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Home • Seeking Potential Victims of Cryptocurrency Investment Fraud

Seeking Potential Victims of Cryptocurrency Investment Fraud

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

Seeking Potential Victims of 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
Date of Birth
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Questionnaire
2. Did you invest through this platform between November 2021 and September 2022?


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


a. If yes, please provide the below information for that person.
7. For each time that you sent money from your cryptocurrency exchange to the investment platform, please provide the below information.
a. Transfer #1
b. Transfer #2
c. Transfer #3
d. Transfer #4
e. Transfer #5
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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.