Seeking Potential Victims of Cryptocurrency Investment Fraud

The FBI’s Phoenix Division is seeking potential victims of a cryptocurrency investment fraud.

In this scheme, fraudsters cultivate long-term relationships with victims met online, eventually enticing them to make investments in fraudulent cryptocurrency trading platforms that funnel the funds to cryptocurrency addresses controlled by scammers. The fraudulent investment platforms involved in the case currently being investigated by the FBI’s Phoenix Division include:

NTU Capital Limited
Create Wealth Global
Deribitex, Deribitexin, deribit-w, deribit-e, deribit-x, and deribit-exchange
Top Tank
Penzo Limited
Aly Financial
MCUS
MGCCKJ
Eth-defis

If you believe you are a victim of any of the above listed fraudulent investment platforms and invested between November 2021 and September 2022, please complete this questionnaire.

Contact Information

First Name

Middle Name

Last Name

Date of Birth

Year / Month / Day

Best Contact Number

E-Mail Address

Address Line 1

Address Line 2

City

State

Country, if not USA

ZIP/Postal Code

Questionnaire

1. Please provide the name of the investment platform.

2. Did you invest through this platform between November 2021 and September 2022?

Yes
No

If you answered “no” to question 2 but suspect fraudulent activity, please file a report with the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center at ic3.gov.

3. Please provide the investment platform website.

4. Please provide the total amount that you sent to the investment platform.

5. Please provide details of your withdrawals from the investment platform, including the amount of each withdrawal and the date for each withdrawal.

6. Did you send money to the investment platform on someone else’s behalf?

Yes
No

a. If yes, please provide the below information for that person.

i. Name

ii. Phone number

iii. E-Mail address

iv. Physical address

v. What was the amount that this person provided to you that you sent to the investment platform?

7. How many times did you send money from your cryptocurrency exchange to the investment platform?

7. For each time that you sent money from your cryptocurrency exchange to the investment platform, please provide the below information.

a. Transfer #1

i. The name of the cryptocurrency exchange that you used

ii. Type of cryptocurrency transferred (for example: USDT, ETH, USDC, or BTC)

iii. Amount of cryptocurrency transferred

iv. Transfer date

v. Transfer time

vi. The cryptocurrency address that the cryptocurrency was transferred to

vii. The transaction hash for the cryptocurrency transfer

b. Transfer #2

i. The name of the cryptocurrency exchange that you used

ii. Type of cryptocurrency transferred (for example: USDT, ETH, USDC, or BTC)

iii. Amount of cryptocurrency transferred

iv. Transfer date

v. Transfer time

vi. The cryptocurrency address that the cryptocurrency was transferred to

vii. The transaction hash for the cryptocurrency transfer

c. Transfer #3

i. The name of the cryptocurrency exchange that you used

ii. Type of cryptocurrency transferred (for example: USDT, ETH, USDC, or BTC)

iii. Amount of cryptocurrency transferred

iv. Transfer date

vi. The cryptocurrency address that the cryptocurrency was transferred to

vii. The transaction hash for the cryptocurrency transfer

d. Transfer #4

i. The name of the cryptocurrency exchange that you used

ii. Type of cryptocurrency transferred (for example: USDT, ETH, USDC, or BTC)

iii. Amount of cryptocurrency transferred

iv. Transfer date

v. Transfer time

vi. The cryptocurrency address that the cryptocurrency was transferred to

vii. The transaction hash for the cryptocurrency transfer

e. Transfer #5

i. The name of the cryptocurrency exchange that you used

ii. Type of cryptocurrency transferred (for example: USDT, ETH, USDC, or BTC)

iii. Amount of cryptocurrency transferred

iv. Transfer date

v. Transfer time

vi. The cryptocurrency address that the cryptocurrency was transferred to

vii. The transaction hash for the cryptocurrency transfer

9. If you have reported this incident to other law enforcement or a government agency, please provide the name, phone number, email, date reported, report number, etc.

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10. Do you have any other information that would be pertinent to this investigation?

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Privacy Act Statement

The FBI is authorized to collect the information on this form by one or more of the following provisions: Title 28, United States Code, sections 533 and 534; Title 28, Code of Federal Regulations, section 0.85; and the Attorney General Guidelines for Victim and Witness Assistance. The information requested will assist the FBI in providing you with assistance to which crime victims are entitled under federal law. You do not have to provide the requested information; however, failure to do so may hinder the FBI in providing you with crime victim assistance. The information collected on this form is protected by the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, Title 5, United States Code section 552a, and is maintained in the FBI’s Central Records System, DOJ/FBI-002, a description of which was published in the Federal Register at 63 Fed. Reg. 8671 (Feb. 20, 1998) and which may be viewed at www.justice.gov/opcl/doj-systems-records#doj.

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