Hello all, looking for some help. I opened a TRUST wallet account some time ago and transferred USDT from Crypto Exchange. I then was automatically placed in staking activities. At the end of staking, upon trying to return my funds to my wallet, I was notified by customer service I have to pay 62,000+ USDT in capital gains taxes (I am based in Chicago). They are now holding my funds until I pay this tax. I currently have about 315,000 USDT in this wallet. Is this standard practice? I don't have these funds to pay the taxes and my funds will be frozen soon. I can't get a loan for this amount. Is there anything I can do?
This is very simple; they are groups of scammers or sometimes just one scammer working as an admin, account manager, trading manager, member of the US government, etc. What they do is direct you to their fake site, ask you to make a deposit, you make a deposit, and then use their admin account to increase your balance in your dash board, which you can't withdraw. First, they will charge you for an account upgrade, followed by other things. Some scammers go as far as getting PDF documents, which they use to convince their victims that it's actually real. Regarding this tax fee...
Some forms of this document are below for such scam billing.
And before it got to this stage, you had already been paying the scammers' bills for quite some time.