CRYPTO SCAM?

[shemar01]

I've been doing short term trades on crypto now for a couple of months on the app TRUST WALLET and connected to a blockchain wallet on www.bccrypotc-b.com/wap
everything was going well until a couple of days ago when I tried to withdraw funds from my account then my account was suspended for the following reason...

IN ACCORDANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING ORGANIZATIONS AND DIGITAL CURRENCY MARKET TRANSACTION REGULATIONS, IN ORDER TO PREVENT
YOU FROM PARTICIPATING IN ILLEGAL MONEY LAUNDERING WHEN USING YOUR ACCOUNT TRANSACTIONS. YOUR ACCOUNT IS SUSPENDED. YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE UNFROZEN
WHEN THE REVIEW OF YOUR ACCOUNT IS COMPLETE.

IF YOUR FUNDS ARE NOT INVOLVED IN ILLEGAL MONEY LAUNDERING. YOU NEED TO SUBMIT PHOTOS OF THE FRONT AND BACK OF YOUR ID AS WELL AS A SELFIE OF YOU HOLDING
THE ID AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, AND PAY AN ACCOUNT REVIEW DEPOSIT OF 60% OF THE TOTAL ACCOUNT AMOUNT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO VERIFY THE LEGITIMACY OF YOUR TRADING ACCOUNT.
THE BALANCE OF YOUR ACCOUNT IS: 201080.50USDT. THE REQUIRED DEPOSIT IS: 120648.30USDT. AFTER THE ACCOUNT SUCCESSFULLY PAYS THE ACCOUNT REVIEW DEPOSIT, IT WILL BE JOINTLY
REVIEWED BY THE INTERNATIONAL ANTI-MONEY LAUNDRY ORGANIZATION AND THE DAPP MINISTRY OF JUSTICE AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT, AND THE REVIEW TIME IS 24 HOURS.
IF YOUR ACCOUNT IS NOT INVOLVED IN MONEY LAUNDERING AND THE SOURCE OF FUNDS IS NORMAL, AFTER THE REVIEW IS COMPLETED, THE DEPOSIT WILL BE FULLY RETURNED TO YOU MEMBER
ACCOUNT, AND YOU CAN WITHDRAW YOUR ACCOUNT FUNDS AND THE ACCOUNT'S TRUE VERIFICATION DEPOSIT AT WILL. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION.

Has anyone ever experienced this and I hate saying it I'm more than positive I'm screwed here.

Looking forward to your comments.

[Potato Chips]

Sorry op but you have been scammed.

It's a typical scam scheme, we have seen this pattern many times. No legitimate service ask for a huge deposit in order to get your funds out or for kyc/aml checks. Please never send any personal information or more money to them, they will milk you dry. Also ignore any recover services that comes your way.

Just the domain name -- bccrypotc-b dot com alone reeks of scam. Did someone PM'd you about this, it's extremely obscure.

[New Money]

I began receiving "crypto scam" phishing emails related to Bitcoin, Crypto, Wallets, and Warnings two years ago. Always verify the sender's email address; if an email claims to be from Coinbase but doesn't end with "@coinbase.com," then it's likely a scam.

[Ever-young]

It’s a scam site and everything was already planned from the beginning, you did nothing wrong for them to ask for your KYC and their is no money laundry policy that was being broken by you this is just pure scam and a means for the scammer or group of scammer to scam you the more from what you have already deposited to them.

Were you will know that this is a scam is for them to ask you to make deposit when they are already holding down your fund in there system, it’s pure scam report them to any authority that you can that the best you can do and never send anything to them again as you will never get it back. Sorry for your loss.

[salad daging]

I don't know if this is a story made up to spread phishing sites? Because I have to connect to the site, I suspect that this is a scam, clearly the website is not attractive at all, even when you access it using Google Chrome, it is marked as dangerous.

I feel like the OP is just spreading a phishing site with a fake story, be careful not to fall for OP's words because it's clear he's trying to be his victim.

[mk4]

1. When using centralized exchanges, use the bigger, well-known ones.
2. Do a lot of background searches on social media when using any platform that involves depositing your own hard-earned money.
3. How the heck did you not realize that a website named "bccrypotc-b" isn't a scam?

[btc78]

AND PAY AN ACCOUNT REVIEW DEPOSIT OF 60% OF THE TOTAL ACCOUNT AMOUNT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO VERIFY THE LEGITIMACY OF YOUR TRADING ACCOUNT

Yup its is a scam if they truly wanted to verify the legitimacy of their customers’ identity all they had to ask for was proof but them requiring a payment is definitely a move to gain profit

I am very sorry this has happened to you may this spread awareness and help people avoid from being victimized from people like this whose only way of gaining money is through deception of others

[shemar01]

Hi salad daging

Sorry for providing the website details - this is my first post here - I was just looking for assistance and confirmation of what I already suspected.
I wish I was making this up however this is very real - this person contacted me on Tinder of all places then we communicated in Telegram
after a few weeks of chatting the topic of cryptocurrency came up - I wasn't interested then the person showed me a few
screen shots of their earnings so of course I was curious - the person walked me through the entire process what apps to
us how to transfer money from my account to the app and then buy crypto ETH to then transfer the the trading wallet.
Even showed me how to move fund from the trading wallet back to my account. It started off small then as the profits increased so did my personal deposits.
When my account was locked I questioned the person that introduced to all of this and of course denied everything - they suggested I just pay the fee for the
account review and I would get the money back plus control of the funds when it was done.
I stopped communication with the person, today the person contacted my saying I need to get my account unlocked or you will loose
everything and even offered to assist by lending me money but I would need to pay the rest on my own. Naturally, I declined which got the
person extremely upset.

What is even stranger the withdrawal I was making was to another wallet I have - after my withdrawal was declined I had 2 unauthorized withdrawals
from my other wallet which makes no sense to me at all.. When I questioned it the answer I received was basically to bad for you. I won't post the name
of that app as I don't want you to think I'm phishing.

Any suggestions as to what authorities that I could report this to? Not that it will make a difference.

Appreciate your time...

[Mate2237]

This can only happen to those who are using the channel to trade. And since they want you to submit your KYC you have to do it to clear yourself and from the tone of the message, they are not yet scammers. But op can you provide the official trading website you're using for easy judgement if the site from scammers or not. You have to be careful when trading because scammers full the trading site of the ecosystem.

[shemar01]

Hi Mate2237

The name of the other app is GNXCE I downloaded it directly from the APP store.

I feel so stupid lol


and a quick search on google.... and found this on the apple community post

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255405855?sortBy=best

shor7y666
shor7y666
Author
User level: Level 1
4 points
Beware of Gnxce app

Gnxce app was introduced to me by scammer who wanted to harvest my personal data.
When she/he learned that I don't have Apple device I was pointed to a fraudulent website which serves the same purpose.
Initial contact was through Messenger, then we moved to WhatsApp mobile application.
I was being tempted by idea of quick money through crypto.

If anyone else encountered the same thing please avoid downloading this app.

[Potato Chips]

When my account was locked I questioned the person that introduced to all of this and of course denied everything - they suggested I just pay the fee for the
account review and I would get the money back plus control of the funds when it was done.
I stopped communication with the person, today the person contacted my saying I need to get my account unlocked or you will loose
everything and even offered to assist by lending me money but I would need to pay the rest on my own. Naturally, I declined which got the
person extremely upset.

Yes, the person who introduced it to you is part of the scam team. If you look up pig butchering scam, you'll find the same story.

What is even stranger the withdrawal I was making was to another wallet I have - after my withdrawal was declined I had 2 unauthorized withdrawals
from my other wallet which makes no sense to me at all.. When I questioned it the answer I received was basically to bad for you. I won't post the name
of that app as I don't want you to think I'm phishing.

Was it the Gnxce app you mentioned? never heard of this and the name sounds sus AF, they probably own and control everything that goes through it. I suggest uninstalling asap.

What about the trust wallet you mentioned in your first post? you sure you have the legitimate one? otherwise, uninstall it as well. This is the official website btw: https://trustwallet.com/

Any suggestions as to what authorities that I could report this to? Not that it will make a difference.

Try with your local cybercrimes unit. I'm not sure if you could tip on authorities that may not necessarily be on your jurisdiction but if you can, try the ic3.

I also had bit of a pessimistic view on reporting but I think of it as a baby step, who knows your information could help the investigation at some point, in some way. It's not impossible that these scammers are a part of a large ring. If you don't make it known, no one will know anyhow. But yeah, just don't have high hopes of recovery on this.

If you have the perp's crypto addresses, you may also post them.

Sorry for your loss, op.

[pinggoki]

It’s a scam site and everything was already planned from the beginning, you did nothing wrong for them to ask for your KYC and their is no money laundry policy that was being broken by you this is just pure scam and a means for the scammer or group of scammer to scam you the more from what you have already deposited to them.

Were you will know that this is a scam is for them to ask you to make deposit when they are already holding down your fund in there system, it’s pure scam report them to any authority that you can that the best you can do and never send anything to them again as you will never get it back. Sorry for your loss.

And this will be a double kill for OP if he/she provided the necessary identification to verify that OP isn't involve in any kind of money laundering operation, crypto and identity stolen is going to be really scary and frustrating for OP because that means they can use your identity to falsify some stuff and make it look like it's your fault. This is the right thing to do, reporting it to the authorities because it's definitely a big deal that's going to ruin someone, that stolen money isn't that big of a deal anymore when you let this stuff go until you see "yourself" committing frauds in other countries, report this to the authorities OP please, one of the reasons why these scammers aren't apprehended is because there's not a lot of people that are complaining or filing a report about them, it's about time that they somehow feel the playing field being leveled.

[aloha23]

If you already lost the money, then there is nothing you can do.

If your credentials were exposed, change them immediately.

If you think nothing happened yet, dont do anything.

These are my rules of thumb

[alastantiger]

Any suggestions as to what authorities that I could report this to? Not that it will make a difference.

Try with your local cybercrimes unit.

After you have reached out to your local cybercrimes unit please also engage the services a reputable crypto recovery agent. Note that there are also fraudulent recovery agents and you will know them if they request upfront fees. So do your homework on them very well  to avoid falling victim to a crypto recovery scam. Crypto recovery is a challenging process and your funds may no longer be accessible. If the recovery agent is good at their job after they discover that the funds are no longer available, the least they can do is to trace and provide evidence of your transactions with the fraudulent website. With this evidence it can be easy to track and prosecute the scammer.

[davis196]

IF YOUR FUNDS ARE NOT INVOLVED IN ILLEGAL MONEY LAUNDERING. YOU NEED TO SUBMIT PHOTOS OF THE FRONT AND BACK OF YOUR ID AS WELL AS A SELFIE OF YOU HOLDING
THE ID AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, AND PAY AN ACCOUNT REVIEW DEPOSIT OF 60% OF THE TOTAL ACCOUNT AMOUNT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO VERIFY THE LEGITIMACY OF YOUR TRADING ACCOUNT.
THE BALANCE OF YOUR ACCOUNT IS: 201080.50USDT. THE REQUIRED DEPOSIT IS: 120648.30USDT. AFTER THE ACCOUNT SUCCESSFULLY PAYS THE ACCOUNT REVIEW DEPOSIT, IT WILL BE JOINTLY
REVIEWED BY THE INTERNATIONAL ANTI-MONEY LAUNDRY ORGANIZATION AND THE DAPP MINISTRY OF JUSTICE AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT, AND THE REVIEW TIME IS 24 HOURS.
IF YOUR ACCOUNT IS NOT INVOLVED IN MONEY LAUNDERING AND THE SOURCE OF FUNDS IS NORMAL, AFTER THE REVIEW IS COMPLETED, THE DEPOSIT WILL BE FULLY RETURNED TO YOU MEMBER
ACCOUNT, AND YOU CAN WITHDRAW YOUR ACCOUNT FUNDS AND THE ACCOUNT'S TRUE VERIFICATION DEPOSIT AT WILL. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION.

Where did you get that message from?
No legitimate organization is going to ask for a 60% "account review deposit". This sounds like total nonsense to me.
Do you really have 201K USDT in your account? Are you using a centralized crypto exchange?
What the hell is a "Dapp Ministry of Justice and technology department"? Where do you live?
The term "illegal money laundering" seems like a joke to me. Is there such a thing as "legal money laundering"?
OP, I'm sorry about your case. Did you contact the customer support of the crypto exchange you are using?

[leonair]

Cryptography just a technology It's build in blockchain. and huge project is already build there token on crypto industry. you can't called crypto is scam if some project is scam from this platform. if you are a victims of scam from crypto industry then it will your own failure. so you have to done huge analysis on crypto to invest on right coins. so in this case you can invest in bitcoin which will return you a good profit if you keep holding your bitcoin for long time.

[boyptc]

Dude I didn't even finished reading the first sentences after seeing the link you have given and that's already sensing me that it was a scam.

Too many newbies fall for such scams. Before you commit into anything or do some deposits, what you have to do is to check the legitimacy of the website first.

This is one of the reason why people think is a scam because of these scams that crumples the rep of it.

[AHOYBRAUSE]

Dude I didn't even finished reading the first sentences after seeing the link you have given and that's already sensing me that it was a scam.

Too many newbies fall for such scams. Before you commit into anything or do some deposits, what you have to do is to check the legitimacy of the website first.

This is one of the reason why people think is a scam because of these scams that crumples the rep of it.

Same here.
I am always surprised that this kind of scam still has success! I mean anybody with a working brain could figure this out, you don't need research or even make an account here to get the verification.

And if you need it, a quick 10 second google search would tell you all there is to know because these scams always work the same. Normally you would think that scammers try to find new ways but seems like even this old stuff with thousands of warning about it on the internet still works for some reason.

[elevates]

Just check the link it doesn't even look like it is from a genuine company. A genuine company won't have a hyphen in their domain name, the link has a hyphen it is just common sense.  It is a scam and since you had connected your wallet to the scam site it is better you create new wallets now. I don't think you will be able to recover those funds. The only option you have is to contact local authorities and report it. These scams are quite common and to prevent such scams from happening always use reputated and trusted exchange.

[NNRR]

Crypto scam is totally wrong not only cryptocurrency no matter where you go there is no shortage of scammers but we all should protect ourselves closely from those scammers and even avoid their various temptations if someone offers you huge profits or offers huge profits.  If you always stay away from them then chances of scam are very less so here the fault or fault of any particular thing is our conscience and our society.