#eth-loss

My savings gone after a 'refund' from 'Funds Recovery Group' turned into another scam, any hope?

Hey everyone, I'm really at my wit's end here. Back in January, I lost a significant amount of crypto, about 8k USD worth of ETH, to a fake investment platform. I reported it to the local police here in Nottingham, but they just said it's a 'complex cross-border' issue and basically shut me down. Then, about three weeks ago, I got an email out of the blue from something called 'Funds Recovery Group'. They claimed they could get my money back, said they'd traced it to some exchange. They sounded legit, had a professional-looking website, even seemed to know details about my original scam that I hadn't widely shared. They asked for an 'initial processing fee' and then a 'legal fee' via crypto, saying it was standard procedure to unlock the funds. I was desperate, so I paid them about 1.5k USD in ETH. Now, they've gone silent, their website is down, and their email bounces. I feel so stupid. Have I just been scammed twice? Is there truly no way to get any of this back? My life savings were in that ETH, I was saving for a house deposit.