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Lost my crypto following 'expert' signals on a fake exchange linked from Signal Group – any hope?

Hey everyone, feeling pretty rough right now. I got pulled into one of those 'Signal Group' scams – specifically, a Telegram group where some guy was giving out supposed 'expert' crypto trading signals. He had a whole team, showing off profits, screenshots, the works. I paid a subscription fee and then they told me to use this specific exchange platform, 'CapitalTradeX' (which I now realize is totally fake, website's gone). I transferred about 15,000 USDT from my Binance account to this CapitalTradeX wallet they set up for me. For a few weeks, it looked like I was making money, their signals seemed to work on *their* platform. I even tried to withdraw a small amount once, like $100, and it worked, which really fooled me. Then I tried to take out my initial capital plus profits, about $25k, and that's when they started asking for 'tax fees,' 'anti-money laundering fees,' 'verification fees,' you name it. Of course, I paid a few of those too, stupidly, because I was desperate. Now the platform is offline, the Telegram group is gone, and so is all my money. I'm in Singapore, and I've reported it to the local police, but they didn't seem to know much about crypto. Is there *anything* at all I can do? Or is this just a super expensive lesson?