A link arrived from someone in a…
A link arrived from someone in a trading group, and the platform behind it looked like a bank's website if a bank hired a good designer. The numbers moved slowly enough to believe, and nothing ever misfired. I put in a little, then a little more. A small withdrawal came back within two days, and after that I stopped looking too closely.
Then the release fee appeared, then a compliance deposit, then a tax settlement. Each demand arrived with documentation and a polite agent who apologised for the inconvenience. When I questioned the fourth payment, the account was frozen for irregular activity and the support chat went silent. What I had watched grow was never the product of trading, only entries on a ledger. Plutus-XDC Forensic traced the deposit addresses through a chain of wallets and exchange endpoints, and some of the funds were frozen before conversion. Not all of it returned, but enough that the loss stopped being the thing I thought about most. Now I check on chain activity and regulatory standing before anything is deposited.