I didn’t pay. The platform is still working you can find it as --not listing a potentially fraudulent url--
But if i read your posts correctly you DID invest with them, but when you wanted to withdraw they asked you for more money to pay for "taxes" (eventough they could have used part of your money they already had), and you DID pay those "taxes". Then they apparently still didn't want to release the funds (because you say your friend had to help you?
) and now they're asking a ridiculous amount of money as a "warranty".
Now ask yourself: why would they need cryptocurrency as a "warranty" to give you your own money back? There simply isn't any reason to do so... If they were legit, they would have taken the taxes from your money they already had access to, and maybe they'd force you to go trough a KYC procedure... There simply isn't any reason to ask for more money, cause this will prove nothing... What would they be doing? You give them $20k, they then proceed to give you your own money back and the $20k extra? Is having $20k a sign of honesty? For them, asking such an amount would prove nothing and it would solve nothing... The only thing it solves is their scam methodology.
There are multiple red flags here:
- continuously asking for more money because they won't release your money if you don't pay them more money first (pro tip: if somebody asks you to pay money in order to get money, it's 99,9999% certain that it's a scam)
- domain is only 89 days old
- hidden whois info
I can be wrong, but after looking at that site, it was pretty hard to navigate, the wording seemed strange to me, the proceeds seems relatively high... All in all, i'm pretty sure this is a scam. You're free to do whatever you want, but if it was my money, i'd go straight to the cops and i certainly wouldn't give those guys any more money.