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A modern crypto scammer rarely waves their hands — they wave screenshots. On these are neat graphs, perfect entries, and a balance growing faster than inflation. Almost always, this is a demo account or a test mode on the exchange, where there is no real money, no commissions, no slippages, and no liquidations. But there is one main thing — a picture for trusting eyes.

Next comes monetization. Fake gurus sell "signals": a subscription for a month, access to a closed chat, a "VIP channel" or "personal support". The price is from a couple of hundred dollars. Responsibility — zero. In the descriptions of the channels, it is stated in small print: "not an investment recommendation", "you act at your own risk".

The signals themselves are often primitive: entering without a stop-loss, higher leverage, taking profit "as the situation dictates". If the market goes up — the guru fixes success and makes a new screenshot. If everything goes down — the news, manipulations, or "the psychology couldn't handle it" are to blame. The channel is cleaned up, the undesirable are blocked, history is rewritten.

Statistics on losing trades are never published — after all, a demo account does not keep memory, and subscribers change faster than the market cycle.