Social engineering and misrepresentation.
Fraudsters present themselves as “professional traders” or “portfolio managers” and persuade victims to transfer significant amounts of cryptocurrency for alleged high-yield trading strategies.

Fabricated performance and false reporting.
Over a period of time, victims are shown fake trading dashboards, screenshots, or even staged videos that simulate successful trades and growing balances.

Exit or secondary extortion.
Ultimately, the perpetrators either:

• Disappear with all funds (exit scam),
• Claim that the victim’s assets are “frozen” or “under review”, and demand additional “unlock fees”, “tax payments” or “security deposits” to a so-called “safe account”—which is, in fact, another address under the scammers’ control.