After researching CGI Trading as best we could for a number of weeks, my referral and crypto investment partner (Nat who is family) and I decided to invest the large sum of 15,020 USDT into CGI.MAX which advertises a 5% daily return for 7 days (or 35% for the week). We made the deposit with plenty of online assistance from a very friendly “Emily”. 10 days later, 20,227 USDT appeared on Nat's dashboard as our realised investment and apart from being short-changed 600 USDT on my referral (which Emily corrected after I pointed this out) there were no red flags - yet.<br />
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We decided to withdraw this investment. As we attempted this, an alert popped up saying that there is a $1000 USDT withdraw limit. So we messaged Emily and asked if there was any way around this. She said that this limit was put in place because "CGI has been experiencing huge difficulties paying withdrawals since August - and would we please consider reinvesting?" We responded that we need this money now but will definitely return with more investment. As we were to find out later, clearly this was the dead wrong answer. Emily then said no problem at all, and after checking with the "Financial Team" she said to try again with the 20,227 withdrawal request as the 1000 limit had been lifted for us. We then uploaded our only wallet address which we are very familiar with and confirmed the request.<br />
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3 business days later, Nat messaged Emily to ask about the withdrawal status. Emily said that “no wallet address was not provided so the payment is still waiting to be processed”. We knew for a fact that our wallet address was uploaded and doubled checked. Nevertheless, we re-uploaded it and asked that Emily confirm everything is in place for the withdrawal. However for the first time, she did not respond to a question. This now worried us i.e. what are they up to this time? Another red flag. 24 hours later we logged in to make sure that the wallet address had not disappeared again but it was in place and all looked good.<br />
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3 business days later and still no wallet deposit. We again messaged Emily for a status update. She said, "good news, it's been processed" - AWESOME!!! (we thought) - but still no deposit. So we logged back into CGI to see that our wallet address had been changed just prior to the alleged deposit transaction. This was the address which replaced our wallet address: (TC6dLzV4XeZSSVABqoXjH98YDu1bjMXk8j). Was this a real address that CGI transferred our money to or was it made up? So again we went back to Emily who is now responding 24 hours later. She said "that's not your wallet address?" To which we said of course it isn't, it's clearly been changed. She said, "do you have spyware on your computer to protect you from people changing wallets addresses?". She then said "If you have provided us with the wrong the address that's too bad. Sorry for the inconvenience". <br />
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We informed CGI that they have until the weekend just gone to return our money or all social media and SCAM ALERT websites within our reach will be informed about this theft. Emily said that "such threats don't worry us as these platforms don't last for ever so go for it!" (WOW – wish that was mentioned on their sleek website)<br />
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So there you go..... 20,227 USDT stolen from under our noses. We believe that the withdrawal was too large for them to handle and their solution was to steal it. If we had our time over again we would have withdrawn 1000 USDT per day over a couple of weeks. We perhaps would have got a few more grand back.
