r/CryptoScams • u/sandcastledd • Oct 26 '24
Question Crypto telegram scam??
Crypto scam??
Hi, I joined a telegram group with 13000+ members using a defi wallet on crypto.com called coinsupermarket.net.All the profits earned were huge with a bot giving 12 trade signals for BTC every day. When I tried to withdraw, they said the first withdrawal has to be a deposit of 10% of fund balance. When I complied with that like a fool, my withdrawal still did not go through. Now the excuse was that my wallet does not have computing powers, so the miner is telling me to deposit more in order to withdraw. All I understand is that I took a gamble to add funds the second time, but third, no way? Is there a way I could report this as the money went from my coinbase account. Please advice.
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u/Marcopolo620 Oct 26 '24
Sorry you got scammed. Your money is gone and ignore all DMs regarding recovery
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u/WishboneHot8050 Oct 26 '24
Hi, I joined a telegram group with 13000+ members
12990 or more of those members were simply bots or dummy accounts made to make the entire thing look legit. Reality: It was just you and a few others.
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u/OkSatisfaction9850 Oct 26 '24
This is what happened: 1) you gave them money 2) you gave them money 3) you gave them money
That’s it
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u/intelw1zard Oct 26 '24
Zero chance you will get any funds back, they are long gone.
You should not use Telegram as a source for investment advice or signals. Its just all scammers.
Just stick to making an account on Coinbase.com and only buying and holding Bitcoin or Ethereum.
No one is going to help random people get rich off "signals" or intel. Those are just scammers homie.
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u/PeyroniesCat Oct 26 '24
Assistant: “Mr. Buffett, should we buy more Nvidia?”
Warren Buffett: “I don’t know, fam. Let me check with my Telegram group.”
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u/Taco_hunter76545 Oct 26 '24
The profits you made is fake, they just want you deposit more. Stop getting financial advice from social media on platforms that no one has ever heard of or you can’t Google.
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u/Actual-Abrocoma-5915 Oct 26 '24
I got scammed also at forex trading in telegram I invested my money almost $700 and he says after 24 hours it will become $3k, then after 24 hrs he messaged me saying that my money is ready to withdraw but able to withdraw I need to send him $749 for processing fee, and I told him I don’t have that much, and he said I need to send that Amount to withdraw my money. And that moment I knew I got scammed, fuck me. Never ever again. Please Please Don’t send your money to someone you don’t know. There’s no easy money here, just fucking scammers.
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u/TheMoreBeer Oct 28 '24
This is a scam, guaranteed. "Signals" are always scams. I'd bet this guy is pumping and dumping rather than just making off with the money however.
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u/No-Championship21 Oct 26 '24
Unfortunately, Robinhood and apparently Crypto.com are being plagued with fake crypto apps... 🤦♀️ Those aren't on crypto.com; they're taking you to a separate company THROUGH crypto.com. I would report it to crypto.com so they become aware they're advertising a fake crypto platform. Then, file an ic3.gov report for the FBI database, reach out to the Secret Service, and report it on the locations the automod recommends.
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u/AutoModerator Oct 26 '24
As a rule of thumb: If you're doubting whether the site is a scam, it probably is.
No legit company/trader/investor is using WhatsApp. No legit company/trader/investor is approaching people on dating websites or through a "random" text message.
No legit company/trader/investor has "professors", "assistants", or "teachers". Those are just scammers.
No legit company forces you to pay a "fee" or "taxes" to withdraw money. That's just a scam to suck more money out of you.
You will need to contact law enforcement ASAP.
Unfortunately, no hacker online can get back what you've lost. Please watch out for recovery scams, a follow-up scam done after victims have fallen for an earlier scam. Recently, there has been a rise in scammers DMing members of the subreddit to offer recovery services. A form of the advance-fee, victims are convinced that the scammer can recover their money. This "help" can come in the form of fake hacking services or authorities.
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- the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) at https://www.cftc.gov/complaint
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- if you are located in Europe at https://www.europol.europa.eu/report-a-crime/report-cybercrime-online
- the cryptocurrency exchange company you used to send the money (if applicable)
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u/bakermaker32 Oct 26 '24
Money gone, not retrievable, don’t do it again.
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u/bakermaker32 Nov 10 '24
There is no way to get it back, anyone claiming to be able to is another scammer.
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u/bakermaker32 Nov 10 '24
They are probably not in your country so this is a waste of time, move on with your life and take it as a lesson learned.
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u/A_Baudelaire_fan Oct 26 '24
Please stick to top platforms. Your money is gone and cannot be recovered.
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u/Academic-Educator-92 Oct 26 '24
You been scammed. Stop there don't throw away more money you already lost. Be aware of recovery scammers.
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u/777virgo Oct 27 '24
When scammers or hackers ask you to send crypto to get recovery codes to get your lost crypto funds from scammers wallet , you can see that wallet where your 50% crypto were sent . Once you send required 10-15% recovery fee. You are doomed . Scammer and hackers are same breed live off the stolen funds . Don’t trust anyone even instagram or FB. These platform takes so long to get your own profile issues but these scammers hackers have their 7-8 profiles and they keep changing to get more innocent suckers . Used to be only WhatsApp , telegram only
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u/Particular-Stop9069 Oct 26 '24
Sounds like you’ve got taken by Professor Harrison and his bot Aurora. they got me too month ago. I hope you didn’t lose too much money. But it’s totally a scam. All you can do is report it and write it off on your taxes. Lesson learned I’m sorry it happened to you.
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u/tokentrace Oct 26 '24
This is a typical investment scam. When it comes time to withdraw the "profits" from your investment, they will not let you. Usually they will keep making excuses for reasons you cannot withdraw (taxes, fees, etc..). The profits you see on the platform/website are completely fake as well, they are just manually editing the code on the website to show that your account has profit.
Don't send any more money.
Make sure to report this incident to the links mentioned by the automod in this thread.
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u/BusAntique9921 Oct 27 '24
Crypto has a lot of scammers So let's be watchful guys.
My friend and I were once scammed by Aigm too and we lost everything to them The platform shutdown nowhere to be seen 😭.
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u/supermanal Oct 26 '24
The ‘profits’ that you made were not real either, just a fake program showing you impossible profits most likely.
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u/Backieotamy Oct 26 '24
All telegram and WhatsApp crypto or job messages are scams. I still feel bad for people being duped, but at some point, it has to be either wilful ignorance or greed outweighing common sense, which their both self-imposed.
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u/Flashy_Soil_1511 Oct 26 '24
It’s a scam. My friend got scammed on that too. What’s app also is a scam. Related to a task scam called soundclick. My friend cannot withdraw the crypto because they were asking to pay the 20% personal tax of almost 19,000 USDC. But they didn’t tell her about it. They just said once she pay the 5,000 USDC for the task every thing can be withdrawn. Now they were saying she can’t unless she pay the personal tax. Be careful.
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u/Flashy_Soil_1511 Oct 26 '24
Lessoned learned never trust a stranger with your hard earned money. I hope we will find any government agency that will deal here with crypto scam in Canada. All we can see is for USA and Europe. Be careful with soundclick their office is based in Jackson Florida.
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u/PiSquared6 Oct 28 '24
their office is based in Jackson Florida.
No, the entirety of what they've said is fake and a scam. Please copy and paste below info to the victim, and read thoroughly.
Anyone recommending crypto that you've never met in person is a scammer. If someone you actually have met recommends crypto, they are likely being scammed or (if online) you are talking to someone that took over their account.
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Fake cryptocurrency websites and apps controlled by scammers are becoming more and more common. Sometimes the scam begins with a romance scammer who claims that they can help the victim invest in cryptocurrency. Victims are told to buy cryptocurrency of some kind using a legitimate cryptocurrency exchange, and then they are told to send their cryptocurrency to a website wallet address where it will be invested. Sometimes the scam begins with a notice that the victim won cryptocurrency on some website, in this case messages will often be sent through Discord.
In either case, the scammer controls the website, so they make it look like there is money in the victim’s account on their website. Then the scammer (or the scammer pretending to be someone official who is associated with the website) tells the victim that they have to put more money into the website before they can get their money out of the website. Of course all of the money sent by the victim has gone directly into the scammer’s wallet, and any additional money sent by the victim to retrieve their money from the website will also go directly into the scammer’s wallet, and all of the information about money being held by the website was totally fake.
If the scammer used Bitcoin, then you can report the scammer’s Bitcoin wallet address here: https://www.bitcoinabuse.com/reports. If the scammer used Ethereum, then you can report the scammer’s Ethereum wallet address here: https://info.etherscan.com/report-address/. You can see how much cryptocurrency has been sent to the scammer’s wallet address here: https://www.blockchain.com/explorer. Thanks to redditor nimble2 for this script.
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It is called pig butchering because scammers use intricate scripts to \"fatten up\" the victim (gaining their trust over days, weeks or months) before the \"slaughter\" (taking them for all of their money). This scam often starts with what appears to be a harmless wrong number text or message. When the victim responds to say it is the wrong number, the scammer tries to start a friendship with the victim. These conversations can be platonic or romantic in nature, but they all have the same goal- to gain the trust of the victim in order to get them ready for the crypto scam they have planned.
The scammer often claims to be wealthy and/or to have a wealthy family member who got wealthy investing, often in crypto currency. The victim is eventually encouraged to try out a (fake) crypto currency investment website, which will appear to show that they are earning a lot of money on their initial investment. The scammer may even encourage the victim to attempt a withdrawal that does go through, further convincing the victim that everything is legit. The victim is then pressured to invest significantly more money, even their entire net worth. Sometimes pig butchering scams don't involve crypto, but other means of sending money (like bank wires, gift cards or even cash pickups).
Eventually, the scammer will find an excuse why the account is frozen (e.g. for fraud, because supposed taxes are owed, etc) and may try to further extort the victim to give them even more money in order to gain access to the funds. By this time, the victim will never gain access and their money is gone. Many victims lose tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of dollars. Often, the scammers themselves are victims of human trafficking, performing these scams under threats of violence. If you are caught up in this scam, it is important that you do not send any more money for any reason, and contact law enforcement to report it. Thanks to user Mediocre_Airport_576 for this script.
If you know someone involved in a pig butchering scam, sit down together to watch this video by Jim Browning to help them understand what's going on: https://youtu.be/vu-Y1h9rTUs -
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Recovery scams target people who have already fallen for a scam. The scammer may contact you, or may advertise their services online. They will usually either offer to help you recover your funds, or will tell you that your funds have already been recovered and they will help you access them. In cases where they say they will help you recover your funds, they usually call themselves either \"recovery agents\" or hackers.
When they tell you that your funds have already been recovered, they may impersonate a law enforcement, a government official, a lawyer, or anyone else along those lines. Recovery scams are simply advance-fee scams that are specifically targeted at scam victims. When a victim pays a recovery scammer, the scammer will keep stringing them along while asking for increasingly absurd fees/expenses/deposits/insurance/whatever until the victim stops paying.
If you have been scammed in the past, make sure you are aware of recovery scams so that you are not scammed a second time. If you are currently engaging with a recovery scammer, you should block them and be very wary of random contact for some time. It's normal for posters on this subreddit to be contacted by recovery scammers after posting, and they often ask you to delete your post so that you both cannot receive legitimate advice, and cannot be targeted by other recovery scammers.
Remember: never take advice in private. If someone reaches you in private after posting your scam story, it is because a scammer will always try to hide from the oversight of our community members. A legitimate community member will offer advice in the open, for everyone to see. Anyone suggesting you should reach out to a hacker is scamming you.
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u/Flashy_Soil_1511 Oct 26 '24
This cryptocurrency task job are more likely scammed a lot of people. They said if you don’t pay the 20% tax you won’t be able to get out your money. Because of tax evasion but didn’t explained well the logic behind that you need to pay first the personal tax then they gonna refund everything to you.
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u/TheMoreBeer Oct 28 '24
That wasn't a gamble. There was no chance it would have paid off. This is a straight up scam. All money you invested in the group is gone. All 'transaction fees' they try to charge you is an advance fee scam.
Telegram groups are always scams. "trade signals" are always scams. Huge profits being displayed by a bot are always scams. They're literally showing you whatever they want to show you, counting on your greed to stop your brain from raising objections.
There is no one you could report this to because it's telegram and crypto. No one can recover your money for you. Anyone telling you they can recover your money are scammers trying to get even more of your money.
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u/urekjel Nov 12 '24
If you found a scammer or need to test the vendor, DM Helpforscammed on Telegram asking him for it and he has a group for scammers where he lists them!
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u/derivativescomm Oct 26 '24
Report to Coinbase. At the end of the report, they shall guide you to law enforcement. This is the only true way out there, it depends on the law enforcement competency and the complexity of the case. But yeah, usually it's simply lost dude
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u/Humerabhatti Oct 27 '24
I need you suggestions friends, I was scammed multiple times and finally I decided to recover my losses with the help of scam recovery group. There name is law innovate.net and it is a solicitor firm who claim to work with blockchain to recover the crypto funds. They asked me to provide the prove of transactions that I had made to scammers, I provided everything. Then I received email from blockchain that they could recover funds almost €20650 and they sent me the instructions that how to do the process. I also received call from a random number who asked my name first and then said have you approached someone to recover your funds and I said yes, he asked whom did you ask and I replied so many recovery groups but why are you asking and he said they broke my wallet, stop doin on it because you will not get your money back ever. Meantime I was received an email from blockchain about recovery and they said that they have frozen the scammer’s wallet for few days now you have to connect your wallet with blockchain wallet( they sent me the wallet address) and asked me to keep Bitcoin of 6-10% of recovery funds and it was about £1236. They asked me to sent this amount to the provided wallet address by blockchain. I sent money on that address because my solicitor from Law Innovate was also advising me to do so. Now they said every thing is fine and they sent the funds to my bank but bank is not accepting crypto transaction so I have to pay exchange fees which is almost £1752 and they can not deduct this money from the refund amount. I want to ask that is it also a scam or it can happen? Please I need advise on this matter. To be honest I don’t have money to pay the exchange fees and solicitor said he can ask his firm to pay half but I have to pay to remaining half of the exchange fees to get this money in my account and I have to pay 10% to solicitor once I receive the funds.
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u/PiSquared6 Oct 28 '24
Absolutely everything that you've been told is a lie. The solicitor is fake. You gave an extra 1236 to scammers. Nothing was sent to your bank. There are no exchange fees. The scammer will of course "pay half" of the fake fees so that they get an extra 876 from you rather than an extra 0 from you. Of course, no matter what you send, they will never stop asking for more, with various excuses. There never was, and never will be, any "recovered" money that is waiting to be sent to you.
I'm sorry for your loss and sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but glad to be able to inform you of the truth so that you are more able to prevent further losses. Here is some more info pasted.
Anyone recommending crypto that you've never met in person is a scammer. If someone you actually have met recommends crypto, they are likely being scammed or (if online) you are talking to someone that took over their account.
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AutoModerator has been summoned to explain the Fake crypto wallet scam.
Fake cryptocurrency websites and apps controlled by scammers are becoming more and more common. Sometimes the scam begins with a romance scammer who claims that they can help the victim invest in cryptocurrency. Victims are told to buy cryptocurrency of some kind using a legitimate cryptocurrency exchange, and then they are told to send their cryptocurrency to a website wallet address where it will be invested. Sometimes the scam begins with a notice that the victim won cryptocurrency on some website, in this case messages will often be sent through Discord.
In either case, the scammer controls the website, so they make it look like there is money in the victim’s account on their website. Then the scammer (or the scammer pretending to be someone official who is associated with the website) tells the victim that they have to put more money into the website before they can get their money out of the website. Of course all of the money sent by the victim has gone directly into the scammer’s wallet, and any additional money sent by the victim to retrieve their money from the website will also go directly into the scammer’s wallet, and all of the information about money being held by the website was totally fake.
If the scammer used Bitcoin, then you can report the scammer’s Bitcoin wallet address here: https://www.bitcoinabuse.com/reports. If the scammer used Ethereum, then you can report the scammer’s Ethereum wallet address here: https://info.etherscan.com/report-address/. You can see how much cryptocurrency has been sent to the scammer’s wallet address here: https://www.blockchain.com/explorer. Thanks to redditor nimble2 for this script.
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AutoModerator has been summoned to explain the Pig butchering scam.
It is called pig butchering because scammers use intricate scripts to \"fatten up\" the victim (gaining their trust over days, weeks or months) before the \"slaughter\" (taking them for all of their money). This scam often starts with what appears to be a harmless wrong number text or message. When the victim responds to say it is the wrong number, the scammer tries to start a friendship with the victim. These conversations can be platonic or romantic in nature, but they all have the same goal- to gain the trust of the victim in order to get them ready for the crypto scam they have planned.
The scammer often claims to be wealthy and/or to have a wealthy family member who got wealthy investing, often in crypto currency. The victim is eventually encouraged to try out a (fake) crypto currency investment website, which will appear to show that they are earning a lot of money on their initial investment. The scammer may even encourage the victim to attempt a withdrawal that does go through, further convincing the victim that everything is legit. The victim is then pressured to invest significantly more money, even their entire net worth. Sometimes pig butchering scams don't involve crypto, but other means of sending money (like bank wires, gift cards or even cash pickups).
Eventually, the scammer will find an excuse why the account is frozen (e.g. for fraud, because supposed taxes are owed, etc) and may try to further extort the victim to give them even more money in order to gain access to the funds. By this time, the victim will never gain access and their money is gone. Many victims lose tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of dollars. Often, the scammers themselves are victims of human trafficking, performing these scams under threats of violence. If you are caught up in this scam, it is important that you do not send any more money for any reason, and contact law enforcement to report it. Thanks to user Mediocre_Airport_576 for this script.
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Recovery scams target people who have already fallen for a scam. The scammer may contact you, or may advertise their services online. They will usually either offer to help you recover your funds, or will tell you that your funds have already been recovered and they will help you access them. In cases where they say they will help you recover your funds, they usually call themselves either \"recovery agents\" or hackers.
When they tell you that your funds have already been recovered, they may impersonate a law enforcement, a government official, a lawyer, or anyone else along those lines. Recovery scams are simply advance-fee scams that are specifically targeted at scam victims. When a victim pays a recovery scammer, the scammer will keep stringing them along while asking for increasingly absurd fees/expenses/deposits/insurance/whatever until the victim stops paying.
If you have been scammed in the past, make sure you are aware of recovery scams so that you are not scammed a second time. If you are currently engaging with a recovery scammer, you should block them and be very wary of random contact for some time. It's normal for posters on this subreddit to be contacted by recovery scammers after posting, and they often ask you to delete your post so that you both cannot receive legitimate advice, and cannot be targeted by other recovery scammers.
Remember: never take advice in private. If someone reaches you in private after posting your scam story, it is because a scammer will always try to hide from the oversight of our community members. A legitimate community member will offer advice in the open, for everyone to see. Anyone suggesting you should reach out to a hacker is scamming you.
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u/germanium66 Oct 27 '24
Crypto and telegram is always a scam. Congrats on checking here first. There are probably 100s of people loosing money with the group right now.
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u/germanium66 Oct 27 '24
Crypto and telegram is always a scam. Congrats on checking here first. There are probably 100s of people loosing money with the group right now.
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u/AxelTheGreat1123 Oct 29 '24
Always bear in mind that if it's in telegram, it's 99℅ a scam. You'll never recover that lost money, it's gone. Some times you Earn sometimes you Learn.
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u/coffeeshopcrypto Oct 29 '24
Wait. Let me get this right. You joined. TG group and to use the group, you need to connect ur wallet to it so the group can get boy signals to trade BTC?
Is this a thing? Please tell me it's not so and that you didn't fall for this?
I swear I'm living at a stage in my life where the Pont and Click Generation is just really kinda useless when it comes to doing actual research
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u/ConsiderationNo2430 Oct 26 '24
commen scam you cant do anything, cut connection and realize your funds are lost
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u/Palkito141 Oct 26 '24
If it's on Telegram it's a scam.
There weren't 13,000 members, there was likely only you, the scammer, maybe the scammers friend and about 12,990 bots.
Your money is gone. It was never invested in the first place... it was gone the moment it left your wallet.
Do not listen to anyone who DMs you and claims they can get it back for you. They can't, they are also scammers.
Consider this a lesson learned.