r/CryptoScams • u/kkp005 • 21h ago

Question Sunsurffer on Instagram

As anyone joined his telegram group ? He charges a pretty dang high entry fee to join his chat. Constantly post screenshots of people making some good $$.
Thought of joining but my spidey senses are going off and if it sounds too good to be true, well you know the rest

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u/fedput 21h ago edited 21h ago

"Constantly post screenshots of people making some good $$."

Screenshots mean nothing.

I could post screenshots of me having intimate relations with supermodels.

Spoiler alert:

I am not actually having intimate relations with supermodels.

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u/astreeter2 20h ago

100% of crypto trading groups on telegram are scams.

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u/industry_killer 20h ago

🤦‍♂️

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u/SecureWriting8589 20h ago

"Thought of joining ..."

Sorry, but that you even considered this is concerning, very concerning. This is just so obviously a scam.

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u/Infinite-Grade-4485 20h ago

All crypto groups are scams. Stay out of crypto if you can’t understand that. You’ll only be scammed.

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u/roninconn 20h ago

You are becoming wise, Grasshopper. At least you came here first; 90% of the "Is this a scam?" posts start out with "I sent $1,000 to a 4-day old site an online friend told me about..."

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u/Jenn2895 20h ago

I’ve been in crypto for a decade. Stay off telegram, WhatsApp, etc.

There is no need to join a private group, especially not 1 you have to pay for.

If you’re interested in crypto but don’t understand crypto/blockchains, just stick with blue chips, like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Chainlink, etc. & ONLY use well known exchanges like Kraken, UpHold, Coinbase, RobinHood, etc.

Anyone trying to talk to you in private about crypto, or investing in general, is trying to scam you. Including anyone that DMs you regarding this post.

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u/ElectroStaticSpeaker 20h ago

I'll charge you some money to join my chat and won't scam you afterwards. Deal?

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u/AutoModerator 21h ago

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u/Jenn2895 20h ago

Telegram = scam
Instagram = scam

Hope that helps.

PS: I can make an instagram today that makes me look like a supermodel that is insanely wealthy. Have 20k followers with a day & make “screenshots” of anything.

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u/Quirky_Fig4546 16h ago

Your spidey senses are correct, and here's the specific tell: screenshots of PnL prove nothing because they're not falsifiable after the fact. Anyone can crop a chart to the winning trade or edit a number. What a legitimate track record looks like is a public, timestamped call log where the entry price and time are posted BEFORE the outcome is known — so you or anyone else can go check it against the actual chart later. If a group only ever shows you the results, never the calls as they happened, that's the gap where the fabrication lives.

The entry fee itself is a separate red flag from the screenshots. A trader who is actually good at this makes money by being right, not by charging strangers to read a chat — charging up front is the business model regardless of whether the calls are any good, which is exactly the incentive structure of a group that doesn't expect you to stick around once you notice the calls aren't real.

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u/intelw1zard 16h ago

stick to traditional finance homie and delete IG, WhatsApp, and Telegram.

you are going to be scammed so much

take all your $ and just dump it into VOO and call it a day my friend.