Cryptonomy.com Scam — How I Recovered My Stolen Cryptocurrency 

In May, I uploaded a few photos on Facebook a woman named Rachel reacted to one of the photos. A few minutes later she left a comment: "That sunset is beautiful. Which beach is that?”.

I replied with the location, and she thanked me, saying she always wanted to visit.

The next day she sent me a friend request. I noticed we had several mutual friends through local community groups. Her profile looked normal with posts stretching back several years so I accepted.

Rachel occasionally replied to my Facebook stories or commented on posts.

She sent me a message through Messenger and from there on we started talking. She mentioned she was 33 and worked for a clothing company. We would both be home around the same time every evening so It became routine for us to talk daily.

At first, our conversations were completely ordinary but about a month after we first started talking she began talking about how the rising cost of living made things harder so she began saving and investing in digital assets inorder to combat these. She explained that she invested some of her money alongside more traditional savings, Stocks, Exchange-traded funds and more recently in cryptocurrency.

One day she mentioned her latest investment just paid out and showed me a screenshot of over $200,000 in profit. I asked how she'd learned and she told me she'd started several years earlier after a relative introduced her to digital assets. She explained that she preferred taking small, calculated positions instead of gambling.

A few weeks later I asked if she'd show me how everything worked, she agreed. She suggested we make use of Coinbase to purchase Usdt and once I had done that, she showed me how she transferred it to Cryptonomy.com for investment trading.

I deposited $1,500 and in a week my account balance on Cryptonomy.com had reached over $15,000 in profit. I assumed I'd simply been lucky. To satisfy my curiosity, I requested a withdrawal of $300 and in about an hour the money was in my Coinbase wallet account. That withdrawal completely changed how I viewed Cryptonomy.com.

I told myself that scammers wouldn't send money back. Looking back, that was probably the biggest mistake I made.

I invested more into Cryptonomy.com. Each deposit felt like a logical decision because the previous one appeared to be doing well. The balance shown on the platform kept growing massively. Rachel congratulated me whenever I mentioned the account had increased. By then, I trusted her completely.

Our relationship no longer felt like something that had started on Facebook, It felt like my real life.

Everything changed when I decided to withdraw all of my money from Cryptonomy.com, the withdrawal remained pending for several days. I contacted customer support but according to them, my account had been selected for an enhanced compliance review because of recent activity. Before any money could be released, I needed to deposit more cryptocurrency as a temporary verification payment. 

The explanation didn't make sense. If the platform already held my funds, why couldn't they simply deduct whatever they needed from my account balance?

Customer support avoided the question. Instead, they kept repeating  nonsense company policy. When I asked Rachel what I should do, she encouraged me to complete the payment quickly so the review wouldn't take longer. Every conversation i had with her was focused on me sending more money.

I copied part of the customer support message and Cryptonomy.com into google, I found lots of complaints describing them as scammers.

I confronted Rachel the next morning. She insisted everything was legitimate, when I refused to send more money her replies became shorter they then completely stopped. That was when I realized I had also been scammed.

After consulting my attorney about my options, they suggested documenting everything and speaking with the police. I did that but the cops did nothing, all they gave me were excuses. So I went online and found CipherTrace on a blockchain forum. I read about their services and sent a complaint to them on - www.theciphertrace.com

They got back to me and their investigator walked me through the transaction history, helped organize the evidence, and continued requesting supporting records until the investigation was complete. In the end, they successfully got back all my money that was stolen by Cryptonomy.com.