I and my friend encountered this situation and I am sure many others would have too. Scammers contact the crypto users on telegram. They get your ID from crypto related telegram channels and then ask you for a help. The scammer tells you that he is not able to withdraw coins from an exchange and asks you help him by signing up on the exchange and withdrawing coins from there to the scammers address. In return they give you a few amount of bitcoins.
The scammers website asks you to deposit at least 0.01btc before you can withdraw any coins. People fall for this trap and hence get scammed.
Few of such sites built by the scammers: westcrypt.info , monocrypt.info , cryptoelips.com , westerncrypt.com
Find the discussion from various other people here:
https://forums.digitalpoint.com/threads/new-scam-site-danger.2842061/Be aware guys. Do not fall for such traps.
Scammers are proliferant when it comes to Bitcoin, and this type of scam doesn't surprise me at all. People need to understand that they should
NEVER give out money stupidly because there's no way to get it back.
Maybe we should try to get some announcements up on this forum? It seems as though cases like these keep coming up from time to time, be it on the digital goods section here or on other sites / through direct contact. It's probably worthwhile enough to add a warning or banner somewhere in plain sight on btctalk.
If there was no one to scam, there wouldn't me scammers around. If we educate as many people as possible, we could make a much safer community around BTC.