I was contacted through Tinder, moved to Messenger. When I told my observations on the app, I was transferred to WhatsApp.
Currently, my funds are "frozen" after paying taxes, handling fees and an certification deposit for 10,000 usd money-laundering audit.
Since I've never done crypto (usually on low-risk investments), my scammer gave the impression that Binance is a converter from fiat to cyprtocurrency. After, you transfer the funds to the Orangex Platform where you can make your trades. Since it was a pig butchering scam, he took time to get my trust. I mentioned that I wanted to learn crypto since it is a new thing, to which he said that it has been there for 12 years (which I checked).
No bank accounts or any financial information is revealed to the scammer. He will even refuse to see your wallet at times to elicit trust.
He will make it appear that you are trading together-- for you to earn together, while he plots for your trade plans for you that night so you can trade at the same time.
How transfers of funds went:
1. Opening an account with Binance.
2. Transfer using P2P Trading (red flag at this point because its wallet to wallet)
3. Convert to USDT and deposit to the Orangex Platform using the Tron (TRC20) Network.
4. My transactions involved 4 different wallets when I compiled it.
Current observations:
1. The site copies market notes to look legitimate. When I checked the website now, it's getting more sophisticated.
2. I've seen reviews on how the traders couldn't get the money out, but since none about a 3rd person (the scammer). Since there aren't a lot of reviews on the site, you may be inclined to give it a chance particularly that its not yet included in an list of scammers online.
3. You will not find the app in Play Store or App Store. There is a separate link given to you.
4. Customer service is readily available 24/7.
Here are the pictures of the Platform using your mobile phone:
1. Home Page
2. Account Page
3. Your Asset (Wallet) Page
4. Market page (they mirror this to actual market sites because you can get this for free, so you really see the actual and update)
5. Trade site
6. Trade Proper (showing you a trade where there is a loss so you'd see that it doesn't only show profits)
7. Customer Service (their messages on taxes, handling fee, deposit fee).
This has also been reported to the national and local police. In 2019, an entire building was busted by the police. In it, around 300 Chinese immigrants were arrested-- one team's dedicated for finding victims, another for building relationships, another for customer services, another for building the platform, and another for transferring your funds to an offshore banking account.
There are few accounts on the platform being fake. But not about the entire pig butchering system. Since not a lot of information is found about the site yet, posting this here especially for other potential shazhupan victims who were patiently worked on to build trust. What makes it different is you're not even revealing your bank details, they make it appear that they are trading with you.
Good luck!
