KY, USA
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When u initially sign up everything seemed legit, but once you attempt to do a withdrawal the site doesnt release the funds and tells you you must insure your trades to activate the account. Eventually you are blocked from utilizung the website after too many withdrawal attempts

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Lost money in crypto scam over 10k. Tried to get funds back by hiring a freelance hacker who kept shutting down post and charging for it. No service received. In desperate need to get scammed money back as I had taken out loans.

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