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RCS-2026-003802Platform Intelligence

Long-running messaging contact introduced fake mining platform

Submitted
15 Jul 2026
Last updated
12 Aug 2026
Scam type
Pig Butchering
Reported loss
$96,500

Narrative

Contact was established months before any financial discussion. The reporter was later invited to a liquidity mining programme requiring repeated USDT deposits to unlock returns.

Submitted by a member of the public in Australia. Reporter identity and contact details are not published.

Reported indicators

Evidence references

Each item carries a confidence label describing how independently checkable it is.

  • screenshotIndicative — Consistent with the account given, but not independently checkable on its own.Platform interface
  • transactionSupporting — Independently checkable material, such as an archived page or an on-chain transaction.TX 8f1c…6b90Tron · USDT

Uploaded files are never linked publicly. Material containing personal data is listed as withheld.

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