In January 2024, I decided to invest €500 in cryptocurrency with Flaregain. The initial contact was with a person who was an account manager and she moved me to Senior financial advisor. This person created an account for me on the Flaregain platform, where I saw how my money was spread over three crypto-currency trades. And online I saw how my profit rises or falls depending on the price of individual cryptocurrencies on the market. After a short time (2 or 3 days), the financial advisor wrote me an email that this is very risky trading - Margin Trading, because the prices of cryptocurrencies can fall sharply and I can lose the invested funds, and she offered me to invest in a Social Investment Project, which is insured and for a short time will bring a decent profit. So I decided to add €5000 and invest in Chinese cryptocurrency. Once again, I watched my profits rise online on the platform. The project was supposed to last 3 weeks and then I could withdraw the money. This is where I made my first mistake. I asked if it would be possible to go to another project with the obtained funds. It was possible, I even increased the amount by another €10,000. When the project ended, I had €86,000 in my Flaregain account, which was already an incredible amount. So I requested a withdrawal through the Flaregain account, where I filled out a request to withdraw the entire amount to my bank account in euros. The next day, the head of the financial department sent me an email that due to problems with Asian partners and the liquidity of the Chinese cryptocurrency, it is not possible to send euros to my account, but that they have found an intermediary who will transfer the funds through a secure channel, but for this it is necessary to pay 30% of €86,000, where the company pays €13,000 and I also have to pay €13,000, but this money will be returned to me and added to the final amount. Of course, I objected in every way, but in the end I made the second mistake and paid. The financial advisor credited the amount to my Flaregain account, so there was an amount of €99,000, but he asked me to cancel the withdrawal request in Euros and fill out a new request with my crypto wallet address on Guarda. That's what I did, and indeed over 108,000 USDC arrived in my Guarda account. But it was impossible to do anything with them. So I called the head of the finance department and complained that he had sent me something that was worthless to me. Again explaining that USDC does not have a network and in order to be able to get them to the exchange (Binance) it is necessary to pay another €13,000, for which ETH will be bought and everything can then be transferred to Binance via the Etherium network, from where the money can be sent to the bank they give. Here I made the third mistake and paid €*******, ETH was bought and transferred to Guarda. Of course, the transfer was under the supervision of a financial advisor so that I wouldn't make a mistake, because in that case the cryptocurrency would be lost. This was the biggest mistake I am ashamed of. And it was lost, but back to the crypto wallet address they came from, not my Binance wallet address. I found that out later.
The financial advisor told me that the transfer would take 4-5 hours to get back to me when the cryptocurrency is in my Binance account.
But the cryptocurrency didn't come even the next day.
So I approached the head of the financial department, where is the money.
He explained to me that for the transfer, an additional €******* must be paid to Blockchain as a USDC to Binance transfer fee.
He also sent me a fake confirmation about where the deadline of 21 days for payment is even, because otherwise the cryptocurrency will be lost.
And I won't pay them anymore.

I'm ashamed of how stupid and naive I was from the beginning.
Now I'm thinking how to get the deposited funds back.

I wrote this story to protect as many people as possible from scammers like Flaregain. They are not the only scam cryptocurrency trading company.

I'm 47 years old and I've never been scammed before. This is my story. You are attracted by the Flaregain site which offers a new way of wining good and fast money (using AI, leverage process, personalised welcome, etc.). Flaregain quickly gets you making money in passive investments and once you're baited, they offer you more profitable "active" cryptocurrency projects via the Singapore exchange. Briefly you invest in a sum and they add one to create a leverage effect. Everything's going well so far because the profits can be up to 70% of the amount invested (in my case I put in 4,400 euros to have 12,500 euros after 2 months). You even get a personal adviser who accompanies you throughout the process (with name and e-mail address, website). It gets more complicated when you want to withdraw your money... you already have to pay 10% of the amount earned to take the money out of the stock market and put it in a secure account. Bizarre... in short you continue at this stage of the game. Once the money is out, of course it arrives in your Flaregain account. You ask to withdraw it but there's another complication... You have to send it to a compeltely anonymous crypto wallet (named Guarda). You create an account and send the whole amount to your wallet, hoping to finally get your money back. And there's another problem... you have to pay another €1,500 in ETH to be able to make the transfer of your money in USDC tokken to your own walllet (Bitget in my case). You start to complain, but they tell you that this is the procedure and that the money is still in "your personal 'wallet', so there's not much risk. Once the new deposit has been made (that's already 2 deposits more than expected) you have to redirect the funds in USDC and ETH to your bitget account to withdraw euros. And this is the highlight of the show because when you transfer the money to your wallet by copying and pasting your address, it is changed to another (probably with the help of a mower-type malvayre) and your money is transferred to an unknown wallet. You receive a fake message from blockchain saying that you have to pay a fee of 1,500 euros to release all the funds. After contacting blockchain about this, they confirmed that they would never ask you to pay a fee to withdraw money! Now you know you've been a victim of a SCAM!

A WELL-MADE SCAM THEN BECAUSE YOU PAY CONSTANTLY TO GET YOUR MONEY BACK.

So I stopped after putting in 4300+ 960 +1500 euros...the cup is full.

I'm going to take legal action. I HOPE YOU WILL READ THIS MESSAGE TO AVOID THE WORST FOR YOU