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2 questions tagged with #germany
Is there ANY hope recovering funds from the OneCoin scam? It still haunts me.
It's been years now, but I still can't believe I fell for the OneCoin scam. I put in a significant amount, like, low five figures back around 2017-2018 when they were really pushing those 'educational packages' and promising the moon. My cousin told me about it, said it was the next Bitcoin, and I just... bought in. It felt so real at the time, all the marketing, the events. Now, years later, I occasionally see articles about arrests or prosecutions, but never anything about actual victims getting their money back. I know it wasn't even a real crypto on a blockchain, which makes me feel even dumber. I contacted a few 'recovery agencies' I found online back then, but they all wanted upfront fees, which felt super sketch after already getting scammed once. Is there genuinely *anything* that can be done at this point? Or is it truly just a sunk cost I have to live with? I'm in Germany, if that even matters.
Met someone on Tinder, now they're asking me to deposit more into a crypto trading platform – Help?
Okay, so I met this woman, 'Ling', on Tinder a few weeks ago. We hit it off really well, she seemed super sweet and interested in my life here in Stuttgart. After a while, she started talking about how she makes extra money with crypto and showed me this platform that looked pretty legit. I put in a small amount, like 500 Euros, and it actually seemed to grow. I even tried to withdraw a hundred, and it worked fine. Then I put in more, thinking I found something good. Now, my 'investments' have grown to a decent amount, a few thousand euros, and I tried to withdraw a larger sum. But the platform says 'system security requires a minimum balance of 2,000 USDT to activate withdrawals'. I've asked Ling, and she's saying it's normal and I should just deposit the rest to get my money. I'm really starting to feel uneasy. Is this a common scam? What can I do? I'm worried it's a pig butchering kind of thing. I'm in Germany, btw.