Topic: Have I been Scammed?? - page 3. (Read 735 times)

The motive for this type of fraud is very neatly designed before they look for potential victims. Contacting members of a telegram group is a wrong action, because most of the group members are part of the fraudster. Next time, before making a suspicious investment like this, you should first look for information about the legality of their site. You can ask about the Telegram group called Worklite Uni Options here before investing there, most of the members on the Bitcointalk forum, especially the senior ones, will try to give good advice so that you don't become their victim.

It was most likely not even a woman.
The funds you sent have likely been directed to their pockets straight from the start.  No investment, no nothing.

I am baffled at how many people are scammed by this kind of scheme.  How do they trust a stranger so much?  No body knows something negative about me.  Does this mean any body here would do business with me with no proper research and stuff?  I doubt so.  Not the reputable Members of the Forum at least.

Hopefully this was a cheap lesson to learn.  Do not trust strangers.  Jesus Christ, is it this necessary to repeat this every time to adults!

All these things you are mentioning, I have never heard any of them before, and it is very unfortunate that you just came across a telegram channel and you joined, although you did not specify the main thing that they are doing in that group. You just said you, and after 21 days, they ask you for some code to verify your profit. At this point, why did you not think twice before making these decisions? Because there is no way someone will come and ask for a code to verify what you have gained in your investment, and you will give it out, which is bad.

See, in these cryptos, everything you want to do is just do it yourself, whether trading or investing. You may not have some funds to handle when you are able to do so, so just sit down and learn the process of what you want to do, but many people are too lazy to learn, which is why they get scammed. Just like what happened to you now without wasting much time in your thread, you have been scammed. Don't try these next time. Just try and learn what you want to do.

It is good to be cautious when it comes to investment opportunities that seem too good to be true. And everyone knows ponzi schemes often rely on promising higher returns with no effort required from the investor only to disappear with the money once they collect the money according to their taste. By the way It is good to educate oneself about potential scams and protect them from fall victim to such schemes. And it is always be good to be safe other than sorry when it comes to investing money.

Possibly most of the scene is a scam, they direct you to a different platform, offering a good-to-be-true profit, you don't need anything and let them handle it. Make a return after one cycle of investment. They are just letting their investors know that they are not scams. If you see it like this, it is better to step away it's just a Ponzi scheme. Based on your story, it seems like that moderator will not bring back anything, feel sorry for your money this could be a charge to experience to you. This lesson on your side is better to make yourself knowledgeable about the possible scams, and attacks so you can protect yourself and even your money.

Abnormal  the condition is not what your started with before, in case like this one don't need prophet to tell it's a scam, I search on my telegram but have not seen such name. Not all transactions or work on telegram is genuine many scammers use telegram mostly some airdrop and presale if shiltcoin and altcoin.

The handwriting was crystal clear on the wall when he was promised a big reward in a few days if he invests in their project, nobody gives free money on the internet, they've got family and friends, except it's a Ponzi. So clearly they'll pay the early investors so they can advertise and rate them legit, and as investors increases, they'll give unrealistic conditions before they'll claim their reward and eventually they'll vanish. Let the OP minimize his lose and not contact the crony contact that was given to him, unless another phase of scam will continue from there.

This sounds like the kind of stories and complains I hear almost all the time both in real life and also on the social space. You need to know that there are several ideas used by those scammers and you also have to be very (very!!) Smart while on the internet space. You will come across several scams and they will look very real and legit, only if you act smart, then you will not become their victim.

Because of this kinds of stories and also from experience, I created these two topics.

Unless the prime suspect is caught, everyone is a suspect.
Social media is a breeding ground for scamers, be intelligent while you explore

The more you know, the less chance of being scammed! I hope that's what you wanted to say in your last sentence.

You are not wrong, scammers nowadays are definitely smarter and more sophisticated than ever before.  Their elaborate schemes can trick even savvy folks if we're not careful.  But we can beat them at their own game by asking tons of questions and really doing our homework before sending money or sharing personal information. 

So, Olufav is also right when he says that it is important to ask questions. We really do gotta stay sharp out there by verifying things, trusting our gut feelings, and not being afraid to poke holes in slick stories from strangers. If someone wants your money or data, make them work for it!

In one way or another we have to pay for our ignorance and lack of right information. No offense  mate, you have just been scammed.
Those other persons you claim to have contact within the telegram group are either a multiple accounts of same person (scammer) or accounts of his colleagues in the scamming business. They have a kind of alliance where they act like neutral members in each owned telegram group and when you as a totally different catch (victim) makes the mistake of being added into the group through any link it's easy for you to fall hearing from the testimonials of others in the group you might be thinking are just common different persons in the platform, not knowing they are a clique. And secondly, it may not be a she, it could be a she claiming to be a female.

There is no TVN anywhere, in fact, such program doesn't exist if you must know. Take it as a loss, and avoid making a second loss by not bothering yourself to contact whosoever she asked you to contact as a programmer. It could still be same person or one of her co-scammer which it's evident that you will be asked to pay another money for the TVN to be made available to you.

If you make a mistake to pay for the TVN to be given which I strongly believe it won't be giving to you but rather they will redirect you to another person for another requirements who will also request you pay money still. And the circle will keep going till you get tired and forgo but by then your losses would have been multiple.

How do I know this? I have seen and also had direct many experiences of similar nature. So I know what am saying, but Op if you doubt you could still give yours a shot.

Unfortunately, you have been scammed. Reaching out to telegram users with randomly-named accounts like this is a common way to scam people. Especially if they start talking to you about investing your money on some site you've never heard of.

My suggestion is to not reply to those kind of people if they say Hello or anything like that. Just ignore them so that they leave you alone.

Telegram investment and you said you couldn't find anything bad? Is there anything worse than investing with someone on telegram? Absolutely none! Unless you are new to internet, everyone knows Telegram as a scam zone. From your narration, it's very obvious you have been scammed and an attempt to recover that funds might lead to more fund being lost. There's no investment in crypto other than HODL. It baffle me how people seek for cure when there's opportunity to prevent the incident. I assume you know this forum exists but you wait until you get scammed before coming to ask for help. You could have come here to ask before proceeding to invest if you truly did a throughly research.

It actually hurts when you fall victim to things like this and I hope it is not a huge amount. The good thing about this experience is that you can never repeat such mistake again unless you willingly want to. You lost some resources but experience is gain in return and also led you to where more knowledge about crypto is being discussed every day. There is virtually no platform that is completely scam free but such cases are rare here but don't send money to anyone for investment of any kind. However, you can seek advice for guidance on investment in case you want to venture into any kind.

This is the fishiest part of the scam, which is why all those that you did research on told you that it worked and was not a scam. Two things might be involved: either those you review and research are together with the scammer, or they also didn’t discover yet that it is a scam. That is why they assured you about the scheme, because not only you but many other people have been victims of such scams, which I usually discourage them from stopping because I take it as greediness. What I mean by greed is that when you are brought to or referred to the group, they will ask you to invest a token. After you do that, they will still say that you should also refer other people so that you can get more bonuses. This is how they usually do it to get more clients that they will scam. And that is the point I see as the greedy point because, even though you need people to refer you, you still tell them the scheme is reliable and trustworthy. They have been working for several years, which you know is just a lie. You are doing it to get a bonus.
 
I have already studied this type of pounzi scheme for a long time because many of my friends have been victims, and they will try to refer me, but when I discover that it is a scam, I won’t involve myself in it. How the scammers usually do it is that they will create an app or a website, then upload their information to make all researchers look doomed, then they will create a telegram or WhatsApp group, and then the first client they have, the scammer will start paying them to benefit.
 
Because if you invest, you are not going to work; the only work they do is refer others, so when they keep paying their clients, their clients will feel like the scheme deserves to be a good one, not a scam. That is when the scammers will be getting more and more clients to invest. After the scammer gets the amount he wants, that is when he will start telling you that all the money you have in the scheme wallet can’t be removed unless you follow some procedures. That is when he will scatter everything and end up running because no one knows him.
 
So any mistake in life is a lesson, so mate, don’t feel bad, take this experience as a lesson, and take care next time not to trust in this nature again. 

It seems to me like you don't understand the extent to which scammers go. 2024. Do you think they're dumb? It's their job to outsmart or rather, manipulate people. Do you think they cannot answer a shallow question as that. These people run fake companies, so there has to be a foundation on which it is built, because the intention is to be deceitful.
If you seriously think this, then you are at risk too.
You could be scammed if you are told where the money is going.
The thing is, the money doesn't go there. That's why it's a scam.
The more you know

For sure you just got scammed and I doubt that you still going to get your money back since you already sent it to them, I mean there are tons of scammers, especially on the telegram platform that is doing this kind of thing, similar to this one that is someone asking for investment, It was a pretty basic way to scam people in telegram asking cryptocurrency investments. There are already tons of cases that is similar to this one so for sure your included in it already.

I mean that was pretty obvious that it was a scam, you can't just trust anyone on Telegram since you don't really know him, It's already a thing that Telegram has a lot of these scammers so it was obvious already from the start If you wanted to invest on cryptocurrency and Bitcoin what you need to do is invest on your own do your own research and never let anyone invest for you. Doing some kind of research or background check for sure is not going to work especially on Telegram, it is very easy to make an account on Telegram so searching about there made up names and companies is your not going to find anything about it so there will be no reviews something like that. You should have been extra careful because you don't really know these people, I mean just searching this Worklite Uni Options company thing on Google doesn't even appear any kind of website so that's already a red flag, you should never give or invest some money, you should only do it by yourself.

To you and anyone who stumbles across this text. If for any reason, after depositing for an 'investment' with an online company, you are told of any extra payments, which was not made known to you, prior to the deposit, dont let them scam you again. It's clear as day that it's a scam. Even as you said you did your background check and everything was good, it's just one of two things.. the scammers were really good, or you did a poor check.
Asking group members if they had received profits seems like a rational thing to do, you may just be texting one of the scammer's/scammers' many accounts.
For example, you are scammed. Who do you take legal actions against? There was no entity presented from the start.
Bottom line is you've been scammed.

Yeah, for sure, post that stuff if you can.  Putting out her messages and wallet ID and whatnot would totally help other folks not get scammed too.  I know you gotta keep some stuff private, but anything you can show about how she pulled this off is good.  Details like that let people spot these scumbags in the future.! So yeah, share what you can so we can slam the door on these jerks.

I quite sympathize with you because, that seam to be the case.
You invested money in company, when the time for you to get your profit was due, all of a sudden you were required of  verification code before you could access your profits.
Of which you were never told of this code from the beginning, rather you only got to know of when it was to make your harvest, this clearly explains that something is really wrong somewhere,  mind your there's no point crying over a spilled milk because the deed has been done already.

In regards to your question, "HAVE YOU BEEN SCAMMED?
OF COURSE YOU'VE BEEN SCAMMED

1. You claimed to have done some research, how detailed was it?
2. What form of research was it?
3. How legitimate was your findings?
4. Lastly you asked some members if they've been paid, how are you sure that these same people you asked are not the same group of people who set up the program?


Lets face the reality. You invested money, where was the money put into use ? Because for you to gain a profit after an investment, the money have been put into some usage.   for example when you save money in the bank, the money is lent out to individuals who repays them with interest, the interest is then shared and you get part of it as your  profit,

Take some companies for example, when you invest money, the money is used to purchase  manual and mechanical labourer that generates more money. So fort and so on.

In some online business, you spend your time and data to do some advert, there are people who gain more from i.e those who created the web, bcos the more viewers you get the more they gain and in return you are paid handsomely if am correct. stuffs like that, check it out, you'd see you are working for it. And it's results is realistic.

It's just too ridiculous for some to tell you to put in your money into some where and within a space of 21 days you'd get a profit, even banks doesn't even give profit within such a short period of time.

It has happened already, just let it slide. Forget the verification code because that may be another trick or
 Means of luring you to waste more money. SHAKIRA WILL ALWAYS SAY "NO BODY LEARNS WITHOUT GETTING IT WRONG". You made a mistake now and you should learn from it,
Next time when making investigation, try to find out IN WHICH WAYS WILL THE MONEY BE UTILIZE TO GENERATE ITS PROFIT. Its very important, if it can't be explained properly, then it's not worth it.

I might have the knowledge and skills to buy and  sell but may not have the resources such as money, hence may need the money from you, still the profit may not come that fast or be the big, as business can have some ups and down.
Everyone wants to sit at home with crossed leg and have their account booming with money without any work.  If that be the case, working is not worth it.


If those means of theirs were worth it (i.e if it weren't A SCAM) do you think they will have the time to let you in on it where they have their relatives and generations to come whom they they could gather all the money and store them up for them??.

I've said my little opinion. Thank you.

I will go straight to the point: both the moderator and all active members of the group are working together to scam people and you have just become one of their victim. It is good you brought this to this forum so you will learn more and be better equipped to protect yourself in the future. As for this present deal, count your loss and move on. Don't contact anyone regarding this, leave the group, change your Telegram setting so that no one can add you into random groups and ensure you be mindful of the kind of groups you join.

Some of the important lessons you need to learn from this are:

• If it is too good to be true, then it isn't. In other words, never put your money into what look enticing, it is definitely a scam
• Learn to invest in Bitcoin and other notable altcoins and manage your portfolio yourself and not through anyone.
• Most of us here have fallen into different scams, you will neither be the first nor the last, so forgive yourself and don't quit investing in cryptocurrency because of it

Where did you find their info, website and telegram group? How much have you sent to the scammers? What is the rate percentage they offering for their investment scheme that encourage you to invest and trust them?

Having a little knowledge on how an obvious scam works is really scary, you could end up lossing your savings in just one click.