Scam or not ? Transer funds Require Top up

[RonaldNL]

Hello ,

i have been doing some bitcoin trading at

https://www.cryptotcc.net/h5/#/

this has been together with a person i met online,
after trading for a couple of days i tried to withdraw funds from this site.
the security from this website left me on verification.

the customer service told me i need to top up my account at double the amount i wish to take out to be able to make a high withdraw.
the amount i wished to withdraw : 1067.31 USDT
the amount they want me to top up : 2088 USDT

i am feeling very sceptical about this way of verification.
im also very new at this kind of trading.

can anyone with expierence in this answer topic please?

thank you for your support 

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[OmegaStarScream]

It's definitely a scam. No legitimate site would ever ask you to do this. There is sadly nothing you can do to get your deposited funds back, so the least you can do now is to cut your losses and never use the site again.

[Zaguru12]

I think you should already see the red flag yourself. One of the golden rules of either investing in bitcoin or cryptocurrency at large is to never ever trust any one online. The amount is also just too huge for one lose, i would advice you don’t even submit your personal details to them because you might also be prone to hacks through phishing or it’s likes.

Move thread to trading board or scam accusation board

[Nwada001]

Like Omega has said, you can't get your money back; asking you to make a deposit is a means to get more money from you. You were never trading with them in the first place; what you did was give your money to a scammer to trade for you, and this money has already been long spent, and they added some figures to your account on their website, which can't even be withdrawn because there is no real money backing that up.
 
You have been scammed. Your first mistake was trusting someone with your money, someone you met online, and you were also after a high ROI, which was the reason why you failed to realize it was a scam all along.

[RonaldNL]

thank you for your answers guys.

i will be more careful in the future 

[Orpichukwu]

thank you for your answers guys.

i will be more careful in the future  

Any one promising you, add this to get this in less than 24-48 hours, they are all scams.
 
There is no easy money again in this cryptospace. The best thing that you can do is to hold your coin and not give it to anyone to do an investment for you. If you so much want profit, you can learn how to trade yourself and start handling your own trade.
 
You can rest assured that you are in control of your decision. If you lose the money, you know you have lost it and you know how everything went, rather than handing over your hard-earned money to someone who did not even suffer for it, and at the end of the day, the guy next screen is rejoicing for being able to scam you.
 
Even leaving your money on a centralized exchange is also not a good option to start with, incase you also want to consider that, any platform that requires you to deposit your crypto and they will do multiplying for you, avoids them.

[RonaldNL]

is there a place where i can report this website ?

[Bitcoin_Arena]

thank you for your answers guys.

i will be more careful in the future  

If you are not sure about the site or exchange. Always ask here in the forum before you deposit any money or start using it. And do not just trust random online people who offer you "investment" ideas

is there a place where i can report this website ?

You can start by reporting it to the domain registrar (Namecheap, Inc.) so that it gets taken down.
1. https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/9196/5/how-and-where-can-i-file-abuse-complaints/

[acroman08]

sorry and sad to say that you got scammed, this is why it is important to not believe or follow someone online especially if you do not know them and you have not done any kind of research on the website he/she is trying to recommend to you(I assume the person you met online recommended you to the website). incidents like this have been posted a lot here in the forum, as Bitcoin_Arena have mentioned if you are not sure about an exchange site you can ask for advice here in the forum, pretty sure forum members will be willing to give you some assistance if they can.

[coin-investor]

The design is poorly created even a newbie in coding can do better, the first rule before joining a site is to use Google to confirm if the site is legit or valid, the life span of this phishing is short because people are quick to report it, so if you verify the site you will hardly see reviews about the site and if there are it usually scam reports.
The second rule is if the site asks to top up or verify your address by depositing to validate the address that is a clear sign that it is a scam.

[Gladitorcomeback]

Hello ,

i have been doing some bitcoin trading at

https://www.cryptotcc.net/h5/#/

this has been together with a person i met online,

Why you choose this platform when top rank exchanges already available first this purpose. Haven't you heard about Coinbase, Binance, Kucoin, Bybit?

You should check at least the domain detail. This domain is fully new purchased  20 days ago(06 November 23). I am really sorry to say that You have been decieved by just Exchange script and you didn't proper researched before depositing fund here.

Domain Name: CRYPTOTCC.NET
Registry Domain ID: 2827506942_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.namecheap.com
Registrar URL: http://www.namecheap.com
Updated Date: 2023-11-06T12:48:31Z
Creation Date: 2023-11-06T12:35:56Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2024-11-06T12:35:56Z
Registrar: NameCheap, Inc.
Registrar IANA ID: 1068
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@namecheap.com

Source

You can report by contacting through abuse contact .

after trading for a couple of days i tried to withdraw funds from this site.
the security from this website left me on verification.

the customer service told me i need to top up my account at double the amount i wish to take out to be able to make a high withdraw.
the amount i wished to withdraw : 1067.31 USDT
the amount they want me to top up : 2088 USDT

i am feeling very sceptical about this way of verification.
im also very new at this kind of trading.

can anyone with expierence in this answer topic please?

thank you for your support 

This is obvious scam and there is no way for refund. Your case is similar to other case reported in this section some days ago. You can also read below thread and realize that how scammer will use this trick to force you for depositing more fund.

I was given 72 hrs. to deposit a 100% equivalent of my assets ($74K) to verify my account
which is obviously a scam. Instead of asking me to provide proof of source of income, they
want me to add more money.

[Rikafip]

Hello ,

i have been doing some bitcoin trading at

https://www.cryptotcc.net/h5/#/

this has been together with a person i met online,

Out of curiosity, did you meet that porson on a dating site? I am asking because that's one of the more common scamming techniques, scammer pretending to be a "pretty lady" and after some days/weeks of casual conversation, they steer it towards "great investtment possibilty" like in your case.

Anyway, lesson learned for the next time someone you meet online gives you an investment advice. 

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

Hello ,

i have been doing some bitcoin trading at

https://www.cryptotcc.net/h5/#/

this has been together with a person i met online,
after trading for a couple of days i tried to withdraw funds from this site.
the security from this website left me on verification.

the customer service told me i need to top up my account at double the amount i wish to take out to be able to make a high withdraw.
the amount i wished to withdraw : 1067.31 USDT
the amount they want me to top up : 2088 USDT

i am feeling very sceptical about this way of verification.
im also very new at this kind of trading.

can anyone with expierence in this answer topic please?

thank you for your support 

Lol, it's pretty obvious mate that this is a scam attempt. And so someone gave this link to you by a unknown person? that is already a red flag mate and again, this is one of their modus operandi. They will even offer to help you out in the beginning and give you a good profit and you feel that it's real. However, when you are about to withdraw, just like in your example, you are going to require you to deposit for more.

Just used logical thinking, they want you to top up more than what you are going to withdraw? Doesn't make sense right?

So just forget about it, don't deposit any and stop talking to that person again. Some classic scams if you met that person in a dating app: https://www.coindesk.com/learn/crypto-romance-scams-dont-fall-for-these-dating-app-swindlers/

[tabas]

is there a place where i can report this website ?

You can also report them to: https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?hl=en
Since the website is also existing when you search it directly on Google. That's going to take them down and will remove them for any direct keywords researched for that website. And next time, when a website or service asks you to deposit again for you to withdraw and the amount is enormous, that's a sign that they're a scam. There are services that really require some threshold amount for you to withdraw but usually, it's on the casinos and exchanges but they're not a lot and the amount's like just $5-$10 or $20.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

the customer service told me i need to top up my account at double the amount i wish to take out to be able to make a high withdraw.
the amount i wished to withdraw : 1067.31 USDT
the amount they want me to top up : 2088 USDT

You should seen this alone as enough reasons for you to have a second thought about them because no any reputable platform will make a demand of such, they are not sure if you make withdrawals, you will still come back or not, so they wanted to have their own share right before they loose the hope they have with you and your asset with them, we need to always make research about any offers we received from online platforms regarl of what or whom they were, we should trust nobody.

[Lucius]

is there a place where i can report this website ?

In addition to the suggestions you have already received, you can also report the fraud to the police in your country. Regardless of the fact that the amount may not be significant for you, who knows how many other people have been scammed from the same website.

If the scammers are stupid or careless, that stablecoin has one drawback, which is that it can be frozen on demand, so that possibility should not be dismissed.

[tvplus006]

thank you for your answers guys.

i will be more careful in the future 

According to the domain registrar, it was registered on November 6, 2023. Tell us how you found this site and what were you promised as bonuses that you transferred your money there? And it would be right to first ask on this forum about this exchange than turn after you have lost your money.

[sujonali1819]

Tell us how you found this site and what were you promised as bonuses that you transferred your money there? And it would be right to first ask on this forum about this exchange than turn after you have lost your money.

As OP said

this has been together with a person i met online,

It seems some strange guy/scammer who contacts randomly (basically in telegram) to make people fool has introduced him to this site. And the common offers are expected to be some credit for making trade. If you win and try to withdraw make another big deposit. Same as we saw on the Routlete site back days.

[khaled0111]

^^
This is just an other example of what is know as romance scams.
OP obviously met a girl online and she asked him to invest in this platform.
It could make more sense if they asked him to deposit a small amount to meet the min amount withdrawal requirement, but to ask him to send the double of what he wants to withdraw doesn't make any sense and any one should realize that there is something wrong with this request.
Fortunately, those scammers are too stupid to the point they wanted to convince him he must do this in order to verify his identity!

[PX-Z]

As OP said

this has been together with a person i met online,

It seems some strange guy/scammer who contacts randomly (basically in telegram) to make people fool has introduced him to this site. And the common offers are expected to be some credit for making trade. If you win and try to withdraw make another big deposit. Same as we saw on the Routlete site back days.

This happens when you link your accounts or posting them on other social media handles, sharing your most of online activities on socmed. With my years here in cypto, i never had been messaged in my main fb, twitter accounts, or even on telegram. If there is i know that those were obvious scams offering shitty investments, asking for help like stuck funds on an exchange, etc. Or the most absurd thing is from an account with a pretty profile pic asking these kind of schemes.

Good thing OP asked first or there's another day for an easy money to scammers.