I got scammed by a Telegram investment group — what now?

Send no more money. Every additional payment — 'tax', 'insurance', 'compliance', 'upgrade fee' — is the scam continuing. The deposits you've already made are extremely unlikely to come back through the platform itself.

What to do today:

1. Screenshot the entire Telegram thread, the platform, every wallet address you sent to, and every transaction hash. Save them as a single PDF.
2. File an IC3 report (US), Action Fraud report (UK), or your country's cybercrime channel.
3. Tell your bank: if you funded via card or bank transfer, you may have chargeback or recall rights, especially within 60 days.
4. Get the destination addresses traced. Pig butchering wallets cycle quickly — the trace needs to happen in days, not months.

For case sizes in your range, a competent on-chain investigation usually starts at a few hundred dollars. Don't pay anyone in crypto and don't pay anyone who DMs you offering recovery.

Adding the technical side: most Telegram investment scams funnel deposits into a series of intermediate wallets and then bridge to Tron USDT for cash-out. The window where a trace can identify the cash-out exchange is typically 2–10 days. After that the funds are usually off-ramped or moved to a non-cooperative jurisdiction. Speed > everything else.