Quote from: adameslh on July 22, 2023, 04:34:29 PM

Hello,

I met someone on internet who suggested that I invest in a crypto trading platform that I didn't know about. I did it step by step and made sure that it was possible to transfer the funds back to binance at any time. So I increased the volume and today customer service is asking me to pay 10% of my capital as a fee. What's more, they've told me that I can't pay this fee with the funds available on the platform, but that I have to pay it with funds from another portfolio. If I don't do this, I won't be able to recover my funds on this platform.

The name of the platform is Hitcoin. Here is the message sent by customer service:

Hello, after the Global Banking Regulatory Commission audits your HITCOIN account, according to the standards of the Turkish Tax Authority, investors need to pay 10% tax to the market exchange and the Global Banking Regulatory Commission. Calculate the tax you need to pay based on your profit in the HITCOIN market, -----*10%=---- The tax you need to pay is $----

Pursuant to Rule 21(2) of the Treaty Rules of the Global Banking Regulatory Commission. For tax purposes, all secondary market investors must deposit taxable funds in the secondary market through an external wallet. Taxes cannot be deducted from the account, and you can withdraw all funds in the account after completing the tax payment

Do you think this is a scam or can I pay safely?

Thank you in advance for your help.

I mean what's the reason for using that cryptocurrency platform? Because if it wasn't really that useful since you already have Binance which is already trusted by the community if it wasn't a great reason use need to use that platform just avoid using that platform, I mean I don't think 10% is reasonable at all I wouldn't do any transaction on that platform if they are going to do 10% every time. So for me, 10% is already a red flag this is more likely to be a scam for sure, so avoid putting more money on the platform, they probably doing it so that people are going to put more money in the platform, encouraging investors, etc is what they want.

There are a lot of alternatives that are already trusted by the community and if your going to the high-interest rate Binance is probably the best exchange where you could do that, there are a lot of other platforms as well but on Binance you could easily trade that investment since its already an exchange, avoid using centralized platform, I wouldn't really recommend putting your money on long term on Binance or another centralized platform, but Binance is convenient on trading.