Topic: Have I been Scammed?? (Read 805 times)

Wot gives the you the assurance that stranger is not a scammer. Scammers don't upgrade this days that they can do anything to get money. Imagine people turning themselves to beggars for the sake of making money.

I am sure that if strangers approached him on the street and asked him for money, he would refuse. But at the same time, he treats with confidence all the messages that come to him through telegram and is ready to give his money.

This days women are not left out in perpetrating scams. They are used most times as some people easily believe women hardly involved in scam. Even physically this days, women join hands with men to scam others. The best is to run away from anything that is just too big to be true either it involves a man or a woman.

Temporarily unlinking a bank account is a good first step until you know your Cash App account is safe.

CashApp is legit unless someone already has access to your account.
The scammer shouldn't have access to your account like you said you just sent BTC to him unless you sent sensitive information related to your account. If you've shared a code or any other data that could be used for account recovery, such as an SMS verification code, with the scammer there is a big possibility that the scammer has access to your account.  

If you sent a code to the scammer you should immediately change your account password and enable 2FA authentication because it gives an extra security layer against unauthorized logins.
Also, contact CashApp support and ask for IP logs to see whether someone was accessing your account from a different IP and device, or ask CashApp help to verify your account security settings to ensure your account is secure.

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that's a good decision, ceasing all communication is the best way to stop them from scamming you again.

I don't really know how Cash App works, why not try contacting their customer support and ask why there is a pending transaction on your Cash App they'll be the best people to ask these questions or perhaps wait for other forum members who know how Cash App works.

OP, let this be a learning lesson for you to never trust anyone especially if you deal with people on various Telegram groups.

As a general rule, whenever you see people offering various services, projects, and tokens in a Telegram group, that should already spark a red flag for you to avoid. Based from my experience and the experience of others, there is little-to-no benefit from joining telegram groups. You are just most likely exposed to certain scams by people who offer projects with ridiculous promises of returns.

Now to answer your question- YES OP, you have been scammed. Avoid dealing with Telegram groups from now on and if you still insist, then please consult this forum first for help and guidance.

This is a scam on a couple of different levels.

1. The Telegram group that you "invested" in is a scam in that they are selling you some sort of fake investment scheme with guaranteed returns.

2. They are trying to get you for even more by asking you to buy into the second level of the scam by buying their "TVN".

The best way to use bitcoin is as a savings. Just buy and HODL for 5-10 years. Your biggest regret will be that you didn't do everything in your power to get a hold of more. Best of luck.

I stopped all communication and deleted everything. I actually bought bitcoin through my Cash app and that’s where I sent the bitcoin to the scammer from. Is Cash App safe? Today I see a cash app pending in my linked bank account. The total is 0.00 but I did not make any transactions. Can this scammer somehow try to get money out of my linked bank account by just sending bitcoin to them from my cash app?I just deleted my linked bank account. I contacted Cash App and they are showing no activity or transactions today to cause that in my linked bank account.

Scammers are found almost everywhere this days. One just need to be extra careful when dealing with someone you don't know. For OP, just accept you have been scammed. Trying to communicate more with them may complicate the issue and you may later fall into a more bigger scam.

He should stop communicating with them and just accept that he lost the money already. Since if he keep listening to those scammers and try to follow their conditions then maybe they scam him again. So OP should listen to the advice given by people since there's no such thing can give him good profits especially if he deal with this people online also in a platform where scammers are staying. Much better if he make this a learning experience and share his experience to other people so he can save some heads to stay away on those scams. For sure this will not be the end as these scammers will find ways to scam again another people since this is how they earn their money.

You can't blame those who still fall for all these scammers , imagine someone who hasn't heard of all these style used in scamming people, this individual will definitely fall because that's his or her first time to encounter such. In some cases curiosity has a way of letting people fall for scammers, you might be having this doubt that they are legit but deep down you know they're fake but you can't just help it and coupled with the sweet stories and lies being told, you have no option than to give it a try to clear your doubt not knowing you're walking into a scam house.
Scammers are always using the crypto world to do their business and we're going to hear more of it now that we're entering this halving period, you'd get different stories of someone said this and that to increase the coin in my wallet, before you know it you're on the losing side. We just need to be careful and mindful of what we engage ourselves in, before anything we do we should ask questions for help.

It's scammers fault if they scammed you at first, if it happens a second time then it's your fault, I do hope you will listen to what people are telling you on this forum, Telegram is a big threat to crypto beginners, almost all of them have been contacted by scammers on Telegram, this is how bad this social media app is today.

They will wait patiently for you to ask a question in a group, even if the group belongs to a very big reliable crypto project or exchanges, once you asked a question, many people will impersonate the group manager, they can even use the same picture as the original group admins just to confuse you.

They will gain your trust and pretend to have a solution to your problems and in the end, they will ask you to click on some links and do some shits, that's where you will lose all your assets in your crypto wallet, it's better to avoid using Telegram at all or avoid or even block all strangers that PM you on Telegram, they are always up to no good.

Most of these scammers have really good marketing skills,  they will sell their scam to you and make you believe that's the best option for you. If OP still sticks around, they will manipulate him the more into getting more money for things that don't even exist. Obviously, what they would be asking for won't end at just getting a TVN, more issues that requires sending money will come up and if OP doesn't accept now that he has already landed himself in a scam group, the scammers will feast on him till they see nothing left to feed on.

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Dear OP, you have already been scammed once, don't let them scam you twice, run away from that telegram group as fast as you can.

I think that all this will not end with the provision of TVN and you will be required to deposit either an additional amount of money or provide a seed phrase from your wallet. You have to accept that you have been deceived and if you continue to communicate with them, you will lose even more of your money.

Op you have been scammed the earlier you understand this now and run away from that telegram group the better for you because very soon they will look for other means to make you pay more money with the aim of helping you to get your money back. Firstly it is very wrong to partake in an online investment without doing proper research and investigation even after asking the people on the telegram group with you. Don't be surprised if you find out that all the people on the telegram group is just one person with different names because that's how they do whenever they plan to scam people since they know that their victims may contact other people in the group to verify if the investment is genuine.

Telegram is a wrong place to think of anything concerning investment, most of the investment groups in telegram are are scam groups and the people that are in the groups are scammers, even if you ask other members of the group to know more about the investment,  they will still give you a positive review about the group because they are part of the scam project.

Any project or investment that has a group on Telegram I can tell you that their is a high tendency for it to be a scam investment. Trying to know if an investment is a scam by asking members of the group is not the best one, instead you are meeting people that will convince you to fall into the scam more. We need to be careful expecially when it comes to the social media, every scam project and investment have a group on social media.

How do you guys believe the word of someone you barely know on the internet and then send them money, how do they convince you guys so much or you are new to the internet or perhaps should I say you were looking for the perfect shortcut to make money as "investment". You have been scammed my nigga and there is nothing you can do about it, next time you want to do anything about crypto and it's involved money, kindly avoid telegram, use exchanges and buy any coin you think it's worth buying for the time.

This is just one of the ways they scammed people in crypto, if you care to know more about other scams and how to avoid them, please head over to scam accusations and learn more about scams, don't get caught unaware.

How much did you invest there? It's obviously a scam and sorry to say OP that please don't be too gullible with these programs that they call.

That TVN that's being asked to you is likely a deposit that will guarantee the scammer that you've deposited or sent him a money. And that 'lora' sure isn't a gal but some who's a guy that has been into this for quite a while and laughing at you and other victims.

As far as I know, the Telegram group is one of the nests and fields for fraudsters to start their reliable actions, I don't want to immediately accuse the Telegram group called Worklite Uni Options of reacting, what is clear is that many users and friends are trapped in the Telegram group circle.

My message for future OP:

Telegram group mode has hundreds of ways to lure victims into believing in the actions they carry out as crypto investment frogs, their group has 10-20 people who work to believe, as if the results obtained from investments from this group are really real, the facts are all lies, so in future stay away from telegram nests that offer crypto investments, it's better for you.

If truly you do your research then you are not a good researcher, any money making things running via telegram group is all a scam, and it's real if you can't find any reviews about them, because there is none, you can only find reviews about websites not telegram groups, this is the easiest way for scammers to run their operations.

Listen to me, everything money related on telegram are scams, even every PMs you get from a stranger are all scammers, they will try to get into your head and confuse you, at the end of the day, their real motive is to take advantage of you.

Adjust your telegram settings, to never receive PM from any strangers and you as a person, you need to stop looking for such groups online, they plan to use telegram to stay out of site, it's only greedy people who always fall for this cheap tricks, no one as the solution to your financial problems all you need is a skill, learn it instead of looking for cheap ways to make money.

What you did there is akin to asking a question in a public group on how to get something done on a wallet. The first person that sends you a DM is obviously a scammer. This thing is a pattern. I've experienced it countless times. Anyone reading this post now can try that experiment. It won't take more than 5 mins before you find the scammer in your net. You wouldn't know if all those you asked are in on it with the person you invested with. It's highly possible that they were all together.

As for if it's a scam or not, you should just move on and take what happened to you as the cost for the experience you've now acquired with that incident. Life is full of lessons; some we pay heavily for while some are free gift.

This is a fraud. Just ignore it and don't fall for offers like this, especially on Telegram, because it's full with scammers, and if you trust people, you can easily get scammed. You invested in worklite uni options because you trusted 10 individuals who told you it was authentic. I'm fairly certain that these ten people are either scammers or the first group of people to get paid to promote their platform and encourage more users to invest in there platform. most of these social media investing platforms are populated by fraudsters, you  need to exercise extra caution when using them.

Depending only on community reviews can be tricky. Some folks might be up to no good, working together to scam others. It's not just online; scammers might post positive stuff to trick people into thinking a project is great. We need to be careful; it seems like scammers are always ready to play games. Stay sharp and look out for each other!

You must have been scammed, the person you met on telegram is a scammer, he not only scammed you but also scammed many telegram users. These scammers will first send you personal messages and then try to get to know you, if you show interest in them, the scammer will make various offers to attract you. If you are tempted to fall into his cheating trap, assume that you are losing all your money. If you have invested then surely you lose money and you forget the hope of that money. You should have been careful about this in advance, always remember that no project CEO or project admin will give you a personal message in advance to invest. If a scammer sends you a personal message saying he is the CEO of a project and asking you to invest, avoid him because he is trying to scam you. 
However, through your post, those who made mistakes later may be warned about this in advance.

It seems like such an obvious scam to anybody with common sense but if you’ve never been victim of an online scam you might not know what signs to look for. Even if there is some skepticism, scammers will manipulate your emotions to make themselves seem trustworthy.
A professional looking website and hired shills to vouch for their legitimacy can be enough to convince some people to put their concerns aside and take risks with their money when they are offered substantial profits.

Alot of telegram offers are scams and since telegram allows for users to change users names at will and its privacy makes the platform is one of the major destinations for scammers and many of them are part of cryptocurrency groups and the easiest way to spot these scamming system is when a random users contact you making and investment offers via telegram,  this makes it clear that you are about to get scammed.
I have heard once or twice of such offers in the past and at that, we must be vigilant enough to spot this and should not buy into any of the ideas or even give them. our time in conversation, it's unfortunate that the ops have lost his money, but better he learns from his mistakes and never to deal with any random person via telegram.

To unfortunate seeing you fall from ponzi schemes on telegram and in first place you should never go there if you are seeking for investment since that platform is nest of scammers and they are also the owners of the accounts you ask that's why you didn't get a negative feedback against what you are trying to invest. Since that incident happened already I guess the only thing you can do is to warn your friends regarding on what you experience on Worklite Uni Options telegram group so they will not experience the same thing happen to you.

If you don't understand about the investment you are trying to participate always ask you have this community that gives there good opinion regarding on what you want to ask especially on investment matter also try to read this https://www.investor.gov/protect-your-investments/fraud/types-fraud/ponzi-scheme so you can learn something and avoid those ponzi schemes since all of programs offering this kind of model is a scam.

Telegram is full of scams and scammers, I'm sorry that you became a victim of one of the scams that they run on multiple social media platforms to lure in users and then accumulate all those users on Telegram for all their dirty work. The users that you approached within the community or group to get reviews from are probably a part of the scam which is why you didn't get a bad review because it is all part of a master plan.

Such scams are pretty common, which is the reason why they always target newbies they know if someone is experienced they would know their plot and they won't be able to get any money out of them, and they always take money in multiple steps to make people not get suspicious. If you have already given them money for investment, don't give them more for verification or a TVN number or anything.

It's their job to squeeze as much money as possible out of gullible victims. There's a scam "industry" with one scheme or another. Pretty avatars blind men and women and the scammers are schooled in conversation techniques to achieve their goals. It's rather simple, all you need is people who willingly give their money to strangers, fooled with some promise for good profit returns.

It's unbelievable, this actually works...                   ...the scam!

we have to understand the movement of scammers first in anything we are doing because majority of website today is full of hackers that is why any investment platform you are entering into you have to observe that platform very well and also know the Foundation of the platform before you put in your money for it or for the investment I do from my own perspective observe all the corners of the website that I want to invest on to know the gravity or the website if it is organized by scammers or it is a real investment platform that will give me a profit when I follow the procedures, that is why I do preach for people to observe environment very well before joining any social media investment platform group because majority are scammers

Escrow group on Telegram are where scammers prey on innocent individuals. i recall when I collected my salary for the month i wanted to get BTC and was looking for an affordable price, i went on telegram to get BTC. the scammer told me to pay the money first before he credited my wallet. After countless refreshing my wallet i chatted the escrow to tell him i haven't seen it, the next statement send shocking wave down my snipe he said he doesnt trust me and the only way he was going to trust me is to send half of the payment i made again(of which i did) firstly i asked why should i make such a payment but he assured me its because he was building trust with me... it was a sad day because after sending the money for the second time i was removed from the telegram group.

I don’t really know about what you are talking about but you might likely have been scammed, I see any investment on telegram to be a scam, and don’t be surprised that those people that have the review are also part of the team. When scammers are operating sometimes, they are always doing it in group, so they will make everything look real, some of the people giving the review might be scammers also, or some might even pay people for the review, and most people don’t care about the authentication, all they are after is just the money.

Don't blame yourself too much OP. Sometimes, making mistakes is pretty normal when it comes to investing.
I will not ask how much you invested in that scam group, but what I will say is, that making a mistake for the first time is still good, but if you make the same mistake twice then you have a problem already.

Learning from your mistakes would be the best thing that you can do moving forward. Another thing that you can do is to maybe watch some videos online that can help you determine how the scammers are scamming people. TBH, the way they scammed you is just one of the most common ways how they're scamming newbies. Screenshots are pretty much useless now because like you said, they might be fake accounts. You can delete those conversations already because that will not help you get your money back. You said that they're still contacting you. Maybe you can just block them.

I just hope that this will not happen to you again OP, and to other newbies out there. Now that we are near to the bull run, expect more and more scammers trying to scam you, so be vigilant, and always equip yourself with knowledge. Know which are scams and which are not. Best tip for all newbies is to just invest in Bitcoin, and exclude other projects other companies or whatever type of investment it is.

It turns out that there are still many people who like to entrust capital to traders in order to get money faster with their sweet promises, for me the simple logic is that it is impossible as a reliable trader to take or ask people to capitalize it in trading instead of investing and giving returns to investors, 3A capital alone can go bankrupt let alone just a telegram moderator, this should be more education and never be tempted by their seduction to give your money to them.

I hope the OP can be more careful in such trivial matters, maybe the Moderator provides evidence of profitable returns but believe me it is just a fraud scheme, don't be fooled easily, friend.

After calling her a scammer and everything else, she is still trying to get me to get the trade verification code from her vendor by paying thousands more. Some scammers just don’t give up!

I didn't need to read to the end before I realised that it is a scam. Scammers ain't fools, they'll appear so real that you'll be convinced you are in the right place. Ofcourse they have partners that work with them, giving prospective victims good reviews about the scam website. Most times they work alone using different accounts.

I have fallen victim of scam and i have  just one advice to give "avoid sending money to strangers who come to you with juicy opportunities". There are actually genuine mentors who will teach you and still help you invest, but the increasing number of scammers has made it difficult for us to really know who is genuine or not. It is safer to work with people we are familiar with and the Bitcointalk forum is also here to help us with some information we need relating to cryptocurrency investment and trading.

I have been on Telegram for a long time. On someone’s group chat that I have been a member a long time, he posted the link to worklite, I clicked on the link and it took me to the worksite unit options group. I did contact the guy that I know that posted the link but After I invested, I found out that it was an imposter with his name that posted the link. All the postings in the worklite group were people posting about receiving their profits. The moderator on there said please DM me to learn about the investing and to invest. That’s pretty much how it started. I know there were a lot of red flags. But I was just stupid. It definitely learned a lesson. So she contacted me this morning as soon as I left the group she knew it. She said did you get your trade verification number? I told her I was not paying anymore money for the trade verification number. I said how much is a trade verification number, and she said between 4000 and $6000. I told her I knew her scheme was a scam and I was not paying more money.  I just have to chalk it up to a life lesson and learn from it. The wallet Id I sent the money to was “bc1qq3sljfr4km2m66t0w7fpeen6zqsyjhwjwqzmn9”.

And you guys are right, I cannot find worksite uni options on telegram now that I have left the group. All the members were probably fake or bot accounts. Also when I would try to take a screenshot of the members posts, the picture was blank. Weird. I did take screenshots of all of the moderators and my conversations.

Just wished I would have done a lot more research and came here to this forum before investing. Stupid stupid!

On Telegram there will be many people who contact you just to offer services or collaborative projects. And most of the time when you are contacted by these people it is a scam.
If the OP has high confidence in his analytical abilities, it's better to do it yourself, and don't trust other people too much. especially by handing over control of our money to him to trade or invest.
There are too many scammers, and OP should have realized that he would be targeted. hopefully, he can be more careful.

But he doesn't want to remain alone, he already have sent her (the telegram lady) BTC, 26 days ago according to him. And now when the time of profit booking comes they are asking him for some code, which TBH I never heard about before. That's why I used to say a little study of BTC, is necessary in order to save ourselves from scams. He has sent them BTC, now waiting for them to send the capital+Profit back to him. I don't know how he became a victim of this.

While in the crypto world, there is a rule that we don't see the message we receive from beautiful girls on Twitter and on Telegram haha even if they are damn beautiful. I sometimes waste there and my time, by chatting like a pro, I use different investment terms to show them I am pro, but that's just for fun. 

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.

Although if you follow this step, it could help you figure out if it was a scam or not, what you must know is that, in groups like that, after a victim has been scammed and duped off a huge amount of money, the scammers will remove him or her from the group. I almost fell victim to this kind of stuff some years ago, but it was not a telegram but rather on WhatsApp. There were more than 100 people in that group, and to be sure that it was a trusted platform for investment, I decided to send a DM to the members, requesting to know if they had truly benefited from the system before, and those members said yes and even showed me evidence of payment received. 

I felt convinced and was almost on the verge of investing when someone joined the group, I guess through a referral link, and then he began to rain abuse on the moderator of that group, calling him a cheap scammer. Immediately, he was removed from the group, and his comments were deleted. That was how I got saved. 

So, what I am trying to say is that, even if there are a lot of members in such a group and they are giving good reviews about the platform, don't be fooled by them, it could still be them and their leagues of friends who have well planned how to scam people. 

Ok thanks! It is definitely not a made up story, I will post her remarks from telegram and her wallet id later when I get home.

100% scammed, you have lost your money and you should just move one and that telegram group is most untrusted and unsafe for you to be a member, and also almost all the members of such telegram groups are members of the same scamming group and for you to contact them is your gateway to kore confusion and that is why the member you make that inquiry from told you that everyone gets paid.
It's a network system that their works together and shares the loot based on percentage,  so I advise you to move on from such a platform and just buy and hold your Bitcoin in your wallet to avoid allowing third parties to hold your coins.

Unlike me, whenever it is about investment or technical things, I do not always trust the judgement of a woman. If I am doing an online deal and understand that it is a woman on the other end, my confidence will surely drop. So, I don't think I will be scammed just because I understood that a woman is incharge. But unlike me, many people has affinity to women and once it is a woman, they will trust easily.

When will people stop falling for the girl in the pretty dress trick. Telegram scammers use the same M.O to steal from their victims. It’s always a beautiful woman, who happens to know about cryptocurrency and is either a crypto trader or she knows X platform where you can invest and make profit from crypto. Sorry for your loss OP, the signs were there. I hope you didn’t lose a lot of money. You learned a hard lesson, trusting blindly can be a dangerous thing.

Not another telegram crypto scams. Any buying, selling or trading crypto on telegram. It's better to close all communication channels with the individual. If you keep up with the conversation you will not know when you will do their biddings. Help yourself and the future others who will come in contact with these scammers by reporting their accounts to telegram.

This is clearly a scam. If someone wants you to send money to earn money then it is a scam especially a website where there's a so called plan where you will earn profit after a certain time but when you want to withdraw your capital and profit then you won't be able to withdraw your funds. This is a bit similar to what I explained and one more thng, many of the scammers stay in telegram app and find anyone who they can fool and scam their money.

If you ever and yourself in any similar situation, when unsure about the authenticity of a venture, do not ask questions in the same group, that similar to asking customer support if their service is a scam. Always ask in a completely neutral community as you did now first before putting any money in.
Although, if you need to ask if something is a scam, it most likely is.

Sorry about your loss. All you can do now is to learn from the lesson.

You can report the group to telegram.

If you didn`t give them any sensitive details, then there`s no need to be afraid, as they won`t be able to steal your balance in your wallet just because they have your wallet address. But it`s possible for them to monitor your transactions, though it's highly unlikely that they`ll do it.

You have been taught how to post images here, so just post everything you have that`s related to them so that users will be able to identify them if they should be approached by the same group.

p.s. If you come across any platform promising a high return, make sure you create a thread to ask about it before you proceed with investing in it.

At this point, it should be pretty clear that this is a blatant scam.  No legitimate investment platforms are run exclusively through Telegram - thats a huge red flag.  And promising returns in 21 days but then surprise last-minute requirement? Thats a classic scam move to string people along.  TVN for profit verification? I have no idea what that even means, but it sounds like nonsense designed to confuse folks.

And them "kindly" offering up a programmer contact? Yeah right, more likely its just another scammer ready to take more of your money and  I know its hard after already investing something but do not send them any more coins or you will never see them again!

From the beginning of your write up till the end is just smelling scam and scam. This why when people post their scam experience I do not discourage them. No matter how repeated a scam has been, no matter how cheap it is that you think no one will fall for it. There's one person somewhere who is ready to fall by all means.

You joined a telegram group and all the members of that group was there before you, and you now asked them whether or not the group is a scam. You were just asking a scammer if he is a scammer or not.

If this isn't a made up story, I will just say 'sorry', you are scammed. Do not contact anyone for any number for such numbers do not exist.

I sent them bitcoin. Don’t worry, never again!

You didn't tell us if it was a bitcoin trading or other way of investments such as the fiats. But all I can say about this is that don't trust any given site either already compensating you with interests of your investment or any format claiming to give you investments returns of profits.
Don't be so easy to be romanced and fooled with sugarcoated words with some sorts of attractive promises or reviews via internet researches. There are local and international scammers who operates cordially according to by they could deliver their illegal jobs.
Stay of from Ponzi schemes. They're strategic scammers. Let's me warned.

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Why not post the walletID here so that other people here are aware of this scammer's walletID.

And no they can't steal your money if it is just a wallet ID unless you sent sensitive information like password or backup key?

The big reality is that you have been deceived. Before being influenced by the explanation of the moderator named Lora, even though the initial research you did did not find anything bad, you should think again about the various methods used which have claimed many victims.

I found out in a search about Worklite Uni Options on telegram like others did, but in my telegram search no results were found.
That's enough. This seems to be accurate if this is a scam.

Ok thanks! Yes, that’s why I didn’t even contact the so called TVN programmer. I’m sure he would want money to get this so called code and then they still wouldn’t have paid me. Wish I would’ve came here first!!
Is there anything or anywhere I can report this? I have their wallet ID where I sent it. They also have my wallet ID’s to send me my profits. Is that a bad thing? Can they somehow steal money from my accounts? I used cash app, and opened an account with crypto.com, but I don’t have any balance in either. Thanks for all your help!!

I am sorry to say that you have been scammed and become an easy target, Never believe in anything you get across through the telegram as most of the shits are scam over there and it's filled with ponzi scheme like the one you have been looped into. Now, don't stress over it as you will not get it back and may end up being scammed even further if you follow their instructions.

This forum is gift for us as we can get these things clarified over this forum before getting into something like investment or project. In future if you want to make any such moves please check with us over this forum and expert's opinion.

I took a screenshot of the page on telegram but not sure how to post it here.

Contacting the community members for such review is totally wrong, knowing fully well a group of people can decide to create a project with same motive to scam others. From my thought those members op contacted for review are involved in such act. Even on social media, scammers will not just come alone but sometimes you'll see different people commenting about the project with juicy words just to lure people interested in making quick money. Op should be careful cause it seems scammers are always ready for such games.

I can't find the telegram called Worklite Uni Options even on telegram how did you found this telegram group?
Are you sure that you did your research?

About the Capital Base Traders, I searched it on Google and based on whois this site is 5 months old I also tried to check for reviews but I can't find any.
I thought that you did some research but why you don't know if they are scams or not? For me, this is suspicious I can't find the Worklite Uni option even on Google so how did you trust them?  Sorry but for me this is scam.

 SCAM! SCAM!! SCAMMED!!!

The hand writing is just clear on the wall mate, you have been scammed. First all this investment and get a reward after some few days are clear Ponzi schemes. What they do is to start up well and pay the first set of individuals and this individual spread the word around and when more people come into it they rug pull or set another barrier like they just do now that to get some people block.

The 10 people you messaged on Telegram will definitely be a group of the scammers replying to you so you can pay for that TVN shit. Simple advice run with the money remain and forget about the already lost ones. For future reference no one likes you much on social media to give you a money milking investment.

I invested with someone(moderator) of a group on Telegram called Worklite Uni Options, her name is Lora. I did some research and did not find anything bad. I did contact a lot of the members for reviews or if they had been paid and no bad reviews, everyone got paid per plan, thought surely not everyone lieing (10 people). It was a 21 day payout. My 21 days is up and now all of a sudden she wants a TVN (trade verification number or code) to verify my profits for her server to send my profits. There is also a website called Capital Base Traders where I can see my profit. Not knowing what a TVN is or where to get one, I didn’t have one, she said I could get one from a TVN programmer or vendor. So she kindly gave me one of her contacts which is a TVN programmer. It all just seems fishy to me. I haven’t contacted him yet, but figuring they will want money to get a TVN. Is this normal or does it appear to be a scam? Thanks for any help!