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.
asked by Emma Richter· 1d ago
