The original post: /r/cryptocurrency by /u/GrowingPaigns on 2024-12-10 00:21:58.
A few weeks back a family member connected completely platonically with someone over social media claiming to be part of some family of crypto guru’s (sketch).
They claimed to have a way to determine when certain cryptos will jump to make a large profit off of them using very short term crypto futures, usually a trading window of 60s or less (double sketch). They said they would teach my family member how to do the same, and that they just need to buy this already millionaire a solo trip somewhere nice after my family member gets rich. (super sketch)
Despite this, my family member went along with what they said, depositing a decent amount of cash (nothing they couldn’t live without), into the site where you can trade short term contracts. It has been a couple weeks now since, they have made multiple hundreds from their original “play investment” and have even withdrawn funds on a couple separate occasions.
They said they verified with their own bank that the bank tied to the crypto site is legitimate, but it is incredibly difficult to find the website through a normal search, and I can’t find hardly any information on the site itself
(Link to website, visit at your own risk) (It is broken up by spaces cause Reddit won’t let me post it as solid text)
https :// web3. skdalo. xyz /Trade /tradelist
My questions for the community are:
Why, after my family member deposited money, and made money off of that investment, have they not yet yoinked his funds?
Have you ever used websites that end in “.xyz” to trade crypto?
How do I get my family member to see this is a scam before they deposit a dangerous amount of money?
Is there any way to determine the legitimacy of a website outside of making sure it has the https protocol and lock symbol? (Im sure there’s ways to fake both of those)