I have been in the fraud/scam rabbit hole for a while so sometimes my friends reach out asking for advice!
My friend's aunt (67 years old) sold a property for around $ 6M, lead by her own curiosity she asked the client who bought it about his line of work ... his answer " I'm an investor in many things including crypto trading". her own curiosity and greed lead her to dig deeper in which she ended up at a crypto trading platform.
She "invested" $80k and a few months later (after many active trading days her screen would show a total profit of $1.1M and she wanted to withdraw "profits" but to her surprise the platform told her " You didnt do KYC which is a necessity to comply with the SEC and in order to do so you have to deposit 200k to be able to withdraw your money"
This is when I was approached and after hearing that last bit I said "bro, its a scam". My friend dismissed my conclusion given that I didnt hear the whole story and I said "I dont need to hear it, time and time again people believe in whats showing on the screen!, in general any business that generate +15% you should be very skeptical off etc..." I wont bore you with the rest of the discussion .... at the end I said "Ill prove to you its a scam, just send me a few screenshots of the app/platform she is using"
once I received them I sent him this text:
GMX is a perpetual tradition platform (GMX.io) and your aunt is trading on (gmxnol.com) which is scam... here is a high level proof
"Your aunt will be angry for losing 80k but should be grateful she didn't lose another 200k"