Crypto Capital-style channels — one public handle often linked to a contact such as @RomanCryptoCap — look industrious: dozens of posts a day, trade screenshots, a side channel for “reviews”. Subscriber counts can be large while views look thin. That alone does not prove fake followers, but it is a reason to treat the theatre as theatre until the economics make sense.
The recurring ask is private. Move to direct messages for “personal trading”, send your deposit size, take a curated entry, then hand over half of any net profit afterward — “no upfront fee”. Parallel posts wave enormous single-trade wins and suggest shorts with twenty- to forty-times leverage, stop-loss “at your discretion”, and take-profit targets of a hundred per cent or more, sometimes beside a named exchange such as BingX. That combination is how beginners get liquidated while the poster still looks clever in the feed.
If the same voice also steers you to one venue through a partner link, remember the conflict: they can earn from your volume even when your account shrinks. A risk disclaimer in the channel bio does not cancel that incentive.
How to check: keep every signal in public, demand a long audited track record with losers included, and open any exchange account from the official site typed by you — not from a mentor’s invite. If the edge only appears after you share your balance in a private chat, you are the product.
Start at Get help for reporting routes. If anyone later sells a guaranteed clawback, read Fake recovery first.
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