Two days ago I had received a twitter notification, where i was tagged by a exchange's twitter account. (bitclaus.com is the URL of the
probably Definitely a scam exchange)
where they said that I with some other users has won around 10,000 USD to trade, this is not that type of bonus where the exchanges or broker gives some free USD which are claimable as a trading fee.
This was real money, after finding out this I quickly rush to signup on the exchange (because there was only 3 winners and the account had 10k+ followers)
and after signing up, I gone to withdrawal page to withdraw the 10k USD but after filling all the blacks and clicking the withdraw button, A window pops up saying that you need to complete verification to be able to withdraw and because of AML policy.
after reading this I thought this will be a KYC type verification, but not. that verification will successfully complete when I will deposit $150 to their deposit address. after that I will be allowed to withdraw that 10k.
Then I realized that, Oh this is another new scam (first time with me) so I searched on trustpilot, google about this exchange and no results after writing exact name of the exchange and no reviews on review site.
they newly registered the domain some days ago to scam people:
https://who.is/whois/bitclaus.com , and the exchange template used and theme is so real and trusty,
It's possibly or definitely a scam, I shared here because sometime the situation seems so real that we cannot resist ourselves.
Avoid sites and people who promise to give free money, avoid those sites who tell you to deposit or send money first then receive your prize/crypto/anything.
Avoid any free money from a stranger.
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