Have I been Scammed??

[Humblevirus]

I invested with someone(moderator) of a group on Telegram called Worklite Uni Options, her name is Lora. I did some research and did not find anything bad. I did contact a lot of the members for reviews or if they had been paid and no bad reviews, everyone got paid per plan, thought surely not everyone lieing (10 people). It was a 21 day payout. My 21 days is up and now all of a sudden she wants a TVN (trade verification number or code) to verify my profits for her server to send my profits. There is also a website called Capital Base Traders where I can see my profit. Not knowing what a TVN is or where to get one, I didn’t have one, she said I could get one from a TVN programmer or vendor. So she kindly gave me one of her contacts which is a TVN programmer. It all just seems fishy to me. I haven’t contacted him yet, but figuring they will want money to get a TVN. Is this normal or does it appear to be a scam? Thanks for any help!

All these things you are mentioning, I have never heard any of them before, and it is very unfortunate that you just came across a telegram channel and you joined, although you did not specify the main thing that they are doing in that group. You just said you, and after 21 days, they ask you for some code to verify your profit. At this point, why did you not think twice before making these decisions? Because there is no way someone will come and ask for a code to verify what you have gained in your investment, and you will give it out, which is bad.

See, in these cryptos, everything you want to do is just do it yourself, whether trading or investing. You may not have some funds to handle when you are able to do so, so just sit down and learn the process of what you want to do, but many people are too lazy to learn, which is why they get scammed. Just like what happened to you now without wasting much time in your thread, you have been scammed. Don't try these next time. Just try and learn what you want to do.

[PrivacyG]

It was most likely not even a woman.
The funds you sent have likely been directed to their pockets straight from the start.  No investment, no nothing.

I am baffled at how many people are scammed by this kind of scheme.  How do they trust a stranger so much?  No body knows something negative about me.  Does this mean any body here would do business with me with no proper research and stuff?  I doubt so.  Not the reputable Members of the Forum at least.

Hopefully this was a cheap lesson to learn.  Do not trust strangers.  Jesus Christ, is it this necessary to repeat this every time to adults!

[reagansimms]

The motive for this type of fraud is very neatly designed before they look for potential victims. Contacting members of a telegram group is a wrong action, because most of the group members are part of the fraudster. Next time, before making a suspicious investment like this, you should first look for information about the legality of their site. You can ask about the Telegram group called Worklite Uni Options here before investing there, most of the members on the Bitcointalk forum, especially the senior ones, will try to give good advice so that you don't become their victim.

[Faisal2202]

My suggestion is to not reply to those kind of people if they say Hello or anything like that. Just ignore them so that they leave you alone.

But he doesn't want to remain alone, he already have sent her (the telegram lady) BTC, 26 days ago according to him. And now when the time of profit booking comes they are asking him for some code, which TBH I never heard about before. That's why I used to say a little study of BTC, is necessary in order to save ourselves from scams. He has sent them BTC, now waiting for them to send the capital+Profit back to him. I don't know how he became a victim of this.

While in the crypto world, there is a rule that we don't see the message we receive from beautiful girls on Twitter and on Telegram haha even if they are damn beautiful. I sometimes waste there and my time, by chatting like a pro, I use different investment terms to show them I am pro, but that's just for fun. 

[Awaklara]

Abnormal  the condition is not what your started with before, in case like this one don't need prophet to tell it's a scam, I search on my telegram but have not seen such name. Not all transactions or work on telegram is genuine many scammers use telegram mostly some airdrop and presale if shiltcoin and altcoin.

On Telegram there will be many people who contact you just to offer services or collaborative projects. And most of the time when you are contacted by these people it is a scam.
If the OP has high confidence in his analytical abilities, it's better to do it yourself, and don't trust other people too much. especially by handing over control of our money to him to trade or invest.
There are too many scammers, and OP should have realized that he would be targeted. hopefully, he can be more careful.

[Timbo02]

I have been on Telegram for a long time. On someone’s group chat that I have been a member a long time, he posted the link to worklite, I clicked on the link and it took me to the worksite unit options group. I did contact the guy that I know that posted the link but After I invested, I found out that it was an imposter with his name that posted the link. All the postings in the worklite group were people posting about receiving their profits. The moderator on there said please DM me to learn about the investing and to invest. That’s pretty much how it started. I know there were a lot of red flags. But I was just stupid. It definitely learned a lesson. So she contacted me this morning as soon as I left the group she knew it. She said did you get your trade verification number? I told her I was not paying anymore money for the trade verification number. I said how much is a trade verification number, and she said between 4000 and $6000. I told her I knew her scheme was a scam and I was not paying more money.  I just have to chalk it up to a life lesson and learn from it. The wallet Id I sent the money to was “bc1qq3sljfr4km2m66t0w7fpeen6zqsyjhwjwqzmn9”.

And you guys are right, I cannot find worksite uni options on telegram now that I have left the group. All the members were probably fake or bot accounts. Also when I would try to take a screenshot of the members posts, the picture was blank. Weird. I did take screenshots of all of the moderators and my conversations.

Just wished I would have done a lot more research and came here to this forum before investing. Stupid stupid!

[Zoomic]

The motive for this type of fraud is very neatly designed before they look for potential victims. Contacting members of a telegram group is a wrong action, because most of the group members are part of the fraudster. Next time, before making a suspicious investment like this, you should first look for information about the legality of their site. You can ask about the Telegram group called Worklite Uni Options here before investing there, most of the members on the Bitcointalk forum, especially the senior ones, will try to give good advice so that you don't become their victim.

I didn't need to read to the end before I realised that it is a scam. Scammers ain't fools, they'll appear so real that you'll be convinced you are in the right place. Ofcourse they have partners that work with them, giving prospective victims good reviews about the scam website. Most times they work alone using different accounts.

I have fallen victim of scam and i have  just one advice to give "avoid sending money to strangers who come to you with juicy opportunities". There are actually genuine mentors who will teach you and still help you invest, but the increasing number of scammers has made it difficult for us to really know who is genuine or not. It is safer to work with people we are familiar with and the Bitcointalk forum is also here to help us with some information we need relating to cryptocurrency investment and trading.

[Timbo02]

After calling her a scammer and everything else, she is still trying to get me to get the trade verification code from her vendor by paying thousands more. Some scammers just don’t give up!

[bangjoe]

It turns out that there are still many people who like to entrust capital to traders in order to get money faster with their sweet promises, for me the simple logic is that it is impossible as a reliable trader to take or ask people to capitalize it in trading instead of investing and giving returns to investors, 3A capital alone can go bankrupt let alone just a telegram moderator, this should be more education and never be tempted by their seduction to give your money to them.

I hope the OP can be more careful in such trivial matters, maybe the Moderator provides evidence of profitable returns but believe me it is just a fraud scheme, don't be fooled easily, friend.

[LogitechMouse]

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Just wished I would have done a lot more research and came here to this forum before investing. Stupid stupid!

Don't blame yourself too much OP. Sometimes, making mistakes is pretty normal when it comes to investing.
I will not ask how much you invested in that scam group, but what I will say is, that making a mistake for the first time is still good, but if you make the same mistake twice then you have a problem already.

Learning from your mistakes would be the best thing that you can do moving forward. Another thing that you can do is to maybe watch some videos online that can help you determine how the scammers are scamming people. TBH, the way they scammed you is just one of the most common ways how they're scamming newbies. Screenshots are pretty much useless now because like you said, they might be fake accounts. You can delete those conversations already because that will not help you get your money back. You said that they're still contacting you. Maybe you can just block them.

I just hope that this will not happen to you again OP, and to other newbies out there. Now that we are near to the bull run, expect more and more scammers trying to scam you, so be vigilant, and always equip yourself with knowledge. Know which are scams and which are not. Best tip for all newbies is to just invest in Bitcoin, and exclude other projects other companies or whatever type of investment it is.

[Stable090]

I invested with someone(moderator) of a group on Telegram called Worklite Uni Options, her name is Lora. I did some research and did not find anything bad. I did contact a lot of the members for reviews or if they had been paid and no bad reviews, everyone got paid per plan, thought surely not everyone lieing (10 people). It was a 21 day payout. My 21 days is up and now all of a sudden she wants a TVN (trade verification number or code) to verify my profits for her server to send my profits.

I don’t really know about what you are talking about but you might likely have been scammed, I see any investment on telegram to be a scam, and don’t be surprised that those people that have the review are also part of the team. When scammers are operating sometimes, they are always doing it in group, so they will make everything look real, some of the people giving the review might be scammers also, or some might even pay people for the review, and most people don’t care about the authentication, all they are after is just the money.

[Kingperry22]

Escrow group on Telegram are where scammers prey on innocent individuals. i recall when I collected my salary for the month i wanted to get BTC and was looking for an affordable price, i went on telegram to get BTC. the scammer told me to pay the money first before he credited my wallet. After countless refreshing my wallet i chatted the escrow to tell him i haven't seen it, the next statement send shocking wave down my snipe he said he doesnt trust me and the only way he was going to trust me is to send half of the payment i made again(of which i did) firstly i asked why should i make such a payment but he assured me its because he was building trust with me... it was a sad day because after sending the money for the second time i was removed from the telegram group.

[GeorgeJohn]

Contacting the community members for such review is totally wrong, knowing fully well a group of people can decide to create a project with same motive to scam others. From my thought those members op contacted for review are involved in such act. Even on social media, scammers will not just come alone but sometimes you'll see different people commenting about the project with juicy words just to lure people interested in making quick money. Op should be careful cause it seems scammers are always ready for such games.

we have to understand the movement of scammers first in anything we are doing because majority of website today is full of hackers that is why any investment platform you are entering into you have to observe that platform very well and also know the Foundation of the platform before you put in your money for it or for the investment I do from my own perspective observe all the corners of the website that I want to invest on to know the gravity or the website if it is organized by scammers or it is a real investment platform that will give me a profit when I follow the procedures, that is why I do preach for people to observe environment very well before joining any social media investment platform group because majority are scammers

[Cricktor]

After calling her a scammer and everything else, she is still trying to get me to get the trade verification code from her vendor by paying thousands more. Some scammers just don’t give up!

It's their job to squeeze as much money as possible out of gullible victims. There's a scam "industry" with one scheme or another. Pretty avatars blind men and women and the scammers are schooled in conversation techniques to achieve their goals. It's rather simple, all you need is people who willingly give their money to strangers, fooled with some promise for good profit returns.

It's unbelievable, this actually works...                   ...the scam!

[doomloop]

I invested with someone(moderator) of a group on Telegram called Worklite Uni Options, her name is Lora. I did some research and did not find anything bad. I did contact a lot of the members for reviews or if they had been paid and no bad reviews, everyone got paid per plan, thought surely not everyone lieing (10 people). It was a 21 day payout. My 21 days is up and now all of a sudden she wants a TVN (trade verification number or code) to verify my profits for her server to send my profits.

Telegram is full of scams and scammers, I'm sorry that you became a victim of one of the scams that they run on multiple social media platforms to lure in users and then accumulate all those users on Telegram for all their dirty work. The users that you approached within the community or group to get reviews from are probably a part of the scam which is why you didn't get a bad review because it is all part of a master plan.

Such scams are pretty common, which is the reason why they always target newbies they know if someone is experienced they would know their plot and they won't be able to get any money out of them, and they always take money in multiple steps to make people not get suspicious. If you have already given them money for investment, don't give them more for verification or a TVN number or anything.

[Taskford]

I invested with someone(moderator) of a group on Telegram called Worklite Uni Options, her name is Lora. I did some research and did not find anything bad. I did contact a lot of the members for reviews or if they had been paid and no bad reviews, everyone got paid per plan, thought surely not everyone lieing (10 people). It was a 21 day payout. My 21 days is up and now all of a sudden she wants a TVN (trade verification number or code) to verify my profits for her server to send my profits. There is also a website called Capital Base Traders where I can see my profit. Not knowing what a TVN is or where to get one, I didn’t have one, she said I could get one from a TVN programmer or vendor. So she kindly gave me one of her contacts which is a TVN programmer. It all just seems fishy to me. I haven’t contacted him yet, but figuring they will want money to get a TVN. Is this normal or does it appear to be a scam? Thanks for any help!

To unfortunate seeing you fall from ponzi schemes on telegram and in first place you should never go there if you are seeking for investment since that platform is nest of scammers and they are also the owners of the accounts you ask that's why you didn't get a negative feedback against what you are trying to invest. Since that incident happened already I guess the only thing you can do is to warn your friends regarding on what you experience on Worklite Uni Options telegram group so they will not experience the same thing happen to you.

If you don't understand about the investment you are trying to participate always ask you have this community that gives there good opinion regarding on what you want to ask especially on investment matter also try to read this https://www.investor.gov/protect-your-investments/fraud/types-fraud/ponzi-scheme so you can learn something and avoid those ponzi schemes since all of programs offering this kind of model is a scam.

[Odusko]

Unfortunately, you have been scammed. Reaching out to telegram users with randomly-named accounts like this is a common way to scam people. Especially if they start talking to you about investing your money on some site you've never heard of.

My suggestion is to not reply to that kind of people if they say Hello or anything like that. Just ignore them so that they leave you alone.

Alot of telegram offers are scams and since telegram allows for users to change users names at will and its privacy makes the platform is one of the major destinations for scammers and many of them are part of cryptocurrency groups and the easiest way to spot these scamming system is when a random users contact you making and investment offers via telegram,  this makes it clear that you are about to get scammed.
I have heard once or twice of such offers in the past and at that, we must be vigilant enough to spot this and should not buy into any of the ideas or even give them. our time in conversation, it's unfortunate that the ops have lost his money, but better he learns from his mistakes and never to deal with any random person via telegram.

[FinneysTrueVision]

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Just wished I would have done a lot more research and came here to this forum before investing. Stupid stupid!

Don't blame yourself too much OP. Sometimes, making mistakes is pretty normal when it comes to investing.
I will not ask how much you invested in that scam group, but what I will say is, that making a mistake for the first time is still good, but if you make the same mistake twice then you have a problem already.

It seems like such an obvious scam to anybody with common sense but if you’ve never been victim of an online scam you might not know what signs to look for. Even if there is some skepticism, scammers will manipulate your emotions to make themselves seem trustworthy.
A professional looking website and hired shills to vouch for their legitimacy can be enough to convince some people to put their concerns aside and take risks with their money when they are offered substantial profits.

[Litzki1990]

You must have been scammed, the person you met on telegram is a scammer, he not only scammed you but also scammed many telegram users. These scammers will first send you personal messages and then try to get to know you, if you show interest in them, the scammer will make various offers to attract you. If you are tempted to fall into his cheating trap, assume that you are losing all your money. If you have invested then surely you lose money and you forget the hope of that money. You should have been careful about this in advance, always remember that no project CEO or project admin will give you a personal message in advance to invest. If a scammer sends you a personal message saying he is the CEO of a project and asking you to invest, avoid him because he is trying to scam you. 
However, through your post, those who made mistakes later may be warned about this in advance.

[BitPioneer]

Depending only on community reviews can be tricky. Some folks might be up to no good, working together to scam others. It's not just online; scammers might post positive stuff to trick people into thinking a project is great. We need to be careful; it seems like scammers are always ready to play games. Stay sharp and look out for each other!