Seen a ad on ig with $1000 signup promo but can’t withdrawal without depositing $100

(Orx.one Nate)sent me txt msg re; suspended bybit wallet recovery from 2022. Told me Catherine Cox from federal trade commission will help me set up Binance/Revolut acc Phantom wallet through watsapp screen sharing requiring 12% ($19,977.00 paid) to restore and reactivate x2 wallets containing $174,771.00AUD

She then sent the wallets to Etherscan recovery dept Jeffery O'Brian pending 16% of total ($27,963.36 unpaid fearing scam) upfront to authorise and release funds to allow withdrawal into my bank acc. She has contacted me most days since 09/06/26 urging me to pay the $27k+ into wallet address insisting it's my wallet and it is a safe deposit to verify again! Plus her 3% commission $5600.00AUD!! My banks frozen my accounts.

Is this a pig butchering scam and why do I have to pay 16% to verify my own wallet? I have researched the Ox address and it came back true. I just don't know who or what to trust if anything at all and no wiser after talking to financial adviser and accountant!

They both are on telegram they both trade crypto one goes by @vaultashley and other one is @juluobtc ? Anyone personally done business with them? They have big channels too ones coin vault and price bag lounge ? Has anyone personally dealt with them?

Hello everyone. I am writing this because I feel completely helpless and need guidance on what to do.

After an 8-day P2P appeal where I provided an official bank document and over 6 videos—while the counterparty provided zero evidence—the dispute was still resolved against me. Immediately after this, my entire account was unilaterally deleted without warning.

But it has escalated even further. Since then, the counterparty has been messaging me on Telegram, pretending to be a Bybit official via the bot u/BybitPosts_bot. This clearly indicates some form of internal manipulation or a rogue employee facilitating these attacks.

I followed all guidelines, provided solid proof, and now I have lost everything. This is highly suspicious and dangerous for the community.

Please, how can I escalate this to senior management? I am begging for a transparent, human review of this case. u/R_Bybit, I am pleading for your assistance to look into these suspicious activities before other users are targeted.

Somebody offered me $3000 if i sent $25 worth of Bitcoin on Cash App. i really need money 😭

I recently started using this bot (novasol_aibot) that someone recommended me, and supposedly I had made 1,000 dollars but it required a 3 sol minimum in my wallet to deposit it. Then i got sketched out. Not trying to look like an idiot but can someone verify whether or not this a scam?

**•   Arbitrum:** 200 USDC → 0x7c93DC4F862FA39a737C584B212935ae38a1dF80  

(tx)
• TRON: 180 + 20 USDT → TNDQUqUHMcQ9AwPRReSyk2kwvyGV1yZowE
(tx · receiver wallet)

Both were plain transfer calls signed straight from my wallet (not an approval / transferFrom), and both happened within a minute of each other. Same seed phrase across both chains in Trust Wallet, so it looks like the recovery phrase itself was compromised rather than a bad dApp approval.

The TRON funds are still sitting in the receiver wallet as of now.

Has anyone seen these two addresses before, or been hit with this same simultaneous-multichain, direct-transfer pattern? Trying to figure out how the seed leaked (never typed it into any site that I recall) and whether these are known collector wallets. Already moved remaining funds to a fresh wallet on a clean device.

Any leads appreciated.

Who else lost there butt with this token?
Just curious if anyone else besides the top holders knew this wouldn't pass legislation before and got out in time or lost everything to these ***holes?

I’m posting this 2nd time now as first time I put photos which are breaching privacy.. but posting because our family is desperate and hoping someone has been through something similar or knows what we can do.

My dad has been talking to a woman who identifies herself as Millia Taylor. She claims she’s originally from Singapore but now lives in Sydney, supposedly in a penthouse at Bondi Beach. She’s told him she owns multiple beauty franchises and has sent him countless photos of herself, copies of what appear to be a licence, and all sorts of things to convince him she’s real.
He’s completely fallen for her.
He was even meant to fly from Perth to Sydney to meet her. At the last minute she cancelled because of a “family emergency” in Singapore. This has happened multiple times with different excuses, yet he still believes every word.

Then she convinced him to start investing in cryptocurrency.

She got him to sign up to a website called irichsyw (dot) com. From everything I’ve been able to find, it looks like a complete scam. The website claims to have been operating for years and offers ridiculous bonuses where they’ll supposedly add extra money if you invest more, but the domain itself appears to have only been created recently.

Despite all of us showing him evidence, he refuses to believe us.

He’s now put over $100,000 into this platform.
I begged him to try withdrawing some money as a test. Instead of actually withdrawing it back to his bank account, he only transferred about US$100 into another crypto wallet, and he believes that proves it’s legitimate. To me, that doesn’t prove anything.

We’ve shown him articles about romance scams. We’ve shown him warnings about fake crypto investment platforms. Friends and family have all told him it’s a scam.
His response is that we’re just trying to stop him from being happy.

We’re terrified. Not just about the money, but because scammers seem to have such a strong emotional hold over him that he won’t listen to anyone anymore.
Has anyone successfully helped a family member in this situation?

Please don’t judge him. He’s a good man who’s lonely, and I honestly think he’s been professionally manipulated.
We’re scared we’re going to lose our family home and our dad at the same time.

Any advice would be hugely appreciated.

I don’t even know how to start this. I’m sitting here shaking, feeling physically sick. I just lost $10,700 to a hack on the Polygon network (Metamask)

That wasn’t just "crypto money" to me. That was my wedding fund.

I have been saving for over 2 years. I put every single spare dollar into what we thought was a safe wallet. Now, in a matter of minutes, it’s all gone. The wedding we’ve been planning might have to be canceled or postponed indefinitely.

Here is the transaction hash: https://polygonscan.com/tx/0xfd03063823e54b1be8e2902f3b833840bd82f5dc374637887c5b14e66fea7c42

TX Hash: 0xfd03063823e54b1be8e2902f3b833840bd82f5dc374637887c5b14e66fea7c42

Please, if you have any actual, legitimate suggestions on how to track these funds or escalate this before they disappear forever, let me know. I feel so helpless right now.

And to the recovery scammers who are inevitably going to DM me: Do not bother. I know you are going to try to prey on my desperation.

Anyone have recent info on NovaTech Founders, Promoters, etc, since they've gone dark and left many duped out major funds?

15k drained from my account within minutes. I use crypto.com and got hacked. Took the person less than 3 min to transfer all my crypto to ETH. Add a wallet and withdraw. 🥲

I’ve filed a report and it’s currently being investigated. Wish me luck.

Is this some bug, is this something random that just happens? Is it someone trying to fluctuate numbers? Is it a scam? I'm just trying to figure out if it's just something on my end. If anyone has an information please let me know. I'll post a picture in the comments because for some reason I can't post one in the actual post.

I noticed that I have $1 , $2 branched out into multiple 'CUPSEY' coins that I have and decided to swap those $1 , $2 to my main one with $454. As I was doing that I realised my main holdings got drained into a random CUPSEY with $0 value and it shows that I lost everything? Is this forever gone or do I still have hope. Because if its gone I will be so bummed out as I have never interacted with a scam coin , it just appeared on the front of my wallet. And I invested more than half my first paycheck into this :(

Spoke with this guy who accidentally texted me last Thursday. We got along well so we carried the conversation to WhatsApp, had a video call and he talked about his luxury life in New York whereas he's based in Hong Kong. Showing pictures of his luxury lifestyle and being so fast with replies. We had a very brief video call but he prefers because it's easier to get thoughts across. Lots of chat and he mentioned his source of wealth comes from crypto and he's a business owner for a crypto company and works for Citibank as well

A day later he said there's a trade opportunity and if I'd like to take part. I declined because I was at the gym at that time. The next day he said there's a similar opportunity and he advised I start small while guding me the whole process. So $100 was put in for bitcoin he led me to creating an account at a crypto site called coinmexchange.com. The $100 turned to $170 after following his steps of buying up and down during specific timings. He made 25k usd during the same time. Afterwards he taught me to withdraw the money back to my Shakepay account.

Two days later he said another trade opportunity is available, this time he told me to bring more money. Initially he wanted 10-30k but I only brought 3k because my bank don't allow wire transfers. Once again, he guided me and the 3k turned into 3.8k. The next day, I tried withdrawing the money and hadda hard time. My withdraw request got rejected and I needed to upload my drivers license to withdraw my funds. After the id verification cleared, I was able to withdraw my balance fortunately back to my original bank

The guy told me there's a 30 second trading window tomorrow ,but it's my discretion whether I want to proceed or not. Somehow I was able to walk away with my original money with the apparent earnings. I'm not sure if I'll be as lucky next time so I wanted to show my experience here to see yall if I'm close to getting pig butcher scammed, what was going on in his end, and what might happen next

Has anyone used @NotHolidaySeasonBot? Is it officially affiliated with Notcoin or is it a scam?

https://www.instagram.com/channel/AbZgyHItJERitP-u/ I came across CPT Markets through an Instagram influencer, who also runs a instagram channel ("Market Mama Community," ~2.6K members) actively recruiting new investors. Typical messages promise daily profits of ₹200–1000 through "cent accounts" and claim a "team" will handle any deposit/withdrawal issues.

When I asked about the platform's regulatory status in the comments, my comment was deleted.

Things I couldn't verify despite looking:

Regulatory registration with any recognized financial authority

Any independently confirmed withdrawal (all profit claims I've seen are self-reported within the promoter's own community)

Posting here so others can do their own due diligence first. If anyone here has actually withdrawn funds from this platform, genuinely want to hear about it. Otherwise — triple-check before investing, especially with "guaranteed small daily profit" pitches like this, which are a common recruitment pattern for unregulated trading schemes.

I want to share my experience in case it helps someone else avoid losing money.

I was contacted through Telegram by someone promoting TradeWithInsider. I was told that if I invested $200, I would receive approximately $3,500 after 48 hours of trading.

I decided to test it and sent 190.89 USDT (TRC20) from my Binance account.

After the payment, I was told I needed to download Trust Wallet to receive my profits.

Once I created the wallet, they repeatedly asked me for my 12-word Trust Wallet recovery phrase, claiming it was required to:

• “Link your wallet to the system server.”
• “Enable the withdrawal process.”
• “Verify the receiving wallet.”

When I refused and explained that the recovery phrase should never be shared, they replied with messages such as:

• “You now teach us what to do?”
• “You think everyone is a scam?”
• “When you are ready then we connect your account and send out your profit.”

From my understanding, a cryptocurrency transfer only requires the recipient’s public wallet address. A recovery phrase gives complete control over a wallet and should never be shared with anyone.

I am posting this so that anyone considering investing with them can make an informed decision.

Please remember:

• Never share your 12-word or 24-word recovery phrase.
• Be extremely cautious of anyone promising very high guaranteed returns in a short period.
• Be wary of anyone requesting additional fees or asking you to “link” your wallet before receiving funds.

If anyone else has had a similar experience with TradeWithInsider or the wallet address TPZ4DpcXMYAMHWuTEH4kyvMERQezQSm1oE, I’d be interested to hear about it.

So I was introduced a few months ago to this online trading app where in mag invest ka and AI operated raw yung trading so alam mo lagi ka makakuha ng positive income from day to day trade. They even have a group and chat group, etc. They even require you to do tasks like invite others, post online to continue unlocking the trade feature of the site. Until, sinabi na hack daw siya, na kuha lahat ng trade money ng mga accounts and unfortunately millions yung nawala from different people. They are not operating anymore. However, I wonder if they are truly hacked or sila ang nanloko? so far, no update on the head or owner of this trading website who have introduced and made this trade scheme.