"Guaranteed returns" crypto investment platform
A contact — often a wrong-number text or a dating match — introduces a trading platform with guaranteed returns. Small withdrawals work at first; then the platform demands "taxes" or "fees" to release a large balance that does not exist. Also known as pig butchering.
- Impersonates
- an investment platform or a friendly stranger (no real brand)
- Arrives by
- social media, WhatsApp, web page
- First seen
- not dated
- Specimens
- 0
- Updated
- 2026-09-02
Right now what this family looks like
How to recognise it
- Guaranteed returns — nothing legitimate guarantees returns
- A platform you can only reach through the person who introduced it
- Fees or taxes to withdraw your own money
What to do
- Do not send money; do not install the app
- Verify any platform through your country's financial regulator
Already called, clicked or paid? what to do in the next hour
- Stop paying fees — every fee is another loss
- Report to the FTC or IC3 with wallet addresses and the platform URL
How it changed
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02 Sept2026
Registry
Family created
Opened at launch; no dated specimen on record yet — send yours.
Same trick, other brands
- WhatsApp "part-time job" task scamactive · 2026-09
Indicators
- None on record yet. Indicators change weekly; an empty list never means an email is safe.
In other streams
- Nothing yet.
Registry data
- Machine-readable
/scams/crypto-investment-platform.json- Timeline feed
/scams/crypto-investment-platform/feed.xml- Sources
- 1 · 1 change logged
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 · attribution required
- Created / updated
- 2026-09-02 / 2026-09-02