Topic: Is this a scam? What to do next. - page 4. (Read 2486 times)

When we are searching a way to earn big amount of cash, always remember that there are also people who wants the same but want to earn it in a very filthy way.


Sam shouldn't deposited his money in the beginning nor asking this question, my presumption about this was Sam didn't even think for a second, the moment the scammer ask him if he wanted to invest in cryptocurrency to earn big profits, he acted as fast as he can being afraid  to lose this kind of opportunity which he thought was a legit one. Almost all of the beginners in cryptocurrency are like Sam, there are only few who are smart enough to be not a victim of this corrupted scheme.

What Sam should do is simple,  invite the police to trace the suspects and don't send any money to the scammers again,  it's purely a scam,  because it looks so fishy had to keep on telling him to send money again despite not seeing any return from previous investment.

You don't even have to think twice to think that's it's a scam, it is a scam you should call the police and your lawyer, and if these people cannot present documents to prove their claim and they do not have a certificate that they can do this kind of business, then they should be prosecuted,
but based on your story those people come from Russia, this is unfortunate, no way to get them liable unless your friend can go to Russia, this is a costly lesson for him.

This is a typical scam scheme:

1. They ask you to invest $1,000 promising that the money will be doubled in a week.

2. A week later you check your "balance", using the app downloaded from the scammers, and see that, indeed, your money has doubled.

3. You celebrate thinking that you've found a way of making easy money. Tell your friends to follow your example, and invest more in order to make more than $1,000 per week.

4. After some time you try to withdraw some of your earnings, but nothing happens. You contact the scammers, and they persuade you to wait a month more for whatever reasons ... then a week more, another week and so on.

In the best case scenario they allow you to withdraw 10%-20% of the money invested, telling you that it's a part of your profit, and that your investment and other part of the profit still remains intact, and that you will be able to withdraw it later. They are doing this because they want you to tell your friends that not only you can see your profits on your computer screen, but you can actually withdraw it. This way they hope to attract more victims to their scam scheme(and sometimes it works btw).

Tell your friends to try to withdraw at least something, and maybe it will work. But what I'm 100% sure that they will never see all the invested amount again.

It seems to me that it is definitely a scam. My guess is that the people your friend contacts are trying to attract your friend into their lie. They will most probably stole all of your friend's money, when he sends them more.

this is absolutely scam. if you continue to follow and pay attention to the scenarios of these people, surely that person will always ask your friends to deposit a sum of money and also the scam application will always display the amount of profit obtained in order to attract the victim to deposit the money. I suggest that you immediately stop communicating with that person and forget about the money you have deposited because the money will definitely not be returned. if cryptocurrency is legal in your country, maybe the police can help follow up on the fraud case. but if cryptocurrency is prohibited in your country, I suggest to your friends to whole-sincere to money that has been deposited

Yes, Sam was became a victim of scammer. Didn't Sam ask why the stranger need him to invest again? That was a bib amount of money dude, your friend became neglectful about the moment He talked to the scammer. But I guess after the incident happened He learn from his lesson now.

Your friend bob was absolutely scammed by stranger people, 9000 was a very huge amount for me. Aside from that your friend was already in controlled of the scammer, I don't know if there some kind of hypnotism happen, because bob doesn't react neither asking why he need to invest more. But unfortunately He didn't, So definitely bob can't do anything to recover his money at all only. 

Police may be able to find the location of the scammer, but it would be so hard and it will waste your time. Ut would be better to be careful next time and stop trusting investment sites so easily. Money is not something to give for free, investment should give you profit and not take your profit.

Call the police right away they are trying and already scammed you, people are still not educated that there's no such thing as double your money investment not even a company like Mcdonald can give you that, and if it is legit then they should not invite people and they just make profit out of their so-called investment program, and never invest in any investment, that you do not understand it's outright giving them all your money

what can police do on this matter?did the scammers lay their real identity?things that i am surely know that its not?

sorry for their losses but let the scammer celebrate as they gain another 2,500 euro in just chatting.

lesson learn"never Talk to Strangers specially with money involved"

never be greedy for your own safety

That's definitely a scam. Sam have trusted them so fast and easy that he invested a lot of money without the assurance of a good profit or even returning at least his capital. We must not trust people online but rather do a series of investigation before releasing money. If the offer is too good to be true then we have to think twice. There are lots of scammers who are using crypto in fraud.

Well it is a scam. No investment plan would your double your money ina snap, not in real world and not in crypto. I think the police cannot do anything about it, but if it is covered in your country's law and would.like to pursue to sue the person involved in the scam then your friend can. That is if he has the money to go to court cases, hire a lawyer, investigate, and also if he can identify the people onvolved in the scam, which I think will take a lot of time, money and effort.

Definitely, Sam was scammed. I can't blame Sam for doing that, since scammers showed that his money was doubled to 9000eur and it is tempting. But the moment they are forcing and pushing him to deposit more is something fishy. Since he has a contact with those team, Sam can cooperate to the authorities for entrapment operation. The police will do their way to catch those scammers. And money is involved here,  Sam can show some evidence that he can't withdraw his money.

*I'm going to hell for laughing too much*

Anyone could offer you anything, most of the time it is too good to be true, and that's what it seems happened to your friend. It is so obvious that it was a scam, but I bet your friend was blinded when the scammer said "crypto", this is the magic word these days of all wicked scammers. My conclusion about this is your friend is so freakin' stupid, who is acting tough but the truth is he doesn't even know a single thing about cryptocurrency.

My guess is that friend of yours was trying to prove something to you guys, like he could earn money without your help at all, he just got unlucky because of his naiveness and pride.

This is a fucking SCAM better call the police for help if not he'll lose all his money. Scammers are everywhere these days! Never trust any business that guarantees profit for your investment that is the number sign of a SCAM be very careful next time.

Probably the APP is fraud and they are trying to scam him more. I doubt that they can get caught coz most scammers are using fake identity and even can fake their location and can change their IP. Learn from this situation, before putting your money in some kind of investment do some research first.

With bitcoin investment, the police can not do anything in order to recover your funds. This kinda investment is a total scam, how can you invest more if you haven't gotten any profit from the previous investment? Legit investments do not ask investors to invest more if they haven't gained anything yet. Its high time people make an effort to research or read about how the crypto space is before thinking of making investments in any cryptocurrency.

flowery words are one of the sign that the person talking to you is shady or have some bad intention but i think if we are on that situation ( people talks to us on a nice and attractive manner ) we cant ignore them right away but instead will only getting fall on thier trap later on  .  

those kind of fraudsters are popular on our country . when they talk , they have that hypnotizing effect and you will do what they say   . to avoid them , just beware  talking or starting a convo to a stranger .

After reading your story, I believe that your friend is being scammed by other people, that kind of situation was also happened to my close friend, first they said some flowery words about the investment, as the time goes by they will continuously taking your money because they said to cash out your money you need to invest again a specific amount of money. So I think be smart on handling your money and think twice on investing.