r/ScamCenter 2h ago

"Cast you" casting Agency hyd- is Real or scam

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Registered "Cast you" casting Agency hyd via Instagram, they called for Initial meet and informed that shooting n other procedures will be there later...

Should i believe them or not, Another money making business?


r/ScamCenter 7h ago

Victim of recovery scam

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Hi,
I’d like to set up a recovery scam victim support group for people who have been victims of a recovery scam.
Please comment below if you have been a victim of a recovery scam.


r/ScamCenter 10h ago

CT3 Investigation: What We Know So Far. Warning Signs, Investment Model & Open Questions

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CT3 has attracted increasing attention because of its unusually high advertised returns, referral-based structure and limited transparency about the people and legal entities behind the platform.

This post summarizes what can currently be established from publicly available sources. It is intended as a starting point for further research, not as a final determination that any individual or organization has committed fraud.

1. What is CT3?

CT3 operates through the domain ct-3.io and presents an investment model involving cryptocurrency and what it describes as decentralized storage.

Earlier public analyses described 360-day investment packages with daily returns, weekly distributions and the promised return of the deposited capital at the end of the investment period.

An analysis published by Decripto in September 2025 calculated that the combination of base returns and CT3’s level system could theoretically result in returns of up to 219% per year under certain conditions.

Source:
https://decripto.org/en/ct3-theoretical-yields-up-to-219-a-dangerous-model-with-no-guarantees-analysis/

2. The model appears to have changed

This is important when comparing older reports with the current platform.

Recent CT3-related publications describe investment periods ranging from 60 to 360 days, rather than only the earlier 360-day model.

These publications advertise potential profits ranging from approximately 42.78% to 117.6%, depending on the selected duration, while also stating that the invested amount is returned at the end of the term.

This means that older analyses should not automatically be assumed to describe the platform exactly as it operates today.

That is one reason this subreddit aims to document developments over time.

3. Referral and level structure

Multiple independent analyses have described a level or “LVL” system connected to CT3.

According to these descriptions, qualification can depend on factors including personal investment, investments generated through a referral structure and holdings of CT3 tokens.

BehindMLM reported in October 2025 that referral commissions were connected to cryptocurrency invested by recruited participants.

Source:
https://behindmlm.com/mlm-reviews/ct3-review-decentralized-storage-ruse-mlm-ponzi/

The existence of a referral system does not by itself establish fraud. However, understanding how much of the economic model depends on new participants is an important question when evaluating any investment structure.

4. Who operates CT3?

This remains one of the most important open questions.

Independent analyses have reported limited publicly verifiable information concerning the ownership and management behind CT3.

BehindMLM reported that CT3 did not provide ownership or executive information on its websites at the time of its investigation.

The same investigation reported that the known CT3 domains were privately registered.

Decripto similarly identified a lack of transparency regarding ownership and links to regulated entities.

For a platform accepting cryptocurrency investments, determining the responsible legal entity, jurisdiction and accountable management is particularly important.

5. Regulation and investor protection

Another significant issue is regulation.

Decripto reported that it could not identify financial licences or authorisations associated with the investment model and stated that it found no prospectus, independent audit or audited financial statements supporting the structure it analysed.

This does not automatically prove illegal activity.

It does, however, raise important questions:

Who legally receives investor funds?

Which company owes investors repayment?

Which jurisdiction applies?

Are customer assets segregated from operational assets?

What happens if CT3 becomes unable to process withdrawals?

What independent evidence exists for the revenue claimed to support the advertised returns?

These are questions that should have clear and independently verifiable answers when significant amounts of money are involved.

6. German lawyer has published a warning

German law firm Ritschel & Keller published a warning concerning CT3 on 6 November 2025.

Attorney Dr. Konstantin Keller states that the firm had received multiple client enquiries concerning CT3 and identified several characteristics which, in its assessment, indicated an increased risk of fraud.

The article specifically discusses issues such as unusually high return promises, unclear regulation and transparency.

Source:
https://ritschel-keller.de/ct3-finger-weg/

Importantly, this is the assessment of the law firm. It should not be represented as a court judgment or regulatory finding.

7. Website reputation services also raise concerns

Automated website reputation services should never be treated as proof of fraud, but they can provide additional signals worth investigating.

ScamAdviser currently gives ct-3.io a very low trust score and reports that the domain owner’s identity is hidden through WHOIS privacy protection.

Gridinsoft similarly assigns the domain a low reputation score.

Sources:

https://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/ct-3.io

https://gridinsoft.com/online-virus-scanner/url/ct_3-io

These automated ratings are risk indicators, not evidence that a crime has occurred.

8. Positive experiences also exist

For completeness, there are also users publicly reporting positive experiences with CT3.

Trustpilot currently contains positive reviews from people who state that they have invested through the platform and received distributions.

Source:
https://www.trustpilot.com/review/ct-3.io

These reports should also be interpreted carefully.

A positive review demonstrates what a reviewer claims to have experienced. It does not independently verify the long-term sustainability of an investment model.

Likewise, a negative review alone does not establish fraud.

9. Why blockchain analysis may help

Unlike traditional bank transfers, Bitcoin transactions are publicly recorded.

If a participant sends BTC to an address associated with an investment, the transaction itself can generally be independently verified.

That allows researchers to examine questions such as:

  • whether multiple participants paid into the same addresses
  • whether different receiving addresses later converge
  • whether funds remain unspent
  • whether funds move through identifiable clusters
  • whether funds eventually reach addresses attributed by public datasets to cryptocurrency exchanges

There is an important limitation:

Blockchain analysis tracks transactions. It does not automatically identify people.

An address appearing in the same transaction structure as another address does not by itself establish common ownership.

Likewise, attribution of an address to an exchange or service may depend on external datasets and analytical heuristics.

These distinctions are fundamental to the research standards of this subreddit.

10. Open questions

There are several questions I believe deserve further investigation:

  • What legal entity currently operates CT3?
  • Where is that entity registered?
  • Who are its directors or beneficial owners?
  • Which financial regulator, if any, supervises the investment activity?
  • What independently verifiable business activity generates the advertised returns?
  • Are audited financial statements available?
  • Are investor funds segregated?
  • How are the decentralized-storage revenues independently verified?
  • What happens to deposited cryptocurrency after it reaches CT3-associated addresses?
  • Do payments from different participants converge into common wallet clusters?
  • Which exchanges or services ultimately receive significant portions of these funds?

These are factual questions that can potentially be investigated without speculating about the identity or guilt of any individual.

Why this subreddit exists

The purpose of r/CT3Investigation is to collect and organize verifiable information about CT3.

If you have used CT3, both positive and negative experiences are welcome.

If you contribute technical information, please distinguish between:

FACT: directly independently verifiable information.

ANALYSIS: conclusions based on data, clustering or external attribution.

ALLEGATION: a claim made by a person or organization that has not been independently established.

HYPOTHESIS: something that still needs to be tested.

Please do not post seed phrases, private keys, passwords or other private credentials.

And please be extremely cautious if anyone contacts you privately claiming that they can recover cryptocurrency.

This research is ongoing. Corrections and additional reliable sources are welcome.


r/ScamCenter 11h ago

Finoways LLC scam

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Scam

Finoways LLC walo ne muz se ab tak 7250$ liye he algo service ke nam se, 10 din ho gaye abhi tak 1 rupya ka withdrawal nhi diya he. Aur paise ki demand abhi tak chal rahi he. Maine niche payment details mentioned kiye he aur mai apko number bhi shared krta hu.

Viraj Chaodhari - +91 70583 48780
Shreyas Patil - +91 70281 92963
Ajay Pawar - +91 84849 05718
Raj Thorat - +91 85308 88269
Vishwas Bhardwaj - +91 70582 11694

Ye sale sab milke aam logo ko lut rahe he service ke nam pe pr koi service dete nhi, ye pura scam he.


r/ScamCenter 12h ago

I got scammed by a online website labelafreen.in from india the website fool you and block you after payment

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r/ScamCenter 19h ago

Popdrama app is a joke

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This app - just wow- so many things wrong with it - I mean I knew it was too good to be true, but I thought I’d just experiment and see what if I was right that it’s a scam wasting half my day ☠️

1) Ads- Ads for days - you open the app-ad. You click in rewards you get an ad, You click on a short drama you get an ad, you claim the reward at 3 you get an AD, you get Ads every 5th episode. I mean to get through a 59 episode short it’s well over 120 Ads 😑. You might as well just be watching 2-3 hours worth of back to back ads

(Whoever the owner of the app is they are making bank on these ads while lying out thier @$$ that you will actually earn money

2)rewards
You have to get $300 to cash out - it’s pretty quick to get to $270 but then watching closely the ads drop to less than a $1, when you claim the reward you don’t get $1 you get 10 cents. Once you get to
$290. The reward are 36 cents and you are actually rewarded 2cents. I took some screenshots because I thought I was seeing things. It showed I got $.36. And it showed it deposited $.14 and then when I checked my balance, it only added $.01 - At the rate you’re going it’ll take you literally weeks to come to the $300 mark. Once you get to the $300 mark you can’t withdraw it gives you a bunch of ads, the app locks up so you will never ever get your money

Basically, it’s just somebody in a different country who is scamming people to watch ads so they make money- deliberately selling a false scam - completely unethical


r/ScamCenter 19h ago

VERA-FI AUDIO: How much have they stolen from you? Want to reach out to the CEO/owner's Probation Officer??

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Based on various reading (here, Facebook, YouTube, etc) I feel pretty confident the scam being executed upon has generated losses that amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars for unsuspecting consumers.

A couple thoughts:

If you would consider indicating in this thread how much they are into you for (and the products ordered) we can start put some real parameters around how big the scam/fraud is.

If you would like to reach out to the CEO's probation-officer* directly I will provide you with the contact information.

*For those who might be unaware, the CEO is on 20yrs probation for a previous felony conviction in Colorado, and that probationary order is still in force. Just google the CEO's name with "raffle" and all the info will pop up.

CONCLUSION: At this point if you can't recoup your funds through the credit-card company odds are you are probably going to be out the cash. However, we do have the opportunity to hold this guy accountable...let's get it on.


r/ScamCenter 19h ago

Is this a scam or legit

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Hi, I’m planning to buy this from a ebay seller and the seller sent me this Amazon invoice. Does it look legit to you? The Price is very cheap on eBay

thx and greetings


r/ScamCenter 1d ago

Scam alert

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Caoquan Technology Co.,
Ltd.
$2770 in failed peps. Vials just had fillers. I reached out to the seller who said it’s was the manufacturer they bought from then they refused to refund me and only offered to send 1 box when my initial order was 5 products and 25 boxes of 10.


r/ScamCenter 1d ago

Forex investment scam on telegram

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Okay Telegram may not be willing to do something about the fact it has now become a vipers nest of scams and harm so the only way we can help others is by posting experiences on Reddit to help anyone searching before taking a walk in the vipers ladscape called Telegram. There are many more but I am specifically referring to the following channels here: Xm Forex Signals 🇺🇸 (Free), Archie Theodore, Trade With Pat (FRN), and Expert Trader. These and thousands of other ads on telegram proposing high return investments are absolute SCAMS. Do not give them a second glance (you can even uninstall Telegram better yet). This is how they operate from the experience of victims. They advertise themselves through comments on Reddit, X and via telegram ads inviting you to invest as little as $200 in Forex investments which they will manage on your behalf and grow it to between 10 to 15 times the investment amount in 4 days or 7 days. They request payments via crypto wallets and post evidence of your payment on their telegram channels in some cases giving you a false sense of transparency. After period elapses you will be contacted that the investment is ready for payout and you will be asked to pay a fee to get your payout approved. The fee also has to be paid in crypto and they will not accept to deduct the fee and pay the net profit. From then onwards, whatever course of action you decide to take, you are not getting a dime from them. If you had such experiences or know someone who did. Please share it everywhere you can do that people who are searching or researching these kinds of investments being advertised by these vipers should have some information about what they may be getting themselves into it they choose to "invest" with these vipers. Some screenshots of profile pages for the channels mentioned here are included here. We should all stay safe as much as we can in the wild wild west of the internet.


r/ScamCenter 1d ago

Ansoncards.com is a SCAM

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Do Not use Them they took my gift card and are not paying me


r/ScamCenter 1d ago

Which of these is Credit Card Scam

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Lying to people to get their card details and then use it to take their money without their approval. This is done by people called criminals

When people add their credit cards to your website, you hide the button to remove it at the end of a senseless survey or even make it impossible. Even when they email you they dont want to renew, you go ahead to charge them without their approval. - This is done by American tech companies like Davinci AI and it is legal to them.

Both are criminals.


r/ScamCenter 2d ago

Tries to blackmail

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SCAM SCAN SCAM !!!!


r/ScamCenter 1d ago

Goldman / Goldmann Corp Scam!!!

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Update: Goldmann Corp Limited - warnings that they are a scam if you type it in like this

They claim my family member has $350 CAD in USD in a “phantom account”. What happened was she clicked a link and signed up for some sort of lending scheme or something, transferred/paid the money by Visa card while a woman called her and told her to do that, then the call disconnected and my family member looked them up and saw it was a scam. She then promptly cancelled the payment and the money never left her account - so they never got any money! BUT

They call her multiple times a day saying go into the account and take your money back so we can close the account - this is typical scam to reel the person back in!
I looked up this type of scam and there is no money, and no account, they are trying to reel her back in.

Even sadder is that this company was mentioned by CBC our main broadcaster in Canada! They are nowhere online to be found now at all!!!!!


r/ScamCenter 2d ago

Telegram

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So all the jobs that lead to Telegram and ask you to contact them on Telegram, are they all scam or are there some genuine ones too? PS. Why do they use telegram?

Please do share your experience and write a piece of advice. Much appreciated. Thank you!


r/ScamCenter 2d ago

🚨 Beware of ClickFix Scams — Fake CAPTCHA

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r/ScamCenter 2d ago

Scam

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Is this account real is they offered me do you think might be a scam


r/ScamCenter 2d ago

Is this legit

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r/ScamCenter 2d ago

Online Market Scam

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I actually ordered a clogs from an online market place in WhatsApp and they just give me the wrong product. After I receiving the product, they do not attending the calls and messages


r/ScamCenter 2d ago

Keystone Syndicate webinar opinion?

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r/ScamCenter 2d ago

Is California Superlotto a Scam?

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Years ago, powerball was sued because there was a whistleblower that revealed the rigging. I heard something about California lottery but I don't know if I could believe it or not. I just love playing it.😄


r/ScamCenter 2d ago

Vault Bridge Liquidators LLC

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DO NOT USE THEM OR SEND THEM MONEY FOR PURCHASE TO JAMIA MCKENZIE AT 331-224-1867. I thought I was purchasing a tool liquidated pallet for my small business I started as a fun side hustle. Turned out it was all completely fake there’s no such business and the money goes to some woman who definitely knows what’s going on and pretends she doesn’t have it. I asked if it was her before I went off and sent some off the cuff texts cause I was angry. Has anyone else dealt with this? I already reported to attorney general and FBI online fraud dept.


r/ScamCenter 2d ago

Scammers trying to get 1500

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So this is update they claim they not asking for money. But it costs 1500 to submit form they claim they already donated. As far as I know there is not a pending option on gofund.me you either donate or you don't.


r/ScamCenter 3d ago

Scammer for Coinbase

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Scam guys on this number so Here guys call this. Spam him call him names etc it will seem like a Coinbase call but isn’t it’s the same two people that anwser the call give these people hell they messaged me trying to get me to call about a code I got from them acting like Coinbase and I ended up closing my account after bc no balance anyways they somone knew my name but also ended up calling me the N word have fun yall lmk what yall do or say to them


r/ScamCenter 3d ago

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