Description

I received an unknown number text on June 1, 2025 and let the person know that they texted the wrong person. From June 1, 2025 to July 19, 2025 I had friendly chats with the person, Aria a.k.a Xiaoyu. She slowly baited me into investing from $1,000 to $10,000 to $21,000 all completed on the website pc.flexoptin.com. Initially, when I invested $1,000 I was able to withdraw some money as a legitimacy check. However, once I invested $10,000 and then another $10,000 due to steady profits I tried to withdraw $10,000 as another legitimacy check, but now the platform will not allow me to withdraw the money until I pay them out of pocket liquidation/clearance fees of $23,776.65. This was a red flag to me so I asked them to take the fees from my contract assets account balance which is currently $4,146,397.45 USDT supposedly on their website. However, customer service says my liquidation fee can't be deducted from my balance and I need to submit the payment before they will allow me to make any further withdrawals including the pending withdrawal for $10,000. This red flag made me review the platform's terms of service again, but in more detail and I found out that their so called fees are not listed and the terms of service fees verbiage is quite vague. Therefore, I researched online regarding this possible type of scam and found out it is quite common unfortunately. Once I learned of this possible scam, I let Aria know and she denied all involvement of course. However, she decreased her daily chats with me until I finally accepted that she was probably involved in the scam. I was suspicious of her and the site the entire time, but actually wanted to know if they were both legit or not so I guess I'm partially at fault in this scam and I've already made peace with the fact that my investment is gone and will probably never be recovered, but I don't want it to happen to anyone else so I'm submitting my experience and hopefully some one or agency will provide some sort of justice. I have gathered detailed information from this site, my account, and correspondence with customer service if needed.