#uae-scam
3 questions tagged with #uae-scam
Lost my inheritance to a 'new friend' from a fitness app via ZG.com. Any hope from UAE?
I'm feeling so incredibly stupid and ashamed. I met this guy on a fitness app, seemed really genuine, we talked for months. He said he was an investment manager, and eventually convinced me to 'invest' with him on ZG.com. Said he was building a life for us. I poured my entire inheritance into it, nearly 18,000 USD. Everything looked good on the platform, balances going up... until I tried to withdraw. Then it was 'taxes' and 'fees' and then he just vanished. Now ZG.com is unreachable. I'm in Ras Al Khaimah, and I just don't know where to turn. I've heard about Action Fraud in the UK, but I'm here. Is there anything I can even do from the UAE? I feel so lost.
Lost my crypto after a fake 'cold storage' link, is it gone forever or can I trace it?
Hey everyone, feeling pretty sick to my stomach right now. I usually consider myself pretty careful but I messed up bad. I got this email, looked super legit, from what I thought was Trust Wallet, saying there was a critical security update for cold storage users and I needed to 're-authenticate' my wallet. I clicked the link, entered my seed phrase, and boom, everything gone. All my ETH, some SOL, probably about 15k-20k total. This happened about two days ago, late evening here in Al Ain. I tried contacting Trust Wallet support but they said they don't send emails like that and my funds are on-chain so they can't reverse it. Is there any actual way to trace these funds? Has anyone actually gotten anything back from something like this? I feel so stupid. Any advice would be appreciated.
A company called 'Global Asset Recovery LLC' wants an 'escrow service fee' to get my money back. Is this legit?
Ok, so I got totally scammed a few months ago, lost a bunch of savings, almost 15k USD, to a fake investment platform. It was truly awful, I was so embarrassed. I reported it to the local police here in Sharjah but they basically said it's really hard to trace. Yesterday, I got an email out of the blue from a company calling themselves 'Global Asset Recovery LLC'. They said they found my case in some 'public database' – which sounds a bit dodgy already, right? They've done a 'preliminary assessment' and told me they can get my money back, which sounds like a dream. But now they're asking for an 'escrow service fee' upfront, about 750 USD, to initiate the recovery process. They even sent me a fancy looking 'agreement'. I'm so desperate to get my money back but I'm terrified of being scammed again. Has anyone heard of this 'Global Asset Recovery LLC' or this 'escrow service fee' thing? Is this just another scam, or could it actually be real?