I’ve been trying to understand whether this is just a shady broker tactic or a full scam because nothing adds up anymore. I joined an online trading platform around March after being referred through a WhatsApp investment group. The dashboard looked professional, trades were updating daily, and my balance kept increasing almost every week. According to the account, I turned about $7k into nearly $29k in a couple months. The problem is I’ve never actually been able to withdraw any of it. The first withdrawal attempt got rejected because of “wallet verification.” Fine. I completed that. Then the second one supposedly failed because my account needed a higher liquidity threshold. After that they claimed I had to maintain a minimum balance to process international transfers. Every single time there’s a new reason. Meanwhile the dashboard still shows profits growing like everything is normal.…