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- Silver Spring, MD, USA
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one of my friends who lost contact for such a long time but all of a sudden, she contacted me and talked for a while then she introduced me this investment cryptocurrencies. and she associated with the guy who has his own analyzing team for node trading to get maximum profit. He showed me how she got such a big profit for a short period time. so I was convinced into this investment. and i was told that if my capital reached at least 200k, I would get 15% for 3 mins. So I put all my saving and additionally, I got loan with very high interest rate to have capital 200k. He even offered me 75k to reach my capital 200k. Then in oct, I wanted to withdraw the cash from this investment account.

Based on his instruction, I wired money from my bank account to crypto.com first then from crypto.com to the fake trading platform at defi wallet which is associated with crypto.. This fake platform is associated with gate.com.

Then the rest, I used to wired fund to kraken with his instruction. Then moved fund from Kraken to gate.com fake trading platform.

In oct, I tried to withdraw the fund from this investment account but i was told that I had to pay $19 as security deposit or 20K for vip membership so I borrowed the loan to pay for this. Then still i was not able to withdraw . now I was told to pay 10% of profit tax. so I paid for this. however, then they told me that my account is frozen since they can not find the source of 75k which he moved fund to my account. so they need to have to investigate this and it might take 3 or more months to complete. The later on , they warned me that my account would be transferred to criminal department of police. That day, later, I was told that if I pay 6% of my total asset at investment account, I can withdraw all fund. So I realized that something is not right. I did not doubt since I downloaded defi wallet from google play so the trading plat form at defi wallet is safe. but I was wrong . I did not have debt or loan except mortgage for 2 condos , $110k. but now I lost all my saving and additionally, I have loan with verh high interest rate. so I do not know how to live. I asked Kraken to help and if possible they can reverse the fund from trading platform. but no... I do not want to wake up in the morning since I have fear and afraid to face the reality. I do not know how to live and pay for the loan. everyday, I am planning to commit suicide. No hope and I am in despair. Please help me out .I can provide more detail screenshot and info.

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- Atlanta, GA, USA
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On 30 Apr 2023 Melissa Gibson contacted me on Facebook with a business opportunity  informing me that I great opportunity to make money through investing in her Cryptocurrency business called Optimuminner

I invested $3070 with a promised return of $115,883

However upon attempting to withdraw the profits on September 12 2023 Melissa Gibson and her CEO Michelle Patterson ( tel 385 266 8115) informed me on various dates that I had to pay upfront a plethora of financial charges prior to repatriation of profits

Todate I have paid Melisa $22,693.99 and she has not yet paid the promised profit of $115,883.

Please also note that after complaining the profit was increased to $150,000 perhaps in a devious and fraudulent scheme to keep paying fictitious charges

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- Herndon, VA, USA
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Two prime individuals involved Vlad Azzam and Jett Blatter, Jett Blatter appears to own/operate Sky Box Soles LLC, a New York entity, that appears to be a front for their scam. They coerced my underage son into a cryptocurrency scam taking over $10K from his bank account. Then, they hacked into his Paypal account and removed another $5700 from it which was direct debited against my personal account. All financial entities involved have been alerted and they are investigating. These people are criminal in intent and actions and I hope you do something to help stop them. It is not difficult to find information on these perpetrators on line thought Vlad Azzam never shows his face except in one picture (his profile pic on Instagram). Certainly, I have downloaded many such pics and videos of these scammers if you need them.

Also, have my bank records which clearly references these individuals.

Related parties:

Austin Fine

Amanda Blatter

Erin (South Carolina)

I have also alerted the SEC, FBI, FTC about their doings and hope that actions will be taken to prevent these people from such fraudulent actions in the future against other innocent folks.

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- Philadelphia, PA, USA
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The scammer operates a fraudulent website: https://crossnet.space. They advertise a service for bridging crypto tokens between different blockchains. However, they simply steal the assets you transfer to them and never provide the bridging service.

I connected my wallet to the website and transferred $1844.08 worth of $RVF tokens using the BNB Smart Chain. I should have received bridged tokens on Ethereum. However, the tokens were simply stolen. By following the transactions, it appears that the tokens were sold on Pancakeswap.

Please refer to the BNB smart chain transaction with the following transaction hash: ****************************************************************** It can be viewed here: ********************************************************************************...⇄

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- Alexandria, VA, USA
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Same site design as fakey vaultmega

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- Saint Louis, MO, USA
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I bought it through Robocon - a Bitcoin company. The company is called softcoininvest.com and I paid $1,000 and it gave me $800 through them. It is on Facebook and it is a malicious site. It shows that I have $1700.00 on there. It is a scam.

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I transferred my crypto ETH from my Coinbase wallet to the scammers wallet then can never withdraw, the scammer’s website is https://gsfgg.top/

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- New York, NY, USA
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I was a victim of what I learned is pig butchering scam. Met person on LinkedIn and connection was that she had graduated from same University in Europe.

They lured me in and I, being vulnerable and naive, sent money thinking I was participating in a legitimate quantitative trading of cryptocurrency.

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- New York, NY, USA
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I saw a post on Facebook by a woman who said she worked with a trader who made her money by trading crypto. She said it was a great second income. I initially sent the ,$500 for a beginner trade and then she said fees ate it so asked for 400 more. Then there were fees then taxes on fees etc .I never saw the 12000 profit ,she said would be sent to.me when I paid all commission, fees and taxes which I did .

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- Washington, DC, USA
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A few months ago I joined this telegram group (https://t.me/Wolf_of_tradings), they send crypto trading signals,market analysis…etc, they also advertise what they call a “HIGH YIELD TRADES” system where they supposedly take people’s money and investing it through an automated system and give you back your profits in a few days.

On October 9, 2023 I contacted the group’s admin (telegram: @WolfofTradingAdmin)

They told me to fill out this form (***********************************).

Then they told me to send the amount (in my case 500 USDT) to this address: (*****************************************************************), which I did.

They told me I will get my “profits” in 11 days.

The next day they asked me to create an account on this website:(https://www.bitconault.com/) to “monitor my trades in real time”.

After 11 days I received an email from ([email protected]) stating that “my trade is closed” and that “I need to pay 15% commission of my total profit” (in my case my profits were 3500 USDT so I had to pay 525 USDT).

I contacted the admin again and told them that I will not be able to pay the commission.

They told me that I can pay 10% (i.e 350 USDT) for now and pay the rest once I receive the profits.

On October 23, 2023 I send the 350 USDT to this address: (*****************************************************************). They told me I will receive my profits in 48 hours.

A few hours before I was supposed to receive the profits they contacted me saying that it is still processing and it will be delayed.

The next day they deleted our chat from telegram (sadly before I was able to take a screenshot) and they banned me from the channel.

Based on the time they post in the channel I deduced that they are based in southeast Asia.

I'm not a U.S citizen or resident and Unfortunately I won’t be able to report this to my local law enforcement ,as this would put me In a complex legal situation that will do more harm than good.

I understand that the ScamPulse.com may not have the interest or jurisdiction to pursue this case, but I hope you could bring it to the attention of your international partners. This is my last hope to recover my funds.

Another similar channel is this one: (*******************************)

They ask you to send funds to this address:(*****************************************************************).

Also this channel too: (******************************************).

This there address: (*****************************************************************).

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- Chicago, IL, USA
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This company is scamming people out of their money by pretending to offer cryptocurrency investments

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- Springfield, MO, USA
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Yesterday I received an email from PayPal thanking me for my order for Bitcoin. The email said that $800 would be taken out of my checking account. There was a telephone number included and I called and spoke with someone named Kevin. I told him I didn't make an order. He said that there has been an attempt of almost $2,000 from account. He said that I would have to go to Walgreens or Walmart and get two separate Apple gift cards for $500. I went to Walgreens and they would only let me purchase one $5000 gift card. He told me I may need to go to CVS to get the second $500 card. The purchase wouldn't go through. He stayed on the phone with me the entire time. He had me download Any Desk. He told me to take a picture of the gift card and then they would put the $500 back into my account. When the second purchase didn't go through he said I should go to my bank and get $500 cash. I went to my bank and explained the situation and they said it was a scam. The person at Commerce bank called security. They said my bank accounts would be closed and I would get a new savings and checking account. They told me to to go to Best Buy Geek Squad to have them clear data off of my phone. Best Buy Geek Squad cleared my phone and provided me with paperwork to take back to the bank. Throughout this experience the scammer was so convincing. He had my bank account information and mailing address, although I'm not sure how he would've received this information. It never dawned on me that I was being scammed until my bank said that it was a scam.

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- Astoria, NY, USA
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Tony Robbins promoted SXL token at the Unleash Your Power Summit in 2018 in London, he promoted Richard Tann and was partnered with them (Success Resources UK Limtited) on it. He encouraged everyone to attend the Block Chain panel on the 23rd of April after his Unleash Your Power Seminar. Even after telling my husband that Tony said his KYC will likely not pass they took his $50,000, issued the tokens and then shortly after disappeared. The stopped replying to emails. Their website links have been removed and the address in London doesn’t seem to have any offices with this name.

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- Ashburn, VA, USA
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I am a victim of a crypto scam introduced by a linkedin/whatsapp user. In early February this individual/scammer invited me to connect via Linkedin. Then the scammer convinced me to move the conversations to whatsapp. The number the scammer used for whatsapp was 1-985-317-2300. The scammer then introduced me to a crypto trading platform called PBEX (https://pbexres.com/#/home and https://pbexep.com/#/home). Regrettably against my better judgement I agreed to the so-called "contract trading" on this fake platform. Over the 2-month period March-May 2023, under the scammer's "guidance" I invested hundreds of thousands worth of cryptocurrency on this fake platform (about half of which was borrowed money) and made $1,300,000 profit on paper. The platform initially allowed me to withdraw small sums of money (a few hundred to a couple of thousands), but when I tried to withdraw more money to pay off a loan I had taken to fund the trading, they demanded that I pay 20% of the total asset value for them to conduct a so-called audit before they could allow the withdrawal. Only then did I realize I was a victim of an organized financial scam.

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- Chicago, IL, USA
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I invested money and once I tried to withdraw they won’t release my money

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I am trapped on this site as well. Did you ever recover your money? I have paid 400k in fees alone

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- Carlisle, PA, USA
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I was told I could make money by putting it into bitcoin. Money was transfer by cash app. Account was made on website to see by trade balance. I was told I have to wait three days before I could pull out my money. Before I was told this. I try to pull out money already. Say person Leonardo Aubertine who made this platform. got ahold of me via Facebook and told me. He could see I was trying to pull out money and it was too soon. Then he continue to ask for more money. I ask for my money back and to be removed from website. He keep asking for money. I went to the website to contact customer service. This is the conversation I had. I wish to b removed from this site

***** ******

Support joined the chat 12:27 PM

immediately

Thanks for contacting the company admin

May i know why ?

***** ******

What is your name

I found someone better

My name is ****** ******* and I have accounts on Facebook and Instagram

***** ******

I didn't ask about your accounts?

I wish to be removed from this site

I wish for my account to be deleted right now

For some big website and for it to say you reply immediately you really dont

That will require a deposit of 50$

***** ******

okay play hard way. I screenshoted your terms. Doesn't say anything of about that.

So Now I will file report on you

It’s okay going on

***** ******

I believe you don’t know the company you’re miss with all your information has been submitted to the FBI already

12:33 PM

I’m trying to help but you seem so stubborn

***** ******

Let see who regrets this

10 minutes ago

***** ******

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- Fort Washington, MD, USA
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This site is a scam. I uploaded crypto currency for trading. I made trades and profited. Once I tried to withdraw fund. I was told I needed to upload 500 more dollars in order to withdraw funds. At that time I figured out I was scammed. When I reached out to customer support I was told “ Well I guess

You are trading for the first time these is the standard practice that help regulate and manage the system”. Nowhere on the site does it say that you have to pay a ridiculous 500 fee or anything about withdrawals.

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- Honey Brook, PA, USA
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I attempted to invest into this cryptocurrency platform although I was misled by a representative stating there is no minimum startup amount so I send a little bitcoin to fund the account. The funds were removed from my account but didn’t reflect on the investment platform.

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I received email from platform that I could qualify for a loan only to be used for trading cryptocurrency the. Was told after the loan needed to be paid that I had the return the money in US dollars not cryptocurrency

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The scammer told me that I would receive a blessing but had no intention of sending me the money. They kept asking me to pay a fee to receive it. Then once I sent the fee, they asked for more due to Bitcoin withdrawal fees and then all of a sudden they had a system update and I needed to pay an additional fee then claiming to have not received some fees via bitcoin wallet saying that I sent it to the wrong wallet

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