Crypto — Scam and Fraud

Retail prop trading often sells the fee, not the edge

Challenge-style prop desks can look like “trade their capital”; for many buyers the product is the entry fee and the reset.

A short freeze that expires unless police write within two days is a process trap, not a rescue plan.

A free course that vows you will “never blow a deposit again” is selling fantasy, not tuition.

Busy chats, pretty infographics, a “pool” deposit — then your money moves to the next pool without you.

Stars live inside Telegram; TON is the chain some creators use when they cash those Stars out.

Winter 2026’s usual crop of Pump-AI gurus and marathon bots still monetise hope, not a supervised edge.

When copytrading channels swap titles but keep the same help handles, treat it as a rebrand, not a reset.

A daily $10 coin experiment looks cute until the description is full of Bybit and KuCoin invite links.

Auto-follow via Trust Wallet is not Uniswap — approving the wrong contract empties the bag.

jup.ag routes swaps across Solana pools — the smart contracts and tokens still bite.

US regulators allege WhatsApp “AI clubs” funnelled victims into fake trading sites and advance fees.

@BybitOTC_bot and its chat cousins are not Bybit — check handles on the official authenticity page.