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Comment by dudefeliciano | Hacker News Reader

A while back I thought I could make a bit of extra cash by playing along with these scams, apparently they give returns on the first/second round of investment and only run off with the money once the sum is large enough for them. Knowing that someone may get beaten or worse for losing money prevented me from going through with it

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If you would be able to withdraw (you wouldn’t be able to) that money has to come from somewhere, and that somewhere is from other people who were scammed.

No one is going to get beaten because of your interactions with scammers. They’re going to be beaten because they are enslaved.

The phrase playing with fire comes to mind.

The returns show are general on app/paper only not something you can actually withdraw

They sent me to my usdt wallet. So i actually got it. Of course after I earned 30 USD they make it impossible to withdraw unless I “invested” 100 usd. Very weird scam to pay out 30usd.

So means 1 in 3 people must invest 100 in order for them to breakeven, which tbh doesn’t make sense.

Also note that came from a random telegram account from dubai.

They asked if I wanted to make money etc. I obviously thought was a scam. I never expected to really cash out the 30 USD.

That makes sense to me and is what I would expect. I have seen accounts where people were in fact allowed to withdraw their small initial gains (although i can not confirm that was the case, maybe they were just trying to save face) that's what gave me the idea to scam the scammers in the first place.

They would likely allow you to withdraw some returns but not the principle.

Trying to scam the scammers is one of the world's oldest ways of getting scammed.

First taste is free. Don't engage with criminals even if they run crying to western media about being “enslaved.”

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