C.M., a 35-year-old in Dublin, started with a $250 “trial” on a binary-options site. An aggressive “account manager” coached him to add funds across two credit cards and a debit card, promising to refund any losses.
The rigged game
The trades always settled against him at the last second, and withdrawals were blocked behind a “turnover requirement.” The platform disguised the charges under several different billing names.
“He told me to use a second card so we could win it back. That should have been the alarm.”
What we did
We mapped every billing descriptor back to the same operation and assembled tailored chargeback packs documenting the blocked withdrawals. Two of three chargebacks succeeded; with a small crypto hold, $23,600 of $57,600 came back.
The takeaway
If you paid a scam platform by card, keep every statement and act inside your card network’s dispute window — it is time-sensitive. A manager urging you to add a second or third card is a major red flag. Start a free review if this sounds familiar.
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