{
  "slug": "crypto-investment-platform",
  "canonical_name": "\"Guaranteed returns\" crypto investment platform",
  "family": "crypto-investment",
  "impersonates": {
    "brand": "an investment platform or a friendly stranger (no real brand)",
    "disclaimer": null,
    "official_fraud_page": null
  },
  "goal": [
    "crypto",
    "payment"
  ],
  "channels": [
    "social",
    "whatsapp",
    "web"
  ],
  "summary": "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.",
  "status": "active",
  "first_seen": null,
  "last_seen": null,
  "recognise": [
    "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"
  ],
  "variants": [],
  "specimen": null,
  "tells": [],
  "indicators": {
    "sender_domains": [],
    "senders": [],
    "reply_to": [],
    "phone_numbers": [],
    "urls": [],
    "wallets": [],
    "attachments": [],
    "note": "Indicators change weekly; an empty list never means an email is safe."
  },
  "what_to_do": {
    "if_received": [
      "Do not send money; do not install the app",
      "Verify any platform through your country's financial regulator"
    ],
    "if_called_or_paid": [
      "Stop paying fees — every fee is another loss",
      "Report to the FTC or IC3 with wallet addresses and the platform URL"
    ],
    "report_links": [
      {
        "label": "FTC: what to know about cryptocurrency and scams",
        "url": "https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-know-about-cryptocurrency-and-scams"
      },
      {
        "label": "Report to FBI IC3",
        "url": "https://www.ic3.gov/"
      },
      {
        "label": "Report to the FTC",
        "url": "https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/"
      }
    ]
  },
  "malware_family": null,
  "timeline": [
    {
      "date": "2026-09-02",
      "type": "registry",
      "title": "Family created",
      "text": "Opened at launch; no dated specimen on record yet — send yours.",
      "added": [],
      "removed": [],
      "sources": []
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "whatsapp-part-time-job"
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-know-about-cryptocurrency-and-scams"
  ],
  "legacy_urls": [],
  "legacy_redirect": false,
  "created": "2026-09-02",
  "updated": "2026-09-02",
  "changelog": [
    {
      "date": "2026-09-02",
      "text": "Record created at the registry launch."
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://soft2secure.com/scams/crypto-investment-platform",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
  "generated": "2026-09-03"
}