Topic: My money is stuck in qeabit'unusable' because I was supposed to save 17.5% fees (Read 316 times)

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Where did this chit-chat happen, on which (a)social media platform? As LoyceV says and I repeat, this third party is there to lure you into the scam and keep you therein. Don't be stupid.

How about you disclose on which platforms all this happened?

Why would you trust a totally unknown to you stranger? Gosh, wake up! Again from me, to hear it double: what this stranger tells you, IS the 2^nd stage of the scam for you. DO NOT FALL FOR IT! You're blinded by hopes to undo this scam, but unfortunately all laid out false hopes will drag you deeper into this scam scheme. This is a common reaction of victims. Do not go this route.

Your steps in my opinion should be:

• file a police case that you've been scammed (do this a quickly as possible)
• talk with your bank if they can somehow freeze the payments at the destination bank (do this a quickly as possible)
• no more money for the scammers, stop even thinking of it
• figure out a plan how to pay back your loans without risky investments with money you don't have
• learn your lesson, there's usually no get rich quick
• stop trusting strangers on dubious platforms
• if the scammers had access to your computer via some remote assistance tool like AnyDesk OR you downloaded anything from the scammers, consider your computer as compromised and not safe to use anymore

EDIT: for the US I found the following where cyber crime cases can be reportet (likely doesn't replace filing a personal police case but frankly, I've no experience with this, I'm no US citizen): Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)

So you're still considering to be scammed again in Step 2:
Do you think it's a coincidence this "third person" is in contact with you? It's all part of the scam!

You should read this again, this time in larger font:

Your money is gone. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you can stop considering getting scammed more.

I do hope your case will be resolved for the better for you, however, I wouldn't believe this third person/party, judging by how fishy this whole platform operates (also by what was found by other forum members). It may be just to trick you off.
Just follow what was said previously and don't try to use the platform further (as I understood it).

Thanks again. I want to lay this all out (pls bear with me since its a LOT of my money / loan)-
A third person/party, who had nothing to do with me or this whole thing so far. I mentioned all this, he said, he actually has traded there and  withdraws money several times from exact same link / website. And he did say that he has to pay service fee since its on top of all the investment / profit.
This is without any connection to our worlds / trading previously.
as far as I can tell, there is no reason for him to lie to me, no connection whatsoever. he is trying to explain, that since the money goes into withdrawal stage, no one can touch it. Until service fee is paid, then its released.  Of course, I am lost all over again, thinking, "Could I save all of my money (at the very least my principal / loan amount)"

Where did you get the phone number and email of trust wallet?

Are you going to report this to trust wallet? I don't think they can help you I'm sure they are going to point you to their own topic from this link "How to report Scammers and Phishers to protect your crypto" but the guide is only how to report the domain to domain registrar.

You can try make a thread on their community page if trust wallet will able to help you link below but I don't think it can help to trace qeabit and recover your funds. It would be better if you could report this to your local anti-fraud or cybercrime team.

- https://community.trustwallet.com/

Any of you know if I could contact trust wallet? I see phone numbers, email addresses, but can't tell anymore whats fake and whats real?
Thats the start of the process going into qeabit, meaning trust wallet-> then qeabit?

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After making a post here, is there a way to screenshot things in the post- I want to expose maximum amount of information here.

You're brave to share this mess, appreciate it. It's certainly not easy to admit what and how things went wrong. Stay strong to go over it, it's likely not going to be a funny time.


Try to find something like a cybercrime police unit or department or let police guide you to it. Can't make any recommendations as it's likely different from country to country. Don't let them brush you off. You will need some strength again, because the process of filing will bring up all the things that went wrong again.

Try to compile as many details as possible, write them down. You're likely shaken and struck by what happened, I would be, so don't rely on your memory alone.

Go and speak to your bank, too. Ask them to try to freeze your payments. Everything helps that makes it harder for the scammers to benefit from their evil doing.

Is there a specific place / location to file this kind of report? For any better action?

I can understand, this was a really sad way to learn a lesson about how scammers operate and what they tell their victims in order to be able to steal from them. They also have their escape plan once they have stolen from their victims and it makes it harder to even trace them. File the report and i wish you luck with it, though it will be a miracle for you to get your money back.
That's okay, it is just crazy that most times people only ask for our help in this forum after they have been scammed, not before, which may have saved them.

Thank you. I will file the report today. (yesterday went in depressive mode, unable to do much at all, and asking everyone possible for prayers!).
My bank account was frozen already because of excessive loans straight wired out to one specific (not sounding a good bank) beneficiary - zap solutions.
I am sharing everything here also for the reason, so others can watch out for. Thank you to each one of you - I didn't have the ability to go this far properly before all of it was gone. (now on to figuring out how to manage the loss).

Contact the police immediately and give them the bank account details of the account that you wired the money to so that the account can be frozen.

Some relevant information:

https://globalchinapulse.net/moving-bricks-money-laundering-practices-in-the-online-scam-industry/

The way the online scamming industry works, you're not being scammed by one company, there's three companies working together to scam you, so if you deny access to the funds that they stole then the company handling the bank accounts to launder with will not pay out the scammers.

If you file a valid scam report, the stolen money will be frozen because banks are required to follow AML regulations and will face heavy penalties for not doing so.

If you have to pay to withdraw your own money, you're getting scammed.

Yep. It's straight from the scammer handbook: Step 1 is to scam you, Step 2 is to scam you more when you want to withdraw and have to deposit to "pay fees". And Step 3 will be when someone approaches you saying he can "recover your scammed funds", as long as you pay him first.
Once they know they can scam you, that makes you a high value target because they're likely to get more money out of you. Take your losses and move on.

Go to the police. Report it. I don't expect they're able to help you, but that's all you can do.

Scammers have great "customer support" nowadays! That's the sweatshop hard at work to scam gullible victims.

They really hit you hard. The general rule on investing is never to invest more than you can afford to lose. You invested more than you own.

They wouldn't have let you do that. Once more money leaves than flows in, they'll stop it.

Certik does security audits for blockchain networks, smart contracts and crypto wallets. They will not be able to help you because QeaBit lied about being audited.


That is almost certainly a paid article. When I was a newbie I also fell for an investment scam, which I thought was legit because they had a press release in a major crypto news site. They even tried to run a signature campaign on Bitcointalk. Luckily, I only tested their site with a small amount and didn’t lose much.

Nah, he's just pointing to a possible red flag, specifically Qeabit claimed that the mentioned audit company Certik audited their exchange.
Certik doesn't have a list of their audited "5,189+ projects" (mentioned in their site) so it's hard to tell if Qeabit is one of them.

But audited or not, they can't do anything for you since an "Audit" just checks the code for possibile vulnerabilities or issues.
They don't have control over the funds of the audited platform.

Also, please be aware of possible "recovery services" that you will find in the internet or representatives that might contact you directly.
Those are all "double-scam" tactics/attempts.
Stick to your police report and try to contact your banks if it's possible to cancel the fiat transactions.

'How much did you lose'
A lot! (yes 'lot' is a relative term but in this case, its significantly 'lot' for any general population.)
When the actual returns showed plenty, thats when I was (made to believe?) convinced and took all possible loans from banks and invested. Yes there were plenty of warning signs, and nothing seemed normal..neither was my 'inside' / 'gut', yet somehow it kept happening - immense pressure to accummulate everything possible, in VERY busy life otherwise, like you didn't have time and opportunity to think about it. I think that could be part of the plan / process (make it all so fast and furious that the person doesn't get time to think abt it).
Loan is from banks going through cross river bank (zap solutions), trust wallet then to qeabit. I owe money to the bank - in fact they froze my account after noticing too many loans heading to exact same place.
I just wish there was some way to recover at least my principal (lost so much time doing all this).

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What is this certik thing? in case they actually audit, could they help me?

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btw - as little time as I gave, I did do a quick search earlier before investing-
and these first couple of pop ups seemed to say it was legit
https://techbullion.com/qeabit-an-innovative-platform-in-the-cryptocurrency-world/

how much did you lose?

There were some obvious warning signs on the QeaBit website indicating that it was a scam. They claim to be audited by Certik but if you search their name on Certik nothing comes up. The returns they are promising are also too good to be true.

It is unclear if the loan you mentioned is from a bank or from the QeaBit site. I sure hope you don’t owe money to a bank on top of losing your crypto investment.

Thank you. I completely agree with you on this. I just couldn't do research much because all of this is unlimited. Thanks for pointing out the second scam possibiltiy - for someone to offer some money to get this out and the saviors.
Also good thought - I should file a police case regardless. I will do that.
Oh- so recovering money is not a thing if someone is offering - thats what I thought.

Sounds like a familiar scam scheme that you describe.    You wouldn't be able to withdraw your total money even in a lot of small portions. Those scammers aren't stupid to let you off the hook.

Almost certainly anyone who contacts or offers you to recover your investment/funds from this apparent mess will also be a scammer to milk more money from you. It's sad, but it is what it is. Don't throw more money after the money you already lost.

Be very cautious if the scammers itself make you offers to recover your money. That's the 2^nd scam such scumbags often try with desperate victims.

Sorry for your loss, but you should do better research first or ask here before you throw your money literally into shady scammer's grabby hands.

There's probably not much you can do. You can file a police case but it's highly unlikely to have any affect or bring you your money back. I make this suggestion to go to the police because I don't feel it's right to let such scammers do their dirty deeds without consequences. But unfortunately justice is rarely served.

In all honesty- I was completely guided step by step (I am an aware person...and shocked at myself, how did I let this slide..)..
I was asked to 'wire' money from bank to 'Zap Solutions' in strike app 'Cross river solutions bank'.
Then I was told steps to purchase BTC with that...then transfer it to Trust wallet.
From trust wallet - go to qeabit - > go to their wallet -> and options trading..-> Behave like a fool that you are making so much money..->
then withdraw/transfer it back to main wallet.

One of the reviewers posted exactly - they will let you transfer some small amount / money back so you gain the trust -> which is exactly what happened. I tested to make sure, I can get my money back, I did receive the small test amount. Then was told to trade for huge amounts..
Thats when I took loan..and accummulated here for higher transaction.

I guess just initially itself, I should have withdrawn little by little..but just to save time, and I was totally feeling uneasy..right from the start - I wanted and decided to completely get out QUICK.
Thats it! Freeze!

the same person told me to contact customer service -

Is the transaction came directly from your bank account to qeabit? If yes, then contact your bank CS they can maybe be able to help you if it was from your bank account buying USDT from qeabit.

Or did you receive USDT from qeabit for free?

How exactly did you get USDT from qeabit? Like you said above, you are transferring all USDT from qeabit to TrustWallet so how did you get the USDT? Did you topup using your bank account?

OMG!!....Is this for Real?? Pls Pls tell me otherwise?

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BitMaxZ - I appreciate you digging that detail for me. I am a single parent, so things run so busy, I guess I fell for it. I know I shouldn't have..I have never...to the point I kept saying, I don't need extra money (happy and content with my small family, small life)!
But I was pushed and pushed!
This is exactly the weird part!!
Same thing- they are asking me
someone said - "This platform is a scam. They will freeze "your assets" and ask for 25% of your total balance to unfreeze the money. Bullshit"

ANything I could do here? ANYTHING? the contact info on reviews regarding 'trace it back', ...I am not going to jump in, but is there anything like that in this world!? Saving crypto from scam?

You've been scam I found the site on Google and checked the whois and the site just created last August which is pretty new site.
I don't know how you easily trust this site without going to research first.

Whois result:


I found some people being scam from this link below

- https://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/qeabit.com

"Do you mind linking the site you're referring to? Googling Qeabit shows some random online articles but not the actual site.

And my second question, where did you find out about the site? because it sound like you're dealing with scammers here."
I don't have any link - but didn't seem like it was a scam. But yes, someone guided me to here (read: pushed?). I was asked to download the app trust wallet and function there. so its just the app - no link on desktop.

I go to trust wallet -> 'discover' ->Search Qeabit-> and there

"17.5% reserve for service fee is a crazy amount and no platform should be charging that much.
If a platform charges that much, it should be deducted directly when someone tries to make a withdrawal, without them needing to calculate how much fees they owe,
If it is not directly deducted, the transaction should not be able to go through, i.e, the system should automatically stop it for having insufficient funds left."

That's EXACTLy my point..1. Exactly - but whatever - I could pay if I had known...It seemed so so useless and absolutely crazy without ANY NOTIFICATION or ask..or error or anything at all - simply 'unusable'!
Yes and yes...but then now what?!

I do wonder if they are asking for more now to get more money stuck / scammed?
I am so lost and so much of my loan / money in here. But gut feeling wise, it didn't seem like a scam honestly!?

So many things are wrong with the platform you are using -

• 17.5% reserve for service fee is a crazy amount and no platform should be charging that much.
• If a platform charges that much, it should be deducted directly when someone tries to make a withdrawal, without them needing to calculate how much fees they owe,
• If it is not directly deducted, the transaction should not be able to go through, i.e, the system should automatically stop it for having insufficient funds left.

1. It should have a deposit wallet to top up funds on it.
2. Only their support team can answer that. Send them an inquiry with all supporting information.
3. Why not transfer to a self custody wallet and hold it there?

- Jay -

Do you mind linking the site you're referring to? Googling Qeabit shows some random online articles but not the actual site.

And my second question, where did you find out about the site? because it sound like you're dealing with scammers here.

hello - I am an absolute beginner in crypto space (and probably will not come back to it once safely get my money back ( ). I am desperate at this point. I have a hard saved / loaned money that I transferred from trading account / qeabit to Trust wallet / main wallet so I could exit entirely (and be done with crypto). Not knowing, I consciously clicked on 'all' USDT available from qeabit trading wallet / account to Trust wallet main account. It never showed up. I contacted the help center and they said I should have 17.5 % reserve to pay 'service Fees' which is Huge..!! By this point I had put ALL available resources / loans to this trade. So I had no other way (in fact my account was frozen because of excess loan / withdrawal). Let's say even if I arrange most cash, will someone here be able to guide me oin exactly how to process this time so my money is not stuck / gone somewhere in black hole. I was used to banking system where it shows 'insufficient funds'...never thought that they will make funds unusable and not simply deduct the fee from total amount (thats what I am most used to generically).
1. What is the clear / confirmed way for me to get funds from a normal bank account to this trading wallet.
2. How do I confirm this time that, that specific amount goes towards fees, and my frozen asset is released?
3. Then from there, I was hoping to get some help transferring to a simple investment account rather than jump through several fees / charges from coibase transfer process.
Help this single parent with kids?!