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Online Purchase - Online Purchase

I spotted a tidy 1954 Chevrolet Bel Air with fresh chrome and period hubcaps, priced like a quick sale. The seller promised overnight paperwork and a couriered title once funds cleared. They pushed crypto because “banks were slow this week.” I paid in digital currency and received a PDF bill of sale that referenced an address which didn’t exist on any map. The shipper name was real, but the booking number wasn’t. Every breadcrumb led to nothing, and I learned the hard way how easily a believable story can empty your account. 

Reporting cryptocurrency complaints and scams

If you believe you have been a victim of a cryptocurrency scam or fraud, here's how you can file a complaint and seek assistance:

1. Stop communication and transactions
Immediately stop sending any money or cryptocurrency to the suspected criminals. Do not notify the suspected criminals of any reports made to law enforcement, as this may compromise their ability to investigate. 

2. File a report with relevant agencies; FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3): This is a key resource for reporting cryptocurrency investment fraud and other cyber-enabled crimes. You can file a report at ic3.gov. Federal Trade Commission (FTC): Report cryptocurrency scams to the FTC at ReportFraud.ftc.gov. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC): File a complaint with the CFTC at CFTC.gov/complaint. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC): You can submit a tip or complaint to the SEC at sec.gov/tcr. Local Law Enforcement: Report the crime to your local police department, including details like your wallet address, the scammer's wallet address, and transaction hashes. Cryptocurrency Exchange: Contact the cryptocurrency exchange you used to send the money and report the fraudulent transaction.

3. Provide comprehensive information: When filing reports, include as much information as possible, including: Scammer Details: How they contacted you, identifying information (name, phone, address, email, usernames). Transaction Information: Dates, amounts, types of cryptocurrency involved, account numbers (including cryptocurrency wallet addresses), receiving financial institution details, and receiving cryptocurrency addresses. Transaction IDs (hash): These are important for tracking cryptocurrency transactions. 

4. Be cautious of recovery services: Be extremely wary of any service claiming to recover lost cryptocurrency, especially those that demand an upfront fee, as these are often scams themselves. 
Common cryptocurrency complaints and scams: Some common types of cryptocurrency complaints and scams include: Imposter Scams: Scammers impersonate legitimate businesses or individuals to gain access to your accounts or information. Investment Scams: These often promise high returns with low risk and rely on funds from new investors to pay earlier investors. These include "pig butchering" scams, where scammers build relationships with victims and then lure them into fake investments. Phishing Scams: Scammers use fake emails, websites, or messages to trick you into revealing sensitive information like private keys or passwords. Pump and Dump Schemes: Artificially inflating the price of a cryptocurrency and then selling off the holdings, causing the price to crash.
Fake ICOs and Exchanges: Bogus Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and platforms that mimic legitimate ones to steal funds. Liquidity Mining/Yield Farming Scams: Fraudulent investment opportunities promoted through private messaging platforms. Giveaway/Airdrop Scams: Impersonating public figures or companies offering free crypto, often using social media or websites. Romance Scams: Scammers develop relationships with victims through dating apps or social media and then introduce them to fraudulent investment opportunities. 

Additional considerations: Cryptocurrency transactions are generally not reversible, making it difficult to recover funds once they are sent.
Government agencies like the FDIC do not insure cryptocurrency accounts. Always exercise caution, research thoroughly before investing, and be suspicious of anyone guaranteeing high or quick returns.
If you are 60 or older, you can contact the National Elder Fraud Hotline (833-372-8311) for assistance with filing an IC3 complaint. 

Dollars Lost: $37000

Toano, VA- 23168

Date Reported: August 1, 2025

Business Name Used: Classic Cars of Williamsburg


Employment - employment

Scammer started off by advertising an Air B&B online assistant hourly remote job, but when I was contacted through what’s app it wasn’t at all that job. It was actually uploading reviews for cars for commission which was limited to 33 generated cars a day. If you get into the negative they want you to use your own money to get out of the negative to continue to generate the rest of your reviews before they will pay you a $200 salary plus your measly little commission a day and they pay with crypto. So since I’m trying to earn money because I’m broke, I could and wouldn’t use my own money to get out of the negative. So basically that was the end of that. I paid them $20 through cashapp which did come up scam but was told that that’s how cashapp is. So these people are ripping people off that like me can’t even afford to live in this damn state and will be homeless soon. It was definitely too good to be true.

Dollars Lost: $20

CA

Date Reported: August 1, 2025

Business Name Used: Edmunds


Employment - Employment Task- Commissions Scam

I accepted work for this company, was told i needed to pay in order to receive commisions in crypto

Dollars Lost: $70

New York, NY- 10017

Date Reported: August 1, 2025

Business Name Used: TBWA WORLDWIDE


Employment - Employment - Cryptocurrency Task Scam

Crypto mining may encounter high-quality minerals which requires the miner to deposit their own money to cover the difference in price. The promise is that if you give your money to cover, you can withdraw all that you have earned+deposited. However, if you do not have access to excessive amounts of money, in the 1-10 thousand range, they expect you to go to your bank to get a loan and/or wire transfer money to cover it. If you don't do it within 1 day, your credit score reduced below the amount to be able to withdraw ANY money and you can no longer continue to mine either. I was told that to restore my credit score, I could pay $10K or wait until my score went to 1000 again, so ultimately 1000 days. The person who referred me to this job messaged me two months later to say that they would loan me the money to be able to restore my credit score and withdraw the $16K+$10K in there. The person who offered had reneged on their offer so I said to just forget it. However when I asked the company for the deposit information, this request "Opened a credit resolution channel" which only allowed me 4 days to pay the money. So now I had 4 days to deposit the $10 to restore my credit or lose the $16K I already had given them. Nothing in their rules mentions this scenario so I couldn't have know about it until it happened. Now I am out $16K+ for "job" that seemed too good to be true, so it must have been...

Dollars Lost: $16949.98

Unknown Location

Date Reported: August 1, 2025

Business Name Used: Terawulf


Online Purchase - affordable cars

In a classic-car Facebook group, someone posted a sunset photo of a 1958 Edsel Ranger, captioned “moving abroad—must liquidate.” Direct messages were smooth, filled with details about oil changes and original manuals. He rejected Escrow.com as “too slow” and pushed crypto instead. After I sent the funds, he deleted every post and blocked me. Group admins traced the image to a 2015 dealership ad—long sold to someone else.

Dollars Lost: $35000

Peck, ID- 83545

Date Reported: August 1, 2025

Business Name Used: affordable cars


Online Purchase - Bennett Drive Autos

A shiny landing page advertised a 1962 Buick Electra 225 and even showed a countdown timer for “free enclosed shipping.” On checkout, only one option remained: crypto wallet transfer. Post-payment, the order portal displayed ‘processing’ forever. A WHOIS check showed the domain registered the day before, and customer service emails bounced. The Electra and the countdown both expired without a trace.

Dollars Lost: $53000

Billings, MT- 59106

Date Reported: August 1, 2025

Business Name Used: bennett drive autos


Investment - Lightening Shared Scooter Co

I was invited to invest in an opportunity to rent 15 scooters per day, M-F, for a daily return on my initial investment of $2,180 and the subscription would pay this amount for up to three years. I joined on Wednesday, July 23rd and received a notice in the app on July 30th that due to individuals that maliciously registered multiple accounts to fraudulently obtain rewards, which disrupted their system and triggered an investigation by their partnered financial institutions. They were then required to suspend all withdrawals and conduct a thorough compliance review. They required us to pay 10% of our scooter rental device value before they could "gradually' restored and the deposit refunded. Once again, another opportunity to keep our money with no guarantee. Over 200 of us in our team declined to do so. If we did not comply by August 6, 2025 to complete the verification process would be permanently banned and devices and earnings forfeited. I would avoid this business at all costs.

Dollars Lost: $4360

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 31, 2025

Business Name Used: Lightening Shared Scooter Co


Phishing - Phishing Bitcoin Scam

The scammer that went by the name of Robert was imprecinating being a representative at coinbase telling me there had been some attempts against my account and he was going to help me fix it instead he manipulated my account transferred my BTC to his wallet and coinbase says there's nothing they can do about it I pay for their services and they should be responsible on customers losses because of their negligence and lack of assistance to the client I hold coinbase responsible for this hack this is the second time I've been hacked in coinbase it's not the first the first time was in 2022 were I was calling for assistance to coinbase and a representative called me right away suggesting that they can help me they asked me to take over my computer screen to make sure that everything was good by not being very computer literate as I am a baby boomer and computers are not our first knowledge the hacker took advantage and stole $4,500 from my account in crypto this is the first time this time they stole $3,675.15 and still coinbase does not do anything to collect the stolen funds for their clients at all they say they're not responsible and they're using your money that you invest to invest it and make money for themselves they also charge for any trading that you do so I feel coinbase is responsible in situations like this.

Dollars Lost: $3675.15

Colorado Springs, CO- 80902

Date Reported: July 30, 2025

Business Name Used: Coinbase


Romance

I am a victim of a pig butchering scam that was resulted in an investment fraud that basically I lost all my life savings in 2024. I met a scammer on Facebook and shortly started the communications on Telegram and WhatsApp. After communicating with this scammer for about a month she introduced a crypto "Tether - USDT" investment opportunity through Crypto.com De wallet App. Unfortunately I lost my entire life savings within three months because I realized all my Tether investments I deposited into Calculatebat.com are not withdrawable and I am not able to withdraw any funds. My wallet at one point was showing that my savings balance was about 724,000 USDT

Dollars Lost: $0.0

San Francisco, CA

Date Reported: July 30, 2025

Business Name Used:


Investment - Investment

Promising exponential financial growth bu signing up and depositing crypto into their platform. We got paid by charging scooters for four hrs a day. Depending on the number of scooters rented dictated how much you are paid daily.

Dollars Lost: $20000

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 30, 2025

Business Name Used: Lightning Shared Scooter Company


Employment

On July 1st I received an email from Pola Borowski asking if I was interested in a Project Manager position at their company. I had been submitting dozens of applications every day so I assumed this was one of them. Once I was approved and signed their training agreement, they asked me to open an account at one of a number of banks they use for direct deposits. I did so (Wells Fargo) and on July 14th they began to send me assignments aligned with the Project Manager role to 'train' me, though it was more like tests of my ability and understanding of the material. The 3rd task, however, wanted me to open a crypto account stating that "Non-state charitable projects are paid in cryptocurrency." and I would need to know how to facilitate transactions in cryptocurrency for the job. They specifically asked me to connect my debit card, not my bank account, to the crypto wallet. My card was still in the mail and I was unable to follow through at the time. They provided me with other projects for the next week which seemed to get less and less project oriented as time went on. On July 29th they insisted that I need to get my card so that I could finish the crypto assignment. On July 30th they told me to take the day off to fix the issue and get a debit card. They informed me that they needed this done in order to pay me for the training period and heavily implied that I would not be paid otherwise. This was when my already present suspicions became genuine concerns. A friend helped me look into the person and business and we found this incident which mirrored my own. I stopped contact with the person immediately and thankfully did not lose any money.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 30, 2025

Business Name Used: Only Swift Solutions


Counterfeit Product

A deceptive investment scheme unfolds in a Fake Return Scam, where fraudsters entice victims with false promises of profitable returns. These scammers employ deceitful traps to convince individuals to invest exploiting trust and leading them down a path of financial Deception i highly recommend reaching out to Coin Re-tr iever-s @Gma_il com They are reputable team that specializes in combating online crypto scams.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 30, 2025

Business Name Used:


Employment - Employment - Turbo1 Soft

Cindy Booma reached out to me with a job opportunity of working from home as a project manager. She informed me that the training was paid, 16 business days. She asked me not to use my personal bank account but to open one with Wells Fargo, Chase, etc. She reported to me every morning with the days assignment, sometimes it was to watch a YouTube video on budgeting and wrote a report, sometimes it was research a certain software and write a report, other times it was do crypto currency transactions. She said the company dealt with crypto payments alot from clients and they needed me fo learn how. She would send me an amount, $185 and some change or $115 and some change, she would send that from the company wallet to my coinbase account. Then would have me transfer it from there to my bank account that I opened for my direct deposit to go into, and transfer it from there to my crypto account and then back to the company wallet. As a way to practice such transaction. She never asked me for my personal account information, nor my social security number. She would call me every morning to make sure I was ready for the assignment and then email it to me. On business day 16 of my training, I asked her how much longer my training would be, she informed me it would go until the end of next week, August 8th. I told her that I had bills coming up, and was told this was 16 business days of training then get paid, and I needed to be compensated for what I had done up til this point. She told me she was emailing that department and figuring that out for me and would get back to me. The next morning, she didn't call me as she typically did, and when I tried to call her, the phone is shut off. I also sent an email and got no response.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Mississauga, ON- L5N 4H4

Date Reported: July 30, 2025

Business Name Used: Turbo1 Soft


Romance - Romance - Defi Coin

I was contacted by the number - ?+1 (587) 840-5008? on Whatsapp, after matching on Hinge. Initially it started as a normal conversation, and since i believed this person to be real and having good intentions, i asked them about their "side job". they brought me to https://deficoin.site/#/, and asked me to create an account. This person then asked me to create an account with Newton, and add funds. this was over a week of back and forth conversation, where they gained my trust. I was distrusting at first, but i wanted to see the good in people. They asked me start option trading on the crypto currency using USDC, which i bought through my newton account. after "inflating" my portfolio value, they asked me to withdraw all the funds; but held on to the transaction pending a "tax". Be aware of this kind of sites; and use

Dollars Lost: $2500

Toronto, ON-

Date Reported: July 30, 2025

Business Name Used: Defi Coin


Employment - employment

I am looking for remote work. I clicked an ad on FB and I was immediately contacted by Nena, a Target Recruitment Manager for HR-Talent Business. She wanted people to work remote part time and the job was to help target online retailers increase sales and product reviews. I was interested and gave her my name and phone number. I needed to download the Whatsapp and received a message from Roxana, who convinced me this was the best job in the world. She told me she has been with the company 9 months and has started making 20k/month. She told me she is divorced with a 7 year old daughter, and how her life changed with this job. She said she has her family members involved, how she wanted to help me be successful because there is so much money to make with this job. I started immediately, by creating an account at https.//wwwtargetsubs.com./. She invited me to join another Whatsapp group that has over 24 people in it that are also working at this company, and I could ask any questions of them and they would help me. After joining the group, people messaged me saying hello and welcome, and they would share how well they did that day.. The goal of this company is to help merchants quickly acquire new user traffic to generate profits from selling products. We would receive commissions paid by merchants in the process of serving them. You earn commissions by completing a set of 40/40 tasks every day and can earn $70-150/day, for about 2 hours of work. She guided me through the training, which took about an hour and I started right after that. I never signed anything... never was made aware that I would have to use my own money to submit some of these reviews, and when you finish with your 40 tasks, you can withdraw the money you earned the same day. Most products that you see, you submit a previously typed review and are paid at 1% commission of the price of the product, but some of the 40 tasks are randomly assigned as "package tasks", which pays a higher commission for 5-80%. But because you are only usually earning 1%, these more expensive items have a larger commission and you have to cover that cost in order to move on and complete your 40 tasks. The first day I didn't get any of these "package tasks" so didn't have to use my own money and I was able to withdraw $138 to my bank account. The 2nd day, I received a package task that forced me to pay $65 to cover the cost, so I did. And when you withdraw money from your bank, you are using Crypto apps that Roxana helped me download. You take your money, convert it to Crypto and send it in to Customer Service so you can cover the cost of the more expensive item and then you can move on and complete your 40 tasks. I was told your money will be returned to you immediately after completing your 40 tasks. I also learned that once you send money via Crypto, you cannot get it back. And this whole time, Roxana is telling me that these "package tasks" don't appear very often, and how lucky it is to get them because they pay so well. In summary, on Day 3, I received 3 package tasks which required me to pay $350, $890, and then $2400. I was assured that I would receive this money back, and with a sizeable commission, as soon as I finished my tasks. My 40th and last task was yet another package task that required me to pay $8k. Roxana told me how lucky I was to get 4 "package tasks" in one day and that my commissions would be close to 15-18k. I refused. I told Roxana that I didn't have the money to cover that and that I wanted my $3640 back and she refused, saying the only way to get the money was to pay the 8k and complete my tasks. I refused. She kept trying to convince me that once I paid, I would get paid a lot of money on commissions, but I refused. I contacted Customer Service and they refused to return my money until I finished the tasks. I feel like prize idiot. I told Roxana how horrible she was, trying everything to get more money from me, and that the company is a scam. She has continued to message me to try to convince me to pay, but I've ignored her. And the group chat with other employees is still active and still seems like people are going about their days working at this company. Roxana messaged me again this morning urging me to pay the 8k and complete my tasks. Please be careful out there. Don't trust anything that seems too good to be true. I learned the hard way.

Dollars Lost: $3600

NY

Date Reported: July 30, 2025

Business Name Used: Target Department Store Data Optimization Dept.


Investment - Investment Scams

I was ask if i wanted to invest in crypto then walked through the process. Invested $220, and next morning had earned $1600. If i want to withdraw it would cost at least $1000 that i didn’t have. I get paid once a month, so they said "let me know when you get the money." By way of Telegram App. That is how i was talked through the process. No contact since last comment.

Dollars Lost: $220

Calgary, AB-

Date Reported: July 28, 2025

Business Name Used: instant capital trade


Employment - Qualtrics LLC Imposter Job Offer

I was recruited for an online app review position and one task was to do btc trades for market manipulation with ever increasing investment amounts to complete the task. They required the tasks to be completed before passing probationary period. The first two trades were small and I was able to withdraw my profit. The third trade requirement was three installments of ever increasing amounts to complete the task and withdraw accumulated assets. However the trades escalated from $300 to $1500 to the final trade of $5000. Unable to complete all three trades I was told I failed probationary tasks and all funds would be forfeited.

Dollars Lost: $1850

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 28, 2025

Business Name Used: Qualtrics Imposter


CryptoCurrency

I was told by a man paul from zangie app this was a true site and it can be trusted but i had to invest $1,000 dollars and then after 48hrs i can pull out my profit and do my deposit to my bank account and i had to download the trust wallet for me to see my profit so i did after that i got a email by crypto earn says before i get my profit i had to pay there fees of $5,000 dollars before i would get my profit in my bank and the other thing i didn't understand is how you can profit $75,000 dollars from $1000 dollars but the guy paul stayed that i would get my profit once I pay the $5,000 dollars for the fees So i looked up about the fees and the one is called odc crossed tax fee about claiming a dependent and deporting chemical which then raised red flags and also a charge of $2,000 for your trust wallet for maintenance which in fact should never be that high for maintenance also found out that this paul guy also has a woman helping him also to scam others and right now goes by trish from TikTok

Dollars Lost: $1000

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 28, 2025

Business Name Used: Crypto earn


Employment

I received a whatssap message from Athena White offering me to work on the platform Flynlavor on 1/9/25. Athena created the account I was going to use and explained the company rules. She said I needed to complete at least 2 jobs per day. Within a month I received a message saying I had one a very large prize. In order to obtain the prize I had to wire $5k into crypto, I did and customer service started guiding me to complete process but, apparently I made a mistake and account was locked and I needed to wire another $5k to unlock account and get prize. Then, I was told to put another $5k because of the mistake I had made, I was afraid of loosing the prize and my entire personal money. After, customer service manager said account was clear and that I would be able to transfer or get my money but, until now I have not been able to get help or get my money back. Nobody answers to my messages or calls, I get notices that customer service is seeing my messages.

Dollars Lost: $17370

Houston, TX

Date Reported: July 28, 2025

Business Name Used: Fynlavor


Employment

I was initially contacted by text message from 18063681808. The text said it was Madeline from Dice. The text said "We're offering an online job opportunity with daily pay ranging from $50 to $300. It's a great fit for anyone looking to earn a steady income quickly or explore new opportunities. These positions are available to individuals aged 23 and above. This opportunity was recommended via WhatsApp. Would you like to learn more about the details of this job?" I responded Yes. They said a certain Emily will contact me on WhatsApp. Emily contacted me on WhatsApp. She said she works for an app promotion company (Sensor Tower), and the role is "App Optimizer". "The main job is to use our real IP data to improve the ranking, downloads and exposure of merchant APPs in the app store. Ultimately the company gets paid and pays us salaries and commissions. You must complete 3 sets of 30 apps every day." I expressed interest. Emily walked me through the training at a training account on website at realtydady.com. It consisted of giving five-star ratings to 3 sets of 30 apps. After that, I was assigned my first task. I was told in order to start, I needed to deposit $36 to bring the account balance to $101. I was told once the task was completed, I would be able to withdraw $130. So I deposited $36 in crypto currency and completed the task. After that I was able to withdraw $132 back to my crypto wallet. All looked good on day one. On day two, I deposited $101 to get started. After completing a few tasks, the system said I needed to deposit another $121 to proceed. I was promised if I deposited $121 and completed the task, I would be able to withdraw $420-450. So I made that deposit as well. The next deposit requirement was $756. The explanation was I had received a "lucky task" with a higher bonus and commission, but I needed $756 to complete it. This was required in order to proceed or withdraw any money. Once I did that, they claimed some tasks were incomplete and I needed to add $1000 to fix them, and all my funds including the $1000 will be returned to me. I added the $1000 and then they said my credit score had dropped and I needed $2000 to repair it. I pushed back and my "trainer" Emily offered to help with $500. Within a few days, I send them the $1500 balance to "repair the credit". The assured me once the credit was repaired, I would be able to withdraw all my funds (which totaled about $4500 at this point). After sending the last $1500, I tried to withdraw the funds. They said I had made a withdrawal request in the middle of their credit repair process, it had interrupted the process, so I needed another $1000 to complete the credit score repair and withdraw about $5,500. I eventually sent the $1000. I told them I just needed to withdraw my funds, I did not need to complete any more tasks. They said that was fine. However, after the account balance reached $5,500, customer service continued to block my withdrawal request. They said the reason was that I had attained the threshold to upgrade from a VIP1 account to a VIP2 account (threshold was $5000). So they said I needed to upgrade to VIP2. I said Ok. They did the upgrade and said because I had upgraded, I needed to complete 10 more tasks as VIP tasks come in sets of 40. I told them I just wanted to withdraw my funds. They said it was not optional. So I proceeded to complete the optimization tasks on 10 more apps. On the 10th app, it said I had hit a "lucky task" and I needed to add $8860 to complete the task and withdraw my money. At this point I realized for sure that they were manipulating the system.

Dollars Lost: $4500

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 27, 2025

Business Name Used: Dice Sensor Tower


Investment - Insured Life Invest Website

Originally I was introduced to a financial advisor of a person i met on tiktok. He was a scientist, had his own web page and he have even been on tv. I am not sure if he was honest and was been scammed or if he was part of it. He introduced me to a, what it sounded to me was of Asian origin. She introduced me to the company page and helped me to open an account and my first deposit through cashapp. But she would stress me a lot so I started contacting the company directly. One can go to their page and speak with someone there. From there, they will also asign you with your own agent. The agent starts contact with you on whatsapp. Also some times they will send you emails or you send them emails if you have a request or want to change something. On their webpage you get an account where you watch the recorded deposits plus you are allowed to invest. Once you send them money and is supposedly deposited to your account, from the page you can invest it in some bonuses that keep growing as you go up the investment conditions and directions on how to do it. Later you can add these fast type of investment to a larger one. They push it hard to convince you to make especial large deposits for other type of investments with the promise it will double. Once you get to the end of sending them all your funds which you see it add up in your account, then you can withdraw. When you do they will recommend a crypto wallet, but that they have full control of that wallet. They will send your funda to that wallet, but they will use a TESNET network to send the BTC to the wallet. I leaned later that any BTC sent on a TESTNET network means they are fake BTC. Once i had the fubda in the wllet, I try to withdraw but i was not allowed and will get emails from the supposedly wallet company requesting big amount of fund to them in order to be allowed to make transactions. I contacted Insured company and complaint about those problems and requested that they be responsable to withdraw the Btc back to my insured account. But when they did, they started requesting 30,000$ just to reactivate my account and withdraw the btc again. I never did send anymore funds. They keep telling me my funds are safe in my account and will have access to them as soon as I send them more funds.

Dollars Lost: $140000

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 27, 2025

Business Name Used: Insuredlifeinvest.Ltd/


Other - Online game scam

Signed up for a betting app due to a promo offering. Deposited $80 in funds via crypto and was unable to withdraw my $80 unless I deposited $150.

Dollars Lost: $80

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 27, 2025

Business Name Used: Winnaria


CryptoCurrency - W Communications

They claimed it was optimization of merchants products and we went through the process of clicking on things and then they always called for more money to be in crypto. When they called me for another $38,000 I said that’s enough. This is a scam. I don’t remember much about it. It was in 2024 that this happened.

Dollars Lost: $28000

Topeka, KS

Date Reported: July 26, 2025

Business Name Used: W Communications


Other

I am filing a formal complaint against **Motunex Gaming Company** (Motunex is owned and operated by Medium Rare N.V., registered address: Korporaalweg 10, Willemstad, Curaçao. Payment agent company is Medium Rare Limited with address 7-9 Riga Feraiou, LIZANTIA COURT, Office 310, Agioi Omologites, 1087 Nicosia, Cyprus and Registration number: HE 410775.and UFC,red bull racing,AFA, crypto gambling found tion) for engaging in a deceptive cryptocurrency scam. The company falsely advertised that a deposit of $200 in Bitcoin** would allow me to withdraw $3000. I didn't know about Bitcoin fees, (after I paid $200) the 1st deposit was $188.90. support told to deposit another $200+ THEN I can i withdraw $3188. I deposited $226.(after paying $240 ) I immediately went to withdraw and I received "wallet verification error msg ." No money. I immediately support who said on 7/22/25 " you need to deposit ANOTHER $200+ 1. Misleading Promotion: YouTube shorts video using 50cent AI IMAGE AND LIKENESS . Once on the site it said $3000 SPECIAL PROMO 50** Congratulations! You have become one of the lucky ones who took part in our promotion in honor of 50M users. Your prize ($3000) has been successfully credited to your balance, you can play on it or withdraw funds in any comfortable way ( by depositing $200 or more). 2. **Unfair Demand for Additional Payments:** 3. **Refusal Honor Promises:** - All attempts to contact the company help/support were always met with excuses: However, Saturday, 07/26/2025 The support person stated: "I have contacted the finance department and requested clarification on why the system is still requesting an additional deposit, despite the $226.77 deposit. I have emphasized that you were previously instructed to make a deposit of $200 or more and that you have fulfilled that requirement, and the wallet verification error is not your fault. I will provide you with an update as soon as I receive a response. I apologize again for the inconvenience and frustration this has caused. I will do everything I can to resolve this issue for you" - I believe this is a **deliberate scam** designed to steal money from victims. To get them to keep depositing $200+ in hopes of wallet validation. Which never will happen. **Financial Losses:** - Total Amount Lost: **$[$188.+$226+Bitcoin fees= $440]** - Payment Method: [ Bank debit card] 1. FTC has been notified. (**Motunex Gaming Company** Motunex is owned and operated by Medium Rare N.V., registered address: Korporaalweg 10, Willemstad, Curaçao. Payment agent company is Medium Rare Limited with address 7-9 Riga Feraiou, LIZANTIA COURT, Office 310, Agioi Omologites, 1087 Nicosia, Cyprus and Registration number: HE 410775.) for fraudulent business practices. 2. BBB Please Assist me in recovering lost BITCOIN/MONEY** if possible. 3. Warn the public to prevent further victims. I declare that the information provided is true to the best of my knowledge. **Sincerely,**

Dollars Lost: $440

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 26, 2025

Business Name Used: Motunex


Employment - Employment Task - Commissions Scam

I was contacted on WhatsApp said i could make some money by optimizing products and it got me when i was told i had a negative balance of 60 the first time so i did 2nd time it was 500 but i got my money back and like 100 or so dollars extra for what i put in but the last time it was even more 1000$ so me thinking i was going to mlake 2334 at the end i put my money in mind you its all through crypto, So i.do it and on the last task i was to complete a prize poped up said i won 43,000 dollars but now i have to put in 4234 to get my money, My so called mentor or the person try to scam you tells me she will help with half i tell her i would like to speak to a real person about the matter but no results and im out 1000$.

Dollars Lost: $1000

NJ

Date Reported: July 26, 2025

Business Name Used: Nextlefgas.cc


Other

Received a phone call about work from home part time, make easy money as a data product analyst to rate products. No actual ratings - just "click" and earn commissions. Started "'job" training on June 26, 2025. After a day of training, you can withdraw a small amount of money. By 6/28 was asked to deposit money into account to earn higher commissions. Started small $357 with the promise of getting $600. Added cash to Metamask, converted to crypto coins and transferred to work account crypto wallet. On 6/29 needed to add another $1530,00 to the account to earn $4894.74. Same procedure to deposit money, only done thru Cypto.coin.com. 6/30 needed to deposit another· $6814.75 to earn $17,356. Promised I would be able to withdraw ALL of the funds after making-the deposit. The additional funds were transferred thru PayPal and wire transfers to Cryto.com and Coinbase, 7/2 needed to add $32856 to get $50,000. Transfers were completed on 7/8. Not able to withdraw any money because I was at too low a level account. Told I would have to add another $35,000 to account before I could withdraw any money or upgrade account to VIP6 level. Did not have additional S35,000 so I upgraded to VIP6. Had to complete 5 more ''tasks'' before withdrawing money. Immediately told l needed to add another $75,000 to the account - Not possible. Looks like a scam to me!

Dollars Lost: $30000

Dover, NH- 03820

Date Reported: July 25, 2025

Business Name Used: Vestiairecollective contact person Rosa


CryptoCurrency

This company is using their creator “agency” (which I also think is non licensed as an agency) as a front for Crypto fraud + money laundering under a separate company called Reverse made under the COO (Juan Vargas [email protected] +49 173 39551264) of Xavvi. Some creators are linked to the Shekhinah Church that has been featured as the Netflix TikTok Cult “Dancing for the Devil” which also may be a money laundering scheme as well. I have reason to believe they have been attacking / defaming my business as well in reference to FBI report 2400930900488. SAS Studios worked in close relation to Xavvi Holdings LLC. Hacked my gmail with gov’t documents (see report) causing for damages and loss of business, The head of their creator program states (Jaylyn Handley): Xavvi News Chinese Company Xavvi Fake front - Exploiting Creator for Crypto “Investigative Report: Chinese Company Xavvi has confirmed Operations Exploiting Celebrities/Creators to Benefiting Crypto Venture ‘Reverse’ Recent claims have raised concerns that Xavvi, a social media management and creator engagement platform, may be operating as a front for a lesser-known crypto enterprise known as Reverse. According to internal sources and investigative findings, Xavvi’s true purpose may not align with its public-facing mission “to feed 1 million families.” Evidence suggests that the company’s COO, who also holds a founding role in Reverse, may be leveraging Xavvi’s creator recruitment and engagement strategies to funnel passive value—whether in data, influence, or capital—into the growth of the crypto venture. These claims have sparked debate within the creator community, many of whom were unaware of Xavvi’s alleged secondary agenda. Critics argue that the creators, drawn to Xavvi under promises of exposure, monetization, and opportunity, are being unwittingly exploited to build infrastructure and visibility for Reverse—without full transparency or consent. This developing story invites questions about ethical business practices, data use in creator platforms, and the growing intersection between social media influence and cryptocurrency ecosystems.“

Dollars Lost: $5000

Los Angeles, CA- 90017

Date Reported: July 24, 2025

Business Name Used: Xavvi Holdings LLC


Phishing

Dr. Benson Charlie, with assistance Martha Violet and assistant Devin Spenser pose as Fidelity Investor employees and are trying to help Fidelity get more business by offering a 3 month free trial. After the trial any profit you make Fidelity will charge 20% of your profits. They send you a link to use: https://h5.asicsit.com/#/pages/trade/index and a invitation code. The continue to say you can use whichever exchange you prefer but you might not have access to the same crypto coins they use. They have over 40 people on the whatsapp messaging group letting you know how Dr. Benson Charlie analyzes the market and the reason you should trade a "LONG" or a "SHORT" he was approx. 90% correct with every trading he analyzed. People on the group chat start to post there winnings on the group chart so the one tries it also by putting money into a crypto trading platform, which you will then submit the crypto currency into this website: https://h5.asicsit.com/#/pages/trade/index. It looks like you are making money so they start to pushing on you investing more money so that you can make more money. The group chat has a lot of information on why the crypto currency market is doing what it is doing and they multiple times say crypto currency trading had different regulations from regular market trading. They introduce Whale trading for about 3 weeks in a roll, 3 times a week and they come up with an "idea" on how Dr. Charlie and his team can create a whale trading plan. He follows thru with it and puts it into play. Obviously forcing everyone to use this website in order to participate. Throughout the whole thing they continue to push on investing more money because the payout will be worth it. The moment you try and withdraw your money back out of the website it fails and it does not matter how many times you try to withdraw it will not let you. All of a sudden everyones accounts on the website are frozen and you have to pay 5% of the money that is in the website in order for it to be unfrozen so that you can take your money out. If you do not pay the fine then you will be legally prosecuted for the full amount and you will not be able to withdraw any of the money. I obviously did not pay the rediculous amount but people on the groupchat were saying that they did pay and the account was unfrozen. I believe multiple people on the website are more than likely some type of computer answering and inputting on the whatsapp group chat what real people want to hear. i tried contacting people by the phone number that was listed on the whatsapp and I would not get a reply. When I would get back on to the website you can see where others are making trades starting at 19:00 everyday except for on Saturday's. Dr. Charlie would say this family/relaxing time.

Dollars Lost: $35000

NY

Date Reported: July 24, 2025

Business Name Used: Posing As: Fidelity Investors


Employment - Employment

Offer for work that pays in Crypto, but requires a "refundable deposit"

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 24, 2025

Business Name Used: zyvorell


Other

LSSC presents itself as a crypto investment platform or mining operation offering unusually high returns within short periods. Users are invited to invest in “equipment” or “plans” that supposedly generate cryptocurrency income. The platform is often promoted as a “community project” or “national movement,” luring investors with: • Guaranteed returns (e.g., 20–30% in a week) • Daily withdrawal promises • Referral bonuses and team-building incentives • Emotional marketing with testimonies of people who’ve “upgraded their lives” through the platform ? ? How It Works (Scam Mechanics): 1. Recruitment-Based Model: Members are encouraged to bring in others to grow the network and unlock bonuses. 2. Equipment Upgrades: Investors are urged to purchase or “upgrade” virtual mining equipment that supposedly earns more money. 3. Fake Rewards and Withdrawals: Initially, users can withdraw small amounts to build trust. 4. Sudden Restrictions: Eventually, withdrawals are delayed or blocked entirely. 5. Exit Phase: The platform either disappears, freezes accounts, or makes excuses like “system upgrades” or “regulatory issues.”

Dollars Lost: $3000

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 23, 2025

Business Name Used: LSSC


Employment

I was contacted about a work at home job. The job was all on the phone simple tasks of screen shooting web pages. With a daily task to purchase crypto currency’s and receive a profit

Dollars Lost: $1000

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 23, 2025

Business Name Used:


Bank/Credit Card Company Imposter - Paypal Imposter - Fake Fraud Alert Notice - Phishing Scam

The scammer emailed me twice representing itself to be PayPal [email protected]. When I "hovered" on the email address to confirm if it seemed legitimately to be coming from PayPal, the hovered e-address also read as [email protected], so it looked legit but still felt wrong. The emails claimed to be notifying me of suspicious payments to Gemini.com--a different payment in each email---and each email specified a different phone number to call to stop payment: (805) 500-6267 and (805) 500-6859. Both numbers looked suspicious. I went online to google Gemini.com, (805) area code, the 2 (805) numbers, and a legit number to call PayPal. Gemini is ID'd as a crypto seller. The numbers are confirmed ID'd as scams naming PayPal as the source. Per PayPal instrux, I forwarded the phony emails to [email protected] and deleted the original emails. The really tricky part is how the email address seemed to check out. This level of sophistication is very scary.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 23, 2025

Business Name Used:


Phishing

Email said was crypto order paid for via PayPal. Email btw is not one I use for PayPal. Had a number to call if concerns about the order. I checked PayPal and saw no activity.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

San Jose, CA- 95111

Date Reported: July 23, 2025

Business Name Used: Stripe - IMPOSTER


Phishing

I lost money in a crypto scam and was approached on social media vthat they could help me get it back. So they said they traced it to an overseas platform and he went it and got it back but the platform said I need to deposit 18597.00 to verify my account but I did not do it .

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Malibu, CA- 90263

Date Reported: July 23, 2025

Business Name Used: Brian Anthony Link


Investment

I was reached out to by a Lambo Raul fro The social media handle official_lambo_raul0 he quickly moved our conversation to*** and use the email [email protected] he asked me for a down payment for a sum of 10,000. I sent the 250. He put me in touch with his manager who he calls Tony George. The number he gave me was +(305) 389-7652 and he later gave me his email as [email protected]. He said he worked with crypto. Com and cloud crypto, he also said he worked with OKX platform. The asked for more money. I told them no, they asked for more, I explained I couldn’t do that. They were sending me fake verification emails from [email protected]. This was horrible.

Dollars Lost: $1466

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 23, 2025

Business Name Used: Crypto/ cloud Crypto /cashapp/ Venmo


Bank/Credit Card Company Imposter - Bank/Credit Card Company Imposter

This scam involved a fake bank and a gold inheritance fraud. I was contacted by someone claiming to be affiliated with a financial institution (with an official-looking website) and told that I was the beneficiary of a large gold inheritance. The scammer used fake legal documents, bank websites, and forged court communications to build trust. They claimed the gold had to be shipped internationally and I was required to pay several "processing" and "logistics" fees, including: Gold transportation fees U.S. Customs clearance and tax fees Federal court filing fees Legal representation costs Insurance and delivery guarantees Each payment was framed as urgent and essential to receive the inheritance. Over time, the scammer fabricated new obstacles that required additional payments. I paid through [insert method, e.g. crypto currency / wire transfer], and was continuously pressured to send more money to avoid “legal consequences.” Eventually, I realized that the entire story was fabricated, and the inheritance did not exist. The bank and law firm websites they used were fraudulent and designed to deceive. Please be aware: Any unsolicited message about an inheritance involving gold, legal claims, or international fees is likely a scam. Always verify independently with a real attorney or government agency.

Dollars Lost: $800000

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 23, 2025

Business Name Used: midlandbank


Phishing

I received a text telling me my Apple Pay was charged $142.22 and if it wasn’t me call the number they gave in the text. I called and they had me download Moon Pay, trust crypto and bitcoin wallet, and something that gave them assess to my phone. The man told me the person using my Apple Pay has my social security number and “to help me make sure he fixed the problem” he had my send money from my Apple Pay to the apps he had me download. When I did it said declined so I thought good now no one can get into my account. Then he told me to make sure my money is safe I need to go to the bank and withdraw $2000, almost everything I had in the bank. He said he’ll stay on the phone with me. He said something about a bitcoin ATM. I called a friend to add to the call once I got to my bank. My friend said go into the bank and talk to them. The scammer told me do not get out of my car go through the drive through. I went inside my bank and they confirmed it was a scam. The scammer had me put my social security number into the apps, my birthday, picture of my debit card that was linked to my Apple Pay and he had me take a picture of both sides of my drivers license and a picture of myself using one of the apps.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 22, 2025

Business Name Used: Apple pay-Imposter


CryptoCurrency - Assetvate

This company AssetVate is a scam. As i look at reviews, i noticed that the they were using 2 people names for different companies which had nothing to do with the business and gave the same review but different wording. Also they were claiming they will help with crypto currency by helping you build it up but all they are doing is taking money. If you want to withdraw you have to pay a heavy fee of what you want to withdraw. You have to pay within a certain amount of days if not they will add an extra fee for it. They will respond within a week and will not help in anyway. They have a telegram and WhatsApp but will not respond. They have a phone number but its disconnected. Do not go to Assetvate.com for any reason

Dollars Lost: $200000

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 22, 2025

Business Name Used: Assetvate


Employment - Employment Task Scam - Crypto Commissions

Sure Oaks Scammers 2025 They start off having some text your phone claiming it is a work from home job. My person claimed her name was Lilith. I was desperate because I had some financial hardship and needed money fast. The person represents themselves as a trainer. Then they contact you on What’s App. They tell you about their system of course as a marketing company stating that you will be optimizing products for various companies, you never get to speak to not one-person face to face or on the phone. They even have a review site of course. I should have known but again I was desperate, lost my job and my car died on the highway while doing to freelance calls thru my company. You have to create a profile with the Sure Oak website that is set up to look like a marking company that provisions products of all types of products. Once you are all setup using Cash App as a money reloader for the App balance tru their so-called customer service. **** I feel stupid. I never trusted Cash App and my desperation led me to trust these criminals. They have use a What’s App chat and one person claiming to be your trainer!! My scam B was called Lilith Dang, I feel stupid. Each time you load up using Cash App transferring your cash to bitcoin the CS request you to show them your balance in Bitcoin and send you a bitcoin address to their Sure Oak app after set up you click a start button and then it looks to be scanning products, you then click complete on each Order and the order gives you a small commission. The scammer Lilith scams you thru the whole process using the fake customer server rep to get you to load your money into this app. This is how they build your trust. your first cash load is only $100 Then after a few days of making small amount s of money and you see it working via your cash app bitcoin via to thier so called Customer Service, they keep this up until you increase the amount to lets say $200 the app takes that money and locks it down in their withdraw section where you cannot withdraw until you complete 2 sets of 40 product provisions. As you keep this trans action up they pay until you increase your money transactions thru their so called service desk. All the time asking you to send screen shots of your cash app bitcoin purchases. Once you add more money to up the ante The app sucks up all the money and ask for you to reload to complete your set of orders. When I got up to about $200 the app kept eating up the money and not allowing you to withdraw at this time. You don’t see a problem with it because you were making smaller amounts of money that actually paid. So when you up the money transaction above $100 the system doesn’t let you finish your orders without adding money. Because your money balance is frozen until you complete the 2 sets of orders per day you add money to complete the orders so you can get your money back it keeps increasing the balance making the product orders more very high, the more your click the more you get so called "Lucky Orders" the more you load the higher the so called Lucky Order increase, mean while you are just trying to finish so you can cash out like you have been. I knew something ws up after the order started to suck up my money with less and less clicks to complete. I already had around $300 to $400 frozen in my account so I despritly added $500 just to I can complete the order sets to get my money back but the adding the $500 brought my balance to like $900 increasing the price of the product so now when you complete the orders it sucked up the $900 half way thru completion and you can’t get your money back until you complete the order. Now they send your orders that are $2000 for each product and that high amount eats up you money in 2 clicks and now you cant complete the order because the $2000 so-called Lucky Order now doubles asking you to load another $1400. Who has that just laying around. After I got to $900 I knew I was geting scammed. I could not load any more money because I could not pay the $1400. This is such a horrible scam an it is set up to get you to put in more and more money to get your money unfrozen, which will never happen. Not sure what will happen if you play the fool again and add more money, they got me but I wasn’t that Nieve. After that when you expose them to be scammers in the group chat and the fake customer server rep they start getting nasty and just repeating the same request which is to add money or the companies of the products you are so call provisioning will sue you if you don’t complete the task. That’s when I went ballistic and that when the cursing started. The group chat is filled with chats from fake people chatting about their so called Lucky Orders and earning from them telling you to just add more money!!! I am livid and I want them exposed. The lucky orders is how they get you and trap your money because you cant pay any more and I lost all of my money and the money and some money my family to help me pay to release my money by finishing the process to get my $900 back. My total balnced climb to -$1400 or so to reload. I was cursed out calling my mother curse name I can’t repeat. I want to say more but I guess you must know how I felt at this point. The trainer went off saying things I can repeat in this statement. If I was face to face with them all it would have went very bad for them all, whoever this so-called trainer was lost her mind as we cursed back and forth. I am now out of $900 and I am sure they scammed people for way way more. The group chat, customer service and that ***** ** ****  trainer all were in on it of course and all started to get nasty and kept repeating the same phases to pay and they will just release my money, that is how I knew I got, GOT!

Dollars Lost: $1000

Brooklyn, NY- 11201

Date Reported: July 22, 2025

Business Name Used: Sure Oak


Employment - Remotasks.cc

Company required a crypto deposit to be able to perform app optimization for commisions per task. All tasks had to be finished before funds consisting of deposit plus earnings could be withdrawn. In the middle of performing last set of tasks i was given a supposedly "lucky task" paying a much higher commisson but requiring a much larger deposit. I managed to scrounge up the funds for this and continued to complete my optimizations only to have another "lucky task" appear 3 tasks before completion. This task required a further deposit of $4777 which I did not have. I was advised i would forfeit all money already deposited and earned if i did not deposit the additional funds. They offered to pay half but still insisted other half had to come from me. They further refused to either reset tasks or skip lucky task. I cannot withdraw my funds of $4222 without making a deposit of $2388.

Dollars Lost: $4000

CA

Date Reported: July 22, 2025

Business Name Used: Remotasks.cc


CryptoCurrency - CryptoCurrency

This was a crypto scam. XAI I lost $1000 URL — https://myxailaunch.com/presale/

Dollars Lost: $1000

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 21, 2025

Business Name Used: XAI


CryptoCurrency - ABTFund.com

I initially tried purchasing crypto for the first time. In February, 2025 I invested $360 Canadian money ($250 US). Then the Trading folks had me take out $50 to show me how the money comes safetly into our bank account. After that, in order to obtain more trades every day and make more profit, we invested $6000.00 Cdn. I had checked for scams online. Didn't find any before these investments. In June, we were considering additional investments, but checked online again. That was when I found Michael Crawford from ABTFund had scammed another person in May. I found that on TrustPilot. And the other person that I dealt with frequently is Bianca Barco. I informed them that I wanted to withdraw. They said that they needed a day or two to prepare the account for withdrawal. Then they said to input $2956 into Crypto.com to initiate the withdrawl. After a few days of the money not there, they said to do it again. I had read online that sometimes it does take a time or two. I added an additional $2956. Then called Crypto.com. Crypto.com confirmed that there was no funds in the account, except for the last $2956 deposited. And indicated that it appeared to be a SCAM. The 2nd deposit to Crypto.com was returned. They are also happy to cooperate with the authorities with my SCAM.

Dollars Lost: $9300

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 21, 2025

Business Name Used: ABTFund.com


Investment - investment

RUN RUN RUN RUN! ZINA JONES, MARIETTA, OK. MAKES FRIENDS WITH YOU ON FACEBOOK AND TELLS YOU SHE IS NOW A CERTIFIED BLOCK CHAIN SPECIALIST AND CAN HELP YOU MAKE MONEY EASILY IN CRYPTO WITH THIS PARTICULAR COMPANY. SHE POSTS TONS OF PICTURES OF PEOPLE HOLDING SIGNS THANKING HER FOR GETTING THEM INVOLVED OR BUYING THEIR HOME OR PAYING OFF THEIR DEBT AND EVEN SOME VIDEOS. SHE POSTS REALLY NICE THANK NOTES AND TALKS ABOUT HOW EVERYONE SHOULD BE INVOLVED AND TO CALL HER TODAY. SHE IS NOTHING MORE THAN A EFFING LIAR AND THIEF AND THE WHOLE COMPANY IS THIEVES. WAIT TILL THEY GET A VISIT FROM A FRIEND IN MAMMOTH SPRINGS...UNLESS COUSIN GUIDO GETS THERE FIRST. THEY HAVE SEVERAL PROGRAMS FOR THE AMOUNT OF MONEY YOU CHOOSE TO INVEST AND THE INTEREST RATES ARE GOOD OR REALLY GREAT! YOU HAVE TO KEEP THE MONEY IN THERE SOME TIMES A WEEK, WHICH I SHOULD HAVE TRIED FIRST, SOMETIMES A MONTH OR 3 MONTH OR 6 MONTHS DEPENDING ON THE PROGRAM YOU CHOOSE AND THE INTEREST RATE LEVEL. THEY TELL YOU THERE IS A 15% FEE WHEN YOU WANT TO WITHDRAW. FAIR IF YOU MAKE $300K OFF OF $30K; HOWEVER, THEY DO NOT TELL YOU THAT YOU HAVE TO PAY THAT FEE TO THEM TO GET YOUR MONEY. NEVER HEARD OF SUCH A THING AND LARA SPENCER KEEPS TELLING ME YOUR ALMOST THERE. OF COURSE, I WANT AT LEAST MY MONEY BACK. WELL, THEY LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE LIE. I HAD THEM REDUCE THE FEE TO 5% AND THEY COULD TAKE THE RESTOF THE MONEY OUT OF THE $330K+ BALANCE. THEY AGREED. I STOPPED THE TRADING ALMOST A YEAR AGO BECAUSE THE FEE WOULD HAVE BEEN $50K OR MORE. IT HAS BEEN A YEAR AND I CANNOT AFFORD THEIR 5% FEE ANYMORE. I ASKED FOR MY MONEY AND ALL I GET IS WHEN YOU PAY THE FEE YOU WILL TALK TO MR. DENIS REID WHO WILL TRANSFER THE MONEY TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT AND NOT CRYPTO AS I HAD ASKED. THEY ARE LYING. ZINA JONES OF MARIETTA, OK. WATCH YOUR BACK BECAUSE I AM SPREADING THE WORD THAT YOU ARE DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THIS SCAM. I ALSO FOUND HER HOME IN MARIETTA, OK, WHICH I AM ABOUT AN HOUR FROM. IT IS A DUMP. FOR SOMEONE MAKING SO MUCH MONEY, HOW IS THAT POSSIBLY. ALSO, MY CASH APP ACCOUNT WAS MYSTERIOUSLY SHUT DOWN FOR NOW REASON OTHER THAN VIOLATION OF POLICY AND WEALTHWISE IS THE ONLY ONE I WAS DONG BUSINESS WITH. SO CASH APP IS ALSO AWARE OF THIS SCAM AND IS ALSO RESPONSIBLE AND SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN AND MADE TO RETURN ALL FEES INVOLVED IN ANY TRANSACTION WITH WEALTHWISE BROKERS. ALL MONEY SHOULD BE RETURNED AND ALL OF THEM SHOULD GO TO JAIL FOR FRAUD, THEFT, SCAMS, GRAND LEFT, EMBEZZLEMENT, GRAND LARCENY AND THE FBI WILL BE CALLED BUT THEY ARE PRETTY USELESS THESES DAYS, PREYING ON OLDER PEOPLE AND TAKING THEIR RETIREMENT MONEY. I HOPE YOU ALL DIE BY AN ILLEGAL ALIEN THAT COMES AND KICKS YOUR ASS YOU OR AT LEAST STEALS EVERY DIME YOU HAVE STOLEN FROM ALL OF US. ZINA JONES WILL GO TO **** ALONG WITH ALL HER COMRADES AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT TOOK THESE PICTURES THAT ARE FAKE...YOU ARE GOING TO **** AS WELL FOR HELPING HER. BECAUSE THEY GOT MY CASH APP SHUT DOWN; THEY WANTED ME TO GO TO A DIFFERENT CRYPTO. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE A PAYMENT TO THE BANK. NO NO NO. I HAD TO ZELLE IT TO A DIFFERENT PERSON EVERY TIME AND I ASKED OVER AND OVER DO YOU NOT HAVE AN ADDRESS FOR THE BANK TO SEND THIS MONEY TO. WELL I WAS A DUMB ASS AND WANTED MY MONEY. TODAY, CHASE REFUSED TO PAY ANY MONEY TO THEM ANYMORE. THEY SAID THEY ARE A SCAM AND TO GET A HOLD OF THE PROPER AUTHORITIES. OH, I WILL GET THE PROPER AUTHORITIES...I AM ITALIAN AFTER ALL AND THEY WILL BE REPORTED TO THE GOVERNING DIVISIONS OVER THIS. IT IS CYBERFRAUD. A HUGE PENALTY COMES WITH THIS. I HATE THEM AND **** **** *** *** * ********* *****.

Dollars Lost: $330000

Mammoth Lakes, CA- 93546

Date Reported: July 21, 2025

Business Name Used: WEALTHWISE BROKERS ZINA JONES LARA SPENCER DENIS REID


Employment

You have to send money in via crypto to gain an interest reward. These percentages are based on the program’s value. For example, if a program is valued at $1000, 1.5% equals $15, and 10% equals $100 Company Name: Publift Job Overview: • Publift is focused on expanding its network of partnered businesses. To support this growth, we're leveraging a cutting edge automated survey system designed to streamline operations and enhance program performance through real user feedback Your Role: • As a Survey Data & Feedback Coordinator, your primary responsibility will be to manage and upload feedback using our work dashboard. The goal is to ensure high quality, consistent feedback that helps improve the effectiveness of various programs Compensation Structure: • Base Salary: $660 per week • Performance Bonus: Additional daily earnings ranging from $150 to $350+, depending on your consistency and performance • Work Hours: Flexible only 45 minutes to 1 hour per day is required Work Flexibility: • This is a freelance position with no fixed working hours or location. You can easily manage it alongside your primary job or daily routine.

Dollars Lost: $1000

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 21, 2025

Business Name Used:


Investment

Crypto Trading Scam ? Now Under CYSEC Investigation ? No U.S. Action Yet ?? I?m sharing this to warn others and draw attention to what appears to be a coordinated international crypto trading scam targeting U.S. investors ? now under investigation by regulators in Cyprus. In May 2025, I was recruited into a so-called trading group called ?Wealth Compass Club 71? led by a woman named Haleigh Rogers, promoting a platform called OEXN (domains used: oexnn.cc, oexnus.cc). The scheme operated as follows: - I was directed to deposit over $26,000 via wire transfers to shell companies like: - Gold Circuit Trading - PrivToolkit Limited - PrimaloFit Inc - I was promised automated trading support and withdrawal of profits. - After generating ?profits,? I was blocked from withdrawing unless I paid a $20,000 ?large withdrawal channel? fee. - I later discovered that: - No withdrawal rules were disclosed in advance. - The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has confirmed the platform is malicious and fraudulent. - CySEC has launched an investigation and confirmed the use of impersonated domains and fake regulation.

Dollars Lost: $26000

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 20, 2025

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Investment - Daosflrtrustlines.com

I went to claim flare network airdrop and they took all my crypto currency

Dollars Lost: $32000

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 20, 2025

Business Name Used: Daosflrtrustlines.com


CryptoCurrency - I sent crypto to a wallet in exchange for tokens to Elon Musks AI cryptocurrency. I never received the tokens.

The website was recommended by several YouTubers. I sent crypto to a wallet in exchange for tokens to Elon Musks AI cryptocurrency. I never received the tokens.

Dollars Lost: $11000

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 20, 2025

Business Name Used: Xa19


Investment

The scammer was on ticktock. The scammer attempted to pry on my love life in order to interest me in crypto. The scammer had me download trust to buy bitcoin and then trade through https://www.idealpips.online/home…with Bitcoin in to then invest in the stock. He has a fake account on ticktock under the false name Peron Browne. He has videos of someone talking about investing and how the money market has changed their life. He also uses the person’s video ??8-figure Investor and Hedge Fund Owner. I asked the scammer to call me several times and finally when he called he sounded nothing like the videos on ticktock. The voice was not the same. The scammer would talk through telegram and you could not reach the scammer the scammer could only reach out to you. The scammer with the current information is blocked from contacting me. The website the scammer had me “trade” on is now being reconstructbed.

Dollars Lost: $100

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 19, 2025

Business Name Used: Peron Browne


Romance

I met woman on TikTok who asked me if I wanted to invest in cryptocurrency. I was curious about and she said she could help me invest with $100. After she walked me through the process on Telegram, she asked me to switch over to WhatsApp to continue with the business. While there she asked if I could add an additional $100.00 dollars and I did to increase earnings. Last night she informed me that she some important news from her investment team. We can enter the ETH/USDT30S investment market, and the profit of each order will be 100%. If you have spare funds, I suggest you add them to your investment account, which will be a great help for tomorrow's investment. Then I added $500 dollars. So I became suspicious and contacted the crypto site www.quipmen.com, cold wallet, chat and customer service but to no avail.

Dollars Lost: $700

Miami, FL

Date Reported: July 19, 2025

Business Name Used: WendyZhou Lin


Online Purchase - Resorts World Imposter - Online Gaming Scam - Instagram Ads

They posted on instagram as an ad saying they were a casino in queens Resort world new mobile gambling app. I signed up put money in played and when it came time to withdraw my winnings they made it extremely difficult to impossible to withdraw I still have not been able to withdraw winnings from them. Further more they want me to email all my personal information to some random email [email protected] there is no phone number to call and they refuse to give me my money back I sent them money using my debit card and crypto transaction. Neither form of which they want to honor in sending back even tho I have earnings in there app

Dollars Lost: $50

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 18, 2025

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