Dgfinex. Scam exchange. Ask you to send 50% of deposit value to withdraw. Avoid

[avp2306]

How did she even found out about them? Was it some "friend" recommending her, or it was Google ads?

I ask myself the same question almost every time I see someone get scammed by something this obvious. Where do they find such bullshit scam sites and not notice anything wrong?

Same here. Sometimes you will wonder how greedy and how newbies' minds work despite of so many red flags there are, the worst case is they will always ask if the site is scam or not after depositing a huge  ^{(although "huge" is debatable depends on the victim's status)} money into it.

There are complete newbie which doesn't really have knowledge how crypto scams work and this is what they saw upon their research. But to bad for them that there's no one can explain what is right and wrong in terms of investments that's why they are the common victim of such scheme which is totally obvious by experience people. Scammers knows that they cannot scam old people but they still create the same schemes since there are still newbies that can be their potential victims.

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[Coyster]

If the story is true, she had $10.000 to waste but no time to make even the most basic of research to find 50 other exchanges where this wouldn't have happened. And then she considered borrowing an additional $5k they asked to "allow" her to withdraw the funds. Amazing.

It is easy for us with knowledge to know the right thing to do, and i must confess that if i held Bitcoin without knowing about this forum, i would have made quite a lot of mistakes, so the thing is, so many people lack knowledge of Bitcoin/crypto. I was having a chat with a distant friend the other day, and he told me how he bought Bitcoins recently and kept them in his electrum wallet, and then i asked him if he kept his seed phrase in a safe place, and he said "not really", that he thought it is impossible for someone to steal his coins without having access to the wallet file in his device.

Sometimes you will wonder how greedy and how newbies' minds work despite of so many red flags there are, the worst case is they will always ask if the site is scam or not after depositing a huge  ^{(although "huge" is debatable depends on the victim's status)} money into it.

The case in the OP isn't about greed/avarice, it is basically just a lack of knowledge, cases of avarice is when people fall for Bitcoin doubling scams, trading platforms that promise unrealistic ROI, buying fake wallet files/wallet.dat, etc.

[Pmalek]

I can imagine someone who never used another exchange falling for this quite easily as they simply have no point of reference nor do they know how exchanges work.

Fair enough. But it still doesn't answer the question how they find these sites and why they look in the wrong places. A simple search for 'best crypto exchange' or something could perhaps lead them to a CEX no one here likes, but at least it's not a scam site like the one mentioned in OP.

If you are new in town and want to ask for directions, who are you going to ask? The group of 10 drunk skinhead guys playing with knifes and urinating publicly, or the nice couple sipping a coffee on the opposite street? Newbies approach the skinheads for some reason, not knowing/smelling the danger. I hope you understand my point.

[Rikafip]

Fair enough. But it still doesn't answer the question how they find these sites and why they look in the wrong places. A simple search for 'best crypto exchange' or something could perhaps lead them to a CEX no one here likes, but at least it's not a scam site like the one mentioned in OP.

One of the possible scenarios is that person in question heard from someone that Digifinex is a good exchange, entered "Digifinex" in Google and instead of getting the real exchange at the top, fake one appeared via Google ads. I know a very experienced guy who lost $100k that way, as he entered phishing website, connected his Metamask and lost everything he got there.

If you are new in town and want to ask for directions, who are you going to ask? The group of 10 drunk skinhead guys playing with knifes and urinating publicly, or the nice couple sipping a coffee on the opposite street? Newbies approach the skinheads for some reason, not knowing/smelling the danger. I hope you understand my point.

Problem is that on the Internet those "drunk skinheads" can be disguised as a "nice couple". At least to those that are not very experienced and can be fooled easily.

[SeriouslyGiveaway]

How did she even found out about them? Was it some "friend" recommending her, or it was Google ads?

I can imagine someone who never used another exchange falling for this quite easily as they simply have no point of reference nor do they know how exchanges work.

I ask myself the same question almost every time I see someone get scammed by something this obvious. Where do they find such bullshit scam sites and not notice anything wrong? Talking to support to get a deposit address to deposit should have been enough to raise some alarms. Obviously, it wasn't. And it's often people with money that get hit hard.

She likely had no experience with cryptocurrency and was invited to join that exchange. My guess because I did not ask details how she was scammed by that exchange. I
could not find dgfinex exchange with search so no or low chance to be scammed if no direct invitation from someone.

She did not have any experience with cryptocurrency exchange, deposits so she did not feel odds by have to asking exchange support staff to get a deposit address.

If the story is true, she had $10.000 to waste but no time to make even the most basic of research to find 50 other exchanges where this wouldn't have happened. And then she considered borrowing an additional $5k they asked to "allow" her to withdraw the funds. Amazing.

The story is true and the amount makes me shocked too. Fortunately for the girl, she did not have $5,000 to deposit it so she went around and asked for loan money. I hope my warning will stop her to lose $5,000 but I don't know what she did after all.